The Beauty Bus Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to enhancing the quality of life for terminally or chronically ill people and their caregivers appeared on ABC’s one-hour alternative series, “Secret Millionaire.”
The foundation itself provides in-home beauty and grooming treatments, free of charge, to empower their clients, help them maintain dignity, and give them respite during a difficult time. Services are focused on people with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), cancer, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, other select neuromuscular and motor neuron diseases, and
their caregivers.
The series allows the viewer to follow some of America’s most successful self-made business people, these secret millionaires embark on an once-in-a-lifetime journey, going undercover within various communities and ultimately gifting unsung community heroes with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money.
“The Secret Millionaire experience was extraordinary. We were completely surprised and overwhelmed that ABC and our Secret Millionaire, Ali Brown, believed in our mission,” remarks Wendy Marantz Levine and Alicia Marantz Liotta, co-founders of the Beauty Bus Foundation. “We are so grateful for the support we have received and Ali’s graciousness. Her donation put us in a position to hire our first employee and through the gifts of ‘Secret Millionaire’ we are able to bring beauty home to more patients and caregivers.”
Secret Millionaires come face-to-face with extraordinary people who place their own needs aside for the sake of their communities. At the end of the Secret Millionaires’ journeys, they reveal their true identities and donate their own money to these community activists, changing lives and encouraging others to keep
giving back.
“Meeting Alicia and Wendy from Beauty Bus was a powerful experience,” says Ali Brown, Beauty Bus Foundation’s Secret Millionaire. “To experience firsthand how they help their clients touched my heart deeply because of my own father’s illness. My mom worked around the clock to care for my dad in his last year of life, and a service like this would have been a welcome reprieve for both of them. I look forward to continuing to support their mission in whatever way I can!”
For more information please visit
www.beautybus.org or call 310-287-1272
