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Machine Gun Preacher To Host Annual Charity Event Jun 19, 2013

Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, invites the public and supporters to join him and a host of special guests and celebrities for The 4th Annual Charity Event, benefiting the Angels of East Africa children’s projects. More →

Farm Aid 2013 To Rock Saratoga Springs, NY Jun 17, 2013

Farm Aid has announced that its annual benefit concert will return to the Northeast on Saturday, Sept. 21, taking place at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. More →

Barry Gibb To Be Honored By Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Jun 5, 2013

Nordoff Robbins is tremendously excited to announce that the phenomenal Barry Gibb is to receive the Sony Mobile Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s O2 Silver Clef Awards. More →

Blake Shelton And Friends Raise $6.5 Million For Tornado Relief Jun 5, 2013

Last week’s “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” hosted by Blake Shelton and NBC raised more than $6.5 million for the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund, doubling what had been raised to date. More →

Eva Longoria To Take Part In Clinton Global Initiative Meeting Jun 4, 2013

New participants and program details have been announced for the 2013 meeting of Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America), to be hosted by President Bill Clinton, Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Board Member Chelsea Clinton June 13-14 in Chicago. More →

James McCartney To Host David Lynch Foundation Event Jun 3, 2013

The David Lynch Foundation will launch its new performance division, DLF Live, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 15, 2013. More →

Kofi Annan Praises Desmond Tutu Jun 3, 2013

Kofi Annan has addressed supporters of The Elders after taking over as the organization’s Chair from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. More →

Bethany Hamilton Launches Charity Tees May 28, 2013

Bethany Hamilton has announced that she has partnered up with BYOU and has launched a two week campaign to raise money for her new foundation, Friends of Bethany, which supports shark attack survivors, traumatic amputees, and serves to inspire others through her life story. More →

Nordoff Robbins To Honor Coldplay With Silver Clef Award May 20, 2013

Nordoff Robbins is excited to announce that the incredibly successful and internationally acclaimed band, Coldplay, is to receive the Royal Albert Hall Best British Act Award at this year’s Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday 28 June 2013 at the London Hilton on Park Lane. More →

Vanessa Hudgens To Lead The Electric Run For Smile Train May 17, 2013

Electric Run, the country’s brightest and most outrageous 5K run/walk, is coming to Los Angeles on Friday, May 24th with actress Vanessa Hudgens leading the pack through a technicolor wonderland weaving throughout Home Depot Center in Carson. More →

The Elders Call On Europe To Play A Stronger Role In The Middle East May 14, 2013

The Elders met civil society groups, diplomats and members of the Irish government in Dublin last week to discuss the role of Europe in the Middle East, the prospects for young people in Northern Ireland and other issues relevant to their work. More →

Kofi Annan Takes Over As Chair Of The Elders May 13, 2013

Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, has been appointed to take over from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Chair of The Elders with immediate effect. More →

Prince Harry Hits The USA For Charity May 13, 2013

Prince Harry received a fantastic welcome when his tour of America began last week – and a glowing tribute from First Lady Michelle Obama. More →

Trumpeter Alison Balsom Visits Music Therapy Centre May 8, 2013

The award-winning classical trumpeter Alison Balsom took time out of her hectic schedule to pop into the Nordoff Robbins London Centre last week and check out their music therapy work. More →

Giving Back Fund To Host Annual Philanthropy Summit May 3, 2013

The Giving Back Fund, a national nonprofit organization that provides philanthropic consulting and management to professional athletes, entertainers, other high-profile individuals, and corporations, will hold their fifth annual Sports and Entertainment Philanthropy Summit in New York on May 6 and May 7. More →

Help Farm Aid Wish Willie Nelson A Happy 80th Birthday Apr 26, 2013

Willie Nelson is turning 80, and Farm Aid and some famous faces want you to help them celebrate. More →

Exclusive Interview: Joe Staley Talks Smile Train And Electric Run San Francisco Apr 25, 2013

Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft lip and palate charity, has announced Joe Staley will act as ambassador for Electric Run San Francisco, and LookToTheStars.org talked to the San Francisco 49ers Tackle about the event. More →

Exclusive Interview: Blurred Vision Talks John Lennon, Peace And Bill Maher Apr 23, 2013

LookToTheStars.org first interviewed Blurred Vision in 2010 after the release of their first video, a remake of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall” which was dubbed “Hey Ayatollah Leave Those Kids Alone.” More →

Smile Train Announces Joe Staley As Electric Run San Francisco Ambassador Apr 17, 2013

Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft lip and palate charity, has announced today that San Francisco 49ers Tackle Joe Staley will act as ambassador for Electric Run San Francisco. More →

Marie Osmond And Emilio Estefan To Attend AARP Event Apr 16, 2013

AARP has announced that Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, will host the organization’s first of two National Events & Expos in 2013. More →

Kristin Chenoweth To Perform At CANY Gala Apr 10, 2013

Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Honorary Board Chair, brings together Broadway stars to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) which uses drama therapy to help New York’s most vulnerable children and adults. More →

Desmond Tutu: We Are All Shamed By Syria's Suffering Apr 8, 2013

As Syria’s humanitarian crisis escalates, Desmond Tutu has made an impassioned call to the international community to put the safety of Syrians above politics. More →

Russell Brand And David Lynch Bring Meditation To At-Risk Youth Apr 4, 2013

David Lynch and Russell Brand joined forces to help bring Transcendental Meditation to 1,000,000 at-risk youth at the U.S. premiere of Meditation Creativity Peace at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2. More →

Todd Herremans Holds Hoops For Help Event Apr 4, 2013

Philadelphia Eagles Offensive Linesman Todd Herremans recently held the first “Hoops for Help” event to benefit his newly founded Todd Herremans Foundation. More →

Jewel To Help End Child Hunger With Country Music Awards Performance Apr 3, 2013

The Academy of Country Music announced today that Jewel will partner with ACM Lifting Lives to perform a live mash-up of her chart-topping hit “Hands” combined with “Fill a Heart,” an original song written by singer-songwriter Tori Kelly. More →

Tony Bennett To Be Honored By Amy Winehouse Foundation Tonight Mar 21, 2013

The Amy Winehouse Foundation's Amy Winehouse Inspiration Awards & Gala will be held tonight, March 21, in New York City at the famed Waldorf Astoria. More →

Eva Longoria To Be Honored At YWCA Women Of Distinction Awards Gala Mar 19, 2013

Eva Longoria – actress, advocate and philanthropist – will be awarded the Dorothy I. Height Award at the YWCA USA Women of Distinction Awards Gala on Friday, June 7, 2013 in Washington D.C. at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. More →

Lady Antebellum To Join Tim McGraw's Superstar Summer Night Mar 18, 2013

The Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions have announced that Country Superstars Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum, along with International Music Sensation Pitbull have been added to the all-star lineup of artists scheduled to perform at the ACM PRESENTS: TIM McGRAW’S SUPERSTAR SUMMER NIGHT, taping Monday, April 8, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. More →

Girl Rising - A New Film Showing How Education Can Change The World Mar 8, 2013

Girl Rising, Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins’ new feature film about the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world, premiered this week in New York at the Paris Theatre. More →

Philadelphia Eagles Todd Herremans Launches Foundation Mar 5, 2013

Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman, Todd Herremans, recently created his own foundation in an effort to help where help is needed. More →