And the Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge goes to Demi Moore! The $250,000 prize was won for The DNA Foundation, Moore’s anti-sex slavery charity founded by her and husband, Ashton Kutcher. The couple will forward the money to the Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS), which helps women who have suffered sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
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I actually had some time to relax and watch American Idol last night and I’m so glad I did. Kris Allen, AI season 8 winner, gave a very moving, acoustic performance of the Beatle’s “Let It Be”. Kris recently traveled to Haiti with the United Nations Foundation to help with the relief efforts. Footage of his trip played in the background as Kris performed on last night’s tribute to Haiti. His performance will be available on iTunes and all proceeds will go to Haitian relief.  The Red Dress Collection booth which offered massages for Fashion Week attendees.
The Red Dress Collection 2010 Fashion Show was once again a success with celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Felicity Huffman, Kim Kardashian, Kimora Lee Simmons, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, just to name a few, worked the runway in their red dresses, to be auctioned off for charity. The has become an annual tradition at Fashion Week as part of The Heart Truth campaign to raise awareness about heart disease.  Kim Kardashian does an interview at the QVC/Fashion for Haiti booth during NY Fashion Week  The Council of Fashion Designers of America and QVC coordinated to sell tees for Haiti relief. The Fashion community collaborated their efforts to support relief funds for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The Council of Fashion Designers of America has partnered with QVC to sell special Fashion for Haiti t-shirts that were sold for $25 in the Big Tent in its last year at Bryant Park. The shirts will also be sold on QVC.com and proceeds will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.  David Beckham sporting one of the Beckham Family-designed shirts Victoria Beckham, fashion icon, designer, ex-Posh Spice, and recently guest American Idol judge still makes time to give. Her line dVb has been well accepted in the fashion realm and now V has turned her talents to design a line of charity T-shirts and she’s managed to make it a family affair. Victoria, David, Brooklyn, Romeo and little Cruz have created a series of shirts for Sport Relief in hopes of inspiring everyone to take part in the charitable challenge. Sport Relief encourages everyone to get active and helps people in need across the world. Hundreds of thousands in the UK are expected to run the Sport Relief Mile on the weekend of March 20-21, with all money raised going towards the needy. For more information about Sport Relief and to check out the Beckham’s shirts, visit: www.sportrelief.com  This is an awesome friend of mine, who resembles a VERY well known celebrity philanthropist... Now, if you're lucky enough to look like her, you would have more than just a handful of links on your profile! A great idea by Mark Dagostino of tonic.com I felt the need to share it. So as you probably know, this week was Doppelganger week-Well either you knew that or you’re confused as to why friends’ photos on Facebook have been seemingly familiar yet not at the same time. To read the original post: http://www.tonic.com/article/make-the-most-of-doppelganger-week-on-facebook/ Demi Moore and Kevin Bacon are having a throw down–for a good cause of course. The two actors are in a friendly competition to win a $250,000 donation from a new charity sponsored by Pepsi. It’s called the Pepsi Refresh Project and this year it will award more than $20 million to different charities,under six categories: Health, Arts and Culture, Food and Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for grant money, which ranges from five thousand dollars to $250,000. Proposals are posted online and then people can vote for their favorite ideas. For more information, visit: http://www.refresheverything.com/ Send in your ideas and Vote! Handsome, intelligent, giving, great sense of humour, and can bust a move? Prince Harry definitely proves he’s got it all. Prince Harry was in Barbados to raise money by taking part in a charity polo match, for children in Africa. The Prince then preformed at a Haitian relief benefit as he danced on stage, with what appears to be pretty good moves. The Prince managed to raise $2,000 for his little calypso. Harry was later joined on stage by a fellow royal, African Prince Seeiso of Lesotho.
Naomi Campbell is organizing a charity catwalk show pairing top models and designers at New York Fashion Week. The event will take centre stage at this year’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on February 12th at 7:00 p.m. Get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com The runway show will be hosted by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and will feature internationally recognized designers, celebrities and VIPs. Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe is putting together the looks, and designer Marc Jacobs has already created a special Louis Vuitton handbag, one of many items that will go on auction. The “Hope for Haiti Now” album has set the record for the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history. The album is currently the No. 1 iTunes album in 18 countries. The original song performed by Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna during the telethon, is currently the No. 1 song on iTunes in 12 countries. All of the proceeds from the sale of the album and any of its individual live performance tracks will go to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam America, Partners In Health, Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, and Yéle Haiti Foundation. |
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