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Tipper Gore

  • Advocate, Activist, Artist and Philanthropist
  • Former Second Lady of the United States
  • Mental Health Policy Advisor to President Clinton
  • Founder of Tennessee Voices for Children

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Advocate, activist, artist and philanthropist, Tipper Gore brings her warmth and kindness to communities around the globe. She has dedicated her life to giving voice to parents, children and families, those with mental health challenges, the homeless, and so many more. 

 
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Past Hosts Include:
  • American Counseling Association
  • Iris Alliance Fund
  • Commonwealth Business Council
Rave Reviews About Tipper Gore
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The dinner was fabulous - we've had really lovely responses from attendees. Mrs. Gore gave another amazing speech and the crowd adored her. It was a great fit. We hope she personally enjoyed the event as well.

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"Mrs. Gore's speech was certainly one of the outstanding moments of our event. She is a lovely person and she actually brought tears to my eyes when she spoke of the mentally ill homeless who she has helped over the years."

-American Counseling Association

"On behalf of the Iris Alliance Fund, I would like to thank you for your wonderful participation as the keynote speaker at our Fourth Annual Gala...Your presence and words made this a memorable evening for all of our attendees, and we could not have envisioned a better event. We greatly appreciate your generosity in sharing with us your courageous efforts to reduce the stigma around mental illness and raise awareness about the need for more mental health advocacy. The Iris Alliance Fund truly appreciates your leadership, and we look forward to working with you again in the future."

-Iris Alliance Fund
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Talks & Conversations with Tipper Gore
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Challenges of Mental Healthcare

Tipper relates how her personal experiences inspired her life-long journey as a champion for those suffering from mental disorders. She continues to work toward removing the stigma, and helps guide the audience to an understanding that mental health is simply one aspect of our total health rather th ...

Tipper relates how her personal experiences inspired her life-long journey as a champion for those suffering from mental disorders. She continues to work toward removing the stigma, and helps guide the audience to an understanding that mental health is simply one aspect of our total health rather than a separate disorder.

Channeling Your Passions for Good

Through a heavily-illustrated presentation using both still photography and video, Tipper shows how her passion for visual communication evolved into a powerful tool for both personal expression and advocacy for important causes. ...

Through a heavily-illustrated presentation using both still photography and video, Tipper shows how her passion for visual communication evolved into a powerful tool for both personal expression and advocacy for important causes.

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Books by Tipper Gore
Picture This: A Visual Diary

Picture This: A Visual Diary

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Press & Media
Tipper Gore praises Greenville for helping mentally ill - Greenville Journal
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Biography

Advocate, activist, artist and philanthropist, Tipper Gore brings her warmth and kindness to communities around the globe. She has dedicated her life to giving voice to parents, children and families, those with mental health challenges, the homeless, and so many more.

Tipper works to eradicate the stigma associated with mental illness and is a strong advocate for early intervention and prevention, as well as quality, affordable health care including parity in treatment.

As former Second Lady of the United States, Tipper served as Mental Health Policy Advisor to President Clinton, and convened the first ever White House Conference on Mental Health in 1999.

In 1990, she founded Tennessee Voices for Children, a coalition to promote services for children and youth with behavioral, emotional, substance abuse, or other mental health challenges. Today, Tennessee Voices for Children has grown to be a leading statewide and national advocacy and support network, reaching more than 150,000 parents/caregivers, family members, and professionals in just the last year. 

Combining her love for photography with causes near to her heart, she worked with the National Alliance for the Homeless to produce The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America, a collection of photographs by Tipper and other prominent photographers.

She’s hosted gallery auctions to benefit organizations supporting those living with HIV/AIDS. She’s published photo essays to put faces on the statistics of those living in poverty and in war-ravaged communities – and worked to feature the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.

She helped draw attention to the effect of violence in the media upon children by co-founding the Parents' Music Resource Center in 1985 to promote parental and consumer awareness.

Tipper received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University in 1970, and her Master's degree in Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1975.

Her children and grandchildren are a continual source of pride, and inspire her ongoing work to support families, children, and those in need.

 

 

 

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