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Avril Lavigne Launches Celebrity Charity Auction Aug 31, 2012

Avril Lavigne is celebrating her birthday by launching a massive celebrity charity auction to benefit The Avril Lavigne Foundation. More →

Dynamo Named As Rays Of Sunshine Ambassador Aug 31, 2012

Rays of Sunshine are delighted to welcome magician Dynamo to the Rays of Sunshine team as an Ambassador. More →

Lance Armstrong Addresses World Cancer Congress Aug 30, 2012

Cancer survivor and advocate Lance Armstrong delivered a keynote address this week before 2,000 dignitaries at the World Cancer Congress in Montréal. 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 →

Mark Wahlberg And 3 Doors Down Team Up For Benefit Concert Aug 30, 2012

GNC Holdings, Inc., the nation’s largest specialty retailer of health, wellness and sports nutrition products, and actor/producer Mark Wahlberg have announced that they are hosting a benefit concert in celebration of MARKED, a new line of performance nutrition products they developed in partnership. More →

will.i.am: Reach For The Stars Aug 30, 2012

Earlier this week, during an education program hosted by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 53 high school students from the i.am College Track Center in Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles, VIP guests and NASA and JPL officials, and Curiosity mission members paid tribute to the legacy of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. More →

Point Foundation To Host Star-Studded Concert And Dinner Aug 30, 2012

Point Foundation is to host “Voices of Point,” a concert and dinner benefiting the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students of merit. More →

Meet Justin Bieber And Help Charity Aug 30, 2012

Justin Bieber is asking fans and shoppers to come out and boost the economy on Fashion’s Night Out September 6, but that’s not all! More →

Rufus Wainwright To Perform At Azuero On The Harbor Aug 30, 2012

Azuero Earth Project’s first ever fundraising event, Azuero on the Harbor, will take place on September 1, 2012 in the Springs in East Hampton at the home of renowned artist Cindy Sherman. More →

Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Launch Artists Against Fracking Aug 29, 2012

Artists Against Fracking has been launched by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon as a new coalition of artists, musicians, filmmakers and public figures opposed to hydraulic fracking. More →

Coldplay Grants Wish To Sick Teen Aug 29, 2012

A teenage girl was recently granted the wish of a lifetime by Make-A-Wish UK – she met the members of Coldplay. More →

Nick Cannon To Host Kidney Walk Aug 29, 2012

Award winning actor, comedian and host of NBC-TV’s top rated “America’s Got Talent” Nick Cannon will soon shine the spotlight on the body’s least known but most hardworking organ—the kidney. More →

Tom Arnold To Host Face Forward Annual Charity Gala Aug 29, 2012

Tom Arnold and Bonnie Somerville will host the Face Forward 3rd Annual Voice Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel next month. More →

Alyssa Milano Continues St. Jude Fundraising Campaign Aug 29, 2012

Alyssa Milano is continuing with her efforts to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in honor of her son Milo’s first birthday. 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 →

Stars Make A Stand Against Hate Crimes Following Sikh Massacre Aug 29, 2012

Internet entrepreneur and best selling author Gurbaksh Chahal is financing the BeProud Foundation movement to end hate crimes. More →

Prince Harry Named As Patron Of South Pole Charity Race Aug 28, 2012

Prince Harry has become Patron of a charity race to the South Pole between three teams of wounded servicemen from around the world. 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 →

Portishead To Play Celebrity Charity Football Aug 28, 2012

Members of alternative British band Portishead will once again pull on their football boots for a special charity match next weekend. 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 →

Crosby, Stills And Nash To Celebrate 30 Years Of Midwives Alliance Aug 28, 2012

Crosby, Stills and Nash will perform a special concert, “FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN: A Night of Music Supporting the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery and Celebrating 30 Years of the Midwives Alliance,” on Wednesday, September 26, 7:30PM at the Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (San Carlos at Ninth Ave., 93921). More →

Flight Of The Conchords Raise Charity Cash With New Single Aug 28, 2012

New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords' new single went straight to number one on iTunes on Friday, with proceeds going to a great cause. More →

Linkin Park Is Storm Ready Aug 28, 2012

The 2012 Linkin Park World Tour is the first concert tour to be deemed “Storm Ready” by the National Weather Service. 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 →

Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler Teams With Boston Market For Charity Aug 27, 2012

Boston Market hosted an event last week at the company’s North Arlington, N.J., restaurant with professional skateboarder, television star and philanthropist Ryan Sheckler. More →

will.i.am To Broadcast Song From Mars Aug 27, 2012

NASA will hold an educational event to share findings about Mars with students and premiere a new song by musician will.i.am that will be broadcast from the surface of the Red Planet via the Curiosity rover. More →

Bryan Brothers Play Charity Ping Pong Aug 27, 2012

Identical twins and world champion tennis players Mike and Bob Bryan are recent gold medalists and have racked up 11 Men’s Doubles career Grand Slam Titles and 61 overall titles. And, during the weekend, they went head-to-head with a team of unlikely, but worthy, opponents … firefighters from FDNY’s esteemed units in all five boroughs. More →

Debra Messing Launches Post-It Campaign Aug 27, 2012

To support children as they head back-to-school, acclaimed actress and devoted mom Debra Messing, is teaming up with the Post-it Brand from 3M to unveil Post-it Your Words Stick With Them, a national campaign that highlights the power of a handwritten note and asks parents and teachers to show how their Post-it Notes encourage kids during the school year. More →