Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi's charitable works to be honored at Heart of Camden gala

Jon Bon Jovi's charitable works to be honored at Heart of Camden gala

By Claudia Vargas

Jon Bon Jovi is expectedto attend Friday's gala.

Some Camden residents will have more to live on than prayers thanks to the man whose "Livin' on a Prayer" was a No. 1 Billboard single.

More than $200,000 is expected to be raised for new housing projects in Camden's Waterfront South at Friday's Heart of Camden Gala at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill, where Jon Bon Jovi will be honored.

The event, which quickly sold out of its 665 tickets, at $175 apiece, will recognize the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation with the Small Things With Great Love Award for its charity work in Camden.

The musician himself is expected to be there to receive the award, but will not be performing, said Mimi Box, executive director of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation.

Bon Jovi agreed to be at the gala "to be able to use the celebrity he can bring to the table . . . to advocate for people who may not have a voice," Box said.

This is the second year Heart of Camden, a nonprofit dedicated to the redevelopment of Camden's Waterfront South neighborhood, will host the award gala. Last year, the award went to Msgr. Michael Doyle, longtime pastor at Sacred Heart Church, which started Heart of Camden in 1984.

About $150,000 was raised during the first gala in April 2010 for a community center and gymnasium on Broadway in Waterfront South.

The award gets its name from Mother Teresa's famous words: "We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

Giving the award to Bon Jovi is to some extent a PR move because of the contributions he is sure to attract for Heart of Camden, executive director Helene Pierson acknowledged. But the award mostly recognizes "the amazing work" the entertainer and his foundation have done in one of the nation's poorest cities, Pierson said.

"We could've sold over 1,000 tickets if we had not sold out," she said about Bon Jovi's appeal. But she said 665 was already large enough that they could not hold the event in Camden. Any more would have been hard to coordinate.

"We're not that well-oiled of a machine," Pierson said with a laugh.

Heart of Camden has had a great impact in what has been one of the most deteriorated areas of Camden. The nonprofit has done streetscape projects, installed a rain garden, and rehabilitated more than 200 homes to give low-income residents homeownership opportunities.

Most of the money raised Friday will be used for new housing projects, but $10,000 will go directly toward a mortgage down-payment for a young family that lost its home in one of the large warehouse fires this summer.

Since 2009, the Soul Foundation has provided financing for housing projects developed by Heart of Camden and St. Joseph's Carpenter's Society in East Camden, as well as the youth housing and mentoring program CRIB run by Hopeworks, a nonprofit in North Camden that works with at-risk youth.

Box declined to disclose how much money the foundation has invested in Camden.

"We don't do the projects ourselves," Box said. "We're honored because it's really they who do the work."

Bon Jovi: Finally a list I bet Jon is happy to be on

Finally, something Jon be proud of, according to Forbes Jon has the most valuable Charity relationship.

The Most Valuable Celebrity Charity Relationships

Justin Bieber might just be the most influential teenager in the world. The Canadian crooner boasts 15 million Twitter followers, routinely causes stampedes at shopping malls, and has been known to make young girls faint.

But when it comes to generating publicity for worthwhile causes, his inexperience shows. Bieber ranked dead last in a survey of the most valuable celebrity charity relationships.

The study was conducted by New York based research firm General Sentiment as part of FORBES’ annual giving report. It aimed to determine which stars confer the highest percentage of their personal fame on good causes (see next page for methodology). The publicity Bieber generated for nonprofit Pencils of Promise, which builds schools in the developing world and trains young leaders, totaled $82,887—or 0.002% of his personal publicity value. At $4.2 billion, his is by far the highest of anyone on the list.

“He’s the perfect storm for generating high media value: lots of publicity in high impact sources, and an audience eager and able to spread that content,” says Mark Iafrate, a senior analyst at General Sentiment. “The amount of discussion, along with the quality of the sources, all push him way above everyone else … if he just spent a little more time on [causes], he could do a lot better.”

On the other end of the spectrum, the star who lavished the largest percentage of personal publicity on a cause was Jon Bon Jovi. The Jersey rocker and his band generated $449,932 in press for his pay-what-you-can restaurant Soul Kitchen; that number represents over 2% of Bon Jovi’s own media value.

Second on the list is Paul McCartney, who conferred $1,065,013 on PETA. That’s about 1.4% of his personal publicity value. McCartney’s older audience, although smaller than Bieber’s, likely has more disposable income to give to charity.

