Ben Affleck's Charity Work

Charity biography

Affleck has addressed Congress and attended benefits in support of the A-T Children’s Project.

With Ellen DeGeneres, Ben launched the"Small Change Campaign" to benefit Second Harvest.

Affleck took part in the “Stay Close” campaign for Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

He has also dedicated much of his time and energy to urging people to vote.

In 2008 he visited the Congo to witness the humanitarian crisis there: “I think the more painful something is, the more you want to distance yourself from it,” he told ABC News. “I think the hard part is actually to let some of that go and to realize that when you see some of these images of people suffering in some way or another, to kind of remember that these are people who are in fact just in different circumstance than you are, but that are kind of dealing with [those circumstances] in a pretty brave and enduring way.”