Annual Report - Entertainment Industry Foundation

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
2014/2015 ANNUAL REPORT
BACKGROUND AND PROGRAMS OF THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
MISSION STATEMENT
Founded in 1942, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is a multifaceted organization that
occupies a unique place in the world of philanthropy. By mobilizing and leveraging the powerful voice and
creative talents of the entire entertainment community, as well as cultivating the support of organizations
(public and private) and philanthropists committed to social responsibility, EIF builds awareness and raises
funds, developing and enhancing programs on the local, national and global level that facilitate positive
social change. The Foundation also supports and encourages the philanthropic efforts of all members of
the entertainment community.
OUR APPROACH
EIF creates high-profile programs and events that address critical social issues, as well as those that
inform, inspire and raise significant funds for sustainable initiatives that can stimulate innovation and
transform lives. EIF also responds to urgent needs generated by natural disasters and national or
international tragedies.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS (as of March, 2016)
Sherry Lansing
Founder and CEO
Sherry Lansing Foundation
Jeff Bader
President, Program Planning, Strategy and Research NBC Entertainment
David Beaubaire
Executive Vice President, Creative
TriStar Productions
Lynn Harris
Producer
Weimeraner Republic Pictures
Peter Seymour
Executive Vice President & CFO Disney/ABC Television Group
Chris Silbermann
Founding Partner
ICM Partners
Jack Sussman
Executive Vice President, Specials, Music & Live Events
CBS Television
Dan Harrison
Executive Vice President, Strategic Program Planning
FOX Broadcasting Company
Richard Lovett
President
Creative Artists Agency
HISTORY
In 1942, Hollywood moguls Samuel Goldwyn and the Warner Brothers, along with movie stars Gene Kelly,
Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney, decided that the people and companies of the
motion picture industry could make a more significant contribution to WWII relief efforts working together
than going it alone. That first year, the industry’s collective efforts raised $1 million for the Red Cross,
largely through a payroll deduction program.
The Permanent Charities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry (as EIF’s precursor was named)
made significant inroads in the health arena in California during the next few decades. The first awareness
campaign it conducted was at President Roosevelt’s request, to help eradicate childhood polio. In the
1950s and 60s, it provided significant funding for a specially equipped coronary care ambulance that
became the cornerstone of the Los Angeles County paramedic program. Other innovations include the
state’s first “Vision Van” that provided glaucoma screenings, and the first-ever self-contained Bloodmobile
for the American Red Cross’s donation program.
In the 1990s, the Permanent Charities Committee changed its name to the Entertainment Industry
Foundation and began to transition from the historic industry payroll deduction model of giving to a more
public-facing fundraising approach.
Utilizing the unique resources of the film studios and TV networks, along with the volunteer participation of
hundreds of celebrity ambassadors, EIF’s charitable initiatives in the last two decades have generated
national awareness about critical issues the Foundation seeks to address. Since the outset, more than $1
billion has been raised to support medical research; enhance education; eradicate childhood hunger; and
encourage community service and volunteerism, among other areas.
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is a movement created in 2008 to raise funds to accelerate
groundbreaking cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives, by
facilitating collaboration among scientists at different institutions and in different disciplines.
More than $360 million has been pledged, largely as a result of a biennial televised event carried by over
40 major broadcast and cable networks, and available in 195 countries. Several hundred celebrities
have volunteered their time to participate in the telecast and other fundraising and awareness efforts.
SU2C funds over 1,000 scientists across 131 major institutions that collaborate to develop promising
new cancer treatments for patients. Two new FDA-approved drugs have resulted from this research.
Grants are administered by SU2C’s scientific partner, the American Association for Cancer Research
(AACR), the largest such scientific organization in the world. AACR works with a Nobel Laureate-led
Scientific Advisory Committee, comprised of world-class scientists across several disciplines and patient
advocates, to identify the most promising projects to recommend for funding and provide expert review of
research progress.
“It is the best dollar spent in this country
for support of cancer research and benefit of patients.”
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate and Chair of SU2C’s Scientific Advisory Committee
THE IMPACT OF STAND UP TO CANCER
Through the end of 2015, SU2C has funded 18 Dream Teams, 2 Translational Research Teams and 26
Innovative Research Grants. These grant recipients total more than 1,000 researchers, representing
131 leading institutions around the world. Collectively, they are involved in 166 planned, launched, or
completed clinical trials, in which more than 6,000 patients have participated.
Some specific accomplishments of the teams include:
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A drug to treat advanced breast cancer in post-menopausal women, Ibrance (palbociclib), has been approved
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the SU2C Breast Cancer Dream Team showed dramatically
increased survival in women taking it. The FDA had granted the drug “Breakthrough Therapy” status, which
accelerated its review.