U2 rounds out the top three, donating publicity worth $1,021,768—or 0.72% of frontman Bono and rest of the group’s total media value—to the ONE campaign. (Through private equity firm Elevation Partners, Bono holds an indirect stake in Forbes Media).

It’s important to note that efficiently directing a relatively large portion of one’s fame toward a cause isn’t the only way celebrities can give. There is, for instance, cash. Oprah Winfrey’s connection to the Oprah Winfrey Foundation ranked 19th in General Sentiment’s survey—the best of her many charitable relationships—yet her Angel Network has raised over $80 million for good causes across the globe.

Stars like Winfrey, Bieber and Lady Gaga (who finished in the middle of the pack for her work with VIVA Glam, a M.A.C Cosmetics lipstick line whose full sale price goes toward fighting HIV/AIDS) also have astronomically higher personal publicity values than some of the other stars on this list. This makes directing a proportionate amount of their fame to charitable causes harder than it is for less-celebrated peers.

Others, like 18th-ranked Simon Cowell, are often overshadowed by bigger names contributing to their favored causes. That might explain why the X Factor producer only generated $6,587 in publicity for the “Everybody Hurts” charity song he curated for Haiti relief, featuring Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, Susan Boyle, Rod Stewart, Miley Cyrus and none other than Jon Bon Jovi. Even though the tragedy occurred nearly two years ago, the blogosphere is still buzzing, if faintly, about the effort—the gift that keeps on giving.

Methodology

General Sentiment tracks over one billion topics of conversation—from politicians and social issues to products and brands—emanating from over 50 million sources of online content. These include stories from major news outlets, social media sources and general websites.

To determine this list, the firm determined a media value—a customized, proprietary metric weighted by sentiment and prominence of source, with a $5 CPM (a fairly standard cost-per-thousand views) built in—for the top 20 entertainers on FORBES’ Celeb 100 list.

Full list: The Most Valuable Celebrity Charity Relationships

A positive mention from a respectable source like CNN was “worth” more than the same mention from someone’s personal blog. The “exposure” of the source was calculated by using metrics like Google page rank, viewership (for news publications), Twitter followers, Alexa rank, and other categories.

General Sentiment then pulled data about discussions of the celebrities, along with mentions of their charitable causes and organizations. They looked for multiple spelling and case variations like “lady gaga,” “LADY GAGA,” and “Lady GaGa,” including Twitter handles (This explains, at least in part, why Bieber’s personal media value is so high).

Next, the company did a correlation analysis to attribute media value generated by the celebrities for their charitable organizations and causes. FORBES matched the most valuable of each celebrity’s relationships against their personal media value to determine just what percentage of his or her fame was “donated” to the cause.

Bieber may have finished at the bottom of our top 20 this year, but perhaps he’ll move from Grinch to Santa in 2012—a portion of sales from his new album, Under The Mistletoe, will be donated to charity.

Then there's this nice little write up.  Wait, before anyone gets upset that they use the collective phrase Bon Jovi rather than the singular Jon Bon Jovi in the article it states The Jersey Rocker and his Band, I bolded it.

Here's a picture of the singular Jon Bon Jovi at the opening of the Soul Kitchen.

1. Bon Jovi

Total Publicity Value: $21,841,448

Cause: Soul Kitchen

Publicity Created For Cause: $449,932

Share of Total Publicity Value: 2.060%

Way to go Jon! 

Bon Jovi: Win a Guitar signed by Jon

It's for Charity as taken from the e-Bay page the translation may be off:

Benefit & Joy proudly presents:

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BODY: solid alder wood

BRIDGE: Tune-O-Matic Stop Bar Tailpiece

Colour: Vintage Sunburst

NECK: Bolt on maple neck / rosewood

PICKUPS: 2 Quad-Rails and 1 Dual-Rail

SCALE: 25.5

The winning bidder will also receive a picture of Jon on guitar, size 20 x 30 cm, taken by photographer David Bergman tour!

Since 2007 support BON JOVI and Universal Music Germany, the nonprofit Project Benefit and Joy. In the summer of 2011 Jon gave us this autographed guitar. Unique bid and do the same good! The entire proceeds go into our social projects.More info on our m I site (with links to our website) and search engine keyword Benefit & Joy.

Free, insured shipping within the European Union *!

* Other countries: Please ask before bidding!

