The People’s Choice Awards announced today that Tyler Perry will
receive the fifth annual People’s Choice Award for Favorite
Humanitarian, presented by Enterprise Rent-A-Car, during the live
awards show from the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, January 18,
2017 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television
Network.
Perry was chosen as this year’s honoree in recognition of his
efforts to change lives all over the world for the better. With the
help of the Tyler Perry Foundation he has donated millions of
dollars to organizations such as Feeding America, the NAACP,
Charity Water, among others, all in effort to help eradicate
homelessness, support civil rights causes and aid survivors of
devastating natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and
Hurricane Katrina. In support of Perry’s tireless efforts to help
those in need, Enterprise is donating $100,000 to Perry’s charity
of choice, the Global Medical Relief Fund for Children.
“We are honored to present Tyler Perry with this year’s People’s
Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian, and we thank our partners
at Enterprise for their generous donation to the Global Medical
Relief Fund on his behalf,” said President of the People’s Choice
Awards, Fred Nelson. “Mr. Perry’s decades long commitment to
helping those in need is incomparable, and the GMRF is an amazing
organization, dedicated to aiding children in desperate need of
care. I’m proud that our show provides a platform for this
well-deserved recognition.”
The Global Medical Relief Fund for Children (GMRF) was
originally created in 1997 by one person working out of a small
apartment on Staten Island, New York. Since then the GMRF, along
with partners-in-aid including the Shriners Hospitals for Children,
has worked non-stop for 19 years helping children in America and 40
other countries worldwide. The GMRF provides the children, many of
them amputees and burn victims who have no local medical resources,
with vital medical care and on-going treatment to ensure they
return home and become thriving members of their own cities, towns
and communities. Tyler Perry first became aware of GMRF when it was
featured on the CBS-TV News program “60 Minutes” in 2011.
Enterprise, and its comprehensive transportation offerings, is
presenting the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian in
honor of the brand’s commitment to picking up the communities where
its customers and employees live and work.
Past winners of the award include Sandra Bullock in 2013 in
recognition of her work with the Warren Easton High School in New
Orleans, Jennifer Hudson in 2014 to honor her work with the Julian
D. King Gift Foundation, Ben Affleck in 2015 to recognize his work
with the Eastern Congo Initiative, and Ellen DeGeneres in 2016 to
support St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Voting for PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2017 has closed for most
categories, but will remain open for Favorite New TV Comedy,
Favorite New TV Drama and Favorite Year End Blockbuster until show
night on www.PeoplesChoice.com.
Media assets for PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2017 can be found at
www.EPKlink.com/PeoplesChoiceAwards2017 courtesy of Getty
Images.
Tickets to the PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2016 show are available
for fans to purchase through AXS.com.
ABOUT GLOBAL MEDICAL RELIEF
FUND
The mission of GMRF is to help hopeless, resourceless, often
maimed children who are victims of war, natural disasters or other
catastrophic injuries or illnesses, by proving care, compassion,
transportation and a caring home environment while getting them
access to free, on-going medical treatments and physical therapies.
GMRF and its partners bring each child who has suffered severe
injury to U.S. facilities for treatment and care that helps restore
their bodies, their spirits and their self-esteem. We bring these
growing children back for follow-up medical treatments and therapy
until they reach age 21. Our care for these children is totally
personal. We have never treated a child whose name and family
history we didn’t know. We provide them with transportation, a home
and day to day care, and coordinate their on-going medical
treatments, surgeries and therapies to help them rebuild their
lives and get “on track” to heal and return home to eventually
become productive members of their own communities. Elissa
Montani is the Founder and Director of The Global Medical Relief
Fund for Children and the official website can be found at
www.gmrfchildren.org.
ABOUT ENTERPRISE
The Enterprise brand – which comprises Enterprise Rent-A-Car,
Enterprise CarShare, Enterprise Truck Rental, Enterprise Car Sales,
the Exotic Car Collection by Enterprise, Zimride by Enterprise and
RideShare by Enterprise – offers customers a total transportation
solution. Its flagship brand, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, was founded in
1957 and is known for an extensive network of convenient locations,
affordable rates and outstanding customer service. Enterprise
Rent-A-Car was ranked on BusinessWeek magazine’s annual list of
“Customer Service Champs” for four years in a row. Enterprise
operates not only as a key provider for insurance replacement,
weekend getaways and special occasions, but also as a local
transportation alternative. With more than 5,600 fully staffed
airport and neighborhood offices located within 15 miles of 90
percent of the U.S. population, Enterprise can meet whatever
transportation need customers may have – renting, buying or
sharing.
ABOUT PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Now in its 43rd year, the People’s Choice Awards is the only
major awards show voted on entirely by the public for fan favorites
in movies, music, television and digital. The People’s Choice
official website at www.PeoplesChoice.com houses the voting
platform where fans determine the nominees and winners for the
annual awards show. Every year, potential nominees are determined
by national ratings averages, box-office grosses, music sales,
social media activity and PeoplesChoice.com data, then vetted
through E-Poll Market Research. Fred Nelson is the President of
People’s Choice, and serves alongside Mark Burnett, Jane Mun and
Kimmie H. Kim as Executive Producers of the awards show.
The awards show, and digital, mobile and social extensions of
the brand are owned by Procter & Gamble. The show is produced
by MGM Television and MGM serves as the international
distributor.
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