Celebrities
Angelina Jolie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono, Céline Dion, Heather Mills, Jackie Chan, Nicolas Cage, Oprah, Paul McCartney, Sandra Bullock, Steven Spielberg
Charities
Adopt-A-Minefield, After School All Stars, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Chrysalis, DATA, Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, Red Cross, Righteous Persons Foundation, Special Olympics, UNHCR, UNICEF
Causes
AIDS, Children, Disaster Relief, Education, Health, Homelessness, Human Rights, Mental Challenges, Poverty, Refugees, Weapons Reduction
May 19, 2006 by Steve Purcell
Forbes Magazine has published a list of “Generous Celebrities”, highlighting the incredible generosity of some of the world’s most public faces.
The ten celebrities listed are:
- Bono supports AIDS charity DATA and many others
- Sandra Bullock gave $1m to the American Red Cross after the 9/11 bombings, and has also donated to the Tsunami relief fund
- Nicolas Cage supports Chrysalis, an LA charity for the homeless, and gave $1m to Katrina relief
- Jackie Chan is a UNICEF ambassador, founded the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, and gave $100,000 to Chrysalis
- Céline Dion is Celebrity Patron for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and donated $1m to the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina
- Angelina Jolie has given more than $3m to the UNHCR
- Paul McCartney supports the Adopt-A-Minefield charity, and he and wife Heather Mills jointly donateed $1.9m to Tsunami relief
- Arnold Schwarzenegger supports the Special Olympics, and in 2001 he donated a total of $4.1m to the Twin Towers fund, After School All Stars and Nelson Mandela’s children’s fund
- Steven Spielberg is a patron of the Righteous Persons Foundation, founder of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and gave $1.5m to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
- Oprah gave $52m to charity in 2005 alone, and wrote a personal cheque for $10m to help victims of the Katrina disaster
Source: Forbes
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