Spotlight: Sherry Lansing's Charity Work
In February 2007 Lansing was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, receiving an Oscar statuette.
“Sherry is being honored not only for her passionate work in support of fighting cancer,” said Academy President Sid Ganis, “but because the Board recognized and remembered the long list of charitable organizations and causes she has served, and her long history in serving them. Sherry has earned enormous respect throughout the industry not only for her successful career as a producer and studio head, but because she has never failed to further devote her enormous energy to the needs of others.”
Lansing serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Friends of Cancer Research and as a Trustee of the American Association for Cancer Research. She continues to lend her energy and talents to such advisory boards and committees as the American Red Cross Board of Governors, the board of trustees for the Carter Center and Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer. Lansing is also a Regent of the University of California and serves as chair of the University Health Services Committee.
Charities & foundations supported
Sherry Lansing has supported the following charities:
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Association of Retired Persons
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- American Stroke Association
- Cancer Research Institute
- Cancer Research UK
- Entertainment Industry Foundation
- Farrah Fawcett Foundation
- Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
- Melanoma Research Alliance
- Oprah's Angel Network
- Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa
- Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
- Prostate Cancer Foundation
- Red Cross
- Safeway Foundation
- Sherry Lansing Foundation
- Stand Up To Cancer
- Women's Image Network
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