Pin-ups for Vets
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| Founded | 2006 |
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| Founder | Gina Elise |
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Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | http://www.pinupsforvets.com |
Pin-ups For Vets is a
Vintage hardware often features in Pin-ups For Vets photography, including old bikes, aircraft and military tanks. Elise also takes the time to travel to stateside military hospitals personally, delivering the calendars, posters, and T-shirts to wounded vets, soldiers, airmen, Marines, and seamen at their bedsides, and thanking them for their service.[1]
Elise was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award by the Los Angeles Business Journal on May 5, 2009 (as part of the newspaper's "Women Making a Difference" award series). In November 2010, Gina was featured on an Oprah Winfrey Show episode honoring American volunteers.[2] Also in 2010, the movie Red (Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren, Summit Entertainment) featured Gina Elise in a scene showing her pin-up in a locker in the CIA headquarters.
Elise has so far raised over $50,000 for rehab programs that have gone to military and VA hospitals, and in 2007 won the Outstanding Young Californian award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce and California Jaycees. Eight flags have been flown in honor of the "Pin-ups For Vets" calendar project on various military bases worldwide. Gina hopes to eventually visit a VA hospital in each of the fifty States.
See also
- Pin-up girl
- List of charitable foundations
References
- ^ Diane Macedo (January 8, 2009). "California Woman Raises Troop Morale, Funds With 'Pin-Ups for Vets' Calendar". FOX News. Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
- ^ "2 from SoCal invited to 'Oprah' giveaway show | Video | abc7.com". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
External links
- Home
- [1] Archived 2011-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
- [2] Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Old-school pinup calendar raising cash for veterans
- Pin-Up Girl Works for Ill and Wounded Veterans - Salem-News.Com