DJ AM's impressive sneaker collection is being auctioned on eBay to raise money for the DJ AM Memorial Fund. The Fund maintains the legacy of Adam Goldstein and his commitment to helping others struggling with addiction. Contributions will help organizations and projects committed to addressing issues of addiction and recovery. 100% of the proceeds of the sales from the auctions will go to the fund.
The auction begins today at 4:30 pm PST on Sunday, November 15th. You can find the auction listings on Ebay here. You can watch a video about DJ AM's sneaker collection below.
Annie Lennox was awarded with the 2009 Woman of Peace Award by former winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in Berlin. Annie was honored for helping raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS impact on women and children, especially in South Africa through her "Sing" campaign. Annie wrote the song "Sing" and asked 23 of the world's most famous female singers to help record it. Annie is wearing a HIV Positive t-shirt to help raise awareness of the disease's devastating effect all over the world, especially in Africa. Take a look:
You can read Annie's Myspace blog here. This is the video for "Sing" which features the voices of Annie, Madonna, Celine Dion, Dido, Faith Hill, Joss Stone, Pink, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Bonnie Raitt, KT Tunstall, Shakira, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Anastacia, the Sugababes, KD Lang, Martha Wainwright, Angelique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, Shingai Shoniwa, Gladys Knight, and Isobel Campbell.
United Airlines and the American Cancer Society are teaming up for the third consecutive year. Holden Hugyou - a huggable, limited-edition 14-inch Gund teddy bear - was designed for this year's money raising effort. Holden is the cuddly younger brother of Maye I. Hugyou and Kenny Hugyou, who delivered smiles to nearly 18,000 children in 2008 and 2007.
For each contribution of at least 7,500 Mileage Plus miles or of a minimum of $50, volunteers - including United employees - will deliver a Holden Hugyou teddy bear to a child with cancer at hospitals throughout the country in February 2010. Contributions can be made through December 31 by visiting united.com/bearhug. Individuals who contribute $250 to the American Cancer Society through this initiative will also receive their own Holden Hugyou bear.
"The expressions of the faces of children receiving a teddy bear is worth a million miles," said Sonya Jackson, president of the United Airlines Foundation. "We are so grateful for the overwhelming response from our customers and colleagues, who together have raised more than 100 million Mileage Plus miles and more than $360,000 for the American Cancer Society for this program since it began in 2007."
Celebrities and designers decorated houses to raise money for Women In Need, Inc. (WIN), an organization that provides housing, help and hope to New York City women and their families who are homeless and disadvantaged. The houses are being auctioned off online in an auction that runs until November 30th. Houses were designed by Sean Avery; Lidia Bastianich; the Beckham family; Halle Berry; Mary J. Blige; Chris "Ludacris" Bridges; Bobbi Brown; Cast of the Broadway Musical Hair; Cast of the Broadway play Race; Cast of the Broadway play Superior Donuts; Sean "Diddy" Combs; Oscar de la Renta; Cheyenne Jackson; Donna Karan; Monica Rich Kosann; Dylan Lauren; Richard Leach for Park Avenue Autumn; Deborah Lloyd for Kate Spade; Jennifer Lopez; Isaac Mizrahi; Moby; Debra Messing; Josie Natori; George Rodrigue; Cameron Silver for Decades; Justin Timberlake & Trace Ayala; Today Show Anchors; Diane Von Furstenberg and Vera Wang. Parsons The New School for Design collaborated on several of the house designs.
Diddy's house feature a helicopter on top. You can bid on it here.
Isaac Mizrahi designed his house to be like a jewelry box that opens up. It's fabulous. Bidding is already at $1,750 for Isaac's house. You can bid on it here.
Bobbi Brown's house designed for WIN resembles her makeup collections. You can bid on it here.
All the WIN celebrity designed houses can be found here on charitybuzz.com.
Saks has launched the Saks Fifth Avenue Collection food program to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Now through December 24th, 5% of the purchase price of select Saks Fifth Avenue Collection treats and New York Candy Company sweets -- identified by a green St. Jude sticker -- will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. All items are available in Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide and on saks.com and range in price from $13.50 to $55.50.
Paula Deen and her husband Michael Groover appeared on The Today Show to show Kathie Lee and Hoda how to make Paula's Cola basted ham. Michael has a new book out called
My Delicious Life with Paula Deen which is all about his life and how it changed when he met Paula eight years ago (she was chasing her dogs onto his property -- it was the ultimate cute meet). Paula announced that she and Smithfield Hams are giving away one million servings of food to food banks in the next year to help fight hunger in America. Take a look:
Vogue UKreports that designer Giles Deacon has joined Crusaid's Think.Talk.Act.Give campaign this World Aids Day, which takes place on December 1st. T-shirt's with Deacon's Eek mascot will be sold on the Crusaid website to raise money for Crusaid.
"People need to be reminded that HIV and Aids haven't gone away and that it was not just an illness of the Eighties," Giles said today. "Fashion is a form of self expression and always gets people talking. By getting Eek 'protected' I hope he can inspire many conversations around HIV and Aids and really get people talking and thinking about this illness- it affects everyone."
The t-shirts cost £30 ($50) and can be purchased here.
Vogue UK reports that Courteney Cox and David Arquette have partnered with Satya to create a collection of butterfly themed jewelry to benefit the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation. Courtney Cox and Daivd Arquette learned about EB because the son of their close friends was born with it.