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Based on work by the SU2C Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team, FDA approved a new combination of drugs
(abraxane and gemcitabine) that enables longer survival in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. They have also
discovered, and are now testing in clinical trials, that vitamin D-like agents may change the environment around the
pancreatic cancer cells so that the anti-cancer drugs work better.
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The SU2C-CRI Immunology Dream Team is harnessing patients’ own immune systems to attack their
cancer, an exciting new direction in cancer research. The team’s work led to FDA approval of a new “checkpoint
inhibitor” immune therapy, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), to treat late-stage melanoma in patients previously treated with
another melanoma drug.
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The Immunology Dream Team has also developed new approaches to predict who will benefit from
pembrolizumab and other checkpoint inhibitor drugs.
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The SU2C Epigenetics Dream Team showed that treatment of lung cancer was more successful when
patients were given epigenetic therapy first to sensitize the cancer to further treatment. If confirmed by more
research, this finding could impact the treatment of many types of cancer.
THE IMPACT OF STAND UP TO CANCER
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The SU2C Epigenetics Dream Team also conducted a clinical trial of an experimental drug for certain types
of leukemia, quickly moving the drug from the lab to its first use in humans. Based on very promising findings, this
drug has now moved to advanced phase 3 clinical trials.
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The SU2C Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Chip Dream Team developed a new device that can find a single
cancer cell amid 1 billion cells in a teaspoon of blood. This will allow doctors to monitor treatments in cancer patients
in real time, and to try different treatments if current ones are not effective. The next-generation CTC chip is now in
development.
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The SU2C-MRA Dream Team received the first-ever FDA approval for a new approach to rapid genetic
profiling of melanoma, which the team will use to match drugs to individual tumors based on their genetic
characteristics –an example of “precision” or “personalized” medicine.
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Working with pharmaceutical companies, the SU2C PI3K Dream Team launched clinical trials of a new
combination therapy aimed at a common “signaling network” in cancer cells. The combination was effective in certain
patients with a particular subtype of breast cancer.
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SU2C has funded two Prostate Cancer Dream Teams in collaboration with the Prostate Cancer Foundation
(PCF). The Dream Teams are using next-generation genetic sequencing to profile individual patients’ cancers, helping
guide personalized approaches to treatment.
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The SU2C-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Dream Team is developing and testing new
therapies that utilize patients’ own immune systems. The team’s work will lead to the first clinical trials that use this
type of therapy to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), as well as other childhood cancers.
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The 2014 Sta Op Tegen Kanker (SU2C-KWF) Translational Cancer Research Dream Team is achieving
80% to almost 100% success in growing organoids (“tumors-in-a dish”) from patients with pancreas or colorectal
cancer for genetic profiling and drug testing. In collaboration with the SU2C-PCF Prostate Cancer Dream Team 1,
steady progress is being made toward establishing prostate cancer organoids, which are much more difficult to grow
in the laboratory.
EIF’s National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) is dedicated to the eradication of
colorectal cancer by promoting the importance of screening and funding research to develop better tests,
treatments, and ultimately a cure. The initiative was cofounded in March of 2000 by Katie Couric and EIF.
The colon cancer death rate dropped 30% in the first decade of the NCCRA’s public awareness efforts to
encourage more people to get recommended colorectal cancer screening tests. Since 2005, EIF’s NCCRA
has collaborated with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a campaign to
promote colon cancer screening called “Screen for Life.” Celebrity ambassadors including Couric,
Terrence Howard, and Meryl Streep have appeared in the jointly-produced “Screen for Life” PSAs, which
have collectively generated more than 7 billion impressions. The CDC considers “Screen for Life” the
most successful cancer prevention campaign it has undertaken.
Funds raised through EIF’s NCCRA have supported research at institutions including: Arizona State
University Foundation, Case Western Reserve University-Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia
University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School-Dana Farber Cancer
Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center, Jonsson
Comprehensive Cancer Center/UCLA, University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center, University of
Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
EIF’s NCCRA also supports the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at New
York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Think It Up is EIF’s new national education initiative, established to reframe the public discussion about
education, create a culture of excitement about learning everywhere in America and build a sense of
optimism about the potential of education in classrooms across the country.
Think It Up invites public, middle and high school students to work with their teachers to develop
projects that draw on their passions and help pursue their educational goals. Posted on thinkitup.org, in
collaboration with DonorsChoose.org, the student-powered, teacher-led projects are crowdfunded by
citizen donors, with major supporters of Think It Up matching some public contributions. The projects entail
rigorous skill development that prepares American youth for post-high school life, helping pave the way for
career success, regardless of the path. More than 1,000 projects have already been funded through
thinkitup.org since its launch in September 2015.
Major supporters of Think It Up include XQ Institute, Ashoka's Start Empathy initiative, ExxonMobil, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Staples.
