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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Grammy award-winning musician Richie Sambora will be honored at the 12th Annual Golden Heart Awards on May 7 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for his philanthropic work with The Midnight Mission.
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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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President Barack Obama has named thirteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including Bob Dylan and astronaut John Glenn.
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Sending aid to Africa only takes a quick text message. Simply text DROP to 85944 on any U.S mobile phone and you can automatically donate $5 to the Give A Drop campaign.
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An inspiring line-up of judges has been announced for Virgin Unite and Sir Richard Branson’s Screw Business As Usual competition.
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A host of celebrity challengers who accomplished extraordinary feats of physical endurance for Sport Relief 2012 were welcomed at No. 10 Downing Street recently by Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Lives destroyed by drugs, alcohol and poor decisions are resurrected every day at the Los Angeles Mission. Men, women and families are restored to personal dignity through the programs the Mission offers. Each story of change has a start, and often that start is as simple as a good meal or an act of service a person receives when they come to the Mission for help.
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Celebrities and political leaders will be among hundreds of volunteers who will serve meals to the homeless and perform foot washing at the Los Angeles Mission this Easter.
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Grammy award-winning musician Richie Sambora will be honored at the 12th Annual Golden Heart Awards on May 7 – along with Del and Bettina Breckenfeld – for his philanthropic work with The Midnight Mission, a human services agency offering emergency services, drug and alcohol recovery and transitional programs for homeless men, women and children in Los Angeles.
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Slash has recruited some of his celebrity friends – such as Maroon 5’s Adam Levine – to help him release a special video and song to help raise awareness for the plight of homeless youth in Los Angeles.
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First Lady Michelle Obama will make her first-ever appearance at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards to present Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Taylor Swift with this year’s The Big Help Award in recognition of her extensive philanthropic endeavors, including her work with tornado and flood survivors in the United States.
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More than one million men, women and children took part in the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile during the weekend, with a record number of people taking to the streets on Sunday March 25 at hundreds of Mile events across the length and breadth of the UK.
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On Monday, March 12, Gibson GuitarTown II launched on The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood with the unveiling of the first nine 10-foot tall guitar sculptures. The selection includes works from renowned artists Shepard Fairey, Tristan Eaton, Free Humanity, Smog City and DeeKay, and celebrates top musicians, including Van Halen, Rage Against The Machine and Jane’s Addiction, among others.
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President Bill Clinton last week announced four new commitments to provide solar energy to Haiti by Clinton Foundation partners.
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The Amy Winehouse Foundation – a charity established soon after the singer passed away last year – has teamed up with the Sylvia Young Theatre School to offer an exclusive scholarship.
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On Saturday, April 28, internationally acclaimed rock ‘n’ roll front man Jon Bon Jovi will take the stage at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas to headline Tiger Jam 2012, a charity concert hosted by Tiger Woods, benefiting the Tiger Woods Foundation.
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Richard Branson is on the hunt for an ethical entrepreneur to help him Screw Business as Usual!
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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has told the international agricultural community it had fallen short of delivering the help small farmers in developing countries need, when they need it.
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As the world economic crisis seeps into its fifth year, philanthropist Bill Gates is more worried about government financial support for developing country programs today than he was after the crash.
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The music video for JLS’s official Sport Relief single, Proud, sees three British Olympic medal winners join the UK’s hottest pop group to celebrate the UK’s biggest year of sport.
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French actor Gilles Marini is well known to international audiences, with roles in Sex and the City: The Movie, Brothers & Sisters and for coming second in Season 8 of Dancing With The Stars. LookToTheStars.org recently talked with Gilles about charity and the causes he supports.
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The Duchess of Cornwall saw how a charity is working to cure type one diabetes this week during a visit to Cambridge.
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eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, is teaming up with Brad Pitt’s Make It Right to take charitable fundraising to a whole new level with a physical space and interactive bidding.
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Hugh Grant, Jonathan Ross and former Doctor Who David Tennant put their grey-matter to the test at Centrepoint’s annual Ultimate Pub Quiz on Tuesday.
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Make It Right has announced that Ellen DeGeneres will join Brad Pitt as host of “A Night to Make It Right”, a charity gala to raise vital funds to complete Make It Right’s goal to build 150 environmentally friendly homes in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward.
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Bill Gates has released his annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in which he speaks candidly about his work at the foundation and outlines what needs to be done in terms of global health and education.
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Launched this week by the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, the END7 campaign featuring Bill Nighy is dedicated to eliminating seven major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a public health threat to poor communities by the end of 2020.
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, has joined other leading charities to partner with Fairsharemusic.com, the music download store where the music you buy really does make a difference.
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Angelina Jolie, Graham King Films and Varese Sarabande Records have announced that a portion of the proceeds from the In the Land of Blood and Honey soundtrack will be donated to SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Bill Clinton
Bono
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Angelina Jolie
Ellen DeGeneres
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Red Cross
PETA
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Save the Children
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Feeding America
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