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Mayor Gregor Robertson declares May 8th, 2017 as official “Run for One Planet Day” in the City of Vancouver

Run for One Planet Ambassador Matt Hill celebrates by granting another
Green Dream

After completing an 11, 000 mile run across Canada and the United States, inspiring children across North America to take one action for the health of themselves and our planet, the original Run for One Planet Day was declared at the completion of Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait’s incredible journey in 2009.

On May 8^th, 2017, Run for One Planet Ambassador, voice over actor, TED X speaker, and 8-time Ironman, Matt Hill, will continue his Run for One Planet mission, as he runs/walks around metro Vancouver from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.to commemorate the special day. In line with the “Top Ten Action Steps Challenge” –one step at a time, one hour at a time, Matt will be posting to social media each hour as he works his way through the list. To keep up with Matt’s journey—or join in the walk/run—you can follow him on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter for hourly updates.

Matt’s mission to run to make a difference was inspired by his childhood hero Terry Fox, so there is nowhere more fitting for Matt to begin and end his 12-hour Run for One Planet Day celebration than the Terry Fox Memorial at BC Place Stadium.

Every year, the day is marked by announcing the annual recipient of the Green Dream grant, awarded through a partnership with the R41P Legacy 4 Kids Fund and the Vancouver Foundation. Matt will be announcing this year’s recipient of the $1800 grant, which allows kids to implement their green initiatives to better the environment, on May 8^th.

The Run for One Planet dream of educating and empowering today’s generations to be “Fit Kids on a Fit Planet” has affected countless children across the continent. From May 2008 to May 2009, Matt and Stephanie ran a marathon each a day, inspiring over 50,000 kids in 220 school presentations around the continent, to take small daily steps to improve our planet and their long term health.

This inspirational project has even been recognized by the Governor General of Canada, with Matt recently being honoured as a recipient of the Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal.

Matt has taken his platform (which began as the voice of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character Raphael, and has since included a role in Dino Trux, and that of a Care Bear), to reach children and motivate them to lead healthy lives and help our environment.

Matt continues to be a busy voice over performer, runner and motivational speaker, who inspires people to believe in the power of a dream and the Hero inside us all – capable of more than we ever thought was possible from ourselves, while choosing an active and healthy life to protect our environment.

Run for One Planet Day Schedule Details:
Monday, May 8^th, 2017
8am-8pm: Matt will run/walk around Metro Vancouver!
Start and Finish at Terry Fox Plaza, BC Place Stadium
Join Matt for any part of his sun-up to sundown walk/run around Vancouver!

Matt would love to chat with media throughout his 12-hour celebration of this special day. He can be reached on social media through Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or by contacting Lesley Diana at The Promotion People: e.Lesley@thepromotionpeople.ca p. 604-726-5575

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Website: matt-hill.com, runforoneplanet.org
Twitter: @MattHillinspire
Facebook: facebook.com/MattHillspage
Instagram: @matthill_inspire
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm0384503/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
YouTube: Run for One Planet, You: the hero on a journey | Matt Hill | TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool

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Popular voice actor, TEDx speaker, 8-time Ironman, and Ambassador for Fit Kids on a Fit Planet, Matt Hill, receives Governor General Award

Matt uses his engaging entertainment platform, with roles in everything from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles projects to Dino Trux, to advocate for a healthy future for kids and the planet

Voice actor, Run for One Planet Ambassador and TEDX speaker Matt Hill is honoured to be the recipient of the Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division). The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments that set an example for others to follow and bring benefit to our country.

Matt has taken his platform, through wildly popular characters, and his love of running, people and the planet and used it to inspire children through his 11,000 mile run across North America and motivational speaking engagements, where he aims to inspire kids to lead healthy lives, and help our environment.

For over three decades, Matt’s career in voiceover work and feature films has connected him with millions of children around the world through the cartoons they’ve grown up with. Some of the iconic characters he’s lent his voice to include: Raphael in a number of Ninja Turtles productions and Tenderheart on the Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot. He also voiced Carlos and Ironhide in the Transformer TV series’, Kazuo in Martha Speaks, and Tach in Kate and Mim-Mim – which just won the Shaw Rocket Award. Matt is currently voicing Ton-Ton on the Emmy Award winning Dream Works series, Dino Trux, on Netflix, and recording season two voicing Tyler in Supernoobs on Cartoon Network.

It’s Matt’s passion for our planet’s long-term health that led to him becoming an ambassador of fitness and green living for youth via his Run for One Planet international campaign, which reached over 50,000 children in 220 schools across the continent. Along with his friend Steph Tait, the Run for One Planet mission raised $130,000 for the R41P Legacy 4 Kids Fund, which grants kids “green dreams” in schools around North America. The campaign positively impacted countless youth, and our environment, leading to the Meritorious Service Award.

