Philanthropy
Chrissy Teigen Leads Group of Celeb Waiters at “Server For an Hour” Fundraising Dinner
Chrissy Teigen led a group of celebrity servers in West Hollywood to raise money for One Fair Wage Thursday night. The “Server for an Hour” fundraiser, hosted by One Fair Wage and chaired by Teigen, was meant to “highlight the urgent need to raise wages, end the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, and improve conditions […]
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Ted Danson on Oceana’s SeaChange Summer Party, Working With Amazon to Reduce Single-Use Plastic
Oceana, the world’s largest international advocacy organization focused on ocean conservation, held its annual SeaChange Summer Party on Saturday. The Laguna Beach party, hosted this year by Ted Danson, raised $1.5 million for campaigns to protect and restore the oceans in California and around the world. “We’ve been doing it for 17 years, and we’ve […]
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Alan Cumming to Host .ORG Impact Awards to Honor “Mission-Driven” Changemakers (Exclusive)
Alan Cumming is set to host the .ORG Impact Awards in Washington, D.C., The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Put on by Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit that manages the .Org domain, the awards are an initiative that aims to highlight mission-driven changemakers and organizations from around the world for their “positive contributions to society,” […]
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Melinda French Gates Says Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Other Billionaires Are Not Philanthropists
Melinda French Gates says there is a new generation of billionaire activists who aren’t really philanthropists. Speaking to The New York Times, the ex-wife of Bill Gates — who recently rocked the philanthropic world when she announced she was leaving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has given away nearly $80 billion since it was […]
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Wilmer Valderrama on New Activewear Line E.P.U and Work With USO: “I’m Just So Proud”
Wilmer Valderrama has released an activewear and lifestyle brand with a philanthropic twist. The 44-year-old actor recently announced the release of E.P.U., which stands for “E Pluribus Unum” or “Out of Many, One.” The active lifestyle brand has formed a direct partnership with the USO, an organization that Valderrama has been involved with for nearly 20 […]
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Hollywood Flashback: When (Bob) Hope Ruled Hollywood
If you were to stick a pin in a timeline to find a key moment in Hollywood philanthropy, it could land on May 6, 1941. That’s the date Bob Hope took to a stage at an Army Air Corps Base in Riverside, California, and opened the curtains on the very first USO Camp Show. The United […]
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DEI Is Not DOA — At Least Not Yet
The DEI dominoes started falling — or at least wobbling — last summer. There was a Supreme Court ruling all but gutting affirmative action on college campuses. In Hollywood, there was the mass exodus of diversity officers — at Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix and the Motion Picture Academy. Meanwhile, conservative activists launched a barrage […]
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How Charlize Theron Sells Change to Teens: “Unless You Can Come Down to Their Level, They Just Think You’re Annoying”
When, in 2007, Charlize Theron launched her eponymous nonprofit — the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project — its mission was as targeted as it was ambitious: to bring HIV prevention and information to a continent where both were in tragically short supply. But in more recent years, CTAOP’s scope has widened considerably, as the organization […]
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Meet Hollywood’s Favorite Charity
There is never a scarcity of scarcities. Never a shortage of shortages. Despite all the tireless work the organizations represented on these pages do to alleviate inequities in so many areas — in education, health care, housing, diversity — there will always be needs that remain unfilled. Still, there is one want that arguably trumps all […]
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Eva Longoria and Lauren Sánchez: A 20-Year-Friendship, a $50M Check and a Housefly in Outer Space
Close friends for two decades, Eva Longoria and Lauren Sánchez have engaged in countless phone conversations over the years — but this, as far as we know, is the first to be recorded. Longoria is one of this year’s recipients of the Bezos Courage & Civility Award, a massive charitable grant that Sánchez and her fiancé, Amazon […]
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Sharon Stone Leaves Nothing Unturned
Elizabeth Taylor hurt her hip. And Sharon Stone’s life would never be the same. It was May 1995, and the Basic Instinct star, then 37, was at the Cannes Film Festival plugging her new movie, The Quick and the Dead, when she was approached by Dr. Mathilde Krim, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS […]
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Uzo Aduba and CAA’s Dennis St. Rose to Join Charlize Theron and Sharon Stone at THR’s Social Impact Summit
Sharon Stone, Charlize Theron, Wilson Cruz and Thomas Sadoski are among the stars who will discuss “The Future of Hollywood Philanthropy” at a special summit on July 11. Co-hosted by the nonprofit Social Impact Fund and The Hollywood Reporter, the 2024 inaugural Social Impact Summit will see some of the entertainment industry’s biggest names — […]
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