Lady Gaga never ceases to amaze me-Gaga is combining charity with her fashion sense. The pop-singer is selling Lady Gaga Haiti relief t-shirts on her Web site. The shirts sport her image, the word “Haiti” and the blue, red and green colors of the Haitian flag. All proceeds purchased on ladygaga.com TODAY, January 24, 2010 will be donated to Haiti earthquake relief. All tickets sold for her show at Radio City tonight will also go to the cause. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) is spreading the word through Twitter. Spread the love.
I just ordered my shirt. Make sure you get yours too! http://ladygaga.shop.bravadousa.com/
The Hollywood elite banded together on every major network in America on Friday to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Celebrities such as Tobey Maguire, Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Mel Gibson and many others manned the phones while Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, along with others performed. The telethon raised more than $57 million. The star-studded event shattered records for money donated by the public through a telethon.
Derrick Rose, reigning rookie of the year had everyone cheering for him Friday night, even non-Bulls fans in Phoenix. he agreed to donate $1,000 per point he scored to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Rose ended the night with 32 points, Giving $32,000 for the relief. Rose said he plans on doing a few other things in the next few weeks to help the people of Haiti.
Gisele Bundchen aka “Gisele” reportedly wrote a check for $1.5M to the Red Cross for the Haitian relief efforts. The Victoria Secret “Angel” is dubbed rightly so for her generous donation. Gisele is said to have been very moved by victims of the devastating earthquake, which has wiped out much of the impoverished country and is believed to have killed thousands.
Hope for Haiti is what the telethon hosted and co-produced by George Clooney will be called. Clooney announced that artists, Bono, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys will be performing. Hope for Haiti will air this Friday, Jan. 22 from 8-10 P.M. on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT.
Clooney will host from Los Angeles while Wyclef Jean will cover the telethon in New York City and CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, be joining them from Haiti.
Clooney is no stranger to philanthropy. In this video, he talks about UN peacekeeping in Darfur, Bosnia, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to MTV, Clooney will be hosting a telethon for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Though MTV has confirmed that the telethon is in the works, details are yet to be released. It is expected to air Jan. 22, 2010 across all of MTV’s platforms, including VH1.
Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has been leading the charge to help victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. In 2005, Jean started the Yele Haiti charity organization, whose purpose is to restore pride and hope to the Haitian people. After the earthquake on Tuesday, Yele Haiti was among the first to initiate an appeal for aid via Twitter.
Jean is encouraging people to text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund.
Jean’s former group, The Fugees coined the term “Yele” in a song, which means “a cry for freedom”.
For more information visit: http://www.yele.org/
In this PSA, Viggo Mortensen and Sheryl Crow urge you to act now and speak for those who can’t and have no one to protect them but us.
The wild horse is considered to be a symbol of the American west. Sheryl Crow recognizes this and is taking part in a charity campaign to stop the US government from driving wild horses eastward from the western plains. The government claims it has to move the horses due to the vast amount of them grazing and the Nevada ranges cannot support them. Crow first came to know about this issue when she adopted a wild horse named Smokey from Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Facebook was quite the colourful place this week. If you’re one of the confused individuals who was wondering why FB statuses consisted only of “black,” “red,” “leopard” or the ever so-popular “nude,” (you know that got your attention); then you’re probably a guy!
Well gentlemen, just in case you haven’t been informed, this is due to a viral campaign that spread throughout Facebook this week. Female members got private messages in their inbox from girlfriends suggesting they post the colour of the bra they were wearing to spread awareness about breast cancer.
I’m definitely not one to join in on “chain letters” but this one just seemed fun and it was to spread the word about a great cause.
A group of actors, musicians and activists have decided to take adventure and philanthropy to an elevated level, 19,340 ft. to be exact.
Actors, Jessica Biel and Emile Hirsch, rapper Lupe Fiasco, Alexandra Cousteau, Elizabeth Gore, Kick Kennedy and musician Kenna are making the 7-day trek to raise both awareness and funds for the global water crisis. They aim to gain awareness about the fact that one billion people in the world live without access to clean drinking water.
Check out the awesome website that they update as they go along: www.SummitontheSummit.com