As Matt continues his busy voiceover work, he also runs and speaks to youth at motivational speaking events, aiming to positively affect not only the environment, but also children’s lives around the planet. Making a real change, any way he can, with his continued mission: “Fit Kids on a Fit Planet,”

Actor Matt Hill is an accomplished inspirational and motivational speaker, available for bookings, interviews and photographs upon request.

Lesley Diana | Lesley@thepromotionpeople.ca | 604-726-5575

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Voice Actor, Run for One Planet Ambassador & TEDx Speaker Matt Hill is recipient of the Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal

Matt connects with millions as an ambassador of fitness and green living

His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston Governor General of Canada presented Actor and TEDx motivational speaker Matt Hill The Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division). The Governor General, on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen and all Canadians, recognizes outstanding accomplishments that set an example for others to follow and bring benefit to our country. www.gg.ca Matt received the Governor General Award in a ceremony on December 8th in Edmonton, Alberta.

Matt is an Ambassador of fitness and green living for youth via his Run for One Planet platform. For 30 years Matt’s career in voice over and films has connected him with millions of children around the world through the cartoons they’ve grown up with. And these iconic characters he’s lent his voice to. Like “Raphael” in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or “Tender Heart” on the Care Bears, to currently voicing “Ton Ton” on the Emmy Award winning series for Dream Works, on Netflix, Dino Trux.

It is his passion for our planet’s long term health, the health and fitness of our children and like his childhood hero, Terry Fox, running in service of something larger than oneself – that inspired this popular voice actor to run his message 11,000 miles around North America, one marathon at a time. Along with his friend Steph Tait, they co-founded Run for One Planet: http://runforoneplanet.org/ From May 2008 to May 2009 – they ran a marathon each a day, inspiring over 50,000 kids in 220 school presentations around the continent, to take small daily steps to improve our planet and their long term health.

The legacy and positive impact they had on the children of Canada and the United States is what landed Matt and the Run for One Planet message this Meritorious Service Award.

On the final day of their epic 369 day, marathon a day, continent run, 22 million single steps added up – under full police escort, they ran the final marathon across Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge, changed the miles ran to 11,000, unlaced their 30th pair of runners and became the first man and woman team to run around North America. The Mayor of Vancouver proclaimed May 8^thas Official “Run for One Planet Day”. They raised $130,000 for the “R41P Legacy 4 Kids fund”, which grants kids “green dreams” in schools around North America. (https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/r41p)

Matt is currently playing ‘Tach’ on the award winning series, “Kate & Mim Mim” seen on Disney Channel & Disney Jr. in the U.S. and Family channel & Knowledge Network in Canada, voicing “Ton Ton” on the Emmy Award winning new series from Dream Works “Dino Trux”, seen on Netflix and recording season two of “Super Noobs”, playing series lead ‘Tyler’ on Cartoon Network. Matt has three new series currently in recording, to be announced in early 2017.

For 30 years Matt has been the voice and actor behind some of the world’s most iconic and popular, award winning cartoon characters: like, Raphael” in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ‘Ed’ on Ed, Edd & Eddy, “Tender Heart” on the Care Bears. Using his love of athletics, Matt got to jump inside the turtle suit to bring ‘Raphael’ to life a second time in the feature film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles3”. He has shared the screen with legends like Jackie Chan in “Shanghai Knights”, playing his trusted ‘Deputy Hoss’. He worked alongside Sir Ben Kingsly in the animated feature of ”Moses”, as well as, on the Steven Spielberg produced mini series “Taken”, playing whacked out Vietnam Vet, ‘Willy’. He traveled to England to lend his voice to the award winning feature film, “A Monkey’s Tale”, playing the lead character of ‘KOM’ with English legends, Sir John Hurt, Rik Mayall, Michael York and Michael Gambon.

Matt’s voice has also brought to life some of ANIME’s most popular series and movies including ‘Kira Yamato’ on “Gundam Seed & Destiny”, ‘Benkotsu’ on “Inuyasha”, and ‘Kero’ on “Cardcaptors”, ‘Ironhide’ & ‘Carlo’s’ on “Transformers”. Matt has also been the voice behind radio campaigns for 7-11, Boston Pizza, Gatorade, Nike, Honda, Ford, Volkswagen, The Home Depot, The Bread Garden, Molson Canadian, Granville Island Brewing, Coors, Olive Garden and Whole Foods Market.

Matt continues to inspire people through his motivational speaking engagements that inspire people to believe in the power a dream and the Hero inside us all – capable of more than we ever thought was possible from ourselves, while choosing an active and healthy life to protect our environment.

Those who know Matt see his unlimited energy in everything he does. Matt’s website promotes “the four corners of Matt’s animated life” including his personal and work milestones, dreams while running his life as an Actor, Speaker and Planet Runner. His mission is simple: “To inspire in the world, with his energy and his love of people, running and our planet”. Accomplishing this mission with every word, every character and every single step he takes.

