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06/24/2008

Starlight and Nintendo of America Unveil New Fun Center Featuring the Wii™

Determined to help lift the spirits of seriously ill children and their families, Nintendo of America has been one of Starlight’s most dedicated corporate partners for 16 years. The portable Fun Centers, now featuring the hottest gaming technology – the Wii – will be enjoyed by thousands more hospitalized kids, cultivating fun for families and providing a welcome distraction from the challenges of prolonged medical treatment.

The new Fun Centers feature a Sharp AQUOS™ flat-screen television, a DVD player, a Wii system and a selection of 22 fun Wii games. Fun Centers were created specifically to offer children an entertaining respite during difficult hospital stays... READ MORE

06/05/2008

Voting is Open for the Zeebys Casual Game Awards; Show to Benefit Starlight

LOS ANGELES, CA – Gamezebo and the Casual Games Association has announced that voting is now open for the Zeebys’ People’s Choice Awards. The winners will be revealed at the second annual Zeebys Award Show from 6:30 – 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at the Casual Connect Conference in the Taper Auditorium located inside of Benaroya Hall in Seattle...
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05/05/2008

Great Moves! & Starlight Expand Get Fit, Get Right -- Starlight’s Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Program
The new collaboration aims to expand access to educational programs and Starlight’s online community that offers peer support for overweight teens who are at risk for diabetes or heart disease

NEWTON, MA and LOS ANGELES, CA -- Great Moves!, a pediatric and adolescent weight management program formed in collaboration with the physicians of Children’s Hospital Boston, and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation are teaming up to expand the “Get Fit, Get Right” interactive online program for overweight teenagers... READ MORE

04/30/2008

Guitar Hero® III: Legends Of Rock Charity Challenge To Benefit Starlight
Highest Scoring Rockers Win An All Expense Paid Trip To Southern California For Tour Of Neversoft’s Studio

SANTA MONICA, CA – Rock out for a good cause! Activision, Inc. has partnered with Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation to host a Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock charity challenge benefiting seriously ill children and their families.

Now open for registration at www.GuitarHero.com, fans will compete to get the highest score possible playing Monster’s “Matchbook Romance” during the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock challenge... READ MORE

04/30/2008

Starlight Honors Its Volunteer of the Year by Placing a Fun Center In Her Name

CHICAGO, IL -- Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation recently conducted a search to unearth its volunteer superstar of 2007 and is proud to announce that Chicago resident Marlene Rotstein has been named the organization’s 2007 National Volunteer of the Year. In her honor, Starlight is dedicating a Fun Center – a mobile entertainment and gaming unit – to Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago the hospital of her choosing, on Wednesday, April 30 at 3:30 PM in the Janice and Kimberly Brown Family Life Center on the 5th Floor... READ MORE

03/28/2008

Corbin Bleu Joins Starlight At 'A Stellar Night' Gala
The Annual Gala was Presented by California Pizza Kitchen

LOS ANGELES, CA -- On March 28 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation presented William and Elizabeth Shatner with its 2007 Heart of Gold Award at the organization’s annual A Stellar Night gala. Hosted by Corbin Bleu, star of High School Musical and long time supporter, co-chaired by Starlight Board Member and Executive Vice President at Walt Disney Company, Kevin Mayer and wife Lisa... READ MORE

Visit A Stellar Night press room page for more information about the event.

03/20/2008

The Tuttles Ships to Retail Supported by Facebook Contest

LOS ANGELES, CA – Legacy Interactive today shipped The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures: Starlight Charity Challenge game to retail. The hybrid PC/Mac retail version of the animated arcade-style game is a first-of-its kind national fundraising campaign benefiting children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses via Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation (www.starlight.org), with fifty percent of the retail proceeds... READ MORE

03/10/2008

Jewelers for Children Hosts 11 Simultaneous ‘Sparkling Sundae’ Events for Hundreds of Starlight Children
Featuring Jewelry-making, Decadent Ice Cream Sundae Buffets and Celebrity Guests