Please note: Benefit & Joy is not a commercial seller. The product is sold without any warranty. There is no redemption.  "bidder fun" to be taken for the damage claim.

Good Luck if you're bidding and remember if you're in the States the Euro is still worth more than the dollar. So as of the time I write this the top bid is 505 Euros which is approximately $673 (US).

< sarcasm > And that's Jon's Bid or I will kill you glare. < /sarcasm >

Bon Jovi: New New Year's Eve Photo

  

That looks like a Takemine EF341SC, but that's not THE Takemine EF341SC pictured below, unless they Photoshopped it.

Cause why would that Jensen character be playing Jon Bon Jovi's guitar?  Besides the obvious of course.

Wait, it's Jon's EF341SC Stunt double.  Why risk it being stolen by some minimum wage earning staffer who would sell it on eBay that afternoon.

Bon Jovi: This is what made all the mother's swoon back in the 70's

Bon Jovi: Have a Little Faith in Me

So Jon, wasn't completely unfamiliar with the song Have a Little Faith in Me, it was performed several times on the Bounce and Have a Nice Day Tours:







Can't Turn Me Loose doesn't come up under any Youtube searches that maybe Jon has done it at benefit shows or anything, but its an Otis Redding cover (This was in The Blues Brothers movie {the FAR SUPERIOR Original one with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi not the CRAPTASTIC BB2000 with Jim Belushi}).

On a somewhat related note, the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas has a piece of the fuselage of the plane Otis Redding died in:

 

I just stood there for a minute and was like this is how you represent Otis?  

I thought it was quite distasteful.

Of course today its not so bad after listening to Jay-Z & Kanye's opus to Otis, titled Otis (the only good thing I can say about that song is it will introduce a whole other generation to Otis Redding and it would have been a better song if Jay-Z and Kanye had not been on the track,  IMHO).

Bon Jovi: New Year's Eve Snips

Only 30 seconds of each song but it's better than nothing.  The rest of the soundtrack can be found on the NYE website  http://newyearsevemovie.warnerbros.com/index.html



Can't Turn You Loose



Have a Little Faith In Me

Don't know if Jon wrote/co wrote either of them.

Bon Jovi: New Picture from NYE

Source

If you click on it, it's pretty big.  :)  Nice high resolution.

Bon Jovi: New Years Eve Soundtrack

1 solo Jon song and another with Lea Michelle.

‘New Year’s Eve’ Soundtrack Announced

Posted: November 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums

Tags: Garry Marshall, John Debney, New Year's Eve, Soundtrack 0

WaterTower Music has announced a soundtrack album for Garry Marshall’s ensemble comedy New Year’s Eve. The album includes a number of songs from the movie by artists, including Jon Bon Jovi, actress Lea Michele, Kate York, Goo Goo Dolls, P!nk, Katie Herzig, Charles Brown, Duncan and Sophie B. Hawkins. The soundtrack will be released on December 6, 2011. None of the original score by John Debney is included on the album, but a separate score album might be released at a later date (just as with Marshall’s previous movie Valentine’s Day). For a behind the scenes look at the composer working on the score for the film, visit YouTube. New Year’s Eve stars Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Jon Bon Jovi, Hilary Swank, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Josh Duhamel, Seth Meyers, Hector Elizondo, Abigail Breslin, Michelle Pfeiffer and Katherine Heigl. The movie will be released in theaters on December 9. For updates on the film, visit the official movie website.

Here’s the album track list:

1. Can’t Turn You Loose – Jon Bon Jovi with Lea Michele

2. 2012 (It Ain’t The End) – Jay Sean featuring Nicki Minaj

3. New Year – Kate York

4. Life Is A Bomb – Sophie B. Hawkins

5. Have A Little Faith In Me – Jon Bon Jovi

6. Light Up The Sky – Duncan

7. Better Days – Goo Goo Dolls

8. Auld Lang Syne – Lea Michele

9. Raise Your Glass – P!nk

10. Best Day Of Your Life – Katie Herzig

11. Whattaya Say – Jacob Saylor

12. Bringing In A Brand New Year – Charles Brown

Amazon has a page for this, but no cover art or price.



A really good soundtrack that I just got for a movie I hope to be seeing shortly is The Muppet Movie Soundtrack. Because I would rather see a pig fornicate with a frog than Twilight. But the sound track is pretty good. :)

Bon Jovi: This is how you start your week

Thank you International Business Times Australia.