Actor Matt Hill is an accomplished inspirational and motivational speaker available for bookings, interviews and photos upon request. Please contact:
Lesley Diana | Lesley@thepromotionpeople.ca | 604-726-5575

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Voice actor Matt Hill connects with millions, armed with his arsenal of super hero voices, including Ton Ton on Dino Trux, Tack on Kate & Mim Mim and Raphael on the Ninja Turtles

TEDx motivational speaker Matt Hill inspires people to believe in the power of a dream and the hero inside through his ‘Run for One Planet’ 11,000 mile marathon platform

Actor and TEDx motivational speaker Matt Hill is the voice of “Ton Ton” on the Emmy Award winning new series from Dream Works Dino Trux, seen on Netflix; brings to life “Tack” on the award winning series, Kate & Mim Mim, seen on Disney Channel & Disney Jr. in the U.S. and Family channel & Knowledge Network in Canada; and is currently recording season two of Super Noobs, playing series lead “Tyler” on the Cartoon Network. He also has two new series he’s currently in production on, to be announced in early 2017.

For 30 years, Matt has been the voice and actor behind some of the world’s most iconic award-winning cartoon characters, including: “Raphael” in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, “Ed” on Ed, Edd & Eddy, and “Tender Heart” on the Care Bears. Using his love of athletics, Matt got to jump inside the turtle suit to bring Raphael to life a second time in the feature film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3.. He has shared the screen with legends like Jackie Chan in Shanghai Knights, playing his trusted ‘Deputy Hoss’. He worked alongside Sir Ben Kingsly in the animated feature of Moses, as well as on the Steven Spielberg produced mini series Taken, in which he played the Vietnam Vet, “Willy”. Mat traveled to England to lend his voice to the award winning feature film, A Monkey’s Tale, playing the lead character of “KOM” with British legends Sir John Hurt, Rik Mayall, Michael York and Michael Gambon.

Matt’s voice has been featured in some of ANIME’s most popular series and movies including as “Kira Yamato” on Gundam Seed & Destiny, “Benkotsu” on Inuyasha, “Kero” on Cardcaptors, and “Ironhide” & “Carlos” on Transformers. Matt has also been the voice behind radio campaigns for 7-11, Boston Pizza, Gatorade, Nike, Honda, Ford, Volkswagen, The Home Depot, The Bread Garden, Molson Canadian, Granville Island Brewing, Coors, Olive Garden and Whole Foods Market.

Matt is an Ambassador of Goodwill, fitness and green living for youth via his ‘Run for One Planet’ platform. Matt’s career in voice over and films has connected him with millions of children around the world through the cartoons they’ve grown up with. It is his passion to advocate for our planet’s long term health, the health and fitness of our children, and, like his childhood hero Terry Fox, running in service of something larger than oneself – that inspired this popular voice actor to run his message 11,000 miles around North America, one marathon at a time. Along with his friend Steph Tait, they co-founded Run for One Planet: http://runforoneplanet.org

From May 2008 to May 2009 – they ran a marathon each a day, inspiring over 50,000 kids in 220 school presentations around the continent, to take small daily steps to improve our planet and their long term health.

On the final day of their epic 369-day, marathon-a-day continent run, logging 22 million single steps, and under full police escort, they ran the final marathon across Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge. Here they marked 11,000 miles ran, unlaced their 30th pair of runners and became the first man and woman team to run around North America. The Mayor of Vancouver proclaimed May 8^thas Official “Run for One Planet Day”. They raised $130,000 for the “R41P Legacy 4 Kids fund”, which grants kids “green dreams” in schools around North America. (https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/r41p)

Matt continues to inspire people through his motivational speaking engagements that empowers people to believe in the strength of a dream and the hero inside us all – capable of more than we ever thought was possible from ourselves, while choosing an active and healthy life to protect our environment.

Those who know Matt see his unlimited energy in everything he does. Matt’s website promotes “the four corners of Matt’s animated life”, including his personal and work milestones, dreams while running his life as an Actor, Speaker and Planet Runner. His mission is simple: “To inspire in the world, with his energy and his love of people, running and our planet”. Accomplishing this mission with every word, every character and every single step he takes.

Actor Matt Hill is an accomplished inspirational and TEDx motivational speaker available for bookings, interviews and photos upon request.
Please contact: Lesley Diana | Lesley@thepromotionpeople.ca | 604-726-5575

Social Media Handles

Website: matt-hill.com, runforoneplanet.org
Animation reel: youtube.com/watch?v=RdpUf-NUEVo&sns=em
Twitter: @MattHillinspire
Facebook: facebook.com/MattHillspage
Instagram: @matthill_inspire
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm0384503/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=wAKKjqz42JU

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