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Dana Delany Wants Child Hunger To End Here Mar 17, 2010

Nearly one in four children in this country face each day not knowing whether they will get enough to eat or not. But a new campaign between ConAgra Foods and Feeding America, the country’s largest hunger-relief organization, is seeking to put an end to this sobering reality facing so many of our nation’s children. More →

Jack Johnson To Give Tour Profits To Charity Mar 17, 2010

Jack Johnson will tour North America this summer and give 100% of the profits to charity. More →

Celebrities To Attend Annual Night At Sardi's Charity Event Mar 17, 2010

The 18th annual A Night at Sardi’s event – the annual star-studded benefit for the Alzheimer's Association – will honor the entertainment industry’s Marshall family (Penny, Garry and Ronny) and producer Susan Dietz for their contributions in the fight against Alzheimer"s disease. More →

Bob Barker Donates To PETA Center Mar 17, 2010

Former ‘The Price Is Right’ host Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to open a new location in Los Angeles. More →

Joan Jett's Greatest Green Hits Mar 17, 2010

Joan Jett's new Greatest Hits album is to be 100% green. More →

Stars Turn Out For Kevin James' Make-A-Wish Fun Day Mar 17, 2010

Kevin and Steffiana James joined with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to host a picture-perfect Sunday of fun at Santa Monica Pier’s Pacific Park for more than 1,200 Make-A-Wish kids and their families from Los Angeles and surrounding cities on Sunday, March 14. More →

Wanda Sykes Joins Soles4Souls Campaign Mar 17, 2010

Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian and writer Wanda Sykes has teamed up with www.50KShoes.com to raise funds for Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity, and their ongoing relief efforts to the victims of the devastated country of Haiti. More →

Keanu Reeves To Race For Charity Again Mar 16, 2010

After winning last year’s event, actor Keanu Reeves will once again get behind the wheel for the annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity charity race at the 36th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach next month. More →

Sport Relief To Hit British TV This Friday Mar 16, 2010

Sport Relief is back… and British TV viewers will be able to enjoy a weekend of entertainment for charity starting on Friday, March 19. More →

Eagles Founder Glenn Frey Busy With Charity Work Mar 16, 2010

Eagles singer Glenn Frey acted as honorary chairman for the 2010 grand auction to benefit the Boys' and Girls' Club of Coachella Valley on Saturday, March 13, at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California. More →

Stars Celebrate Twitter At Charity Gala Mar 16, 2010

A whole bunch of Twittering stars came out in Los Angeles on Friday, March 12, to celebrate the micro-blogging site for charity. More →

Hugh Grant Continues Support For Health Website Mar 16, 2010

Last year, actor Hugh Grant gave his support to healthtalkonline.org, a website that offers health advice and videos of real patients telling about their experiences with particular diseases. More →

Celebrities Back A Massively Good Initiative Mar 16, 2010

Big names such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Sarandon and will.i.am are backing the easiest way yet to contribute to the fight against AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and to improve maternal and child health care in developing countries: click on MASSIVEGOOD when booking an airline ticket on line or tell your travel agent to do so. More →

Bill Gates Has Big Charity Ideas Mar 16, 2010

Over the next ten years, Bill Gates plans to spend $10 billion on vaccines for children in the developing world. That’s more than double what his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent in the past ten years, and which is already seen as a phenomenal success. More →

Ben Stiller Joins Artists For Peace And Justice Board Of Directors Mar 15, 2010

Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) has announced that it will merge with Ben Stiller's Haitian school initiative (HSI). More →

Animals Matter To Simon Cowell Mar 15, 2010

Simon Cowell has pledged support for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and its campaign to get international recognition of animal welfare. More →

Bid On A Role In Next X-Men Film Mar 15, 2010

The creators of the action-packed X-men films are auctioning off a walk-on-role in the next installment of the highly successful film series as part the Worldwide Orphans Foundation charity auction on Charitybuzz.com. More →

James Earl Jones To Lead Charity Performance Of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Mar 15, 2010

The African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) is staging a special charity night fundraising performance of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre, Aldwych on Monday, March 15, at 7.30pm. More →

Stars Bring Their Four-Legged Friends To Animal Charity Event Mar 15, 2010

A host of stars, including teenage singing and acting sensation Austin Anderson (pictured below), were out-and-about for their four legged friends in LA on Saturday night. More →

Melissa Etheridge And Rob Thomas Join Live Earth Run For Water Mar 15, 2010

Live Earth has announced that two-time Grammy Award-winner and one-time Academy Award winner for Best Song for the Al Gore documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” Melissa Etheridge, and multi-platinum three-time Grammy Award-winner Rob Thomas, will perform live at the Los Angeles and Atlanta Dow Live Earth Run for Water events, respectively. More →

Football Star Invites Celebrities To Charity Golf Tournament Mar 15, 2010

A huge number of sports stars, actors and singers – including Rodney Peete – are to hit the greens near Dallas on May 15 for the inaugural Emmitt Smith Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament to benefit the Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities – an organization that creates educational experiences and enrichment opportunities for underserved children. More →

Stars Urge For Maternal Health In Amnesty Film Mar 13, 2010

Celebrities including Keira Knightley, Annie Lennox, James Purefoy and Beverley Knight have called on the UK Government to make maternal and newborn health a priority in its international development assistance in a new short film released by Amnesty International yesterday (12 March). More →

Kevin James To Host Make-A-Wish Foundation Fun Day Mar 12, 2010

Comedian Kevin James will host a special charity day of fun for the Make-A-Wish Foundation on Sunday, March 14, and he has enlisted the help of a whole bunch of his celebrity friends. More →

LTTS Exclusive Series: After-School All-Stars - Part 7 Mar 12, 2010

Look To The Stars is proud to present the seventh and final part of a series of pieces written by students from Arnold Schwarzenegger's After-School All-Stars. More →

Ryan Gosling Speaks Out About Chicken Slaughter Mar 12, 2010

Actor Ryan Gosling has spoken out against inhumane chicken slaughter practices by sending a letter on behalf of PETA to McDonalds CEO, Jim Skinner. More →

Stars To Attend Bilingual Learning Center Charity Gala Mar 12, 2010

Stars such as Wilmer Valderrama and Esai Morales will attend a special event this weekend to raise funds to promote bilingual education. More →

Stars And Strikes Celebrity Charity Bowling And Poker Mar 12, 2010

A host of stars – including Austin Anderson (pictured below), television creator Seth MacFarlane, singers Austin Brown, Macy Gray, Charice Pempengco, Nick Cannon, singer and actress Keke Palmer, actors Boo Boo Stewart from the Twilight Saga, Eddie Steeples from My Name Is Earl, American Idol host Kara Dioguardi and many more – attended the fourth annual Stars & Strikes Celebrity Bowling and Poker Tournamnet in Studio City on Wednesday. More →

British Soap Stars Open Hospital Lounge Mar 12, 2010

British TV star Kym Marsh (Michelle Connor in Coronation Street) joined her real-life partner Jamie Lomas (Warren Fox on Hollyoaks) to help celebrate the official opening of the Blossom Lounge at North Manchester General Hospital this week. More →

Mary Murphy Supports Victim Of Domestic Abuse Mar 12, 2010

Mary Murphy – best known as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance – attended a special event this week to help a woman who suffered terrible injuries at the hands of her husband. More →

The Blind Side Actor To Play Charity Basketball Mar 12, 2010

The Hollywood Knights celebrity charity basketball team will play against Canyon High School in California this Saturday, March 13. More →