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Longoria-Parker Mobilizes Fans Against Cancer Apr 6, 2010

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker is asking fans to support her favorite charity in this round of the Pepsi Refresh Grants. More →

Annie Lennox To Launch Star-Studded Charity Shop Apr 4, 2010

A selection of A-list stars have joined Oxfam and Selfridges to create, set-up, stock and staff Britain’s biggest charity pop-up shop. More →

Stars Announced For Idol Gives Back Apr 3, 2010

Emmy Award-winning Idol Gives Back welcomes Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, The Black Eyed Peas, Annie Lennox and Jeff Beck as performers on this year’s event, airing Wednesday, April 21. More →

New Celebrity Charity Auction Site Launched Apr 2, 2010

Recently launched Makatto, an online selling website, has garnered much attention after adding to its website content celebrity auctions sponsoring charitable causes. More →

New Twilight Book To Raise Money For Charity Mar 31, 2010

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has announced that she will release a new novella in the record-breaking vampire series in June, with some of the proceeds to go to charity. More →

David Cook Visits Ethiopia For Idol Gives Back Mar 31, 2010

Season 7 winner of American Idol David Cook has arrived in Ethiopia as a guest of the United Nations Foundation to learn about the challenges adolescent girls face in many parts of the world. More →

Alyssa Milano Among New Stars Named In Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet Mar 30, 2010

The American Red Cross has announced eight new members to its National Celebrity Cabinet, a group of celebrity supporters who promote Red Cross services by donating their time, helping neighbors prepare for emergencies, responding to disasters and lending a helping hand to those in need – down the street, across the country and around the world. More →

Demi Moore And Ashton Kutcher: Ban Child Slavery In Haiti Mar 27, 2010

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have announced the launch of a new campaign to urge the Haitian government to ban child slavery. More →

Shakira Launches Charity T-Shirts Mar 26, 2010

Shakira has unveiled a range of new T-shirts she has designed for charity. More →

Ben Affleck To Host Charity Gala For Children Mending Hearts Mar 25, 2010

Ben Affleck is set to host a massive charity fundraising gala event next month with a host committee that includes Jennifer Garner, Michelle Williams, Forest and Keisha Whitaker, Sheryl Crow, Kate Walsh, Quincy Jones and Hank Azaria. More →

Elton John And Lady Gaga To Join Sting At Charity Concert For Rainforests Mar 25, 2010

Elton John, Lady Gaga and Shirley Bassey will join Sting and Trudie Styler at this year’s Rainforest Fund benefit concert. More →

Ben Affleck Launches New Charity Initiative For The Congo Mar 23, 2010

Ben Affleck has launched a new initiative to help people affected by war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More →

Robbie Williams Announces Soccer Aid 2010 For Charity Mar 23, 2010

Robbie Williams has announced that his biannual Soccer Aid event to benefit UNICEF will be held on June 6 at Old Trafford in Manchester. More →

Sport Relief Brings In The Charity Cash Mar 22, 2010

Britain has just hosted a weekend of sport and entertainment to benefit Sport Relief's work helping vulnerable people – and a whole bunch of celebrities were involved. More →

Reese Witherspoon Launches Global Partnership To End Violence Against Women Mar 18, 2010

Reese Witherspoon joined forces with Avon in 2007 to help end violence against women and has continued to support the cause. On March 10, 2010, Witherspoon – along with the CEO of Avon – joined the State Department and Vital Voices to launch the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Women during a breakfast meeting in the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin Franklin Diplomatic Room. 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Annie Lennox Supports Minute For Mothers Campaign Mar 12, 2010

In a release from her official website, Annie Lennox is supporting the Minute for Mothers campaign, an initiative set up by a coalition of leading charities including Save the Children, White Ribbon Alliance, Oxfam, Amnesty International and Mumsnet, which is joining forces with politicians and celebrities this week to hold a minute for mothers across the world. More →

Ricky Gervais Appeals For Chilean Earthquake Donations Mar 10, 2010

British comedian Ricky Gervais has appealed to fans to help victims of last week’s earthquake in Chile following an emotional email from a young fan who survived the disaster. More →

Vampires And Werewolves Play Charity Baseball Mar 9, 2010

True Blood fans will be excited to learn that Nelsan Ellis, star of the award-winning HBO series, will join stars of the Twilight movie series to take part in a charity baseball game to benefit Haitian Relief Efforts by the Red Cross and Hope for Haiti. More →

Stars Come Out For Charity Cocktail Party Mar 8, 2010

Celebrities flocked to the March 6 ‘Montblanc Charity Cocktail’ event hosted by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in West Hollywood to benefit UNICEF. More →

Coldplay Appeals For Chilean Earthquake Relief Mar 8, 2010

British band Coldplay used Twitter last week to encourage fans to support the Red Cross in its earthquake relief work in Chile – and fans responded in such numbers that they crashed the charity’s website! More →

Shakira Receives Charity Medal Mar 8, 2010

Shakira has once again received a medal from the U.N. labor agency for her charity work. More →

Annie Lennox To Walk The Bridge For Women Mar 8, 2010

To honor the resilience of millions of women survivors of war around the world, Women for Women International is hosting a global campaign called Join me on the Bridge on International Women’s Day: March 8, 2010. More →

Pick Up Celebrity-Designed T-Shirt, Help Women Recover from War Mar 2, 2010

Actress Sienna Miller, shoe maestro Tamara Mellon, and nine other designers are working with Harper’s Bazaar to create t-shirts for charity. More →

Exclusive Photo Feature: Olympians' Hearts of Gold Feb 26, 2010

We have witnessed the amazing physical feats of the US Team in the Olympics, and now the Olympians want to share some of the other wonderful ways they use their time and strengths. Look To The Stars is honored to bring you news of their charity work, with thanks to NBC/USOC for providing the images. More →

Christie Brinkley Launches Charity Auction For Haiti Feb 26, 2010

Model Christie Brinkley has donated a whole wardrobe of clothing and accessories to benefit Haiti earthquake relief efforts. More →

NFL and TV Stars Play GameStop Battlefield Bracket Challenge Feb 25, 2010

The lines have been drawn for the GameStop Battlefield Bracket Challenge, and it’s time to visit www.GameStop.com/BattlefieldBC2 to pick your winners and enter for a chance to win prizes, including a grand prize of $10,000. More →