Celebrities, and their agents, are often inundated with requests from charities to assist them with their fundraising efforts. These requests often include requests for autographed memorabilia, lending the celebrity’s name to the charity, or making a personal appearance on behalf of the charity. Furthermore, celebrities are also often asked, by both charities and individuals, to provide autographed memorabilia or to meet seriously or terminaly ill individuals.

In most cases, celebrities are all too willing to sign a photo for a fan, especially one who is ill, or provide a charity with various autographed memorabilia for their fundraising efforts. However, given the active and lucrative memorabilia market that exists today, these celebrities want to make sure that these items are going to fans or charities and not to unscrupulous dealers and individuals.

To assist celebrities, and their agents, in meeting these many requests, CFC provides celebrities with a service whereby CFC represents the philanthropic interests of the celebrity; effectively becoming the celebrity’s “philanthropic agent”. The celebrities and their agents direct any charitable requests they receive to CFC, where CFC processes and fulfills these requests on behalf of the celebrities. Requests for autographed memorabilia are screened to ensure that the items will be utilized for charitable purposes and, if approved, the requests are fulfilled with items that have been purchased, in bulk, by CFC, autographed by the celebrities, and stocked by CFC.

Requests for the use of a celebrity’s likeness, or for a personal appearance by a celebrity, are scrutinized against criteria set forth by the celebrity. If the request meets these criteria, CFC forwards the request to the celebrity for their review. CFC does not charge celebrities or those receiving memorabilia for this service. However, these celebrities appear at CFC fundraising events that help raise the funds for CFC’s programs. Read more…