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Incubus rocks many worlds with its charity
Band encounters ‘truly good people&rsquo...
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Incubus rocks many worlds with its charity
Band encounters ‘truly good people’ through Make Yourself Foundation
Each month, we highlight a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This month we speak with Brandon Boyd, the lead singer of the band Incubus, about his group’s charity organization, the Make Yourself Foundation. Through the foundation, Incubus donates a portion of the proceeds from its concert tours, record sales, online auctions of merchandise and special events to a range of worthy groups and causes selected by the band members, including the Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, California Wildlife Conservatory and Camp Painted Turtle, among many others. They also maintain an emergency fund for international natural disaster relief.
Question: When and why did you decide to found the Make Yourself Foundation?
Answer: I think it was 2003. … All of us kind of realized how we had sort of arrived at this place of visibility, I guess you could say. … I know from personal experience that we really paid attention to the bands that we were listening to. … (Many of them) were promoting certain things at their shows -- booths you could go to here you could find out about certain causes or certain organizations they were working with. … It kind of made it OK as a teenager to get involved with something. … It was an interesting way to be introduced to philanthropy, I guess you could say. So we started really realizing that we had a wonderful chance here to raise awareness about some important things that were going on, (but) where do we start? We figured we would just raise money for and raise awareness towards things that were important to us, which started around some, humanitarian causes that we’ve worked with on small scales and then some environmental causes that we’ve worked with on small scales, like the Surfrider Foundation and Heal the Bay and whatnot.
Q: Was there a specific catalyst for the initial start-up?
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