From more than 500 inspirational entries, Sir Richard Branson and his non profit foundation Virgin Unite have announced that the global winner of the 2012 ‘Screw Business As Usual’ competition is Raise5, a new fundraising platform that creatively uses free time and talents to raise money for charity.
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Comedian Eddie Izzard has announced that he will once again run a series of marathons, this time as a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
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John Rich, Kellie Pickler, Darius Rucker, Jeff Foxworthy and Big & Rich will perform at the St. Jude Presents John Rich & Friends concert on June 5 at the Cannon Center in Memphis, Tenn.
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The nineteenth annual Cinema Against AIDS event will be held during the Cannes Film Festival on May 24.
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Every June something magical happens at Wadsworth Theatre Grounds in Los Angeles – the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation hosts its annual A Time For Heroes Celebrity Picnic.
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On May 11th, in order to raise awareness of the fun ways women can get active , the American Cancer Society Choose You movement deployed “play teams” in Santa Monica, popping up in high traffic areas to encourage spontaneous physical activity.
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The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is proud to announce the winners of the Campus Challenge for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Look To The Stars’ Misty Schwartz recently chatted to actor/producer Andre Gordon – director of the 2011 film Wish Wizard, featuring Ed Begley Jr and Morgan Freeman – about the causes that are close to his heart.
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In an unprecedented show of support for veterans and military families, nearly every major studio, broadcast and cable network, talent agency, and guild in the entertainment industry has united with top-tier nonprofit organizations to launch the Got Your 6 campaign.
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Actress and singer-songwriter Miranda Cosgrove has been named The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s National Ambassador for its 2012 Light The Night Walks and appears in a new public service announcement to promote this important fundraising campaign.
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Bill Clinton has announced the program for the second Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting to be held in Chicago, June 7-8, 2012 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers.
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In 1999, superstar Usher established the Usher’s New Look Foundation to empower young people from under-served communities around the world. LookToTheStars.org is proud to share some of the stories of the kids he has helped.
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Robbie Williams was in Mexico with UNICEF recently, making a short film about some of the city’s most vulnerable children that will be shown during Soccer Aid on ITV 1, on 27 May 2012.
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Actor and adventurer Charley Boorman is set to motorcycle through India this December for UNICEF, and you can join him.
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Oscar winning actress Sandra Bullock is to be honored for her charitable donations to Warren Eason Charter High School which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Dave Grohl has announced via Twitter that he will give away a signed guitar to a lucky fan who helps him spread the word about ALS Awareness Month.
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Chris Martin and Plan B have admitted for the first time to suffering from tinnitus in support of a campaign to make people aware of the dangers of listening to loud music for too long.
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May 13th is Mother’s Day. It’s a time when violence against children affects over 3 million children and when bullying and suicides are at an all-time high. Love Our Children USA has announced the recipients of the Seventh Annual Mothers Who Make A Difference Awards, recognizing celebrity mothers for balancing motherhood, work and causes.
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Starkey Hearing Foundation and Scholastic joined more than 1,400 students and teachers this week at Central Middle School in Eden Prairie, Minn. for an educational assembly to mark the launch of Listen Carefully – a national hearing awareness campaign that promotes one simple message: Hearing is fragile. So don’t listen loudly. Listen carefully.
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Martin Bashir, the award-winning journalist, has become patron for Action Duchenne, the only UK charity dedicated solely to raising awareness and funds for research into a cure and providing support for families living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
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Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign founded by Christy Turlington Burns to increase education and support for the global reduction of maternal mortality, and CHI&Partners, an international advertising agency based in New York, have launched No Mothers Day, a groundbreaking social issue campaign designed to raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of girls and women around the world who die each year from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth.
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An all-star cast from the award-winning television series The West Wing reunited for a Funny or Die public service announcement that launched yesterday for Every Body Walk!, an inspiring campaign about the health benefits of walking.
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Sir Richard Branson will soon be helping Jamie Oliver in the kitchen (well, just lending a hand with the starters!) when they team up for the Screw Business As Usual Summit on May 14th at Jamie’s Flagship restaurant, Fifteen London.
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UNICEF Ambassador and champion of education, professional basketball player Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers, took part in ‘Beyond School Books’, a podcast series on education in emergencies as part of Global Action Week (22-28 April).
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Young Hollywood was on Wisteria Lane last week as teen celebs came out to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Desperate Housewives Block Party on April 21. It was a great night filled with dancing and music from Teri Hatcher and The Band From TV.
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President Barack Obama has named thirteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including Bob Dylan and astronaut John Glenn.
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Actor/Producer/Director/Humanitarian Scott L. Schwartz, in association with The Scott L. Schwartz Children’s Foundation, is making an impact on Children’s Hospitals worldwide. Scott will visit the St. Jude’s Affiliate Clinic at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Shreveport as well as the LSU Children’s Hospital while working on “Super Day”, a film with unB10 Productions about a stressed out superhero that has to protect his secret identity when he’s blackmailed by a kid with revealing pictures.
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is supporting the first-ever World Immunization Week (April 21-28), an international effort to highlight the importance of immunization.
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A highly anticipated celebrity event is being put to the taste-bud test as five top TV chefs have been added to the already star-studded guest list.
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Music legend Joe Walsh will perform live at the 22nd Annual William Shatner Priceline.com Hollywood Charity Horse Show, Sponsored by Wells Fargo, on April 28, 2012.
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