About Our Char­i­ta­ble Involvement

Band From TV was cre­ated to pro­vide fund­ing and resources for sev­eral incred­i­bly worth­while char­i­ties around the world. When it comes to celebrity char­ity involve­ment, there is true power in num­bers. Com­ing together, we formed a celebrity rock band on a mis­sion to make a dif­fer­ence in advanc­ing and sup­port­ing the char­i­ties we feel pas­sion­ately about.

Mis­sion Statement

Band From TV con­sists of actors, musi­cians, and ath­letes who have come together for a com­mon goal; to raise money through music to help those in need. Find­ing a cure, help­ing chil­dren around the world, pro­tect­ing our envi­ron­ment, pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als or musi­cal instru­ments, aid­ing in nat­ural dis­as­ters, or stand­ing up against domes­tic vio­lence, we will do every­thing in our power to not only get the mes­sage out, but raise much needed funds. Our goal is to make it pos­si­ble for the char­i­ties to have the resources they need do the work they set out to do. The list of orga­ni­za­tions we sup­port may change, but one thing remains con­stant, Band From TV is here to help.

Vision State­ment

We under­stand the impact we pro­vide through the sale of band related music and mer­chan­dise. Our goal goes way beyond finan­cial con­tri­bu­tions. Most celebri­ties want to help but don’t know how to make the biggest impact. It costs noth­ing to give. Band From TV will be a model for other celebri­ties to orga­nize and mobi­lize in a cre­ative way. Our vision is to bring other celebri­ties in as guest musi­cians, sup­port their char­i­ties, and in turn, open up our net­work to every­one. And for those celebri­ties not musi­cally inclined, there is always a tam­bourine stand­ing by.

Greg Grun­berg per­forms for The “Talk About It!” Foundation

www.talkaboutit.org

The ‘Talk About It!’ Foun­da­tion is a 501©3 non-profit orga­ni­za­tion cre­ated by Greg Grun­berg (star of HEROES, ALIAS and FELICITY) who, as the father of a child with epilepsy, wants to improve the public’s under­stand­ing and per­cep­tions of epilepsy. The ‘Talk About It!’ Foun­da­tion helps give a voice to peo­ple affected by epilepsy. Its goals are:

– To help end stigma by pro­vid­ing pub­lic edu­ca­tion and  aware­ness so that every­one knows and talks about epilepsy, seizures and proper first aid.
– To pro­vide peo­ple with epilepsy and their care­givers sup­port to become more com­fort­able talk­ing about epilepsy with friends, fam­ily, neigh­bors and col­leagues.
– To help unite the epilepsy community

The ‘Talk About It!’ Foun­da­tion is also about chang­ing the world. Many impor­tant causes are under-represented and mis­un­der­stood – from health con­di­tions like epilepsy, to social con­cerns and envi­ron­men­tal issues. The ‘Talk About It!’ Foun­da­tion will improve our pub­lic con­ver­sa­tion. For addi­tional infor­ma­tion, please visit www.talkaboutit.org.

Bob Guiney per­forms for The Art of Ely­sium and Chil­drens Hos­pi­tal LA

www.theartofelysium.org

The Art of Ely­sium is ded­i­cated to enrich­ing the lives of artists and crit­i­cally ill chil­dren. We believe that there is a pow­er­ful and mutual exchange of hope and appre­ci­a­tion that occurs when artists share their time and tal­ent with chil­dren bat­tling seri­ous med­ical conditions.

www.childrenshospitalla.org

Chil­drens Hos­pi­tal Los Ange­les is a non­profit hos­pi­tal with a rep­u­ta­tion as an inter­na­tional leader in pro­vid­ing state-of-the-art med­ical care for chil­dren.  The hos­pi­tal has a his­tory of pio­neer­ing new and minimally-invasive tech­niques to help chil­dren heal faster, and serves as a major regional refer­ral cen­ter for chil­dren who require life-saving acute care.   In addi­tion, Chil­drens Hos­pi­tal is a leader in pro­vid­ing family-centered care, inte­grat­ing fam­ily mem­bers as part­ners in a sick or injured child’s recovery.

James Den­ton per­forms for The Con­ser­va­tion Fund

www.conservationfund.org

The Con­ser­va­tion Fund is the nation’s fore­most envi­ron­men­tal non­profit ded­i­cated to pro­tect­ing America’s land and water legacy for cur­rent and future gen­er­a­tions. Seek­ing inno­v­a­tive con­ser­va­tion solu­tions for the 21st cen­tury, the Fund works to inte­grate eco­nomic and envi­ron­men­tal goals. Since its found­ing in 1985, the Fund has helped its part­ners safe­guard wildlife habi­tat, work­ing land­scapes, com­mu­nity “green­space” and his­toric sites total­ing more than 6 mil­lion acres. With 1% fundrais­ing costs and 97% pro­gram allo­ca­tion, The Con­ser­va­tion Fund is rec­og­nized as the nation’s top-rated envi­ron­men­tal non­profit by both the Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Phil­an­thropy and Char­ity Navigator.

