Overall, Elyse Walker has raised over $16 million for various hospitals and charities.
Maria Shriver, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Elyse Walker and Jennifer Garner at the 10th anniversary Pink Party in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2014.
“It felt like an East Coast-y neighborhood town,” she said. The first thing she did was join the Chamber of Commerce. Her goal was to give back and support her community, and help provide something it needed. She used to walk in town every day, passing overflowing garbage pails, and at a carnival, realized the town needed more pick ups. So, she worked with the Chamber of Commerce to raise $20,000 a year and add an extra garbage pick-up day.
One day, a friend of hers said that her husband was launching a pilot for a new TV show with a very young actress who was kind of unknown, and asked if she could style her. Her name was Jennifer Garner, and the show turned out to be “Alias.”“I started her in black pants and a black T-shirt. That was my claim to fame, and nobody asked me to style a TV show ever again,” Walker joked.
“There’s tons of food, everyone sits on a lounge, you talk to your friends, very quick speeches, it’s more of a celebration. they started doing fashion shows,” Walker said. Designers such as Valentino, Brunello Cucinelli and J. Mendel presented looks. These events, hosted by celebrities such as Garner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Biel, Rachel Zoe and Anne Hathaway, raised more than $11.7 million for Cedars-Sinai.
On the East Coast, Walker has partnered with the Basser Foundation in New York. She started working with Shari Potter and Mindy Gray, who lost their sister in her 30s to ovarian cancer, and Susan Getz. “They started a Denim Ball that was inspired by the Pink Party. How cool is that? It’s called the Basser Jean Bash,” Walker said.
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