![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First, a cocktail and mingling hour under a disco ball-lit room and a silent auction which offered a Paris Fashion Week Trip with Chanel and a private dinner with Los Angeles chef Evan Funke on the docket. Held at the Pacific Design Center, the evening-during which over $12 million was raised-had much in store for its some few hundred guests. Funding the lofty goal is the current focus-enter the gala. Simultaneously, Sawyer Patricof and Weinstein are also focused on a new pilot program launched with the White House and HHS that will distribute 3,000 newborn and maternal kits across Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico (states with the highest poverty and maternal mortality rates), with a goal of offering the kits to any new mom in need countrywide. “And we felt so fortunate about that because in the midst of the disaster when there was so much chaos and so many organizations from around the world were trying to help the families on Maui, we already had those there.” “We had actually made a delivery of diapers, wipes, and other hygiene items to the Hawaii Diaper Bank the day before the fires broke out,” Weinstein says. This year, disaster relief became among Baby2Baby’s top priorities, responding, for example, to the Maui wildfires and ultimately sending 600,000 items to Hawaii, or 50 million items to children across its disaster relief program in total. “We wanted to solve a problem in the area of child poverty, and rather than assuming or presuming or guessing what that was, we went and spoke to organizations on the ground doing the work, and we asked them.” Identifying diapers as the largest need for underserved moms, the pair have since given out 170 million in total, becoming not only the largest donor of diapers across all organizations but also the first to manufacture their own, doing so at 80% less of the cost of purchasing them. ![]() “The two of us started Baby2Baby twelve years ago from listening,” Sawyer Patricof told Vogue. Of course, it’s always done so alongside ample food and cocktails, and an epic music performance. The single night alone is responsible for raising the majority of Baby2Baby’s annual operation funding. It’s a fashionable evening by nature (feathered Oscar de la Renta gowns and Chanel dresses are on showcase) but rather than an event held in celebration of fashion and film (as is customary in L.A.), it’s one put together by co-CEOs Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein, with the help of sponsors Paul Mitchell, City National Bank and Volvo Car USA, to celebrate-and fund-Baby2Baby’s work in serving 1 million children across all 50 states. There simply aren’t many events that draw in the sheer volume and caliber of guests-among them, Kim Kardashian, Olivia Wilde, Demi Lovato, Sofia Richie Grainge, and Zoe Saldana. To paint the picture, the Baby2Baby gala, held annually in Los Angeles, could easily be called the West Coast’s Met Gala. With Radio Two playing Hey Mister Snowman at Christmas, Kim played a few select Christmas shows in both the UK and Holland, which she repeated with the release of the special edition of the album the following year.Kim Kardashian and Hailey Bieber Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images In 2013 Kim released the beautiful and critically acclaimed, Wilde Winter Songbook album, which featured her favourite Christmas and winter-inspired songs, both cover versions and original material. The 90s saw Kim continue to remain in the spotlight with the albums Love Moves and Love Is, featuring singles including Love Is Holy and the Bee Gee's classic If I Can't Have You from The Singles Collection 1981-1993. This lead to a stunning career with over 30 million record sales spanning 12 albums and some of the most memorable hits of the 80s including Chequered Love, Cambodia, You Keep Me Hangin' On, You Came, Never Trust A Stranger and Four Letter Word. Kim Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the classic Kids In America, a worldwide hit. ![]()
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