Hollywood's Green A-List Raises $500K for UCLA Environmental Institute
The Hollywood Reporter featured an article about the Institute's fundraising gala on March 15: "An Evening of Environmental Excellence."
Film producer and IoES Advisory Board member Lawrence Bender with actor Owen Wilson. A benefit at Tony and Jeanne Pritzker's mansion, attended by Owen Wilson and Lana del Rey, brings in more than half a million dollars for the university's five-year-old think tank.
A glittering gathering of green Los Angeles’ A-list at Tony and Jeanne Pritzker’s sprawling modernist mansion in Beverly Hills has raised more than $500,000 for the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the five-year old educational think tank that has emerged as a power house of cutting-edge science.
The Thursday reception and dinner honored real estate mogul and Santa Monica Baykeeper founder Dan A. Emmett and the Southern California Edison for its corporate responsibility. Emmy Award-winning actor Jerry Penacoli emceed the evening and singer/songwriter Vicci Martinez provided the entertainment. Tony Pritzker and Tina Quinn co-chaired the evening.
To read the full article by Tina Daunt click here.
Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
