Luncheon to take place on Thursday, June 8, at The Plaza with
special guest Candice Bergen
NEW
YORK, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The East End
Chapter/Jeanne Kaye League of
New York City announced today that
they will honor actor and advocate Jane
Fonda and Delta Air Lines' Senior Vice President,
Sustainability Performance and Strategic Partnerships
Gail Grimmett with
City of Hope's Spirit of
Life® Award at their upcoming luncheon on
Thursday, June 8, 2023, at The Plaza.
Actress Candice Bergen will be
featured as a special guest, and Linda
Malkas, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Molecular
Diagnostics & Experimental Therapeutics and the M.T. & B.A.
Ahmadinia Professor in Molecular Oncology at City of Hope, will provide remarks., sharing
personal examples of the impact on research made possible by
City of Hope's supporters. The
event will raise awareness and support for cancer research and
treatment innovation at City of
Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment
organizations in the United States
and a leading research center for diabetes and other
life-threatening illnesses.
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The Spirit of Life Award is City of Hope's most prestigious honor and is
presented to an esteemed community of industry leaders around the
world who have made a significant commitment to improving the lives
of others through the advancement of research and clinical
innovation and the delivery of personalized, compassionate care.
The award recipients' professional and humanitarian accomplishments
are worthy of celebration. Recipients of this prestigious award
include a broad range of leaders from the world of business,
entertainment, science and philanthropy. What connects them is a
shared commitment to elevating the human condition and a profound
belief in the power of each individual to effect change.
The Spirit of Life, by its very name, represents the
intangible qualities that make an individual's life worthy of
admiration: their generous ability to inspire and their desire to
make a difference in the world.
The East End Chapter/Jeanne Kaye
league comprises 500 New York women and is led by President
Lisa Kaye Fuld. The chapter has been
raising money to advance cures and novel therapies at City of Hope for more than 40 years. In that
time, the chapter has been able to raise more than $40 million in support of new medical innovations
for cancer patients and their families.
"We look forward to honoring Jane
Fonda and Gail Grimmett with
City of Hope's Spirit of
Life Award on June
8th," said Fuld. "Both women have been touched by
cancer, and we are honored that they are joining us to support the
advancement of innovative care and treatments. Their bravery and
strength are to be admired."
"This luncheon provides a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the
strong example Jane Fonda and
Gail Grimmett have set on the power
of philanthropy partnership, which is so key to fueling
City of Hope's mission," said
City of Hope Chief Philanthropy
Officer Kristin Bertell. "The
precedent they both set helps to highlight the importance and
impact of the donor and volunteer community."
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning
actor (Best Actress in 1971 for "Klute" and in 1978 for "Coming
Home"), producer, author, activist and fitness guru. Her career has
spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that
includes over 50 films and crucial work on behalf of political
causes, such as women's rights, Native Americans and the
environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe winner and was
honored with the Cecil B. DeMille
Award in 2021. Fonda will be honored with The Harry Belafonte
Voices for Social Justice Award at this year's 2023 Tribeca Film
Festival.
2023 marked a triumphant return to the big screen with three
films already released and another on the way. She most recently
reunited with Diane Keaton,
Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen for Focus Features' "Book Club
2." Before that, she starred in the highly anticipated "80 For
Brady" opposite Lily Tomlin,
Sally Field and Rita Moreno, released by Paramount Pictures.
Then there was Paul Weitz's "Moving
On" for Roadside Attractions in which Fonda stars opposite longtime
friend and colleague, Tomlin. This summer, she will lend her voice
as "Grandmama' in DreamWorks' animated film "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken" set to release
June 30. Other notable credits
include "Grace & Frankie," which is Netflix's longest running
original series. It is for her work on the series that she received
an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
in 2017. She also released "Jane
Fonda in Five Acts," a documentary for HBO chronicling her
life and activism.
Fonda continues to lead the charge on Fire Drill Fridays, the
national movement to protest government inaction on climate change
she started in October 2019 in
partnership with Greenpeace USA.
In 2022, she launched the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, which is focused
on defeating political allies of the fossil fuel industry. Her
latest book, "What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair To
Action" details her personal journey with the movement and provides
solutions for communities to combat the climate crisis. Fonda also
notably celebrated her 85th birthday by raising
$1 million for her nonprofit, Georgia
Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential.
Gail
Grimmett
Gail Grimmett
is Delta Air Lines senior vice president, Sustainability
Performance and Strategic Partnerships.
Grimmett leads Delta's efforts to drive forward innovative,
sustainable solutions that will empower the next chapter of
aviation, which includes next generation technologies, and
partnerships with educational institutions and other
corporations.
Grimmett has spent over 20 years at Delta Air Lines, serving in
multiple key executive functions including SVP of Global New York,
SVP of Pricing and Yield Management and managing director of
Investor Relations.
In addition to playing an integral role in the Delta JFK and LGA
redevelopment plans, Grimmett served as Governor Andrew Cuomo's appointee on both the
New York State Tourism Board and
the New York City Regional Economic Development Council for a
decade.
From 2013 through 2019, Grimmett was consecutively named among
the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in New
York by Crain's Business.
Grimmett holds an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from George
Washington University.
Candice
Bergen
Candice Bergen
shined as the feisty eponymous broadcast news legend of the
critically acclaimed CBS comedy series "Murphy
Brown," for which she received five Emmy Awards and two Golden
Globe Awards over the 10-year run. She served as an executive
producer when she returned to that iconic role in the CBS revival
in fall 2018. She starred that same year in the box office
hit "The Book Club," alongside Jane Fonda, Diane
Keaton, and Mary Steenburgen
and stars alongside the same cast in its upcoming sequel "Book
Club: The Next Chapter" — out this May. Her most
recent work includes The HBO Max film "Let Them All
Talk" with Meryl Streep and Diane Wiest, directed by
Steven Soderbergh and "As Sick
As They Made Us" with Dustin
Hoffman, directed by Mayim Bialik.
Film credits include Starting Over," for which she
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress, "Gandhi," "Rich and Famous," "Home Again," "Sweet
Home Alabama" and "Miss Congeniality," among many
others. Additional television credits include "Boston Legal,"
which garnered her two Emmy nominations, as well as Golden Globe
and SAG nomination. Broadway credits include the original
production of "Hurly Burly," Gore Vidal's 2012 production
of "The Best Man" and "Love
Letters" opposite Alan Alda.
Bergen's autobiography, "Knock Wood," was released in 1984
to critical acclaim and became a New York
Times bestseller, as did its sequel, "A Fine
Romance," published in 2015.
In 2017, Candice created Bergen Bags, a personal customization
business for which she hand paints renderings of beloved images
onto handbags. That business has been expanded to include designs
on apparel and accessories at www.candicebergenartstuff.com. All
proceeds are donated to charity. Follow her on Instagram
@bergenbags.
City of Hope's Spirit of
Life Award luncheon will be produced by Tony Award winner
Scott H. Mauro for Scott Mauro
Entertainment Inc.
About City of
Hope
City of Hope's
mission is to deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need
them today. Founded in 1913, City of
Hope has grown into one of the largest cancer research
and treatment organizations in the U.S. and one of the leading
research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses.
City of Hope research has been the
basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as
human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies. With an
independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive
cancer center at its core, City of Hope brings a uniquely integrated model to
patients spanning cancer care, research and development, academics
and training, and innovation initiatives.
City of Hope's growing national
system includes its Los Angeles
campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in
Orange County, California,
and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. City of Hope's affiliated group of organizations
includes Translational Genomics
ResearchInstitute and AccessHopeTM. For more
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