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****** The Per Te Café is an online gathering place for a group of volunteers from all over the world who have come together through their love of music and desire to help children in need. We work with the Josh Groban Foundation charities and GFC to raise funds and awareness through online auctions and other projects with proceeds going to help children in need. For more information please visit www.grobaniitedforcharity.org or email /message me (screen name 'CruisinInMyPorsche' on www.joshgroban.com) or at 2008quixotic@gmail.com or privateptc@gmail.com Warm hugs, C'

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Get a scroller sign at http://www.glitteryourway.com! ************************************************* Josh talks with Loo & Lori from WASH-FM about the Foundation: ************************************************** Josh: "On Jimmy Kimmel I said that the Grobanites of all the fans are like the Navy Seals of the fans. They're the more hard core; they are in it 100 percent, 24/7, and they are just as passionate about the humanitarian work and about the charity work as they are about spreading the music. And they've raised, they've helped raise, almost a million dollars for my Foundation, among many others. And it's so great, it's so nice to see. Because you don't know when you first start out, you see a group of people and their screen names and whatever on the computer, but it's not until you get a chance to perform live, and you meet some of them, and you see first hand some of the work that they're doing that you realize just how good-hearted and wonderful they are as far as their energy toward that stuff. And so yeah, they've raised a lot of money. And they're crafty; they are way more artistic as far as just craft stuff and visual arts stuff than I am. They'll make tee shirts and they'll make all sorts of stuff and auction it off. They'll have me sign it outside a venue or something, and instead of putting it on e-Bay or putting it in their collection at home, they'll raise the money and give it back to me for my Foundation." Lori: "What is your Foundation about?" Josh: "Well, we started my Foundation about three or four years ago, based on a check for $25,000 that my fans presented me in Los Angeles, totally unexpectedly, that they had raised as a surprise to me." Lori: "Did they think you were broke or something? Just kidding." Josh: "No, no, the money wasn't for me. [Laughs] Yeah, it was a rough night that night, that concert. They came up and said here, take this, you need it. No, they gave me this money and said, look, you are always lending your voice to different events, we think it's time that you start a foundation. I certainly wasn't expecting to have the responsibility of starting my own foundation at that time, but you can't take a donation like that and see that inspiration - it helps when you know you have a legion of people that are going to be behind you and help you build it. So we decided to make this project the Josh Groban Foundation, and we've chosen about seven or eight different organizations that the money funnels to. And it is - essentially, we find the places where children around the world kind of fall through the cracks, and the places where a little bit goes a very, very long way - places where it is very, very easy to all of a sudden give them running water, and beds, and playgrounds for orphanages, and things like that. We'll pick and choose places that we find that just are desperately in need. And it's a lot of fun because we have a lot of money for it right now. As far as competing with the other charities, it's not as grand as the others, so we try to do it where a little bit goes a long way." Lori: "You know, it doesn't matter how much. It matters that you do, because - " Josh: "Oh totally. And the thing that I realized when I visited South Africa for the first time was how much can be done with a little bit. And when you think about a million dollars - I put in a million dollars of my own money this past year - it really is remarkable. The cost of a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter; I mean, it is as astonishing as it is angering, that just a tiny bit can really change thousands of children's lives, and you wonder where that money is from the governments. But at the same time it lights a fire under you to raise it yourself and to do as much as you can, so - " At this point Loo gave out the Web site address Grobanitesforcharity.org. Josh: "Again, they created that Web site, and they created this sub-organization within my Foundation where they've raised so much money, and I couldn't be prouder of them. Lori - Isn't that what it's all about, you go to South Africa like you said and you see children and you think "Wow, I am so blessed" and you're able to help. And that is what, I think when we are looking for change, and things, I think that is what we are doing, we are seeing so much need to help, and that just makes the world a better place. Josh- It just puts things in perspective and makes us realize how absolutely lucky we are, and with that comes a responsibility.

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