When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
—Norman Vincent Peale

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Fundraisers & Benefits

TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
The TNBC Foundation hosted the "Peace, Love and a Cure" annual cockail reception at the Alpine home of Malaak Compton-Rock.
(201) Magazine - August 2009

WOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER
In October 2008 Malaak spoke at this Englewood, NJ based organization established to help women in a changing society.

ALONZO MOURNING CHARITIES AND FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM TRAINING AND EDUCATION

TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation held a cocktail reception at a beautiful home in Demarest. This year's honorees included Susan and Lawrence Frank and Dr. Eric Winer. For more information, please visit tnbcfoundation.org.

Ebony Magazine Celebrates the 9th Annual Ebony Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications Luncheon on Thursday, May 1 at Cipriani Restaurant in New York City.

Malaak Compton-Rock and Terrie M. Williams Host Book Party for Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
Malaak Compton-Rock hosts a party at her home to celebrate the launch of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting, a self-help book on depression by Terrie M. Williams. The book party also served as a venue to raise awareness on the issue of depression by reading real-life stories from the book, asking people to take a stand on the issue, and pledging to do whatever they can to shed light and take away the stigma of this dark issue.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Malaak Compton-Rock, in Saks in Hackensack, NJ for a “Tea and Talk for Awareness Shopping Benefit” for the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation...
The Record - Thursday February 7, 2008

MALAAK AND CHRIS ROCK BRING CHRISTMAS CHEER TO KIDS IN N.Y.
The holidays came early this year for 175 children in New York City, thanks to Chris Rock and his wife Malaak.
CW 11 - Thursday December 13, 2007

TNBC FOUNDATION INAUGURAL COCKTAIL PARTY
Malaak Compton-Rock hosted a cocktail party for TNBC at her home. The event served as the inaugural fundraiser for the foundation, whose mission is to raise awareness and funds for research for triple negative breast cancer.
Bergen County Magazine - June 2007

THE FLASH
Safe Horizon's 12th annual Champion awards luncheon
Gothman Yearbook - spring 2007

SAFE HORIZON
Safe Horizon celebrated their upcoming 10th Annual Champion Awards with over 300 guests at a cocktail reception at the Calvin Klein Collection store on Madison Avenue.
David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary

T&C'S PARTIES
Snowflake Ball
Town & Country

SAFE HORIZON'S FALL FUNDRAISER
In our own words. True stories. Real lives.
Quest - January 2005

LAWFUL ORDERS
Former District Attorney Linda Fairstein and the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit hosted a presentation "In Our Own Words. True Stories. Real Lives" at Crobar benefiting Safe Horizon.
Avenue Palm Beach magazine - January 2005

Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service is a volunteer program for at-risk youth from Brooklyn, NY. Please click here to learn more about their service trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and other activities as Global Ambassadors. To support the program, please click here.

Meet Nobubele of Johannesburg, South Africa, the first recipient of The Journey for Change Educational Scholarship, funded by the Global Ambassadors.

To view a CNN.com video of the participants in South Africa, please click here. To view the CNN.com Black in America 2 video on Journey for Change, please click here. To view the CNN.com Black in America 2 video on Journey for Change HIV/AIDS, please click here.

To read the Journey for Change Ambassadors blogs on CNN.com, please click here. To read Soledad O'Brien's Behind the Scenes: Out of Bushwick on CNN.com, please click here.

To view Journey for Change photos, please click here. To meet our 30 Journey for Change Global Ambassadors, please click here.

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Target Gives $1 Million
to The Salvation Army
Malaak and Chris Rock Announce Gift at the Opening of The Bushwick Salvation Army Community Center's Newly Transformed Library