![]() I helped the campers and the people who ran the camp write a song for their camp, 'cause they didn't have a camp song. But anyway they are celebrating a big anniversary coming up (hundredth). I was a camper growing up, like a summer camp camper. I love summer camp because I feel like it's a place where kids can safely learn about themselves, unity. There's a camp called Camp Woodcraft, out here in California and they help underserved communities and kids go to summer camp, which is really in line with what my own Camp Lisa Foundation does by sending kids to camp. And I get to do that all over the world.īaltin: Are there one or two organizations or things that you did that with really kind of surprised you the most in a pleasant way? I love writing and I love creating, and I love performing and entertaining people, but I also really love that human connection. That's one of the things I like best about my job. So if I work with someone from the outside of those communities, for any reason, when they get a true sense of who's there and what are they doing, it's a really amazing way to connect with people. And as somebody who belongs to a lot of different communities in my own day to day life, I understand what that means on the other end of it. It's something that's important to them and to their community. It's something that they've been working on. But I understand that everyone who's putting on these concerts, it's someone's mother, it's someone's brother or someone's sister, it's someone's cousin. That's why I say yes to them in the first place. In theory, I understand that all of these things are really meaningful. Loeb: Yeah, they're more meaningful for me. It's a really amazing way to connect with people and to get to know people's stories which is so meaningful.īaltin: Are you finding that when you do go and play these shows, then they're more meaningful for you? If we can, if there's a hospital that's benefiting, can we visit the hospital? Like not just pop in and play a concert to help them raise money and leave. I like to actually get a sense of who the people are, why the organization was started. It's really the community and they've been working on that project for years or to put together an event. Often, a lot of really great fundraisers are sort of more of a mom and pop situation or a synagogue that's putting something together or a school or a group of people in a city. Because often when I show up, especially when I was traveling more before COVID, I would show up in someone's community and realize I didn't know enough about that community and the people who are putting the projects together. Lately I've been working with my representatives, who I've been working with forever, to make sure that I connect with people in advance to really get more of a sense of what different organizations are doing. It's not necessarily about the PR, it's literally about cleaning litter boxes and holding cats and trying to help with the nuts and bolts. But it is nice to be able to just actually be doing the thing. I'll play at a benefit, I'll promote somebody else's fundraising, I'll do something that's more on the PR side of it, or an entertainment side of it as it applies to an event somebody's doing. Loeb: Yeah, it's nice, too, because a lot of the charitable work I do and the work I do for others often comes as an entertainer. So we play with them and also just help them get more comfortable.īaltin: Do you find that all of this stuff, whether it's philanthropy or the children's books you write, infuses your music? And especially the ones that were stray cats, they need to get a little bit used to people. And not only do we help to clean cages and help with that kind of thing, but we also work with just sitting and holding and petting the cats. And you want to make sure that they're all getting attention. And also you get drawn in by the different pet stories and the stories you make up in your head about the pet. So instead of having her work by herself, I would go with her. And then during COVID, they weren't mixing families to volunteer. But anyway, my daughter, we started just visiting and we realized that they had a spot for younger kids to be able to volunteer there. And so she started this pet rescue, I don't even know the exact history of it. ![]() She was in the music business when I met her a million years ago. So we went to just visit a pet shelter that we knew the woman who runs it. Lisa Loeb: Yeah, but it's really through my daughter. ![]()
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