Hilfe durch Elvis

[Suskai]

Hallo,

ich hab einmal gehört, dass Elvis sich für Gute Zwecke eingesetzt haben soll, da ich hoffentlich kein entsprechendes Thema übersehen habe, wollte ich gerne von euch, mehr darüber wissen.

[Franz Nübel]

Elvis hat sich sein ganzes Leben für verschiedene Gute Zwecke eingesetzt. Die hier alle zu listen würde glaube ich den Rahmen sprengen. Willst du was bestimmtes zum Thema wissen?

[praytome]

dazu empfehle ich freemans buch the best of elvis ....

[Franz Nübel]

dazu empfehle ich freemans buch the best of elvis ....

Ein Buch, welches ich noch nicht besitze. Das wird sich ändern.

[praytome]

meist günstig zu kriegen softcover ...

cindy hazen and mike freeman

the best of elvis
recollections of a great humantarian

beide authoren gehören zu den inteligentesten menschen die ich je getroffen haben und sind sehr wissenschaftliche menschen was sich in vielen wiederspiegelt was sie tun
sehr empfehlenswert

ich habe 3 dollar + shippung bezahlt

(beim lesen an den pleite thread denken)

[Suskai]

Klingt klasse, ich hab das Buch auch noch nicht.

[MARIE]

Bei eurobuch für ein paar euro zu haben

[Suskai]

Also ein Schnäppchen.

[praytome]

oh ich vergass zu sagen buch ist natürlich englisch :traurig:
empfehle ich absolut

[monipenny]

Elvis and Charity
Elvis Presley is known for his many talents and accomplishment -he was a prolific recording artist, a successful movie star, a charismatic stage performer. But one of his most enduring and endearing qualities was his generosity and commitment to charity. Giving spontaneously was very much in Elvis' nature. Even as a child whose family was too poor to provide him with many material things, he shared and gave away his own toys to other kids. As a teenager, Elvis saved his earnings from his job as a movie usher to buy a print of Jesus for his parents. He said it was the favorite gift he ever gave anybody.

Elvis took great pleasure in seeing the look on people's faces when he gave them a "happy," which was his nickname for a gift. His heartfelt benevolence is part of the reason he's held in such high esteem by his fans. There's no way to know for sure, but it's been estimated that he made approximately $4 billion during his career and gave half of it away. Elvis was more than an entertainer, he was, and continues to be, an inspiration for people to remember those less fortunate than themselves. Although Elvis became fabulously wealthy, he seemed never to forget what it meant to be poor. He spent the first few weeks of his life in the charity ward of a hospital and it may be based in this sense of vulnerability that he frequently donated to various medical charities.

When he first achieved his extraordinary level of fame, he used it to help raise money and awareness for many causes. He lent his name and image to the American Cancer Society and the American Library Association, among others. He posed for photos while giving blood and getting vaccines. He arranged for the thousands of teddy bears that fans sent him to be distributed to children in hospitals.

One of the reasons Elvis so loved the holidays was because they are the season of giving. In 1961, he started a Christmas tradition of distributing checks to more than 50 charitable organizations, donating more than $100,000 each year. He gave cash and donated many personal items to be auctioned off for charity. In 1964, Elvis purchased the FDR presidential yacht, the Potomac, and donated it to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which in turn sold it for $55,000. One of his Rolls Royces was auctioned off in 1968 to raise money for a charity that aided mentally retarded children. Sometimes, with his permission, even the bed linens and towels from the hotel rooms he stayed at while on tour were auctioned for charities. (Although we're guessing that many other times, without his permission, his linens were gathered up by others and sold for many reasons other than to give money to charity.) Although celebrities often make contributions to good causes for the sheen it adds to their image, Elvis frequently gave anonymously.

There are countless stories that came to light only after Elvis' death that recount his merciful role to some unfortunate person he didn't know. The best book on this subject, The Best of Elvis: Recollections of a Great Humanitarian by Cindy Hazen and Mike Freeman, recalls so many wonderful aspects of Elvis and tells so many touching stories, you will certainly feel like you know him more deeply after reading it. Often on reading about someone's declining circumstances in the newspaper, Elvis would dispatch one of his men with a check to try to help. He paid off people's debts and mortgages. One time he bought, and personally delivered, a state-of-the-art wheelchair to an old woman who couldn't afford to replace the wheelchair that was stolen from her. We can never really know the full extent of Elvis' charity. Elvis was even generous to the wealthy. In 1973 he gave his good friend Muhammad Ali an elaborate robe with "The People's Champion" emblazoned on the back. He gave Sammy Davis, Jr., a black sapphire ring worth tens of thousands of dollars. He once said, "Nobody ever thinks to give a rich man a gift."

Among Elvis' most memorable performances were the many benefit concerts he gave throughout his career. In 1956 and 1957 Elvis performed at the Tupelo Fairgrounds in his hometown to raise money for the Elvis Presley Youth Foundation there. On March 25, 1961, Elvis performed a benefit concert at Bloch Arena in Hawaii that raised $65,000 toward the building of the USS Arizona Memorial. The famous "Aloha from Hawaii" concert that was watched by around half the world1Í4s population in 1973 was a benefit concert that raised mor an $75,000 for the Kuiokalani Lee Cancer Fund. Elvis, who as a small child survived a killer tornado that ripped through Tupelo, gave a concert in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1975, that raised more than $100,000 for tornado victims in his home state. A unique feature of all Elvis' benefit concerts was the Colonel1Í4s policy that everyone had to buy a ticket, including Elvis and the Colonel. The proceeds from the sale of souvenirs at his concerts often went directly to charity.

