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Felicity Huffman Named As Charity Ambassador For Cancer Initiative May 27, 2010

Felicity Huffman, star of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, has been named 2010 ambassador for Lee National Denim Day, one of the country’s largest single-day fundraisers for breast cancer, benefiting the Women’s Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). More →

Global Green Millennium Awards To Honor James Cameron May 27, 2010

Global Green USA will welcome celebrity guests and leaders from the Hollywood, business and environmental communities at its 14th Annual Millennium Awards on Saturday, June 12th 2010 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. More →

Wyclef Jean's Words Of Wisdom For Young People May 26, 2010

On Sunday, May 23, Wyclef Jean received an honorary doctorate from Western Connecticut State University and delivered a commencement speech to the class of 2010. More →

Daytime Soap Stars Give Back To Charity May 26, 2010

American soap stars will gather in Los Angeles today to gather and help hand out food to Americans in need in an initiative dubbed Daytime Gives Back. More →

Martha Wainwright And Simple Minds Promise A Miracle For Charity May 25, 2010

Simple Minds legend Jim Kerr and luminary folk-rock singer Martha Wainwright have re-invented the iconic 80s hit Promised You A Miracle, to call on world leaders to keep the promises they have made on overseas aid and saving the lives of mothers in poor countries. More →

British Stars To Walk Inca Trail For Charity, And So Can You May 25, 2010

British celebrities Denise van Outen and Fearne Cotton are to hit the rough paths for charity again – this time for a trek through the Inca Trail. More →

Matt Damon Honored By Save The Children For Charity Work May 24, 2010

Actor Matt Damon received Save the Children's Leadership Award at the annual Celebration of Hope event in Greenwich on Friday, May 21. More →

Madonna Calls For Support Of Equal Rights In Malawi May 24, 2010

Madonna – founder of Raising Malawi – is asking her fans to join her in support of equal rights and the freedom to love in the African country following the jailing of two men for 14 years for the “crime” of homosexuality. More →

Simon Cowell Awarded For Charity Work May 24, 2010

Simon Cowell was honored with Variety - The Children's Charity's prestigious Humanitarian Award at the Variety World Conference at the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa on May 23. More →

Female Celebrities To Build For Empowerment May 21, 2010

Female stars of the stage and screen will be out-and-about with power tools this weekend when they take part in Habitat For Humanity's first ever Women Empowerment Build. More →

Will.i.am Launches Charity Foundation For Struggling Families May 21, 2010

Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am was on Oprah this week to launch a new a new foundation for families in danger of losing their homes in the current financial crisis. More →

Antonio Banderas Bottles Charity Scent May 21, 2010

Antonio Banderas is preparing to release his seventh men’s fragrance, ‘The Secret,’ this summer, and insisted that his passion for philanthropy be bottled along with it as well. More →

Stand Up To Cancer To Return With Second Celebrity Charity Telecast May 20, 2010

Two years after an historic fundraising telecast and the start of a groundbreaking grassroots movement, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) will return to primetime television on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT, with a star-studded appeal to build continuing public support and donations for cutting-edge cancer research that translates at a rapid pace from the laboratory to treatments and technologies that benefit patients. More →

PHOTOS: Wyclef Jean Takes Haitian Amputees On Charity Shopping Spree May 19, 2010

Wyclef Jean, co-founder of the Yéle Haiti Foundation brought much needed joy to three young Haitian amputees on their trip to the States to get urgently needed artificial limbs at Penn Station Kmart on Tuesday, when he took them on a $3000 spending spree. More →

Work Starts On America Ferrera's Charity School In Mali May 19, 2010

Family, friends and fans of America Ferrera have come together to help the Emmy Award-winning actress meet her fundraising goal to build a school in Diassadeni village in the Sikasso District of Mali. More →

Bono Interviews Barack Obama May 18, 2010

Will the 21st century be the African century? This is the question ONE's founders Bono and Bob Geldof examined by guest editing one of Canada’s top newspapers, the Globe and Mail, as part of a month of Africa content on the Globe’s website. More →

Band From TV To Hit Chicago For Charity Gig May 18, 2010

Band From TV – the celebrity-studded band that plays exclusively for charity – will play in Chicago next month as part of the Taste of Chicago Food Festival. More →

Annie Lennox And Ashley Judd To Attend AIDS Conference May 17, 2010

Annie Lennox and Ashley Judd will attend the Global Health Action Awards for Excellence in Business on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in Washington on June 8. More →

Wyclef Jean To Take Haitian Amputees On Kmart Charity Shopping Spree May 16, 2010

Wyclef Jean, co-founder of the Yéle Haiti Foundation, will be at the Penn Station Kmart on Tuesday, May 18, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., to help bring much needed joy to three young Haitian amputees on their trip to the States to get urgently needed artificial limbs. More →

Christina Aguilera Makes Charity Trip To Haiti May 14, 2010

World Food Programme's new Ambassador Against Hunger Christina Aguilera visited two schools in quake-stricken Haiti on Tuesday to meet the children receiving food aid through WFP school meals programs. More →

Online Auction Celebrates Celebrity Oxfam Charity Shop May 14, 2010

The Celebrity Oxfam Curiosity Shop opens today, May 14, in London – and a special online auction has been launched to celebrate. More →

Darth Vader Brings The Dark Side To Charity Initiative May 14, 2010

David Prowse – the actor best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy – and adventurer Ranulph Fiennes are among a group of British celebrities who have created portraits of themselves to raise money for ActionAid. More →

Hugh Jackman Leads Celebrity Charity Watch Auction May 13, 2010

As reported by LookToTheStars.org earlier this week, Meryl Streep, Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg and Jay-Z have joint a host of legendary stars of stage and screen who have lent their signatures to Audemars Piguet timepieces to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. More →

British Celebrity Portraits To Be Auctioned For Charity May 13, 2010

Earlier this year, LookToTheStars.org reported on a story featuring a group of British celebrities whose portraits will go under the hammer for Oxfam. We can now reveal that the artworks will be auctioned on May 18. More →

NFL's Chris Hope Hands Out Shoes To Nashville Flood Victims May 13, 2010

Chris Hope, NFL All-Pro Safety, has joined Soles4Souls Inc., to help hand out shoes to thousands of people who were affected by the recent disaster in Nashville and the Middle Tennessee area. More →

Wyclef Jean Marches For Yéle Haiti Foundation May 11, 2010

Grammy Award–winning musician Wyclef Jean and Seton Hall University students marched down South Orange Avenue to drop off donations to the Yéle Haiti Foundation headquarters at noon on Saturday, May 8, 2010. More →

Christy Turlington Wants To Ring You To Talk Charity May 11, 2010

Christie Turlington Burns wants to ring you this Thursday on behalf of the ONE Campaign. More →

Annie Lennox Introduces Celebrity Charity Shop May 10, 2010

Annie Lennox has recorded a video introducing a temporary celebrity charity shop opening in London this week. More →

Teri Hatcher Desperate To Play Charity Golf May 10, 2010

Teri Hatcher, star of ABC’s hit show “Desperate Housewives”, will play in the Pro-Am at The Principal Charity Classic on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. More →

Christina Aguilera To Head To Haiti For Charity Mission May 10, 2010

Five-time Grammy Award winner, Christina Aguilera, was today named “Ambassador Against Hunger” for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – an appointment she revealed during her appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. More →