CHARITY SCORECARD

Melissa Manchester was among the 200 or so people who attended SHARE’s annual reception for 37 Los Angeles-based children’s charities Feb. 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Harvey Morse Auditorium. SHARE, which stands for Share Happily and Reap Endlessly, distributed more than $1 million to the charities, raised during the year. Actress Susan Dey, actor Tom Bosley, TV producer Saul Turteltaub composer Hans Zimmer and producer Freddie Fields were also at the event. The 37 charities work with the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, the abused and babies with AIDS, and include the Center for the Partially Sighted, Covenant House California, Hathaway Children and Family Services, Villa Esperanza, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Children of the Night and the Burbank Center for the Retarded.

* “Frasier” producers David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee, actress Peri Gilpin of “Frasier,” KNBC-TV news anchors Colleen Williams and Rick Chambers, and KNBC-TV legal analyst Manny Medrano were honorary committee members for the Hillsides Home for Children’s 13th annual benefit, La Festal Novecento, held Feb. 27 at a private club in downtown L.A. More than 350 people attended the gala, which included an Italian feast, dancing and a live auction. KNBC-TV weather forecaster Fritz Coleman was honorary chairman. Auction items included a Caribbean cruise, a trip to Quadra Island in British Columbia and two walk-on parts on “Frasier.” More than $125,000 was raised for Hillsides Home for Children, a nonprofit, nonsectarian community agency providing counseling, rehabilitation, education and residential treatment for abused, abandoned and neglected children, and prevention work for at-risk families.

* Art Linkletter emceed the League for Children’s Feb. 19 gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel, which raised about $100,000 for the Children’s Bureau of Southern California. Betty Williams and Keith Renken were honored for their philanthropic support of the bureau, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse. About 350 people attended the dinner-dance.

* KABC-TV anchor Laura Diaz spoke at the 25th anniversary scholarship banquet of Whittier College’s Latino alumni association, Alianza de los Amigos, at the Queen Mary in Long Beach on Feb. 20. About 370 students, parents, corporate sponsors and alumni attended the event, which raised about $100,000 for scholarships for Latino students.

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