Alice Cooper to Build Youth Center
August 1, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The shock-rock musician Alice Cooper plans to build a $3-million center for troubled kids, with a basketball court, concert hall, game rooms, recording studios, and a rock-climbing wall, reports USA Today.
Mr. Cooper’s nonprofit organization, the Solid Rock Foundation, will work with Grand Canyon University, in Phoenix, to create the Rock, a 20,000-square-foot haven for children and teenagers. The center will have a Christian focus, and alcohol and tobacco will be banned.
“Even kids who grow up in gangs have a creative place in their body,” said Mr. Cooper. “They have a choice between a 9 millimeter and a nine-iron.”
Read a profile in The Chronicle of Philanthropy about Alice Cooper and his foundation. (A paid subscription is required to view the Chronicle article.)
