Brotherhood Gala Raises $300,000
Brotherhood Crusade’s annual Walter Bremond Pioneer of Black Achievement Award gala honored Spike Lee Dec. 4 at the Beverly Hilton. The benefit, netting more than $300,000, will benefit health, education and welfare programs serving minority communities in Los Angeles County. Agencies include Youth and Family Center, Hillsman Drug Rehabilitation Center, Minority AIDS Project and Chicana Service Action Center.
John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John’s Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica honored 150 benefactors Dec. 6 at a gala at Jimmy’s Restaurant in Beverly Hills. The benefactors contributed $175,000 this year for research and treatment. Dr. Donald Morton, head of the institute, and Joyce Green, director, saluted the donors.
City of Angels Hospice, a cancer and AIDS hospice in Hollywood, netted almost $60,000 at “An Intimate Evening With Liza Minnelli” on Oct. 17. The benefit gala was at a Pacific Palisades home.
Project Angel Food, a volunteer program that provides meals for homebound people with AIDS, received $150,000, net proceeds from the benefit sale on Nov. 8 at Melrose Place in West Hollywood. Early shoppers enjoyed a pancake breakfast from Cafe Morpheus. TV cast members Thomas Calabro and Daphne Zuniga of “Melrose Place” greeted guests. Dan Aykroyd, Teri Garr, Cheryl Lee and Isabella Rossellini also attended. The event included a Napa Valley wine tasting and food from area restaurants. Co-chairs were Michael Childers, Waldo Fernandez, Madeleine Galley and Berry Perkins.
First A.M.E. Church recently received $1,500 from Joyce Brock, owner of the Place & Co., a Los Angeles women’s resale clothing store. The funds go to Rebuild L.A.
Five Acres raised $35,000 at its annual invitational golf classic at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale. Proceeds of the Oct. 26 event will benefit the center’s school and developmental learning center. Five Acres provides services for neglected and emotionally and physically abused children. Phil Hosp and Andy Zehnder were benefit co-chairs.
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Los Angeles received $2,600, proceeds from a benefit sponsored by Momentum Films. The Dec. 5 “Holiday in Casablanca” was held at Mo’s Cafe Americain in Santa Monica.
Reiss-Davis Child Study Center and A. T. Medical Research Foundation received $50,000, proceeds from the Golden Key Foundation’s annual Witches Halloween Ball Oct. 30 at Chasen’s. Committee members included Betty Deutsch, Candice Gould, Dascha Stuart and Ruth March.