Celebrities
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jerry Weintraub
Charities
Global Action for Children, Human Rights Watch, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Make It Right
Causes
Adoption, Fostering, Orphans, AIDS, Children, Disaster Relief, Health, Homelessness, Human Rights, Poverty
March 12, 2009 by Tim Saunders
It has been revealed that E! Entertainment Television made a significant donation to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year.
According to Fox News, the media giant made a donation of $250,000 to the foundation established by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to assist with humanitarian crises around the world. The donation was one of four large contributions made to the fund in 2008, including $1,194,911 from Jolie, $956,961 from Pitt, and $5,000 from Jerry Weintraub.
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has donated over $4 million to causes since it was established, including $1,364,320 to Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, $100,000 to help build The Duk Lost Boys Clinic medical centre in the Sudan, $1 million split evenly among three organizations working with war-affected children, $1m to help Sudanese refugees of the Darfur crisis, $1 million to the Human Rights Watch’s work in Burma, $100,000 to Global Action for Children, $400,000 to Cambodia’s children’s causes and $150,000 to the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center.
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