CHF Honors Children's Health Champions at Annual Benefit

The Founders' Award recognizes philanthropists and individuals who have demonstrated a steadfast commitment to Children's Health Fund's mission. The Corporate Award recognizes corporate leaders whose companies and employees are dedicated to children's health and have made significant investments in CHF's programs.

Greenberg is being honored for his longtime leadership support of CHF through The Starr Foundation. Since 2004, The Starr Foundation's generosity has helped CHF to significantly expand services at its flagship program in and across the nation with assistance from The Starr Center for Preventive Health and Special Initiatives.

"I understand the numerous barriers many families face in accessing high-quality health care," said Greenberg. "It's a privilege to help ensure that no child goes without the preventive care or treatment that he or she needs to stay healthy."

For 160 years, American Express has provided service and engagement in communities around the world. Through its 20-year investment in CHF, American Express has helped thousands of medically underserved children get the essential health care services they need.

"American Express is proud to partner with CHF to protect our nation's most vulnerable children," said Fernando. "We look forward to continuing to help provide comprehensive health care to children across the country, regardless of their ability to pay."

More than one in five children in lives below the poverty line, and many more live in low-income families. Without affordable access to health care, these children face long-term physical and mental health consequences, many of which could be prevented. CHF helps families overcome financial, transportation and other barriers to health care through its network of fixed-site and mobile medical clinics.

Children's Health Fund

Founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter , M.D., Children's Health Fund (CHF) is the nation's leading pediatric provider of mobile-based health care for homeless and low-income children and their families. CHF's mission is to bring health care directly to those in need through the development and support of innovative medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to health care for all children. CHF currently has 50 mobile medical clinics serving hundreds of locations across the country. Over the past 24 years, the organization has supported more than two million health care visits for disadvantaged children, often in places where doctors and health care providers are in short supply. For more information about CHF, visit www.childrenshealthfund.org .

Gary Sinise To Launch New Charity

Fire Family Transport Foundation, Hope For The Warriors, The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, The Navy Seal Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans.

The launch will coincide with the release of Jonathan Flora’s documentary “Lt. Dan Band: For The Common Good”. During the 30-day online release, when people stream the film at www.LtDanBandMovie.com , one out of every four dollars will go to the Gary Sinise Foundation to support its programs.

In 2008, Gary Sinise received the Presidential Citizens Medal , the second highest civilian honor awarded to citizens for exemplary deeds performed in service of the nation. He is only the second actor, and one of only 110 people in history to have received the honor. Other awards include The Medal of Honor’s Bob Hope Excellence in Entertainment Award, The Spirit of the School of Social Work’s Crystal Heart, the school’s highest honor for his outstanding community service, and the university established the Gary Sinise Endowed Scholarship in the School of Social Work in his name to support further education in the area of military social work.

Sinise has done hundreds of personal appearances and concerts with the Lt. Dan Band worldwide, mostly for military related organizations. He has participated in over 40 tours and made over 150 appearances for the USO alone, and traveled to bases in Alaska and throughout the US, and overseas to locations such as Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Belgium, The UK, The Netherlands, Italy, , Qatar, Korea, Singapore, Diego Garcia, Okinawa and Guantanamo Bay, raising the spirits and boosting morale of hundreds of thousands of troops and their families.

As a result of Sinise’s first two trips to Iraq, he started Operation International Children with Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand, which has worked with schools in the U.S., corporate sponsors and People to People International to supply the military with well over a quarter of a million school supply kits, along with more than half a million toys and thousands of blankets, backpacks, pairs of shoes, Arabic-language books, and sets of sports equipment to provide to children in conflict areas.

Sinise serves as the spokesperson for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, traveling the country to raise funds to build the memorial to honor America’s 3 million living disabled military veterans, which broke ground in 2010. He was involved in raising funds for The Pentagon Memorial (www.whs.mil/memorial) located just southwest of The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, where one can find a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people killed in the building, and on American Airlines Flight 77. He also helped raise funds to build The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance (www.brooklynwall.us) in KeySpan Park, to honor the first responders, those fire, police and emergency personnel from across the nation who raced to the sites after the terrorist attacks, risking their lives in service to others.

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