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James Chippendale

James Chippendale is an American business executive and anti-leukemia campaigner and co-founder of the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation...

and fellow cancer survivor Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. He currently lives in Dyserth, North Wales with his family. After The Alarm split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, which he has been releasing under the name "The Alarm" since 2000...

, of The Alarm

The Alarm

The Alarm are an alternative rock band that emerged from North Wales in the late 1970s. They started as a mod band and stayed together for over ten years. As a rock band, they displayed marked influences from Welsh language and culture...

, launched the Love Hope Strength Foundation in 2006 in hopes of providing critical funding and awareness for cancer centers worldwide. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in cancer care. The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF) is an international, music-centric cancer charity dedicated to providing support for cancer centers and inspiration to those affected throughout the world. With chapters in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

, Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, the Love Hope Strength Foundation is now one of the fastest growing cancer foundations in the world. Together, we are traveling the globe to remote venues such as the base camp of Mt. Everest, the top of The Empire State Building, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for...

, and Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

to name a few! We are collectively reaching out through the universal language of music to purchase life saving equipment, spread awareness, promote early detection, and register people to the international marrow database. Joining the Love Hope Strength

Love Hope Strength

James Chippendale and fellow cancer survivor Mike Peters, of The Alarm, launched the Love Hope Strength Foundation in 2006 in hopes of providing critical funding and awareness for cancer centers worldwide. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in...

Army in the battle against cancer are musicians from every corner of the globe. High school bands and Nepalese folk singers, to legends in rock n’ roll such as members of The Cult

The Cult

The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love...

, The Stray Cats, Gin Blossoms

Gin Blossoms

Gin Blossoms is an American pop rock band formed in 1987, in Tempe, Arizona. They took their name from a photo of W.C. Fields which bore the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms", referring to what appeared to be the actor's gin-ravaged nose, but was actually a skin condition known as rosacea...

, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

, The Fixx

The Fixx

The Fixx is an English rock band formed in London in 1979. Their hits include "One Thing Leads to Another," "Red Skies," "Stand or Fall," "Saved by Zero," "Sign of Fire," "Are We Ourselves?," "Secret Separation," "Driven Out," "How Much Is Enough?," and "Deeper and Deeper," which was featured on...

, Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz

Jason Thomas Mraz , also known as Mr. AZ and Mr. Raz, is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, "Mr. A-Z", in 2005, that Mraz achieved...

, Spoon

Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients...

, The Bravery

The Bravery

The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott , Michael Zakarin , John Conway , Mike Hindert , and Anthony Burulcich...

, and hundreds more have done their part to help spread the word through music.

Mission

As of 2010, cancer is now the world’s #1 killer and will touch each and every one of us in our lifetime. It is a global issue in need of support from a worldwide network. In 2007, the Love Hope Strength Foundation was co-founded by leukemia survivors Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

of the Welsh rock band The Alarm

The Alarm

and President of CSI Entertainment James Chippendale

James Chippendale

James Chippendale is an American business executive and anti-leukemia campaigner and co-founder of the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation...

who believe that awareness, early detection and proper treatment should not be a luxury and wanted to find a way to ensure that all people have access to the same resources that saved their lives.

The Love Hope Strength Foundation is an international, music-centric cancer charity dedicated to saving lives, one concert at a time. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in cancer care. We do not fund cancer research, rather we use our funds to:

