Charity Group, LLC adds two board members

July 10, 2008 (New York, NY) Steven Bernstein, Citigroup executive, and Tom Crowley, founder and president of TAC Enterprises and WarHorse Capital Management, have joined the board of the Charity Group, LLC, a provider of technology and services for the philanthropic sector, the firm announced.

Steven Bernstein retired from Citigroup in 2005 after a 23-year career at the company in fixed income sales and trading in New York and Japan.  Most recently, he served as global head of Securities Services, overseeing $6.8 trillion in global securities for central banks, corporations, pension funds and money managers.

Bernstein currently is the founder and president of Zenbu Media, a multi-media music company with properties including Global Rhythm magazine; Relix magazine which produces the JAMMYs New York musical awards program for the jamband scene; Metal Edge; Metal Maniacs; Relix Records; the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival; and Zendition, a digital publishing division.

Tom Crowley, former managing director of GE Equity, has over 35 years of entrepreneurial, corporate and investment management experience.  He is currently president of TAC Enterprises and WarHorse Capital Management, where he invests in and advises early and growth stage companies.  He and has founded, managed and advised over two dozen early stage businesses, emphasizing information technologies, digital media and business services.

A veteran media and communications executive, Crowley worked for 15 years with such companies as Home Box Office and Time Warner Cable.  During his 12 years at GE Capital, Crowley invested more than $250 million of private equity in early and growth stage companies, managed numerous business turnarounds and was involved in major buy-out and recapitalization financings.  Well known and highly regarded in the venture capital community, he has served on boards and acted as interim chairman for a variety of early stage companies.

"I am very pleased to welcome Steve and Tom to our board.  They bring to Charity Group significant expertise and highly successful management track records in the corporate and financial realms, and in working with growth stage companies," said Scott Talbot, Charity Group founder and chairman.  "Their experience will be invaluable to us as we continue to pursue our initiatives to transform philanthropy in the United States of America."

About Charity Group, LLC
Charity Group, LLC is an early stage company, providing innovative tools and platforms to help transform the way Nonprofit Organizations and Corporate Donors align and coordinate their fundraising efforts and objectives. The company’s goal is to provide information and logistical resources that can increase the yield from fundraising activities, simplify event implementation, raise public awareness of nonprofit causes and deliver more usable dollars for actual charitable deployment. For more information on Charity Group, visit its official website.

About Lawson Artist Management, LLC
Lawson Artist Management is a unique, diversified talent management firm founded and led by Mike Lawson, an investment banking executive with a strategic development, marketing, financial and management consulting business background who is also a classical pianist. Lawson Artist Management personally manages both established and emerging recording artists, actors/actresses, screenwriters, directors and executive producers.  For more information, visit Lawson Artist Management’s website at www.LawsonArtistManagement.com.