Carrington Wins CMT Award

PKD Foundation will receive $5,000 as singer's charity-of-choice

Your votes for comedian Rodney Carrington in the 2008 CMT Awards will now help fund PKD research!

Carrington won the award for “Best Supporting Character in a Video.” The finalists in each category were featured online and the winners were selected by a public vote.

This year, along with the coveted award, the network agreed to make a donation to a charity-of-choice on each winner’s behalf. CMT had originally designated $2,500 for each charity, but network executives decided, on the day of the awards ceremony, to double that amount to $5,000 for each winner.

Rodney Carrington has helped champion the cause of PKD awareness and research since his wife Terri and her twin sister were diagnosed with the disease just a few years ago. The Carrington’s three sons also have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the disease. Terri Carrington serves as volunteer coordinator for the PKD Foundation’s Tulsa Chapter. Rodney has helped with her efforts to raise awareness over the past three years since she took on the role.

“Rodney’s designation of the PKD Foundation as his charity of choice has provided a unique opportunity to raise awareness of PKD among a nation-wide audience," said PKD Foundation National Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Dave Switzer. "We are grateful for the Carrington’s generosity and so impressed by the CMT Network’s offer to double the donation!”

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Posted April 17, 2008