The second annual American Giving Awards (AGAs) Presented by Chase will be broadcast on NBC on Saturday, December 8 from 8:00-10:00pm ET. The AGAs recognize local heroes for their charity work, and CSI: New York’<\/i>s leading man Gary Sinise<\/b> (Mac Taylor) will be one of the presenters at the event. Other presenters include Anthony Anderson<\/b> (Guys with Kids<\/i>), Miss USA 2012 Olivia Culpo<\/b>, Jenna Elfman<\/b> (1600 Penn<\/i>), Jenna Fischer<\/b> (The Office<\/i>) and Jamie-Lynn Sigler<\/b> (Guys with Kids<\/i>). The programme will also feature performances by Colbie Caillat<\/b>, Lifehouse<\/b> with Natasha Bedingfield<\/b>, and Darius Rucker<\/b>.<\/p>\n
\nActress Glenn Close<\/b> will be honoured with the AGA Leadership Award for her work to end the stigma and prejudice surrounding mental illness through the BringChange2Mind<\/a> organization. In addition to this award, viewers can help other worthy charities by visiting the official website<\/a> before 11:59pm ET on Tuesday, December 4. There are 25 participating charities split up into five categories, and viewers can vote for their favorites. According to a press release<\/a>, “The organization with the most votes will receive a $1 million grant, the runner-up will be granted $500,000, a third organization will receive a $250,000 grant, and two will be given $125,000 grants.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second annual American Giving Awards (AGAs) Presented by Chase will be broadcast on NBC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2987,2925],"class_list":["post-39722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-charity","tag-sinise"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39734,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions\/39734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}