This Exists: A Presidential Appointment For Jon Bon Jovi

President Obama signed an executive order Tuesday, creating a 25 member White House Council for Community Solutions. Among the members hand-picked by the president: eBay president and CEO John Donahue, Starbucks executive vice president Paula Boggs, and–obviously–rocker Jon Bon Jovi.

How’d that happen, you ask?

According to CNN White House correspondent Dan Lothian, it’s not about Bon Jovi’s ability to “rock the house.”

Rather, it’s due to his creation of the Jon Bon Jovi Foundation, which “focuses on fighting poverty and homelessness and provides for low income people.” But of course, he also rocks the house.

Here’s how it will all work, according to Lothian:

In this new role, the Grammy Award winner will work with leaders from non-profits, corporations and foundations, to help the “federal government promote greater innovation” and shine the spotlight on people making “a significant impact in their own communities,” according to the White House.

Bon Jovi said he was honored to have been selected.

“I have seen first-hand the powerful impact when people from the public, private and non-profit sectors work together,” Bon Jovi said in a statement. “All of us have a role to play in helping address some of our nation’s most serious problems, and I look forward to working with the rest of the Council to help out where I can.”

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