Mischa Barton Charity Work, Events and Causes

Barton is currently the spokesperson for Climate Star, an organization that fights Global Warming through social and legislative activism.

Barton serves as an Entertainment Industry Foundation Ambassador to spread awareness and raise funds for women’s cancer research through the Fashion Footwear Association of New York Shoes on Sale Initiative.

In 2007, Barton also became a spokesperson for the SAFE (Skin Awareness for Everyone) campaign and the TRAID campaign (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development).

Barton is an ambassador for Save the Children, as well as the “One Water” campaign which brings water to remote locations in Africa. Barton visited South Africa to help promote the work of Save the Children in September, 2008. She admitted that working with impoverished kids has really affected her, and said “I’m a pretty emotional person and I’m easily moved by things and getting to know those kids and seeing what their life was like and what they have to go through every day.”

She is on the board of the Lupus Research Committee in Los Angeles.

“It is good to draw attention to things that matter,” she told ITN. “There’s a lot of frivolous press out there, but it’s good to have a cause.”