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Kelly Stone was born in rural Pennsylvania where her father worked in a tool and dye factory and her mom as a homemaker. Kelly moved to Los Angeles in 1984, where she would continue her dedicated work as a nurse for some of the top doctors in this town. Six years later, Kelly had a devastating fall and after five trauma surgeries and 4 years in and out of a wheel chair, Kelly's life began to take a turn when her sister, and best friend, actress Sharon Stone got Kelly involved in the homeless community. Inspired by her accident, Kelly realized the importance not only of having hope in one’s life but of giving hope to others lives; the importance of having a support system during a family and medical crisis and the need for resources within the underserved homeless community of single mothers and their children. In 1993, Kelly and her sister, actress Sharon Stone, founded the nonprofit organization Planet Hope. Planet Hope gave Kelly a new outlook on life and brought many positive opportunities into the lives of others. Planet Hope provided summer camps for displaced, homeless, and abused children and their families; offered counseling, job fairs, housing opportunities, and programs to help the families return to a better more productive life. Each year, Planet Hope provides tutoring, positive self-esteem experiences, makeovers and field trips for the mothers and children alike. |
To this day, Planet Hope provides thousands of the Christmas and Chanukah gifts and toys received by the children within the Los Angeles area homeless shelter system. Planet Hope is also providing thousands of dresses to underprivileged high school girls across the country so that they too can experience the right of passage and attend their high school prom attired and coiffed like every other young woman about to graduate high school.
In the late 1990’s, Kelly decided to follow her dream into the fashion world and she launched an entertainment marketing agency; Scene Again. Through Scene Again, Kelly worked with some of the biggest fashion houses, placing their products and services in some of Hollywood’s most successful feature films, television shows and corresponding red carpet events. Her clients included Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Kenneth Cole, Diesel, J. P. Tod’s, H Stern, The Oppenheimer Family, Oliver People's and many many more.
Kelly’s husband and love of her very busy life is Bruce Singer. Bruce was born in Bronx New York, which makes him by birth a Yankee fan. Bruce has 3 children, two sons that both are attorneys Josh and Nick, 35 and 27 respectively and a daughter Stefanie, 29.
Bruce attended Long Island University and Harvard University and graduated cum laude with a distinction in International Law and Foreign Service and was named to the National Social Science Honor Society. Bruce obtained his law degree from Whittier College School of Law and served as a law clerk to judges and Commissioners in both the Criminal Court and Superior Court of Los Angeles.
Bruce's business career began renting roller skates in Venice California where he worked long and tedious hours on the beach renting roller skates, bicycles and boogie boards to beautiful bikini clad California girls looking to get a little exercise. His business was well known in Venice not for its amazing service but because he conducted their rental activity out of the back of an old Funeral Hearse... their business and their slogan "Let Us Undertake Your Skating Needs" was a fixture throughout the beach communities in the 70's & 80's.
As a lawyer Bruce quickly morphed from renting roller skates on the beach to renting cars to tourists at airports throughout California Arizona Nevada and New Mexico that were looking to explore route 66, California's coast highway, the Arizona desert and the crap tables of Las Vegas. As the company exploded from 29 cars to over 10,000 cars By 1988, INC magazine named Bruce and his company Rpm Rent A Car the 101st Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in America; that same year.
Bruce was named runner up Entrepreneur of The Year Award presented by accounting firm Arthur Anderson and the Los Angeles Times. His company would consecutively be named an INC 500 Company in 1988, 1989 and 1990 as among the top 500 Fastest Growing Privately held company in the United States.
Bruce sold his company, RPM Rent-A-Car to a major automobile manufacturer in 1991.
Shortly thereafter, Bruce had an idea to provide loans to all sorts of people, rich and poor on the equity that existed within their cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, jet skis and RV's. Bruce figured out a way to make equity loans to owners of those cars and trucks and other vehicles without running their credit and protected their privacy in the process. Bruce hired Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Lakers play by play announcer as his spokesperson and pitchman for his TV commercials. The rest was history. Today RPM Lenders is a part of one the largest vehicle collateral lending networks in the United States; Bruce sold his interest in RPM some time back.
