Remarkable People

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular heavy metal, alternative rock, hip hop, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. Lollapalooza has featured a diverse range of bands and has helped expose and popularize alternative rock groups such as Thenewno2, Pearl Jam, Primus, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hole, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Strokes, and Green Day.

Conceived and created in 1991 by Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band, Lollapalooza ran annually until 1997, and was revived in 2003. From its inception through 1997, and its revival in 2003, the festival toured North America. In 2005, Farrell and the William Morris Agency partnered up with Austin, Texas-based company Capital Sports Entertainment (now C3 Presents) and retooled it into its current format as a weekend destination festival in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois.

The Cause

Lolla Cares enhances Chicago, cleans disasters, saves lives, and encourages you to take action. Lollapalooza supports many nonprofits committed to making this world a better place.

Community Outreach

Lollapalooza provides a great opportunity to reach out to patrons to educate and perhaps influence their choices in a positive way. The festival features a special area in the grounds to showcase select nonprofit organizations.

Parkways Foundation & Lollapalooza Rock Together!

Did you know that every Lollapalooza ticket purchase helps improve Chicago’s parks? In just 5 years, Lollapalooza has generated more than $5 million for investment in our parks and neighborhoods! Parkways Foundation invests in Chicago’s parks to enrich communities through historic preservation, environmental initiatives, capital projects and youth/family programs.

OUR MISSION

To educate, encourage and assist athletes in their efforts to contribute to community and charitable causes, to increase public awareness of those efforts, and to inspire others to do the same.

OUR PURPOSE

Educate
Athletes, with the proper information and tools, can make a tremendous positive impact on the charitable community. By connecting with professional athletes and teaching them about their philanthropic options, we will equip them with the tools to effectively give back to their community, educate their peers, and inspire many others to support charitable causes.

When AFH recruitment efforts achieved critical mass (passing 500) and momentum continued to be strong, the opportunity for AFH to mobilize athletes transitioned from a concept to a reality, from a vision to an asset. Athlete membership has grown by 56% to 700+ members in the past 2 years. Matches between athletes and charities have grown by 62% year over year, to 450+ matches.

Despite the history of sports as a centerpiece of American culture, the sports field itself is only just becoming a community. Currently, this powerful platform is an untapped resource for most charities and causes. AFH has taken a leadership role in four complementary strategies to catalyze sports philanthropy and to create a movement that is recognized nationwide: 1) education 2) connection 3) collaboration and 4) recognition.

Through these strategies AFH is creating a systemic approach for connecting 20,000+ active professional and Olympic athletes, and 100,000+ retired athletes to social issues. The AFH model is unique, there is no other entity actively uniting athletes and charities, for personal engagement with no focus on money.

AFH's model combines a curriculum-based workshop with a custom matching process that results in deeper civic engagement by the athlete. In 2010, AFH will pilot a variation of its core program for young athletes as part of their team experience. The youth curriculum will reinforce those traits that make for great sportsmanship and great civic engagement, with the goal of giving young athletes the skills, confidence, and enthusiasm to seek opportunities for social engagement over their lifetime. This initiative will be delivered through national partners who specialize in providing youth recreational sports. The target audience is ages 8-14, in urban, under-resourced communities. By 2011, the youth initiative will launch nationally, eventually scaling up to serve a significant portion of the 20 million youth represented by these partner organizations.

Separately, AFH is developing curriculum and educational guides for athletes and their advisors. This "best practices" program will encourage high standards that result in impactful and effective athlete philanthropy. Approaching this process as an individual journey for each athlete will help them determine the opportunities and risks along the way. Part of the material will provide compelling alternatives to starting a foundation. Other components will include webinars, conferences and an online resource.

ABOUT THE LANCE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION

The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) unites people to fight cancer, believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. We provide the practical information and tools people battling cancer need to live life on their own terms. We take aim at the gap between what is known and what is done to prevent death and suffering due to cancer. We engage the public at large to pursue an agenda focused on preventing cancer, ensuring access to screening and care, improving the quality of life for people affected by cancer, and investing in needed research. Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF is located in Austin. UNITE at LIVESTRONG.ORG.

LIVESTRONG.ORG

The Lance Armstrong Foundation will continue to support cancer survivorship and call on our nation's leaders to wage a new war against cancer through LIVESTRONG.ORG.

Since 1997, we've been working to improve the lives of people affected by cancer.

We started as a small group trying to raise money to fight this disease. As cancer has quietly become the world’s leading cause of death, our work has expanded and now reaches every corner of the globe.

We provide support to guide people through the cancer experience, bring them together to fight cancer—and work for a world in which our fight is no longer necessary.
Determined to make cancer a global priority, reduce stigma, improve support, increase access to care and make this disease HISTORY!

Our Strength
We believe that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. Our leaders and donors provide vision and support for our mission.

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