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Jelly Roll and Wyclef Jean Team Up To Advocate For Healthcare Price Transparency Jan 9, 2024

On Wednesday, January 10th, 2-time Grammy nominated break-out country music star Jelly Roll and 3-time Grammy-award winning musician Wyclef Jean team up with Grammy nominated Fat Joe for a powerful event in Washington, D.C. to advocate for a more affordable and equitable healthcare system through price transparency. More →

Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kareem Abdul Jabar To Be Honored at The Apollo Spring Benefit May 8, 2023

The Apollo has announced this year’s Spring Benefit honorees. More →

Charlize Theron Hosts Fundraising Event Featuring Wyclef Jean Jun 15, 2022

Last week, Academy Award winning actress and UN Messenger of Peace, Charlize Theron hosted the second annual summer block party to benefit The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) at Universal Studios Backlot. More →

2021 Hudson River Park Friends Gala Raises $2.5 Million Oct 12, 2021

Hudson River Park Friends returned home to the Hudson River Park to celebrate all that the four-mile-long oasis has provided to millions of New Yorkers over the past year and a half. More →

Hudson River Park Friends To Celebrate 2021 In-Person Gala Sep 29, 2021

Hudson River Park Friends will return home to Hudson River Park to celebrate their blue and green oasis and show their appreciation for everything that it has provided the millions of New Yorkers over the past year. More →

Wyclef Jean Presents Music Technology Grant to South Philadelphia High School Feb 20, 2019

Toyota and VH1 Save The Music Foundation, joined by musician, producer, composer and former founder of The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, presented South Philadelphia High School with a $50,000 Music Technology Grant focused on electronic music creation. More →

Wyclef Jean Donates Santana Guitar For Charity Dec 11, 2017

Wyclef Jean headlined a fundraiser on November 16 organised by the Consulate General of Antigua and Barbuda in Miami, the Global Citizen Forum and the Jumby Bay Fund in Antigua, who collaborated to curate an evening of food, entertainment and art with all proceeds directed to the rehabilitation of Barbuda. More →

Anthony Anderson To Host Star-Studded Andrew J. Young International Leadership Awards Apr 27, 2017

On June 3, 2017, The Andrew J. Young Foundation will present the second biennial Andrew J. Young International Leadership Awards and welcome the city of Atlanta and guests from around the world to celebrate the 85th birthday of its founder and chair, Ambassador Andrew Young. More →

Melky Jean Presents 9th Annual Geminis Give Back Jun 10, 2016

The Carma Foundation will host the 9th Annual Geminis Give Back Event on June 12 honoring Socialite, Yogi and Humanitarian Vanessa Bronfman, Businesswoman and Philanthropist Olivia Gaynor-Long, WNBA Super Star Nadine Dormond, Businesswoman and Philanthropist Claudinette Jean, and GrassROOTS Community Foundation’s Janice Johnson Dias PhD. More →

Bruce Springsteen And Chris Martin Join U2 For World AIDS Day Dec 2, 2014

As the world reaches a tipping point in the AIDS fight, (RED) and its iconic partners Apple, Bank of America, The Coca-Cola Company and Starbucks marked World AIDS Day 2014 by rallying millions of people around the AIDS fight, and raising money for The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. More →

Musicians On Call 15th Anniversary Celebration Raises $700,000 Nov 25, 2014

Musicians on Call raised $700,000 last week at their sold-out 15th Anniversary Celebration, a record-breaking fundraising total in Musicians On Call’s history. More →

Share The Sound Of An AIDS Free Generation Nov 4, 2014

The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with (RED), invites people from all over the world to join efforts to help end mother-to-child transmission of HIV with the launch of a new campaign, titled “SHARE THE SOUND OF AN AIDS FREE GENERATION”. More →

Carma Foundation To Host Annual Geminis Give Back Event Jun 20, 2014

Melky Jean's Carma Foundation will hold its annual Geminis Give Back event on Sunday, June 22. More →

Get Ready To TRANS4M With will.i.am Dec 12, 2013

The i.am.angel foundation will once again present its TRANS4M Conference and Benefit Concert on January 23, 2014. More →

Swizz Beatz Joins Waka Flocka At Charity Gig Feb 25, 2013

Triple platinum artist, Waka Flocka Flame performed in front of a sold out B.B. King’s crowd to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy on Thursday, in celebration of his “No Hands” single, which amassed 3 million in total sales. More →

Stevie Wonder With Friends: Celebrating a Message of Peace Feb 22, 2013

BET Networks and Wonder Productions have joined forces with the United Nations to present Stevie Wonder with Friends: Celebrating a Message of Peace. More →

