Mariah Carey's Charity Work

Mariah Carey

Charity biography

Mariah served as an Honorary Chair for the 2007 Fresh Air Fund’s Salute To American Heroes. She is co-founder of Camp Mariah, where inner-city youth have the opportunity to embrace the arts and learn about career opportunities.

In 2006 Carey was awarded the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s Wish Idol for her “extraordinary generosity and her many wish granting achievements”.

Carey has volunteered for the New York City Police Athletic League and contributed to the obstetrics department of New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Medical Center.

Mariah has a history of charity performances, including:

  • VH1’s 1998 Divas Live special to benefit the Save The Music Foundation. She performed again in the 2000 reprisal of the event.
  • America: A Tribute to Heroes Fundraiser for victims of 9/11.
  • In 2001 she performed for peacekeeping troops in Kosovo.
  • She hosted the CBS television special At Home for the Holidays, which documented real-life stories of adopted children and foster families (She has worked with the New York City Administration for Children’s Services)
  • Live 8 in London
  • Hurricane Katrina relief telethon Shelter from the Storm.

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