As president of The Creo Society from 1983 until 1990, Marshall Yaeger independently raised $1 million from Joan Kroc on behalf of Elizabeth Taylor for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR). (As a result of the gift, Mrs. Kroc contributed another $1 million to AmFAR the following year.) He wrote and published 9 quarterly newsletters, and co-produced many large fund-raising special events including the first Rockefeller University Founders Ball (which he conceived and named); Dancing for Life, featuring 13 leading ballet and dance companies; a Los Angeles benefit starring Bette Midler, Manhattan Transfer, Melissa Manchester, and Barry Manilow; the Twentieth Anniversary production of Hair at the United Nations (the first and only paid-admission benefit ever held in the General Assembly Hall, which raised more than a half-million dollars for UNICEF and the Society's charitable programs); as well as a private concert series, The Bach-Gesellschaft of New York, broadcast over American Public Radio from the homes of such prominent society leaders as Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass, Mr. & Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr., Oscar de la Renta, Mr. and Mrs. Ahmet Ertegun, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner, Hon. Edward I. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Reed, and Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr.
Marshall Yaeger also represented Michael Jackson's family's charitable enterprises as a fundraiser and press representative for an event scheduled to take place in Atlantic City (which was moved to Las Vegas after the first Michael Jackson scandal emerged). While fundraising for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (for whom Circles International created the Studio's annual fundraising event, "Stella by Starlight," Marshall Yaeger sought to recruit Marlon Brando's participation in an "Acting Well" DVD on behalf of the Studio. (Michael Jackson had offered to finance such a production for Brando.) "If I want to lose weight," Brando said, after receiving Marshall Yaeger's 30th faxed appeal, "I know how to lose weight!" Since Brando lived until he reached 80, who can argue he was too fat?
In 1997, Marshall Yaeger created Anchor-International Foundation, Inc. on behalf of a group of cardiologists that had founded the first cardiology clinic in Russia qualified to perform regular angioplasty. His company, Circles International, is the foundation's business manager. All after-tax income earned by Circles International is assigned to the foundation.