For most fans who attended an Elvis concert, the memories of that experience will forever be a treasure. Some lucky fans, however, left the concert hall with a different kind of treasure. At a concert in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1975, Elvis gave out a king's ransom worth of jewelry to audience members. At another concert that year, Elvis took the diamond medallion cross that he wore around his neck and gave it to a five-year-old girl in the audience who reminded him of Lisa Marie. Elvis gave away so much jewelry, he traveled with his own personal jeweler, Lowell Hayes, who carried a portable jewelry mini-mart with him. Elvis bought close to $700,000 worth f jewelry from Hayes during the last five years of his life, most of which he gave away.

Perhaps the major beneficiaries of Elvis largesse were the friends and family with whom he shared his life. Elvis1Í4 infamous entourage, the Memphis Mafia, received lavish gifts of cars, jewelry, houses, vacations, cash bonuses, weddings, and even surgery. Elvis paid for a nose job for George Klein, an intestinal bypass for Lamar Fike, a kidney transplant for his friend and producer Felton Jarvis, even a breast augmentation operation for one of the Mafia wives (upon her husband's request).

Elvis' favorite gift was also one of his own favorite things to buy for himself¹a shiny new set of wheels. Elvis and his friends would often visit a car dealership and buy out the entire stock. He didn't just buy cars for his friends, he would buy cars for perfect strangers. On one car-buying spree in Memphis during July 1975, Elvis bought and gave away 13 Cadillacs. When he noticed bank teller Mennie Person admiring his limousine parked in front of the dealership, he bought her a Caddy also and even gave her a check to buy some clothes go with the car. While vacationing in Colorado, he decided to buy a fleet of cars for some of his police buddies and their wives. Don Kinney, a local DJ, heard about Elvis' splurges and jokingly announced over the airwaves that if Elvis was listening, he wanted a car too. The next day he was the proud owner of a Cadillac Seville compliments of the King. Elvis gave away so many cars that it1Í4s become a pop culture clichÔ. In the 1999 film Father's Day, Billy Crystal's character gives Robin Williams's the keys to his car to which Williams quips, "How Elvis of you."

Amazingly, Elvis' spirit of generosity continues to be carried on today. Inspired by Elvis' example, many of his fans have made charity work their raison d'Øtre. Many fan club events are fund-raisers for one cause or another. Every year, especially during Tribute Week, fans from all over the world make donations to the charities Elvis supported. At the Elvis Presley Trauma Center in Memphis, a wall is covered with plaques recognizing the philanthropic activities done in his honor by Elvis fan clubs. Patsy Anderson, head of fan relations at EPE, estimates t t Elvis fan clubs have generated many millions of dollars to Memphis charities alone since his death.

EPE also follows the fan's lead in doing good deeds in Elvis' name. EPE formed The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to raise money for scholarship funds and other philanthropic pursuits. In the fall of 1999 EPE, in conjunction with Guernsey's Auction House, conducted an auction of Elvis memorabilia at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas to raise money to establish a building fund for Presley Place, a transitional housing development that will provide homeless families with up to one year of rent-free housing, child care, and job training. This is a particularly appropriate cause in that Elvis and his family benefited from subsidized housing when they lived at Lauderdale Courts during most of Elvis' high school days in Memphis.

Doing something charitable in honor of Elvis is the perfect way to carry on his humanitarian efforts and protect his legacy. Future generations will not only never forget Elvis' music, but because of the efforts of his fans they'll never forget his tender and kind heart.

hier eine charity-linkliste:
American Cancer Society

Arthritis Foundation

Braille Institute of America

Father Flanagan's Boys Town of Nebraska

Fraternal Order of Police

Goodwill Industries

Junior League

Kidney Foundation

Salvation Army

United Cerebral Palsy

Bethany Maternity Home

Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center

March of Dimes

Motion Picture Relief Fund

Muscular Dystrophy Association

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

United Cerebral Palsy Association

YMCA




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hier sind ein paar der exponate, die man sich im zusammenhang mit der spendenfreudigkeit von elvis in graceland ansehen kann:







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monika

[TheKing]

meist günstig zu kriegen softcover ...

cindy hazen and mike freeman

the best of elvis
recollections of a great humantarian


ich habe 3 dollar + shippung bezahlt

(beim lesen an den pleite thread denken)

Ich wollte es gerade bestellen, aber die Shippingkosten sind mir zu hoch, ist ja teurer als das Buch...

[TheKing]

Grrrr.hab es nun doch bestellt....ihr Nervensägen...

[praytome]

Grrrr.hab es nun doch bestellt....ihr Nervensägen...

nur lesen wirst du es nicht...

[TheKing]

nur lesen wirst du es nicht...

Mann ich hab bestimmt zehn Bücher hier liegen, die ich noch lesen muss...ich weiß auch nicht wann...goddamn! Ich werde die lesen, fragt sich nur wann...ich müßte mal den Fernseher rausschmeißen...

[praytome]

ohh das problem kennt jeder ich habe noch mind 10 konzert cds die ich noch hören muss...bei elvis ist das nicht einfach mann kommt kaum nach...