New York, N.Y. The National Meningitis Association gala Give Kids a Shot, held recently at the New York Athletic Club, attracted people from all over the nation and from all walks of life – just as meningitis affects people from all walks of life. This fifth annual event was once again both an emotion-filled evening [...]
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Fountain House Symposium Honors Author Andrew Solomon
New York, N.Y. New York City has an annual event that educates the public on mental health that I believe is the finest in America. This symposium – and luncheon – is hosted by Fountain House each spring at The Pierre. This year, the event’s tenth, the topic was “Mental Illness and the Family: Relationships, Resilience, Recovery. The [...]
Global Health Issues Explored in Recognition of World Health Day
New York, N.Y. Today is World Health Day. The Stewardship Report joins the World Health Organization (WHO) in promoting its global health focus on hypertension (download a PDF copy of WHO’s global brief on hypertension). This month, The Report examines some of the most pressing global health issues, such as the three health-related Millennium Development Goals [...]
Transcendental Meditation Helps U.S. Veterans Cope with Stress
By Lorraine Cancro, M.S.W., edited by Jim Luce. New York, N.Y. In 2011, the filmmaker behind the movies Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive organized for his foundation to donate $1 million to launch Operation Warrior Wellness (OWW) in Los Angeles, an initiative to help 10,000 veterans overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other war-related illnesses. In 2011, Lynch [...]
David Lynch Fnd.: Women, Violence & T.M.
New York, N.Y. When I first read that 19,000 women a year get raped in the military, I thought it was a typo. When I read the next sentence that women in our military were more likely to be raped by our own soldiers then by the enemy, I thought, obviously. If any nation’s soldiers [...]
Joan Rivers Supports Healing Center in New Orleans
New Orleans, LA. I spoke this week with Sallie Ann Glassman who told me how proud the New Orleans Healing Center (NOHC) is to present an “Evening with Joan Rivers” next month in their facility. “Uncensored. Unscripted. Unpredictable.” How could I imagine anything else? “This is a ‘once in a lifetime’ benefit performance for us and [...]
IAHD Institutes Recognize Anchor Rita Cosby
New York, N.Y. Founded in 1957 by Dr. Jack M. Gootzeit, the Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics (IAHD) – serving the Developmental Disabled in The Bronx and Westchester Counties — has held an annual fundraising gala event every year, since 1969. Recently they hosted their 45th Annual Awards Dinner Dance at the Chelsea Piers in [...]
David Lynch Foundation Lauded by Global Stress Initiative
New York, N.Y. Kevin McGovern, founder and chairman of The Water Initiative, partnered recently with the Global Stress Initiative (GSI) to host an evening in his penthouse home in honor of the good works of the David Lynch Foundation to bring stress-reducing meditation to at-risk populations, including inner-city youth and veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [...]