LOS ANGELES, CA -- When a child has a serious illness, the day to day joys of childhood take a back seat to the rigors of treatment and hospitalization. Jewelers for Children and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation understand the struggles these families face and hosted Great Escapes family events around the country on Sunday, March 9, 2008 to bring joy to ill children, their parents and siblings and take them away from the routine of doctors and medical treatments... READ MORE

03/06/2008

Game Crazy "Fun"raiser Brings Entertainment to Seriously Ill Chilldren
Video Game Retailer Launches Month-Long Fundraiser for Starlight to Provide New “Fun Centers” for Hospitals

WILSONVILLE, ORE. – Think $1 won't go far in a video game store? This month, Game Crazy is turning dollar bills into shining stars that will enhance the lives of sick hospital-bound children across the U.S... READ MORE

02/08/2008

Colgate-Palmolive Asks You to Vote for Hospitals on Starlight’s Wait List to Win Fun Centers

NEW YORK, NY – Hundreds of hospitals across the country are on a waiting list to bring a dose of fun to local pediatric patients. This year, Colgate-Palmolive is partnering with the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation to take thirty hospitals off their waiting list for Fun Centers, mobile entertainment units that patients can enjoy bedside or anywhere in a hospital setting. Colgate is also asking communities nationwide to vote for ten hospitals to win additional Fun Centers...READ MORE

02/04/2008

During Black History Month, Colgate-Palmolive Asks You to “Show the Love” by Voting to Bring Fun Centers to Hospitals Treating Children with Sickle Cell

LOS ANGELES, CA – During February’s Black History Month, Colgate- Palmolive and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation have teamed up to help children with Sickle Cell Disease and their families cope with the pain, fear and isolation of this terrible disease. By providing Fun Centers, mobile entertainment units that patients can enjoy at their bedside, or anywhere in a hospital setting, these children can forget about their illnesses for a
moment and remember how to have fun... READ MORE

11/28/2007

For the Holidays, Starlight Breaks New Fundraising Ground With Casual Downloadable Videogame
Celebrity Voices Bring Online Charitable Game -- The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures -- to Life

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation®, Legacy Interactive and Animax Entertainment today launched The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures: Starlight Charity Challenge (www.tuttlesfamilygame.com), a casual platformer style downloadable videogame that pairs having a good time with doing good. Actors William Shatner, Bob Saget, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ashley Tisdale, Dominic Scott Kay, Dave Thomas and Dave Coulier contributed their voices to the animated game.

Supporters can try the game at www.tuttlesfamilygame.com and purchase it for $19.99 with $15 of that amount going to Starlight to brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families...
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11/01/2007

Swarovski and Christie Brinkley Support Starlight with a Holiday Promotion

NEW YORK, NY -- It's the most wonderful time of the year and Swarovski kicks off the 2007 holiday season with Christie Brinkley by unveiling a custom-designed 9.5 foot, 550 pound star adorned with over 25,000 crystals that sits atop the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

Swarovski is donating $250,000 from sales from its Annual Edition holiday ornament to
Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, This donation brings the company's cumulative gift to more than $600,000.

Sharing the ice for this unveiling will be the celebrity-designed miniature stars to be auctioned on eBay, back for a second year by popular demand...READ MORE

10/23/2007

Starlight Starbright Unveils Get Fit, Get Right 
Program to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Weight-related Conditions In Teens

LOS ANGELES, CA – Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation is unveiling Get Fit, Get Right www.getfitgetright.org), an online program designed to reduce obesity in teens and prevent type 2 diabetes and weight-related conditions such as blindness, amputation, renal failure, hypertension and heart disease... 
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Download multimedia files about this program by clicking here.

10/19/2007

Holiday House Tour to Benefit Starlight Starbright Arizona

PHOENIX, AZ- Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation has been named as the beneficiary of the American Society of Interior Designers Holiday House Tour 2007, to be held December 8-9, 2007 at a private home in the Silverleaf area of DC Ranch, Scottsdale...  READ MORE

Click here to learn about Starlight Starbright Arizona.

