{"id":1528,"date":"2012-02-18T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2012-02-18T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:45:12","slug":"help-support-the-we-are-family-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Help support the We Are Family Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0We Are Family Foundation<\/strong> (WAFF) is an\u00a0American<\/a> 501(c)(3)<\/a> nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by songwriter, musician, and producer\u00a0Nile Rodgers<\/a> in the wake of the\u00a0September 11, 2001 attacks. Its\u00a0mission<\/a> is dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding, and appreciation of cultural diversity – while striving to solve some of our biggest global problems at the same time.<\/p>\n

The foundation began on September 22, 2001, when Rodgers and\u00a0Tommy Boy Music<\/a> president\u00a0Tom Silverman<\/a> brought 200 musicians, celebrities, and personalities together in\u00a0New York City and\u00a0Los Angeles to re-record Rodgers’ hit song “We Are Family<\/a>” (best known in its 1979 hit version performed by\u00a0Sister Sledge<\/a>) to start the healing process after the events of September 11.\u00a0Director<\/a> Spike Lee<\/a> filmed the “We Are Family”\u00a0music video<\/a>, and director\u00a0Danny Schechter<\/a> filmed a\u00a0documentary<\/a> entitled\u00a0The Making and Meaning of We Are Family<\/em>, which depicts the recording session. The documentary was chosen as a\u00a0Sundance Film Festival<\/a> Special Selection in 2002.<\/p>\n

The 20×24 Studio is proud to help support the We Are Family Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is an\u00a0American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by songwriter, musician, and producer\u00a0Nile Rodgers in the wake of the\u00a0September 11, 2001 attacks. Its\u00a0mission is dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding, and appreciation of cultural … Continue reading Help support the We Are Family Foundation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20x24-studio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}