Bruce is an avid tennis player, musician and father. He has been an active board member of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club and has also served on other boards such as the Cedars-Sinai Diabetes Association and with his wife Kelly in her charity Planet Hope.
Bruce donates his time and energy to a multitude of causes. When Bruce met Kelly he immediately recognized her dedication to those less fortunate than her, specifically young children and single moms affected and often devastated by homelessness while directing the efforts of her charity Planet Hope. With Bruce by her side, Kelly spearheaded even bigger projects and achievements to benefit the sick and the homeless community.
Over the past several years Kelly has received notable honors and awards for her remarkable and thoughtful work from the Lupus Foundation, the Dali Lama's Missing Peace Project, the City of Los Angeles, Rising Women, the National Homeless Coalition, Drever Family Foundation, George magazine, Good Shepard, Chrysalis, LA Family Housing. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Humanitarian of the Year award by Harvard University's Harvard Foundation, just to name a few.
Today, Kelly and Bruce both enjoy witnessing the growth at Planet Hope and marvel at the programs serving cities across our nation.
Kelly and Bruce are truly humbled by Concern's decision to honor them both. They applaud Concern's continued efforts and commitment to fund ongoing Cancer research and their relentlessness in trying to find a cure for cancer and other autoimmune related diseases.
Bruce & Kelly would like to give a special thanks to the remarkable Board of the Concern Foundation and to their Co-Honoree Eden Alpert for all of the tireless work that they do on behalf of those in dire need or who have no voice of their own.
Bruce & Kelly express their deep appreciation to the board for the recognition that Concern has given to matters meaningful to the Stone-Singer Family and Planet Hope. “We recognize the remarkable accomplishments of The Concern Foundation and have offered to join the Concern family from this event forward”.
Bruce Singer & Kelly Stone
In the late 1990’s, Kelly decided to follow her dream into the fashion world and she launched an entertainment marketing agency; Scene Again. Through Scene Again, Kelly worked with some of the biggest fashion houses, placing their products and services in some of Hollywood’s most successful feature films, television shows and corresponding red carpet events. Her clients included Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Kenneth Cole, Diesel, J. P. Tod’s, H Stern, The Oppenheimer Family, Oliver People's and many many more.
Kelly’s husband and love of her very busy life is Bruce Singer. Bruce was born in Bronx New York, which makes him by birth a Yankee fan. Bruce has 3 children, two sons that both are attorneys Josh and Nick, 35 and 27 respectively and a daughter Stefanie, 29.
Bruce attended Long Island University and Harvard University and graduated cum laude with a distinction in International Law and Foreign Service and was named to the National Social Science Honor Society. Bruce obtained his law degree from Whittier College School of Law and served as a law clerk to judges and Commissioners in both the Criminal Court and Superior Court of Los Angeles.
Bruce's business career began renting roller skates in Venice California where he worked long and tedious hours on the beach renting roller skates, bicycles and boogie boards to beautiful bikini clad California girls looking to get a little exercise. His business was well known in Venice not for its amazing service but because he conducted their rental activity out of the back of an old Funeral Hearse... their business and their slogan "Let Us Undertake Your Skating Needs" was a fixture throughout the beach communities in the 70's & 80's.
As a lawyer Bruce quickly morphed from renting roller skates on the beach to renting cars to tourists at airports throughout California Arizona Nevada and New Mexico that were looking to explore route 66, California's coast highway, the Arizona desert and the crap tables of Las Vegas. As the company exploded from 29 cars to over 10,000 cars By 1988, INC magazine named Bruce and his company Rpm Rent A Car the 101st Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in America; that same year.
Bruce was named runner up Entrepreneur of The Year Award presented by accounting firm Arthur Anderson and the Los Angeles Times. His company would consecutively be named an INC 500 Company in 1988, 1989 and 1990 as among the top 500 Fastest Growing Privately held company in the United States.
Bruce sold his company, RPM Rent-A-Car to a major automobile manufacturer in 1991.
