The occasion, set for Oct. 15 on the Beverly Hilton, will mark a reteaming of the Thirst Mission and Legacy Youth Management for a joint fundraiser.
Actress and performer Laura Marano has been chosen to obtain the Cameron Boyce Pioneering Spirit Award on the thirteenth annual Thirst Gala and 2nd annual Legacy Ball on Oct. 15.
The occasion marks the second 12 months in a row that the Thirst Mission and Legacy Youth Management organizations have teamed to host a fundraiser, following final 12 months’s on-line occasion that raised a collective $300,000.
The award, created to honor the late Cameron Boyce, “acknowledges the superstar and/or influencer who makes use of their platform greatest to boost consciousness and/or funds in ending the worldwide water disaster,” per the group. It’s a trigger Marano is aware of properly. She started working with Thirst Mission in 2017 by presenting the Energy of Youth award alongside Shane Harper on the eighth annual Thirst Gala. A 12 months later, Marano hosted a pink carpet livestream with Zach Sang earlier than presenting a volunteer trophy in 2019 reverse Wyatt Olfeff.
She’s additionally credited with main campaigns like Thirsty 30 in 2019 that drove greater than 100 totally different fundraisers and tallied upwards of $20,000 for water tasks that secured clear water for all times for greater than 500 folks.
Sponsored by Paramount Photos, United Expertise Company and Nickelodeon, this 12 months’s occasion will function appearances by Boyce’s mother and father, Libby and Victor Boyce, and Missi Pyle, amongst others. The model ZOX will probably be honored with a Imaginative and prescient Award for its “vital help in ending the worldwide water disaster and constructing the subsequent technology of younger leaders.”
Thirst Mission founder and CEO Seth Maxwell supplied: “We're excited to construct on the inaugural occasion’s momentum final 12 months, as our group embarks on an thrilling new chapter right here at Thirst Mission and Legacy Youth Management and we will’t wait to have a good time the unimaginable affect younger persons are making on among the world’s most urgent points.”