• Build and support cancer centers around the globe

• Build awareness of global cancer needs

• Build international marrow registries through the "GET ON THE LIST" campaign

Accomplishments

With headquarters in Denver, CO and chapters in Dallas, Peru, United Kingdom and Australia, the Love Hope Strength Foundation has performed concerts on 6 continents in just three year’s time. We led musical pilgrimages to remote venues such as the base camp of Everest, the top of The Empire State Building, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, the glaciers of Kilimanjaro, the sunrise of Mount Fuji, the Valleys of Rhondda and reached out through the universal language of music. We have also teamed up with DKMS, the world’s largest marrow registry, to expand our reach by conducting bone marrow drives at concerts, music festivals and events in the United States and United Kingdom so that people, like founder James Chippendale himself, can find the match that will save their lives. .Joining the Love Hope Strength Army in the battle against cancer are musicians from every corner of the globe. High school bands and Nepalese folk singers, to legends in rock n’ roll such as members of The Cult, The Stray Cats, Donavon Frankenreiter, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Jason Mraz, Disco Biscuits, Flight of the Conchords, Brett Dennen, Michael Franti, Gin Blossoms, The Fixx, Tokyo Police Club, Squeeze, Candlebox, Seether, Smithereens, Dick Dale, Everclear and hundreds more have done their part to help spread the word through music. Each event is documented under the guidance of critically acclaimed producer, Alex Coletti, to build awareness through programs like Everest Rocks, now airing on MTV’s High Def channel, Palladia and NBC’s Universal Sports.

James Chippendale
James Chippendale
James Chippendale is an American business executive and anti-leukemia campaigner and co-founder of the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation...

James Chippendale is founder and CEO of CSI Entertainment Insurance, one of the largest entertainment and sports insurance brokers in the country. James has become a national figure as a leukemia spokesperson and survivor, and co-founder of his rock n’ roll charity Love Hope Strength Foundation. James has made over 350 media appearances, including ABC, Fox News, CNN, USA TODAY, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Good Morning America, American Way, The New York Times, and The Howard Stern Radio and TV shows. In addition, he hosts a lifestyle television segment called “Last Call with James Chippendale” that airs in Dallas on Sunday nights during the sports show “Out of Bounds” on NBC. The segment showcases an athlete, musician or celebrity’s favorite place to eat, drink, dance, play or hang with friends and family.

Mike Peters

Mike Peters is the lead singer and songwriter of internationally acclaimed Welsh rock and roll band, The Alarm and a cancer survivor two times over. Mike has successfully fought The Big C on two occasions; once in 1995 when he battled Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and more recently in 2006 when he was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia (CLL). Throughout a six month spell of high dose chemotherapy, Mike Peters continued to play and perform with his band The Alarm, taking to the stage each time in his trademark ‘green’ combat fatigues (which has become our symbol of hope after a faith healer gave him the revelation that ‘green’ was the healing color in his life).

“Mike Peters – On the Road to Recovery”, a revealing BBC documentary chronicling Mike’s inspiring story, was screened in October 2006. The cameras were allowed into the treatment and dressing rooms of Mike’s life throughout the last six months of his cancer fight. The filming also included Mike and his wife Jules in their successful struggle to conceive a child through IVF. Evan Michael Peters was born January 1, 2007.

Mike Peters formed The Alarm in Rhyl, North Wales, in 1981 and has led the band to hit records in each of the three decades since: 16 UK hit singles (68 Guns, Spirit Of ‘76, Rain In The Summertime), and a host of successful albums with over 5 million sales worldwide. Mike Peters has appeared with or been joined on stage by such rock and roll luminaries as U2, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

Shannon Foley

Shannon is the executive director of Love Hope Strength. Shannon’s younger brother, Ryan, was diagnosed with testicular cancer at the age of 23. Later that same year she lost her grandfather to cancer. Thanks to 2 aggressive surgeries and chemotherapy, Ryan has successfully beaten cancer, received his MBA and is living in Austin, TX (way too far from his sister!).

Prior to joining LHS, Shannon was General Manager of Denver’s Jet Hotel, Manager of Marketing, Events and Corporate Sales for Public House Ltd and Director of Brand Identity for the accounting firm, Grant Thornton. In 2002, Shannon moved to Kenya for an independent brand development project with Tradition Safaris. Shannon received her BS in Marketing from Boston College. She currently resides in Denver, CO.

George Devanney

George is the County Manager for Union County, New Jersey and has been involved in New Jersey government and politics throughout his career. He was the Executive Director of the NJ Democratic State Committee during President Clinton’s first election and has also served as the Director of Policy and Planning for the City of Elizabeth overseeing an aggressive economic development agenda.

He has been involved with the Love Hope Strength Foundation since its inception. The goals and mission of the LHSF led George to partner Union County’s Musicfest with the Foundation. Now in its third year the Rock On! Walkathon and 5k Rock N’ Run at Musicfest have become anticipated community events.

