NBA STAR ELTON BRAND CHARITY BASH

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 15, 2008 --
New York City, NY, August 15, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Inaugural NBA star Elton Brand and Team-Up World Celebrity Bowling & Fashion Show kicks off Sunday, Sept 7th, 2008 at Bowlmor Lanes in New York City at 6:00pm. The modish venue will be even more alluring with the eclectic group of celebrities attending in support of the cause.

Elton Brand along with NBA friend will be hosting the bowling tournament and live auction with Playstation and WII tournament.. Celebrities attending are those with the likes of Ben Gordon, Ron Artest, Paul Pierce, Baron Davis, Derek Fisher, Magic Johnson, Myspace founder, David Falk and many more...

The Inaugural Team Up World Bowling Tournament begins Wednesday, Sept 7th, 2008 at Bowlmor at 6:00pm local time. The night launches off with the auction and then live interactive games. The auction will include various sports memorabilia. The evening continues with pure battling of the celebrity bowlers for the Team Up World Award.

The rhyme and reason for such a unique event is to raise funds to benefit C.A.M.P. Inc., a resource and learning center in his hometown of Peekskill, NY that strives to increase the opportunities for disadvantaged or underachieving, at-risk students and their families

If you're going to love Elton Brand, you've got to love CAMP, Inc., too. That's the learning and resource center Brand--along with Panzanaro and Brand's mother, Daisy--set up in his hometown of Peekskill. It's a hardscrabble place, 50 miles north of Manhattan. Brand grew up in the Dunbar Heights housing project. But he says his mother never let the family feel poor. Sure, the sign in front of his apartment complex said "Low-income housing," but it might just as well have said "Brick buildings" or "Small bedrooms." It never meant much to Brand as a kid.

As an adult, though, he has become more attuned to Peekskill's problems. He gave more than $400,000 to set up CAMP, Inc. Every school day from 3 to 7 p.m., CAMP's offices are staffed with tutors, and about 25 kids, ages 13 to 17, get help with homework (the center has 110 kids on its roll). The foundation matches kids who want music or art lessons with the right instructors. Brand also has paid to send kids--UConn center and Peekskill native Hilton Armstrong among them--to elite basketball camps.

"I just don't want kids to not be able to pursue something because they don't have enough money," Brand says. "A lot of people helped me along my way, and I'd like to do the same thing for some of the kids in the area."



Admission tickets for the event may be purchased for $150 VIP PASS and 2500.00 per lane with all proceeds benefiting CAMP INC. For more information, call 305.776. 8331 or visit www.teamupworld.org

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