Foundation News

It’s Team-Up Time!
From ball games to MK5K^® runs, Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants are making plans to Team Up for Women with 2008 fundraisers. These sporting events provide great family fun, plus raise money and awareness about issues that affect women. Look for an event in your area and how you can help support the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation.


	Kissing Domestic Violence Good-bye
	Mary Kay brought more that 30 of the hottest names in country music together in the A Kiss for Country campaign to benefit the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation. As The Official Beauty Sponsor of the 2007 Country Music Association Awards, Mary Kay Inc. collected kiss prints and autographs from the stars for a unique online auction held in late 2007. The artists’ framed kiss prints and autographs raised approximately $10,000 for the Foundation to support domestic violence programs. The Foundation will also award grants in 2008 of $20,000 in each participating artist's name to a domestic violence shelter in his or her state.

Foundation Holds Event
at the Childhood Home of
Mary Kay Ash
The Houston childhood home of Mary Kay Ash provided an historic backdrop for a multifaceted event on Jan. 23, 2008. Standing on the porch of the beautifully restored home, Anne Crews, vice president of government relations, presented a $20,000 donation from the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation to the Houston Area Women’s Center. The donation will help the Houston Area Women’s Center in its work to prevent domestic violence.

At the same event, the Mayor Pro Tem of Houston declared it Mary Kay Day and presented the Company with the key to the city. As a gesture of gratitude to Houston for hosting the Company’s annual Leadership Conference, Mary Kay Inc. made a $20,000 donation to the Old Sixth Ward Neighborhood Association – the historic area where the Mary Kay Ash childhood home is located. The Old Sixth Ward is the oldest intact neighborhood in Houston and the first to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The donation is the largest in the Association’s history.


	The Foundation Logo Lights up Times Square The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation logo lit up New York over the busy 2007 Thanksgiving holiday. Four stories high above the streets of Times Square, the Reuters Building’s video screens – all 23 stories and 7,400 square feet of them – featured the Foundation logo. The logo appeared four times from Nov. 19 to Nov. 21 during peak rush hour, giving the Foundation logo maximum exposure in the Big Apple.


	Host a Class, Help a Cause Achieves New Record Through the 2007 Host A Class, Help A Cause program, Mary Kay Inc. donated 100 percent of the proceeds – $3 million – to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation to fight domestic violence and cancers affecting women. The program ran from Sept. 16 to Dec. 15, 2007, and featured the Holiday Wishes purse set. Each year, the Host a Class, Help a Cause gives Independent Beauty Consultants and customers a beautiful way to celebrate the spirit of giving for the holidays.

Click here to contribute to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation. For more information, call
1-877-MKCARES (1-877-652-2737).