09/12/2007

Starlight Unveils Site of a Million Stars -- a First-of-Its-Kind Online Charity Fundraising Initiative

LOS ANGELES, CA – Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation is excited to announce the launch of Site of a Million Stars at www.millionstars.org, a first-of-its-kind online charity fundraising initiative which unites individuals from all over the globe in a common mission to support seriously ill children and families.

The website features an introduction from William Shatner who invites visitors to become “one in a million” by adding a star of their own design to the million stars universe and using their personal star power to shine a light into the lives of families who need it most... READ MORE

08/28/2007

Starlight Starbright Produces Original Fundraising Videogame: The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures
Expected to Launch 4Q, Starlight Starbright's Charity Challenge Breaks New Fundraising Ground to Benefit Seriously Ill Children and Family Members

LOS ANGELES, CA - Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation® is pleased to announce the development of The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures: Starlight Starbright Charity Challenge, a casual videogame that pairs having a good time with doing good.

A first-of-its-kind fundraising initiative, Starlight has partnered with Legacy Interactive®, a leader in games for the mass market, on the game's development and publishing. Dave Thomas and his comedy team at Emmy Award-winning studio, Animax Entertainment, developed the game's original script... READ MORE

06/29/2007

Hollywood Video Holds In-Store Fundraising Campaign for Starlight Starbright

WILSONVILLE, OR – Hollywood Video, a division of Movie Gallery, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVI) announced that July 1 through July 23, the chain will conduct an in-store fundraiser benefiting long-time partner Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.

While shopping for their favorite movies or video games, guests may make a tax deductible donation of $1 or more to Starlight Starbright. All proceeds from the “Star” campaign will be used to help seriously ill children and their families cope with their struggles through entertainment, education and family activities.

“We love this campaign and encourage people to get involved to help improve the quality of life for seriously ill children and their families,” said Paula Van Ness, CEO of Starlight Starbright... READ MORE

06/27/2007
 

Starlight Starbright Is Official Partner of Russ Berrie’s Shining Stars Program

OAKLAND, NJ – Russ Berrie and Company, Inc. (NYSE:RUS) through its subsidiary Russ Berrie U.S. Gift, Inc., happily announced today it has selected Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation as the official charitable partner of its new Shining Stars® program. Starting this month, thousands of kids on the popular www.shiningstars.com website will have the opportunity to donate ‘glow points’, the official currency of the site, to Starlight knowing that they are helping to make a world of difference for seriously ill children and their families.

On Thursday, June 28th High School Musical star Corbin Bleu, an official Starlight StarPower ambassador... READ MORE

06/11/2007

And 1 Mix Tape Tour 2007 Takes Starlight Starbright On Tour

ALISO VIEJO, CA – The AND 1 Mix Tape® Tour presented by Old Spice is happy to announce that it’s partnering with Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation to provide ‘Great Escapes’ to Starlight Starbright’s children, hosting approximately 500 seriously ill children and their family members as guests of AND 1 throughout the duration of its nationwide 10-city tour. As the original street basketball entertainment team featuring the world’s best playground players, the tour will invite one special child in each city to suit up and be a member of the team for a day.

“Our kids are simply giddy about getting to see the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour live and in person...” READ MORE

05/24/2007

Build-A-Bear Workshop® and Disney Send Winnie the Pooh On A Starlight Adventure

LOS ANGELES, CA — With the help of his beary special friends at Build-A-Bear Workshop® and The Walt Disney Company, Winnie the Pooh is on a mission to bring special comfort and friendship to children in need of a friend during hospital stays. Thousands of make-your-own Winnie the Pooh plush bears will be sent to children’s hospitals in three countries through the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation™.  Each time a Guest makes a Winnie the Pooh of their own, they are asked to make another one... READ MORE

05/22/2007

Starlight Starbright and Hollywood Entertainment Receive Cause-Marketing Award

NEW YORK, NY – Hollywood Entertainment Corporation and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation were recently honored with a Cause Marketing Halo Award, America’s highest honor for companies and causes that do well by doing good. Hollywood Entertainment’s Community Spotlight: Starlight Starbright partnership received a SILVER Cause Marketing Halo Award for Best National/Local Integration.
Hollywood Entertainment and Starlight Starbright both believe in the importance of supporting seriously ill children through the power of entertainment... READ MORE

05/03/2007

Electronic Arts Fulfills Fun Center Wait List In Orlando

ORLANDO, FL – Electronic Arts Tiburon has made a generous $26,000 gift to Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation’s Florida Office that will eliminate its Fun Center waiting list in Orlando.

