Lois Lee is the founder of
Children of the Night, a non-profit organization that works to support youth who were involved in
prostitution, based in
Van Nuys, California
Van Nuys () is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Home to Van Nuys Airport and the Valley Municipal Building, it is the most populous neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
History
In 1909, ...
. The organization was depicted
in a movie by the same name. She received the
President's Volunteer Action Award from President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
On November 18, 2010, Lee presented
Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's Lifestyle magazine, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from H ...
founder,
Hugh M. Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obsc ...
, with Children of the Night's first "Founder's Hero of the Hearts Award" for his support of her organization.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American nonprofit executives