A Very Special Christmas: 25 Years Of Bringing Joy To The World Nov 29, 2012

GMC TV, America’s favorite channel for uplifting family entertainment, presents the original GMC World Premiere Music Special “A Very Special Christmas: 25 Years of Bringing Joy to the World,” a landmark documentary that celebrates a quarter-century of star-studded Christmas albums in support of Special Olympics. More →

Wyclef Jean to Perform Charity Concert For Southern University At New Orleans Oct 30, 2012

Tonight should have been the opportunity of a lifetime for attendees at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) 25th Anniversary Awards Gala in New York City; highlighted by a performance by international renown recording artists and humanitarian Wyclef Jean. More →

Special Olympics To Benefit From A Very Special Christmas Aug 7, 2012

The ‘A Very Special Christmas’ holiday music series, benefiting Special Olympics, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this holiday season with the first ever release of two new albums on October 16, each on a different label. More →

Pierce Brosnan To Attend Star-Studded Charity Oscar Viewing Dinner Feb 24, 2012

Pierce Brosnan, Wyclef Jean, Radha Mitchell and Jane Seymour are expected to attend the Children Uniting Nations Oscar Viewing Dinner and Celebration this weekend. More →

Sean Penn Honored At Happy Hearts Fund Celebrity Charity Gala Nov 11, 2011

More than 500 guests from over eight countries gathered on Saturday night in New York City to celebrate the Happy Hearts Fund Land of Dreams: Haiti event and to recognize “Heart of Gold” honoree Renee Haugerud and “Lifetime Achievement” honoree Sean Penn. More →

Wyclef Jean To Attend Hands For Haiti Charity Benefit Oct 18, 2011

The Annual Hands for Haiti Red Carpet Benefit, an exclusive fundraising event to benefit the work of The Hope For Them Foundation and the construction of a new school for over 1,200 children in Carrefour and Croix des Bouquets, Haiti, will take place in New York tomorrow, October 19. More →

LTTS Exclusive: Bill Clinton, Emilio Estevez And Martin Sheen Celebrate Film Premiere For Charity Oct 10, 2011

Last Wednesday evening, Look To The Stars’ Allison DiLiberto and Scott Cable celebrated the premiere of The Way at an after party benefiting the Walkabout Foundation at the Imperial No. Nine at the Mondrian SoHo in Manhattan’s posh downtown neighborhood, on Crosby street. More →

Wyclef Jean Honored For Charity Work In Haiti Jul 22, 2011

Wyclef Jean has been honored in Haiti for his efforts to raise the profile of the country. More →

Hugh Jackman Joins Celebrity Friends At Charity Polo Jun 10, 2011

Celebrities such as Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Naomi Watts, Kathy Griffin and musician Wyclef Jean attended the fourth annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic last weekend (5 June 11) in New York City to benefit Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation's Hope, Help & Rebuild Haiti (HHRH) mission. More →

Celebrity Guests Announced For Charity Cannes Gala Apr 22, 2011

Janet Jackson, Brooke Shields, Gwen Stefani, Freida Pinto, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovich, Patrick Dempsey and Harvey Weinstein are among those who will travel to Cannes to raise funds for AIDS research at amfAR's annual Cinema Against AIDS gala, to be held on May 19 during the 64th annual Cannes International Film Festival. More →

Maria Shriver Remembers Father as "Legendary Public Servant" Jan 24, 2011

Sargent Shriver was laid to rest surrounded by family and friends, and dignitaries including Vice President Biden, former President Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and Shriver’s son-in-law, former CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. More →

Haiti One Year On: The Care For Haiti Celebrity Charity Album Jan 12, 2011

America’s top Grammy nominated artists and internationally celebrated musicians, Slip N Slide Records and charity CARE have partnered with Melky Jean and Wyclef Jean to launch a worldwide effort, The Care For Haiti Album, to benefit women and children in Haiti, on the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. More →

Haiti One Year On: Wyclef Jean Calls For Moment Of Silence Jan 10, 2011

The Yéle Haiti Foundation and its founding ambassador Wyclef Jean, in a series of national and international radio public service announcements, are inviting the world to join them in a commemorative moment of silence at 4:53 pm EST on January 12th to pay tribute to the victims of last year’s disaster and to signal a collective renewed hope for Haiti. More →

DoSomething.org's Top 20 2010 Celebrity Charity Champions Dec 27, 2010

DoSomething.org – the website that aims to inspire, support and celebrate a generation of doers: people who see the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action – has released a list of what it considers to be the top 20 “Celebs Gone Good” for 2010. More →