Look To The Stars News: Project Clean Water

Jewel Gears Up To Perform Shows for Project Clean Water

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Texas-based singer/songwriter Jewel has emerged back on the scene for a charitable cause, with two new scheduled performances in Nashville on April 28.

Proceeds from the show directly benefit Project Clean Water, a non-profit organization she founded in 1997 to help bring awareness to clean water shortages and raise money for the repair of water sources in poor areas all around the world.

Jewel’s Project Clean Water, together with Virgin Unite and the Voss Foundation have further joined efforts to create the “Give a Drop” campaign, which makes it easy to contribute $5 by texting DROP to 85944.

Give With Love And Charity On Valentine's Day

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Charity Folks auction website has some great ideas for Valentine’s Day, and is offering some exclusive celebrity items and experiences.

First up is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet John Legend at the 2010 US concert of your choice. Proceeds will go to Friends of the Orphans.

Also going under the hammer is a personalized handwritten lyric book from Jewel, containing lyrics to Hands, You Were Meant For Me, Life Uncommon, Intuition, Who Will Save Your Soul, Standing Still, and Foolish Games. Proceeds will benefit Project Clean Water, a charity established by the singer to improve the quality of life for millions of people, by helping to provide clean water on a global scale.

Katy Perry Gets Busted For Charity

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

A plaster cast of chart-topping singer Katy Perry’s breasts has been sold for charity.

The plaster bust was made back in August 2008 to raise money for Keep-a-Breast, an organization that produces art events that increase breast cancer awareness among young people and benefit breast cancer education, prevention and treatment programs in communities around the world. They are famous for creating plaster forms of the female torso, which are then customized by fine artists and auctioned to raise funding for breast cancer.

“Someone paid US$3500 for a mould of my breasts,” said the 24-year-old singer. “That’s a lot in a recession.”

Jewel And Friends Donate Song Lyrics To Charity Auction

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Singer/songwriter Jewel has joined with a huge group of other musicians in donating handwritten lyrics to a new charity auction.

The 34-year-old has donated signed lyrics to some of her most well known songs – including Foolish Games, You Were Meant For Me, Hands, and Who Will Save Your Soul – to raise money for Project Clean Water, a charity she established in 1998 to improve the quality of life for millions of people by helping to provide clean water on a global scale.

The singer has been joined by some of her celebrity friends for the auction, with handwritten lyrics also being donated by the Pussycat Dolls, Trace Adkins, Katy Perry, Garth Brooks, Josh Groban, REO Speedwagon, David Foster, John Rich, Five For Fighting’s John Ondrasik, Carrie Underwood, Randy Travis, John Mellencamp, Jason Mraz, Gretchen Wilson and many more.

Jewel in the Water

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:18:16 +0000

Singer-songwriter and sometime-actor Jewel is refocusing her near decade-long, discrete charitable activities towards a more effective, higher profile partnership with Virgin Unite and its British billionaire boss Sir Richard Branson.

Jewel established Higher Ground for Humanity, whose main focus is Project Clean Water, in 1999. The Project organizes teams of scientists and engineers to bring safe, clean drinking water to impoverished communities throughout the world. It has assisted thousands of people in a dozen countries.

The singer realized through talks with Sir Branson that she could be doing much more for the cause, so she performed last week at a show to benefit Virgin Unite’s charitable projects in Morocco, where clean water is also the central issue. “A lot of clean water around the world is getting bought up privately; it costs more than oil,” she says.