Posts Tagged ‘Oprah’

30 Dec

Celebrities Gone Good

Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, Support. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

DoSomething.org

It’s that time of year when every form of publication and broadcast is doing round up pieces…the best of…the top ten…of the year gone by, or predictions for the year beginning. DoSomething.org has, on their Celebs Gone Good pages, an article that points up the charitable work of the famous among us—it’s a list I love. It is the Top 20 celebrities and their charitable work throughout 2010. The usual suspects are here: Ellen (in addition to her commitment to ending hunger, shining a spotlight on bullying and the amazing work of The Trevor Project), Oprah ($40 million to charities), Matt Damon (water.org), Alicia Keys (Keep a Child Alive)…and a few that really stepped up, perhaps for the first time, in the past year—Lady Gaga (Hands Up for Marriage Equality), Justin Bieber (Pencils of Promise), Sophia Bush (advocacy and awareness of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster), Nick Jonas (Change for the Children Foundation and his tireless work for diabetes treatment and awareness)…

And you! Celebrate the great work you did in 2010, and plan to ramp it up even more in 2011–our commitments to the world grow because we grow…and we grow because of our commitments.

10 Apr

RFK Center Auction

Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, Support. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , .

You’ve got til the end of the month to bid on a whole bunch of celebrity experiences for charity in the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Auction.

“Some men see things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” – Robert F. Kennedy paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw

The RFK Center Auction through charitybuzz.com includes such items on which to bids as: Meet Oprah backstage after 4 VIP tickets to taping of the final season of her show; spend a week at Vogue with Anna Wintour; 2 all access passes to the TriBeCa Film Festival and coffee with Robert DeNiro; one month internship with Diane Von Furstenberg; tix and backstage passes/meeting to Alicia Keys concert; meet Anderson Cooper on the set of 360; lemonade and cookies with Martha Stewart in her gardens; be Elton John’s guest at his famous post-Oscar party; and more from walk-on parts in major motion pictures to behind the scenes tours on TV show sets, the Statue of Liberty, and even playing football with Reggie Bush. All in support of justice and advancing human rights for all.

One of the most fascinating RFK Center projects is Speak Truth to Power (STTP) is a program dedicated to promoting awareness of human rights. Through the combined power of arts and education, STTP seeks to proactively engage the general public, bringing human rights activists and their work into contact with ever-increasing audiences.

Bid now–you’ll never regret supporting this work.

7 Feb

Twitter Nets

Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, One click helping, Support. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , .

I have to say, I’m kind of driven up a wall by Twitter. As soon as I say that I’m sure I’ll be a Twittering fool in the blink of an eye, but thus far it has seemed to me like all the parts of Facebook that I don’t like. I truly don’t care what my friends or followers or followees had for breakfast or thought of the outfit Lady Gaga wore on the red carpet.

There are, however, some amazing things that have come of the Twitter Revolution. Last year, for World Malaria Day, Ashton Kutcher and CNN were in a furious race to see who could first get a million followers on the social networking site. Ashton won, and to celebrate his victory over the media giant network, he vowed to send 10,000 mosquito nets, via Malaria No More, to Africa to fight the disease. Those nets were sent and have now all been distributed, with plenty of others. Ashton’s Twitter posting became the world’s most re-tweeted message on World Malaria Day, and resulted in many others making direct donations, so that the total number of “Twitter Nets” was 89,724! Other high-profile Tweeters got involved: Oprah, Anderson Cooper, Sean Diddy Combs, and Ryan Seacrest, among others.

Who, in your network of friends, is willing to join you in making a difference in the world?