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Basketball Greats Visit Kenya With UNICEF Sep 6, 2012

UNICEF USA President and CEO Caryl M. Stern was in Kenya last week with three NBA legends, and she has blogged about her trip. More →

eBay Founder Donates $500,000 To Refugee Support In South Sudan Sep 5, 2012

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam have donated US$500,000 to UNHCR's emergency operation for tens of thousands of refugees in South Sudan. More →

Pau Gasol Sees UNICEF's Work In Chad Sep 3, 2012

Pau Gasol, Silver Medalist at the 2012 Olympics, two-time NBA champion and a UNICEF Spain Ambassador since 2003, recently visited several areas in the Kanem region in Chad, where thousands of families are affected by the nutritional crisis in the Sahel. More →

Jennifer Garner Blogs For Save The Children On iVillage Aug 31, 2012

Jennifer Garner has blogged on iVillage about her work as an artist ambassador with Save the Children and how early childhood education can make a huge impact in enhancing kids’ lives. More →

Taylor Swift Donates Shoes To Celebrity Charity Auction Aug 30, 2012

Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity, announced today a complete line-up of a-list celebrities who decided to take off their shoes for a good cause, including shoes from Taylor Swift, Ryan Seacrest, Jimmy Fallon, Chase Crawford, and more. More →

Jennifer Garner Introduces Save The Children Documentary Aug 29, 2012

YouTube channel WIGS’ new documentary Judie & Yolanda highlights the inspiring stories of two women working for Save the Children, one of the world’s leading independent organizations that strives to create lasting change for children in need. More →

OneRepublic Supports Save The Children With New Single Aug 28, 2012

OneRepublic is backing Save the Children and the Ad Council’s new Every Beat Matters campaign for newborn and child survival, launching in mid-September, with the release of the band’s new single today. More →

Jon Bon Jovi: What's On The Table For The Hungry Aug 28, 2012

On Saturday, August 25, Top Chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio and his wife filmmaker Lori Silverbush, rocker Jon Bon Jovi his wife Dorothea Hurley, Susan Burden, and philanthropist Avis Richards and Marathon hedge fund co-founder Bruce Richards hosted the 2nd annual “What’s on the Table?”, an event to benefit the anti-hunger programs of the United Way of New York City. More →

Yao Ming Helps Hearing Impaired Children In China Aug 27, 2012

Starkey Hearing Foundation and NBA Cares delivered the gift of hearing to almost 7,000 hearing impaired children and adults as part of a history-making hearing mission to China this week. More →

Pau Gasol Visits Drought Victims In Chad Aug 27, 2012

Pau Gasol, Silver Medalist at the 2012 Olympics, the two-time NBA champion and UNICEF Spain Ambassador since 2003, is in Chad visiting communities affected by the nutritional crisis in the Sahel. More →

Stars Rock End Of Summer Block Party For LA Mission Aug 27, 2012

Stars came out for the Los Angeles Mission End of Summer Block Party in the weekend. More →

Stars To Gather For LA Mission End Of Summer Block Party Aug 24, 2012

The Los Angeles Mission has a serious reason for the End of Summer Block Party. But don’t tell the kids. They think it’s just for fun. More →

Harry Potter Companion Books Released As eBooks Aug 17, 2012

They’ve been hugely popular since 2001, and now JK Rowling's two companion books to the Harry Potter series, which she kindly wrote for Comic Relief, are available to buy as eBooks for the first time. More →

Jon Bon Jovi Wants Your Name On Bill Clinton's Birthday Map Aug 16, 2012

Jon Bon Jovi is encouraging supporters of the Clinton Foundation to give Bill Clinton a very special birthday gift. More →

Stars Show Support For World Humanitarian Day Aug 15, 2012

The United Nations campaign highlighting the work of the world’s humanitarian workers has reached 100 million people through social media so far, the world body announced today, describing it as its “first milestone” that gets it closer to the one billion mark, which it aims to reach by World Humanitarian Day on 19 August. More →