Tiburon is placing eight Fun Centers, mobile entertainment units for pediatric patients featuring a Nintendo gaming system, a flat screen monitor and a DVD player, in these selected hospitals... READ MORE

04/30/2007

Chad Pennington and the 1st and 10 Foundation Show Their Support
$26,000 contribution will place eight Starlight Starbright Fun Centers in three states: six in West Virginia; one in New York; and one in Tennessee

LOS ANGELES, CA– Chad and Robin Pennington’s 1st and 10 Foundation and the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation have teamed up to help young hospital patients deal with anxiety, loneliness and apprehension that often accompany serious illness and injury.

Keeping in line with its mission to build stronger communities throughout West Virginia, Tennessee and the New York Metropolitan area, 1st and 10 is making a generous gift to Starlight Starbright that will place Fun Centers... READ MORE

04/12/2007

Starlight Starbright Dedicates a PC Pal to Its Volunteer of the Year's Hospital of Choice

LOS ANGELES, CA - Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation recently conducted a search to unearth its volunteer superstar of 2007 and is proud to announce that Denver resident Brett Shrewsbury has been named the organization's International Volunteer of the Year. In his honor, Starlight Starbright is dedicating a PC Pal to Denver Health Medical Center, the hospital of his choosing. Brett became involved with Starlight Starbright in 2002 as a volunteer at Hospital Happenings, fun-filled parties and events that help seriously ill children... READ MORE

03/13/2007

Asthma Game, Quest for the Code®, Is Now Available Online
Study shows improvements in children’s self efficacy, knowledge, quality of life, improved asthma
symptoms, medication adherence, and avoidance of asthma triggers

LOS ANGELES, CA —Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation has made its interactive educational asthma game, Quest for the Code®, formerly on CD-ROM, available online www.starlight.org/asthma. Featuring voiceover talent of Cuba Gooding Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Kelsey Grammer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Close, Shaquille O’Neal and other celebrities, Quest is a fun and engaging way for children, and their parents, to learn to manage a child’s asthma, find coping tips and get advice... READ MORE

02/07/2007

Jamie Lee Curtis Joins Starlight Starbright to Honor Robin McGraw, Dave Koz and Pam Omidyar at Annual 'A Stellar Night' Gala

LOS ANGELES, CA — On March 23 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation will present TV personality and author Robin McGraw with the 2007 Heart of Gold Award at the organization’s annual A Stellar Night gala. Hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis, Co-Chaired by Queen Latifah and film and television producer David Hoberman, A Stellar Night will spotlight inspirational stories from Starlight Starbright families and pay tribute to entertainment industry leaders and humanitarians who are making a world of difference for children and families.

Pam Omidyar, founder and board chair of HopeLab, will receive the inaugural Peter Samuelson Award for Innovation, and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Dave Koz will receive the Jacki Carlish Humanitarian Award... READ MORE

02/05/2007

Colgate-Palmolive to Sponsor Fun Centers Through Website Promotion 
Colgate-Palmolive and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation Create Online Voting Site to Reward Five Deserving Hospitals with Fun Centers

New York, NY – Playing tag, shooting hoops and building forts are everyday activities for most kids, but children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses are often unable to participate in everyday activities with their peers. To bring a dose of fun to young patients, Colgate-Palmolive and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation are asking people across the country to log on and vote for five lucky hospitals currently on a waiting list for “Fun Centers,” mobile entertainment units that kids can enjoy at their bedside, or anywhere in a hospital setting, while they recover. This year, Colgate-Palmolive will sponsor 60 Fun Centers nationwide... READ MORE

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