In March 2014, Academy Award®- nominated actress Viola Davis, together with the Entertainment
Industry Foundation (EIF) and The Safeway Foundation, launched Hunger Is, a joint charitable program
designed to raise awareness and funds to fight childhood hunger in the United States. The year-round
campaign encourages individuals and communities to get involved in solving a widespread problem that
too often goes unnoticed. Funds raised through the initiative go toward programs focused on eradicating
childhood hunger and improving health-related outcomes. During the inaugural year, breakfast programs
have been the focus, giving children a healthy start to their day and the best chance to excel. Over $14
million has been raised to date.
EIF’s Hollywood Unfiltered program was created in 2001, in collaboration with the film industry, and in
partnership with the Directors Guild of America, The Writers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild and
the Motion Picture Association of America. This program educates members of the entertainment
community about the impact of smoking on young people and the steps they can take to reduce on-screen
smoking. Anti-smoking PSAs have been placed on DVDs of new G, PG and PG-13 rated movies. To date,
more than 100 million DVDs include an anti-smoking PSA.
TELEVISED SPECIALS | STAND UP TO CANCER
Stand Up To Cancer is an international phenomenon. Not only is the US telecast available in various
countries around the world, but we work with national organizations to carry out SU2C-branded programs
to raise funds for cancer research conducted in their countries.
THE U.S.-BASED TELECAST: ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, along with ABC Family, American Forces
Network, AXS TV, Bravo, Cooking Channel, DIRECTV, Discovery Fit & Health, E!, Encore, Encore
Espanol, EPIX, ESPNEWS, FOX Sports 2, FXM, HBO, HBO Latino, ION Television, LMN, Logo TV, MLB
Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, Palladia, Pivot, SHOWTIME, Smithsonian Channel,
Starz, TNT and VH1 donated one hour of simultaneous commercial-free primetime for the fourth nationally
televised SU2C fundraising special on Friday, September 5, 2014. The show also streamed live on both
Hulu and Yahoo.
TELEVISED SPECIALS | STAND UP TO CANCER
CANADA: In 2014, for the first time, there was a Canada-inclusive co-broadcast of the U.S.-based
telecast, which aired simultaneously on all four major English-language Canadian networks: CBC, City,
CTV and Global, along with Canadian services AMI, CHCH, CHEK, Fight Network, Gusto TV, Hollywood
Suite and TLN. EIF has registered as a charity in Canada and works with leading cancer organizations to
fund programs under the banner of SU2C Canada. The first Canada-based Dream Teams, focused on
breast cancer and brain cancer stem cells, were just launched.
UNITED KINGDOM: In Britain, our partner is Cancer Research UK, the country’s largest health charity.
CRUK funds over 4,000 researchers, doctors and nurses and supports more than 250 clinical trials of new
drugs and therapies. CRUK works with Channel 4 to stage a telecast featuring Britain’s brightest stars. Two
telecasts have raised approximately 23 million pounds – about $36 million.
THE NETHERLANDS: In the Netherlands, we work with the Dutch Cancer Society, KWF
Kankerbestrijding, and the program is known as Sta Op Tegen Kanker. The Dutch telecast has raised over
$10 million for translational research.
TELEVISED SPECIALS | THINK IT UP
EIF launched Think It Up with a star-studded telecast on September 11, 2015, which aired simultaneously
on all four U.S. broadcast networks. The one-hour special highlighted creativity and innovation
happening in classrooms around the country through segments on five high schools in Chicago;
Lexington, KY; Tucson, AZ; San Benito, TX; and Tehachapi, CA.
In addition to musical performances by Justin Bieber, Kacey Musgraves and Big Sean, the telecast
featured appearances by Halle Berry, Stephen Colbert, Common, James Corden, Scarlett Johansson,
Jimmy Kimmel, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Renner, Ryan
Seacrest, Eric Stonestreet, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Williams, Stevie Wonder, and Malala Yousafzai,
among many others.
TELEVISED SPECIALS
EIF works with both large groups of television networks as well as individual ones to produce
pro-active televised specials, raising funds for a variety of causes and initiatives. Additionally,
the foundation often provides the philanthropic infrastructure for network-wide disaster relief
telethons. Examples beyond theStand Up To Cancer and Think It Up telecasts include:
HOPE FOR HAITI NOW
In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, EIF helped organize the
most widely distributed fundraising telethon in U.S. history, “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global
Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” and managed distribution of the funds raised. More than $67
million was raised from the show, from major donations and the sale of soundtracks.
MOVIES ROCK
An early EIF education initiative benefitted from a movie-themed musical show in 2007
featuring performances by Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Elton John, Fergie, Mary J. Blige,
Jennifer Hudson and others, produced in Los Angeles and shown on CBS-TV. A supplemental
magazine dubbed "Movies Rock" was included with 14 Conde Nast titles. The event raised $1
million.
