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So how did Adam Driver and Jake Gyllenhaal get involved with The Headstrong Project?

So how did Adam Driver and Jake Gyllenhaal get involved with The Headstrong Project?

Jake is an old friend of mine and he's done a number of performances in this space; he's played a marine. Adam got involved because he was a marine and I think through that he's connected to this. Is this the organization's first event like this? We've done two other fundraisers that were golf tournaments, but this is really our first New York fundraiser that's a public fundraiser where we're really talking about the program. In some ways, it's kind of like our "coming out" party. It's exciting. And at the end of the day, what it's really going to do is help us add staff to our treatment program at Cornell. It helps us recruit more veterans, it helps us expand the treatment program and launch a couple of other programs that we want to build. So this will be an important fundraiser in terms of taking care of our community here. [Photo: Jake Gyllenhaal via]