Cancer will touch each and every one of us in our lifetime. It touched George at the same time he became involved with the Love Hope Strength Foundation. These circumstances led George to also personally assist in the Foundation’s inaugural Empire State climb and then to trek to Base Camp Everest and Machu Picchu.

Now, as a Board member George plans to do all he can to bring resources to assist the Foundation to make sure everyone stricken by Cancer has access to information and treatment globally and locally where Foundation events take place.

Alex Coletti

Alex is award winning tv producer/director from Brooklyn, NY. Career highlights include the acclaimed music series MTV Unplugged, 5 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 Superbowl halftime shows, Everest Rocks and most recently Spectacle: with Elvis Costello. Alex and his team will, once again, be trekking with us to the top of Kilimanjaro to capture the event for a feature documentary.

Everest Rocks – October 9, 2007 – Nepal

Our most momentous climb and concert benefiting The Nepal Cancer Relief Society (NCRS). Cancer survivors and co-founders of the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF) Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

and James Chippendale lead 40 musicians, cancer survivors and mountaineers to the 18,600 ft peak of Kala Patthar

Kala Patthar

Kala Patthar, meaning 'black rock' in Nepali and Hindi, is a mountain in the Nepalese Himalayas. It appears as a big brown bump below the impressive south face of Pumori . Many trekkers in the region of Mount Everest will attempt to summit Kala Patthar, since it provides the most accessible point...

, just above Everest Base Camp, to perform an acoustic concert to help the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital build the infrastructure of its clinic, NCRS. Funds have purchased the very first mammography and Nucletron brachytherapy afterloader (internal radiation) for the country of Nepal.

“Everest Rocks” was a fourteen day trek and acoustic concert on Mt. Everest, with a grand finale rock concert in Kathmandu. The entire journey was captured by a documentary team headed by Alex Coletti (the acclaimed producer of MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

’s ‘Unplugged’ series). The list of performers included: Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

(The Alarm

The Alarm

), Slim Jim Phantom

Slim Jim Phantom

Slim Jim Phantom is the drummer for Stray Cats. Alongside band mates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker, he spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s.-Biography:...

(The Stray Cats), Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze

Squeeze

Squeeze are a British band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Tempted", "Labelled With Love",...

), Nick Harper

Nick Harper

Nick Harper is an English singer-songwriter/guitarist. He is the son of English folk musician Roy Harper.-Early life:Nick Harper was born in London in 1965 to the famous folk singer-songwriter Roy Harper...

(legendary UK folk artist), Cy Curnin

Cy Curnin

Cy Curnin is a singer/songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist for the new wave music group, The Fixx. The band became famous with the song "One Thing Leads to Another" in 1983, and remained popular in the United States throughout the 1980s...

and Jamie West-Oram (The Fixx

The Fixx

) and local Nepalese artists.

HIghlights included a Guinness Book of World Record breaking concert for the highest concert on land, and the first show in Durbar Square

Durbar Square

Durbar Square is the generic name used to describe plazas opposite old royal palaces in Nepal. Before the Unification of Nepal, Nepal consisted of small kingdoms, and Durbar Squares are most prominent remnants of those old kingdoms in Nepal...

in Kathmandy by western artists to an astounding audience of 15,000. The concert was aired live for 3 hours to surrounding countries to an audience of 4 million people. The "Everest Rocks" documentary is currently airing on Palladia to an estimated home viewing audience of 12 million homes nationwide.

Snowdon Rocks – June 27, 2007 – North Wales

About 170 supporters; including doctors, nurses and fans joined Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

for the sponsored walk up the Llanberis path for Snowdon Rocks. Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

arrived at the misty summit and joked, looking over his shoulder, “that was a long way to come to play on a building site!” Everyone’s efforts in reaching the summit were rewarded with the day’s only clearing in the clouds, timed to perfection just as the music started. The short set was part of the weekends fundraising efforts of the Foundation which was to raise awareness and funding for cancer research projects.

