July 2 (UPI) — Donations and auction sales during the 2024 Carter Center Weekend event raised more than $2.8 million to support global peace and health initiatives to ease human suffering.
“We are incredibly grateful for the continued generosity and commitment of our loyal supporters,” The Carter Center chief executive officer Paige Alexander said in a news release Tuesday.
“These contributions will advance The Carter Center’s ongoing work to promote peace and health around the world,” Alexander added.
The center is named in honor of former President Jimmy Carter , who founded the center in Atlanta in 1982 in partnership with Emory University and his wife, Rosalynn.
A live auction for Carter’s artist tools and a signed print of a painting of The Carter Center that he completed in 2005 fetched the highest bid amount of $1 million.
A silent auction for an Epiphone guitar signed by the late singer and musician Dan Fogelberg , plus a note he wrote apologizing for not selling out a concert and a matted photo of him performing at Atlanta’s Chastain Park in 1990, sold for $25,000.