Shortly thereafter, Bruce had an idea to provide loans to all sorts of people, rich and poor on the equity that existed within their cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, jet skis and RV's. Bruce figured out a way to make equity loans to owners of those cars and trucks and other vehicles without running their credit and protected their privacy in the process. Bruce hired Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Lakers play by play announcer as his spokesperson and pitchman for his TV commercials. The rest was history. Today RPM Lenders is a part of one the largest vehicle collateral lending networks in the United States; Bruce sold his interest in RPM some time back.
Bruce is an avid tennis player, musician and father. He has been an active board member of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club and has also served on other boards such as the Cedars-Sinai Diabetes Association and with his wife Kelly in her charity Planet Hope.
Bruce donates his time and energy to a multitude of causes. When Bruce met Kelly he immediately recognized her dedication to those less fortunate than her, specifically young children and single moms affected and often devastated by homelessness while directing the efforts of her charity Planet Hope. With Bruce by her side, Kelly spearheaded even bigger projects and achievements to benefit the sick and the homeless community.
Over the past several years Kelly has received notable honors and awards for her remarkable and thoughtful work from the Lupus Foundation, the Dali Lama's Missing Peace Project, the City of Los Angeles, Rising Women, the National Homeless Coalition, Drever Family Foundation, George magazine, Good Shepard, Chrysalis, LA Family Housing. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Humanitarian of the Year award by Harvard University's Harvard Foundation, just to name a few.
Today, Kelly and Bruce both enjoy witnessing the growth at Planet Hope and marvel at the programs serving cities across our nation.
Kelly and Bruce are truly humbled by Concern's decision to honor them both. They applaud Concern's continued efforts and commitment to fund ongoing Cancer research and their relentlessness in trying to find a cure for cancer and other autoimmune related diseases.
Bruce & Kelly would like to give a special thanks to the remarkable Board of the Concern Foundation and to their Co-Honoree Eden Alpert for all of the tireless work that they do on behalf of those in dire need or who have no voice of their own.
Bruce & Kelly express their deep appreciation to the board for the recognition that Concern has given to matters meaningful to the Stone-Singer Family and Planet Hope. “We recognize the remarkable accomplishments of The Concern Foundation and have offered to join the Concern family from this event forward”.
Bruce Singer & Kelly Stone
EDEN ALPERT
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Eden has been involved with Concern since the Concern II days. She and her daughter have been active participants in many of Concern’s fundraising and “friend-raising” events as members of TEAM CONCERN and the LA marathon, chaperones at Concern’s annual day for the Kids at Universal Studios Hollywood, and volunteering for the annual Concern holiday events for cancer patients and families. As a partner at Herb Alpert's Vibrato Jazz Grill, Eden makes sure that her restaurant has a presence at our annual Block Party that is one of the top destinations for our event guests.This year’s co-honoree, Eden Alpert, is no stranger to Concern with her many years of active involvement as a volunteer and supporter. Eden is a single mother of a beautiful 21-year-old daughter, Kylie, who is currently attending the University of Oregon. Eden has instilled her own core values about being involved in a non-profit, which is more than just being able to donate some money. She truly believes that to be involved and make a difference, people must become educated about the organization and roll up their sleeves, and become active by sharing resources, talents, and experience to further an organization’s mission.
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Eden is a community activist and involved with several other non-profit organizations. She is extremely proud of her work as a board member for an organization called A Window Between Worlds. Eden has a special love and affinity for helping youth whenever possible. She is extremely active with the Boys and Girls Club in San Gabriel and through that club, she has helped to develop the music program for various Boys and Girls Clubs all over the Los Angeles area. She is an animal rights and rescue activist, as well as maintaining an active role with Vista Del Mar, an organization very near and dear to her heart.
In her spare time, Eden refers back to her time in the music business and her family’s music heritage by working with various song writers setting up collaborations for them to create incredible songs. Eden boasts that one of her strongest attributes is that she is the catalyst that connects people forming forever relationships. She is the person that everyone seems to seek out for advice, referrals, and new ideas with her ability to make the right connections.
Eden represents a new generation of humanitarian and philanthropists and Concern is proud to honor her commitment to making the world a better place.
Eden represents a new generation of humanitarian and philanthropists and Concern is proud to honor her commitment to making the world a better place.