Jesse Spencer per­forms for the The Indi­ana University-Kenya Partnership

medicine.iupui.edu/kenya/index.html

In 1989, Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity School of Med­i­cine and Moi Uni­ver­sity School of Med­i­cine agreed to join together to develop lead­ers in health care for both the U.S. and Africa. That mis­sion inspired this team to pro­vide invalu­able train­ing to future gen­er­a­tions of health care providers in both con­ti­nents. At the turn of the cen­tury, in the face of the dead­liest pan­demic in human his­tory, IU and Moi responded by cre­at­ing one of Africa’s largest, most com­pre­hen­sive and effec­tive HIV/AIDS con­trol sys­tems. The Indiana-Kenya Part­ner­ship responded to the HIV/AIDS cri­sis by cre­at­ing the Aca­d­e­mic Model for Pre­ven­tion and Treat­ment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), which treats over 60,000 HIV-positive patients at 19 sites in both urban and rural Kenya.

Adrian Pas­dar plays for the Taia Peace Foundation

http://www.taiapeace.org/

Taia Peace Foun­da­tion was formed in 2007 with a focus on Sierra Leone and with a sin­gle aim: to assist rural com­mu­ni­ties in over­com­ing the so-called “resource curse.” From Angola to Zim­babwe, Ghana to Guinea, Liberia to the DRC, Africa is rich in nat­ural resources, yet largely absent is eco­nomic devel­op­ment of a level com­men­su­rate with what that resource poten­tial might sug­gest. This dis­par­ity helps spawn hot zones of eco­nomic insta­bil­ity and social ten­sion, the breed­ing ground for tragic episodes like the Sierra Leone Civil War of 1991 — 2002. The seed for the cre­ation of Taia Peace ger­mi­nated near the Taia river in cen­tral Sierra Leone, but the foundation’s hope is to work at the behest of com­mu­ni­ties across Africa as they endeavor to remove the eco­nomic bar­ri­ers that limit their capac­ity to build a last­ing peace.

Scott Grimes plays for Lupus LA

http://www.lupusla.org

Lupus LA, the West Coast divi­sion of the S.L.E. Lupus Foun­da­tion, pro­motes lupus research, aware­ness, and edu­ca­tion, and serves the needs of peo­ple with lupus and their fam­i­lies in Los Ange­les County. Com­mit­ted to the hope and demon­strated promise of inno­v­a­tive sci­ence, Lupus LA part­ners with the Lupus Research Insti­tute (LRI) to fund novel lupus research that will pre­vent, treat and cure the com­plex disease.

With the power of Hol­ly­wood and the strength of its vol­un­teer lead­er­ship, Lupus LA raises lupus aware­ness through­out the United States. Its fundrais­ing events har­ness the might of the media and enter­tain­ment indus­tries to spread the word about lupus and its symp­toms and dan­gers, and the need for safe and effec­tive new treat­ments and a cure.

Hugh Lau­rie per­forms for Save the Children

www.savethechildren.org/

Save the Chil­dren is the lead­ing inde­pen­dent orga­ni­za­tion cre­at­ing last­ing change in the lives of chil­dren in need in the United States and around the world. Rec­og­nized for our com­mit­ment to account­abil­ity, inno­va­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion, our work takes us into the heart of com­mu­ni­ties, where we help chil­dren and fam­i­lies help themselves.

Band From TV sup­ports the Gui­tar Cen­ter Music Foundation

www.guitarcentermusicfoundation.org

The Gui­tar Cen­ter Music Foun­da­tion was cre­ated to pro­vide fund­ing and resources for music pro­grams across Amer­ica so that kids and adults alike will have an oppor­tu­nity to expe­ri­ence the joys of music. We also edu­cate the pub­lic on the value of a musi­cal edu­ca­tion. With your help, we can make a dif­fer­ence in people’s lives by pro­vid­ing them a gift that lasts a life­time. The Gui­tar Cen­ter Music Foun­da­tion believes that music par­tic­i­pa­tion is an essen­tial ele­ment in the fab­ric of an endur­ing soci­ety. Our mis­sion is to have the ben­e­fits of mak­ing music avail­able to every­one in the com­mu­ni­ties in which we serve, to pro­mote its impor­tance through edu­ca­tion and media ini­tia­tives, and to pro­vide finan­cial and in-kind resources in col­lab­o­ra­tion with other orga­ni­za­tions to achieve our com­mon goal.