Jonah Lomu To Live Below The Poverty Line For UNICEF Aug 15, 2012

Former All Black Jonah Lomu is teaming up with UNICEF as part of the Live Below The Line campaign. More →

Mo Farah Passes The Hunger Baton To David Cameron Aug 14, 2012

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah passed the baton in the Race Against Hunger to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, as Sunday’s Global Hunger Summit fired the starting gun on what could be the biggest-ever push against hunger. More →

Charities Praise David Cameron's Olympics Hunger Event Aug 12, 2012

Britain’s leading aid and development charities have welcomed the progress made at Prime Minister David Cameron's Olympics Hunger Event, and urged world leaders to keep the global food crisis at the top of their agenda in the run-up to next year’s G8 summit in the UK. More →

Foo Fighters And Neil Young To Headline Global Poverty Concert Aug 8, 2012

The Global Poverty Project (GPP) has announced the Global Festival 2012, a multifaceted event culminating with a free ticketed concert on the Great Lawn of New York’s iconic Central Park on September 29, 2012. More →

Richard Branson Blogs About Rachel's Wish Aug 8, 2012

Sir Richard Branson has blogged about a very special charity campaign in the name of a young girl tragically killed in a car accident. More →

Elbow's BBC Olympic Theme Benefits Charity Aug 6, 2012

As the Olympics captures the attention of the world, a beautiful piece of music composed by award winning band Elbow has become the theme for the Olympic coverage across the BBC. More →

Christina Aguilera Films PSA For World Hunger Relief Aug 1, 2012

Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced today that multi-Grammy Award winner and pop superstar Christina Aguilera is using her voice for good in the fight against hunger by filming a new PSA for the Company’s World Hunger Relief effort that benefits the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief agencies. More →

Arsenal Players Save The Children In China Jul 30, 2012

As part of Arsenal's pre-season tour to Asia, Abou Diaby and Johan Djourou visited the Club’s education project in partnership with Save the Children in Beijing last week. More →

David Beckham Delivers Anti-Hunger Letter To British Prime Minister Jul 27, 2012

David Beckham met British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday to urge him to take immediate action to tackle a hidden crisis that affects 180 million of the world’s youngest children. More →

Annie Lennox Speaks At International AIDS Conference Jul 27, 2012

Annie Lennox spoke at a Parliamentary Meeting as part of the 19th International AIDS Conference on Monday, July 23. More →

Veterans Day Special Gets Primetime Emmy Nomination Jul 27, 2012

The November 2011 broadcast of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Rise and Honor A Veterans Day Special was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Picture Editing for Short-Form Segments and Variety Specials. More →

Stars Perform Prior To International AIDS Conference Jul 26, 2012

On the eve of the opening of the historic International AIDS Conference, a stellar cast of artists, political leaders, and community activists came to Washington, D.C. to mark more than three decades of the global response to the HIV epidemic. More →

Elizabeth Banks And Kristen Bell Help Women's Health Feed The Hungry Jul 25, 2012

Women’s Health magazine has announced the launch of RUN 10 FEED 10, a new signature national marketing platform created in partnership with The FEED Foundation to motivate the brand’s nearly 13 million readers and consumers nationwide to help fight domestic hunger through a unique running event series. More →

Manchester United Supports Vulnerable Children Jul 25, 2012

Manchester United Manager and UNICEF United Kingdom Ambassador Sir Alex Ferguson recently took time out from the club’s pre-season tour of South Africa to learn about the impact of violence and abuse on the country’s orphans and to call on communities to play an active role in protecting vulnerable children. More →

Starkey Hearing Foundation To Honor Maria Bello Jul 24, 2012

Starkey Hearing Foundation, dedicated to bringing understanding among people through hearing care, announced its illustrious roster of honorees for this year’s So the World May Hear Awards Gala scheduled for Saturday, August 4, 2012 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minnesota. More →