Few words just pictures.

There's not even a Headline, except Picture this.

But its about the 10 highest paid muscians

Source

Jon Bon Jovi opening a community restaurant

Bon jovi: Jon at the Notre Dame Football Game

Here are some pictures too:

Jon is in the background wearing that hat.

Jon, Louis Nix, Jesse and Dorothea

Bon Jovi: Gonna buy the People's Sexiest Man issue?

I've been starting to coupon a little (not like some of these people on extreme couponing, but just on items I use).

I found a $2 off coupon on coupon network for People Magazine, on page 5 of my zip code (just enter 33607, that's not my zip code but it will work).

Here's the link:
http://www.couponnetwork.com/#page=5

My understanding is Jon has a tiny picture this year, not the spread he had last year (when they were promoting the GH, this year what does he have to promote on a global scale?  NYE?  There's bigger movie stars in that (and God's Gift to Radio and all Media Ryan Seacreast *sarcasm*  The Soul Kitchen?  Not global.).

Good Luck

Bon Jovi: Jon at the Women in Hedge Funds 10th anniversary gala

Thanks Danna

Also check out some pictures and details here: http://wendyfurrer.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/10th-anniversary-celebrations-faraone-mennellas-muses-and-100whf-anniversary-gala-with-bon-jovi-and-president-clinton/

A dinner with Jon & President Clinton went for $130,000!!!  I wonder if blue dresses from the GAP and cigars are included?

Bon Jovi: Jon's penthouse one of the best renovations in NYC

The 10 Best Celebrity Renovations in New York City

7) Jon Bon Jovi

Address: 158 Mercer Street

The Skinny: We know more rumor than reality where this New Museum building penthouse is concerned (hence the absence of photographic evidence). Bon Jovi paid $24 million for it in 2007 The 7,400-square-foot home already had "terraces of unparalleled proportions," a laundry room, two kitchens, an "enormous elevator," and some equally enormous arched windows. (Here's the old floorplan.) What could he have possibly added? Apparently something impressive, because he's hoping to resell the place, quietly, for $45 million.

Thanks Mabel

For $45 million I hope there's one of those toilet seats that warms you when you sit.

But no one knows why the apt is worth $45 Million. There's no pictures since the re-no took place.

All I know is I can't afford it.

Can you?

Bon Jovi: Jon and the boys at Super Mario Land 3-D (w/video)

Grassy ass Lisa.

Bon Jovi: More on Jon's Bees receiving federal funding

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/14/coburn-report-bon-jovi-springsteen-quincy-jones-ted-turner-received-federal-funds/#ixzz1dhrospZi

Who does he think he is Burt?  (Like Burt's Bees best lip balm ever)

Bon Jovi: Jon at the Jets game

God yesterday was a craptastic football Sunday for me, I got to watch all 3 teams I root for lose.

Ugh.

Anyway here's Jon at last nights Jets game.

During the first quarter on NBC they panned to see that Donald Trump was in the Jets owners box and Jon was across the field, with Jesse.  I guess it was the Boys weekend with Dad.  Jake and Romeo go to the Mario event and Jesse gets the football game.

Even though the Patriots had our number twice during the regular season, wait until the playoffs.

Bon Jovi: Not only is Jon giving handouts he's getting them too.

So not only does Jon benefit from the State of New Jersey's tax program that considers part of his property agricultural, but then he's also getting Federal dollars to help subsidize those same honey bees.  (via The Daily Beast)

Welfare for Millionaires

Nov 14, 2011 12:00 AM EST

A startling new report reveals the billions in government dollars that benefit America’s wealthiest citizens.

Class warfare is a politically charged term these days, from the Wall Street protests to the Capitol Hill negotiations over curtailing the nation’s debt. But a new congressional analysis, obtained by Newsweek, may fuel populist outrage by showing the extent of government subsidies that go to the wealthiest people in America.

From unemployment payments to subsidies and tax breaks on luxury items like vacation homes and yachts, Americans earning more than $1 million collect more than $30 billion in government largesse each year, according to the report assembled by Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, who is so often at odds with members of both parties that colleagues call him “Dr. No.” The Internal Revenue Service provided the data showing how much money was going to the much-referenced top 1 percent.

In all, millionaires receive hefty help from Uncle Sam. The $30 billion in handouts, to put it in perspective, amounts to twice as much as the government spends on NASA, and three times the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency. On the other hand, it would only cover the cost of fighting about three months in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, eliminating them would help make a small dent in the $1.5 trillion congressional leaders are trying to find by Thanksgiving.