"There is a beautiful child named Brendon, the son of one of our dear friends, Andrea Pett Joseph, who was born with EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA or EB," Arquette told VOGUE.COM. "We were not aware of the condition until it affected us personally but, of course, once we got to know this incredible child we wanted to do whatever we could to help."
EB is a rare and life-threatening genetic condition which results in the skin developing burn-like wounds, making even simple tasks incredibly difficult. David and Courteney designed the collection with the Satya founders, Beth and Satya, and used the butterfly motif to symbolise the fragility of the EB childrens' skin
You can view the collection here on Satya's website. Prices for the jewelry pieces range from $24 to $328. The Satya Foundation donates 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the jewelry to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation.
Elle.com reports that Edun has partnered with Dazed & Confused to create hand-drawn animal tees and dresses. Artist Jo Ratcliffe drew the animal drawings. Fifteen percent of the sales of the clothes will benefit War Child, an organization that helps children afflicted by war. Edun is an organic label launched by Bono and his wife Ali Hewson. The tank top pictured above retails for $90. You can find the clothes here in Edun's online store.
Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga are the new faces of the MAC AIDS Fund. WWDreports that a new campaign will begin late next February called "From Our Lips." Two lipsticks called MAC Viva Glam Gaga Lipstick and Viva Glam Cyndi Lipstick will launch in North America next March and retail for $14 each. 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the MAC AIDS Fund.
Aflac and Macy's are selling an annual plush Holiday Duck to fight pediatric cancer. This year's Aflac duck is dressed as a green holiday tree with ornaments and a golden star that lights up. The plush duck says "Aflaaac" when squeezed. The ducks go on sale on Sunday, November 1st at participating Macy's and at aflacholidayduck.com.
The prices are unchanged from last year at $10 for the 6-inch duck and $15 for the 10-inch version. 100 percent of the proceeds go to the nearest of 37 participating pediatric cancer hospitals in the region where it is sold. Since its initial appearance in 2001, the Aflac Holiday Duck has raised more than $2.2 million for pediatric cancer research and treatment.
"Aflac understands that many families who routinely make charity a part of their holiday traditions are struggling this year," Aflac's Manager of Cause and Marketing Philanthropy, Buffy Swinehart, said. "The Aflac Duck, which is always there in times of need, offers fans with tight budgets a chance to give back in a meaningful way."
Actor/director Ed Norton (Fight Club, The Hulk) teamed up with Maasai warriors to train in Kenya for the New York Marathon this Sunday.
Ed is running the marathon to raise funds for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation.
Building a team of thirty runners, finding individual and corporate sponsors, and putting in serious training time to be able to finish the 26.2 mile race, Ed says it was like preparing for an intense acting job, only much harder. At one point he didn't think he'd be in good enough shape to run 26 miles. But now he feels confident he can go the distance. Take a look:
Madonna returned to Malawi with her daughters Lourdes and Mercy and her little boy David. Madonna was in Malawi for a ground breaking ceremony for her new school there, Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, and to plant a good luck Moringa tree. Madonna said, "If this school is a success - with God willing it will be - we will replicate it not only in Malawi, but in other parts of the world as well." Be sure to check out her fabulous -- and wildly inappropriate for tree planting -- shoes.Take a look:
Madonna posted this statement just before she left for Malawi:
My family and I are on our way to Malawi to attend the ground breaking ceremony for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. The ceremony will take place on Monday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m. on the future site of the Academy.
Our vision for the school is to empower girls to become Malawi's future leaders. Our goal is to teach them to challenge themselves, serve their local communities and develop their country. We created this vision in partnership with the local Malawian Ministry of Education, and other educational experts from Malawi, Sub-Sharan African and elsewhere around the world.
We are developing and using innovative educational approaches, cutting-edge architectural design methods, and other modern technologies, which we hope, will become a replicable model for girls secondary school education.
Research proves that young girls throughout the developing world are often left without opportunities to receive a comprehensive education and the benefits that education can provide.
It's an honor for me to be able to help as many of these girls as I can achieve their dreams.
I'm also incredibly proud of all the projects Raising Malawi is involved in and I look forward to visiting a number of them during my visit.
Charlize Theron was helping with the charitable auction for organization OneXone Thursday night in San Francisco. When the bidding lagged at $47,000, Charlize decided to raise the stakes, offering a 7 second kiss. She told the crowd that this was high-risk kissing, since the swine flu virus is going around. A man in the audience jumped the bid to $137,000, but a woman outbid him. She paid $140,000 and got her money's worth: Charlize kissed her for a full twenty seconds. The winner also got a 2010 South Africa trip - complete with World Cup tickets, a safari trip and a chance to meet Nelson Mandela.
Take a look:
Tiny Prints has launched its second annual Celebrity Holiday Card Collection for Charity. As part of this collection, celebrity moms Alison Sweeney, Angie Harmon, Cindy Crawford, Marcia Cross and Molly Sims, have partnered with Tiny Prints and its designers to create exclusive holiday card designs benefiting charities and causes. Gwyneth Paltrow has also created a line for Tiny Prints. Her card design is pictured above. You can find the celebrity card lines here. Gwyneth's cards are not yet listed on the website.