2015 GRANTEES
EDUCATION
2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games A Place
Called Home Alliance for Children's Rights Autism
Speaks Berkeley Preparatory School Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Greater Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club of
Burbank/East Valley Child's PlayCity Year Los Angeles
Communities In Schools Los Angeles DonorsChoose
Inc Eva Longoria Foundation Expeditionary Learning
Outward Bound, Inc.Friends of King Kaumuali'i
Inter-Nation Cultural Foundation John Legend Show
Me Campaign SAG Foundation San Miguel Academy
of Newburgh Shane Victorino Foundation Variety
Foundation Venice Arts Wake Forest University
Wounded Warrior Project
ENVIRONMENT
Angel City Pit Bulls
Angeles Chapter Foundation
Best Friends Animal Society
Charles River Conservancy
Jane Goodall Institute For Wildlife Research Education
& Conservation
Ocean Conservancy
Sierra Club Foundation
World Wildlife Fund
HEALTH
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
American Heart Association Baylor College of Medicine
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope Beth Israel
Deaconess Breast Cancer Research Foundation
(BCRF) Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Columbia University Communities
That Care Cure PSP Doctors Without Borders
Erasmus Medical Center Green Tree Yoga
Meditation Foundation Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute HopelinkHubrecht
Institute, Utrecht Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health
Johns Hopkins UniversityJonsson Comprehensive
Cancer Center/UCLAjust keep livin Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
International Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer
Foundation Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
Community Health
Foundation Massachusetts General Hospital
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center National
Cancer Institute Netherlands Kanker Institute
Patrick Dempsey Center for Hope & Healing Pine
Street Inn Professional Baseball Scouts
Foundation Project Angel Food Public
Broadcasting Service Racing for Orphans with
Down Syndrome Salk Institute Translational
Genomics Research Institute University College
London (UCL) Cancer Institute University Medical
Center Utrecht University of California Los Angeles
(UCLA) University of California San Diego
University of California San Francisco University of
Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of
Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center University of
Washington V Foundation for Cancer Research
HUNGER
Alameda County Community Food Bank Arizona
Brainfood California Association of Food Banks
Capital Area Food Bank of Texas Community
Action Partnership of Orange County Community
Food Share
2015 GRANTEES
Community FoodBank of New Jersey
Cooking Matters Colorado
Desert Mission
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank
Feeding America
Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino
Counties
Feeding America San Diego
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County
Food Bank for Larimer County
Food Bank for Monterey County
Food Bank for the Heartland
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Food Bank of Delaware
Food Bank of Northern Nevada
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana, Inc
Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana
Food Bank of the Rockies
Food In Need of Distribution, Inc
Food Research & Action Center
Food Research & Action Center - D.C. Hunger
Solutions
Food Research & Action Center - Maryland
Hunger Solutions
FOOD Share
FOOD, Inc. (dba) Community Food Bank
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Galloping Grace Youth Ranch
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Greater Chicago Food Depository
Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice
Hawaii Foodbank
Houston Food Bank
Hunger Free Vermont
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse
Institute for Local Government
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program
Minnie's Food Pantry
Mountain Resource Center
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest
New Hampshire Catholic Charities dba New
Hampshire Food Bank
New York City Coalition Against Hunger
North Texas Food Bank
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northwest Harvest/EMM Open Arms Food Bank
Overlake Service League dba Bellevue LifeSpring
Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon Partnership for
Children & Youth Preble Street Redwood Empire Food
Bank Regional East Texas Food Bank Rhode Island
Community Food Bank Association Roadrunner Food
Bank San Antonio Food Bank Second Harvest Food
Bank of San Joaquin &
Stanislaus County, Inc.Second Harvest Food Bank
of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties Second
Harvest Inland Northwest SF - Marin Food Bank
SFUSD's Future Dining Experience Share Our
Strength (No Kid Hungry MD and VA) Share Our
Strength (No Kid Hungry Montana) Share Our
Strength (No Kid Hungry Washington) Share Our
Strength-No Kid Hungry St. Mary's Food Bank
Alliance Sunshine Division Texas Hunger
Initiative of Baylor University The Campus Kitchens
Project The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean
Counties, Inc. The Go Green Initiative The Greater
Boston Food Bank, Inc. The Greater Philadelphia
Coalition Against
HungerThe Salvation Army The Society of St.
Vincent de Paul Three Square Food Bank United
Food Bank United Labor Agency of Nevada Utah
Food Bank Virginia Poverty Law Center
WhyHungerYuma Community Food Bank
VOLUNTEERISM
Children's Action Network Habitat for
Humanity International
M.E.N.D. (Meet Each Need with Dignity)SF SB
Legacy dba 50 Fund The NASCAR Foundation
Volunteers of the Burbank Animal Shelter