Jon Bon Jovi, the millionaire rock star cited in the report, took federal dollars to raise honeybees on his property. Together billionaire moguls David Rockefeller and Ted Turner have also accepted more than half a million dollars in farm payments. Basketball legend Scottie Pippen took $210,520 in agriculture subsidies while making his fortune playing for the Chicago Bulls. To make matters worse, the government disclosed to Coburn that some recipients of farm subsidies got it by mistake. Tax records show that more than three fourths of high earners collecting farming money list their primary residence in a city—land unsuitable for farming.

Top earners, surprisingly, also get significant amounts of unemployment insurance and disaster payments. Since 2004, people with seven-figure salaries have accepted more than $9 billion in Social Security. A small band of GOP senators, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, have proposed “means testing” to shrink Social Security payments for people who probably don’t need them.

The biggest money comes—or goes, rather—through unpaid taxes. More than 1,500 millionaires paid no income tax last year, according to federal records, mainly due to tax loopholes and savvy accountants. Tax breaks taken by millionaires on things like mortgage interest ($27.7 billion), rental expenses ($64.2 billion) and electric vehicles ($12.5 million) keep cash from entering the federal coffers.

“The country is sucking wind right now,” Coburn says. “We end up subsidizing the very wealthy and not helping the ones who really need the help.” The Oklahoman is one of few Republicans who support tax increases as part of a plan to reduce the deficit. Meanwhile, antitax activist Grover Norquist, a frequent nemesis for Coburn, says the whole system is too complex, and too unfair, and that lawmakers need to get rid of loopholes and to lower rates across the board.

Many federal programs maintain broad appeal, especially in such a volatile economy. Agricultural subsidies help farmers handle large swings in commodity prices.

But Coburn’s report is certain to generate arguments on the other side about tax fairness. Why, some might wonder, shouldn’t people who feed the government get to reap its benefits? Millionaires “pay a lot into the system,” says Joseph Thorndike, head of the Tax History Project, a Washington analysis group. “The government comes to the rescue of people in bad moments, and it should do that blindly.”

Yet the crux of the argument—that millionaires are using the social safety net as a luxury hammock—fuels an ongoing campaign by the White House to raise some taxes on top earners. “Republicans need to stop supporting tax breaks for the richest Americans so we can use some of that money to create jobs and reduce the deficit,” says White House spokesperson Amy Brundage. Or as Obama likes to put it, folks like him can afford to give more and take less.

Sometimes I read these things and think man, I need a better accountant. But then I realize I don't make a million dollars.

The thing I want to know is what does Jon's honey taste like? Is it organic? How much is it per jar?  Does he sell it?  Does it have an ambrosia like quality that would go well on scones, or maybe tea?

And lastly this is a serious topic get your minds out of the gutter, honey is not some sort of subliminal sexual synonym for male ejaculate. You & I know who YOU are!

Bon Jovi: Jon, the boys and Super Mario

Just how cute is this??

The only thing I see with those guys behind him are you know how many of them are going, who the hell is the guy in the black with the sunglasses.

Super Mario 3D Land And Jon Bon Jovi Take Over Times Square

by Phil Kollar on November 12, 2011 at 01:20 PM 3,691 Views

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See that nice family of raccoon-children and their father about to be set upon by a cult of angry overall enthusiasts above? That's not just an freakish family outing gone wrong! It's Jon Bon Jovi, and he's in Times Square with his children to celebrate the release of Super Mario 3D Land.

To help get people psyched for the launch of this latest Mario game, Nintendo has transformed Military Island in Times Square for today. The locale is now covered in warp pipes, end-of-level flagpoles, Mario clones, and people wearing tanooki suit tails.

Check out the other photo of the event that Nintendo provided below. Anyone else excited to join Mr. Bon Jovi and his kids in playing some Super Mario 3D Land this weekend?

BTW the above child is not one of Jon's kids, its Galem S. of Union City, N. J.

In case you don't remember what the Super Mario theme sounds like:



Now for the rest of the day that will be playing in your head, you're welcome. :)

Bon Jovi: Jon at a book signing

God this hiatus is getting old.

Jon went to a book signing last night in NYC for author Paul Schmitz's book: Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up



It's also available in Kindle form.

And here are some pictures.