The first Snowdon Rocks in 2007 raised over £40,000 which was shared between The North Wales Cancer Centre at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, The Alaw Unit, Ysbyty Gwynedd and North Wales hospices at St. Kentigerns, St. David’s and Ty Gobaith. In 2008, the second ‘Snowdon Rocks’ raised even more funding, £45,000 which is once again being distributed throughout Cancer Care in North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

.

“The exciting thing about getting involved in Snowdon Rocks,” says Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

, “is that you get to see where your money goes. So far, the money raised can be seen in the newly built Eira suite at the North Wales Cancer Centre. “Cancer is the number one killer of mankind in the world today” continues Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

, “and as I can testify, we are very, very fortunate to have world class cancer care on our doorstep in North Wales. Each and every one of us will have cause to deal with this dreaded disease at some point in our lifetime.”

All proceeds from Snowdon Rocks have gone directly to Cancer Care in North Wales, which diagnosed and successfully treated Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

(a two times cancer survivor) for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) in 2005/06 and Non Hodgkins Lymphoma (1995). Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

is still undergoing long term maintenance treatment at the Alaw Unit, Ysybyty Gwynedd with a view to finding a cure.

Empire Rocks – April 16, 2007 – New York, NY – USA

Love Hope Strength officially launched the foundation with Empire Rocks! The ceremonial climb up the 1600 steps and first ever concert atop the Empire State Building symbolized the first LHSF “Climb Back From Cancer”*. We were honored to have some of the world’s top musicians and music and video producers supporting our cause and the Love Hope Strength Foundation.

The event created a serious buzz among the press, current and future sponsors, music industry, celebrities, and fans. The all-star Everest Rocks band included: Mike Peters (The Alarm), Billy Duffy (The Cult), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Dave Wakeling (The English Beat). The acoustic set was overseen by famed music producer Tony Visconti (David Bowie, Morrissey, Thin Lizzy) and video producer Alex Coletti (the acclaimed producer of MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ series) for a documentary that is being produced about the foundation and events.

The evening closed with a charity concert at Terra Blues in the East Village with performances by Mike Peters, Billy Duffy, Slim Jim Phantom, Dave Wakeling, Karl Dietel (The Samples) and Braddigan.

Activities

The charity raises funds for cancer treatment, promotes awareness and early detection, and advocates for bone marrow registration by holding rock concerts at remote, elevated venues, including Everest base camp

Everest Base Camp

There are two base camps on opposite sides of Mount Everest. South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of , and North Base Camp is in Tibet at ). These camps are rudimentary campsites on Mount Everest that are used by mountain climbers during their ascent and descent...

, the top of the Empire State Building

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet , and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft high. Its name is derived...

, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

, with a concert at Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

planned for 2009. The UK organisation holds an annual trek to the top of Wales' highest mountain, Snowdon, each summer.

LHSF concerts feature both amateur and professional musicians, and have featured high-profile rock musicians including Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

, The Fixx

The Fixx

's Cy Curnin

Cy Curnin

, Squeeze's Glen Tilbrook, Everclear

Everclear (band)

Everclear is a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1992 best known for their radio hits spanning more than a decade. For most of its existence, Everclear has consisted of Art Alexakis , Craig Montoya , and Greg Eklund . Eklund replaced original drummer Scott Cuthbert in 1994...

, The Beat

The Beat (band)

The Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics....

, Nick Harper

Nick Harper

and members of The Cult

The Cult

. The first four shows had raised almost $1 million by September 2008.

LHSF is a beneficiary of a documentary film called More To Live For http://moretoliveforfilm.com/, which details James Chippendale's cancer and survivorship experience.

External links

Love Hope Strength Official site (USA)
Love Hope Strength Official site (UK)
Love Hope Strength Official site (Australia)

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Mission

Accomplishments

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Mike Peters

Shannon Foley

George Devanney

Alex Coletti

Everest Rocks – October 9, 2007 – Nepal

Snowdon Rocks – June 27, 2007 – North Wales

Empire Rocks – April 16, 2007 – New York, NY – USA

Activities

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James Chippendale
James Chippendale
James Chippendale is an American business executive and anti-leukemia campaigner and co-founder of the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation...