Actress, philanthropist and entrepreneur Keshia Knight Pulliam recently launched her nonprofit Kamp Kizzy. It was founded to bring together girls of all backgrounds to learn from each other. At the two-day summer camp that was the Kamp Kizzy kickoff, Pulliam spent time with the 130 girls ages 11 to 16 that attended. The camp took [...]
87-year-old retired “The Price is Right.” television host Bob Barker recently donated $230,000 to the Keithville, LA-based Chimp Haven sanctuary. Barker donated the funds as part of a relocation effort for the chimps who were living in a now-bankrupt Texas research laboratory.The money will be used to expand the existing chimp habitat to make room for the [...]
Ryan Sims, Defensive Tackle of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, founded the Ryan Sims Foundation in 2006 in honor of a close family member who was diagnosed with colon cancer and subsequently underwent chemotherapy treatment to combat the disease. The mission of the Ryan Sims foundation is to support the fight against cancer and raise awareness about prevention, treatment, and [...]
The Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC), in collaboration with Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Girl Scout-Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas hosted its first ever residential fitness camp at the Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock from June 19-25. Camp iRock hosted girls in sixth, seventh and eighth grades for a week-long program of activities, workshops [...]
Do you have a remarkable child who wants to make a difference in the world? Did they start their own foundation to help needy kids? Do they give their own money to those who need it the most? Do they take time out to feed the hungry on the weekends? Did they start an organization to [...]
Celebrity father and daughter Paul and Mira Sorvino have launched a cook-off competition to raise awareness about diabetes. The Goodfellas star was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes four years ago and now he’s teaming up with his Oscar-winning daughter to help create great recipes for sufferers of the disease, which is linked to blood sugar [...]
On May 25, keeping a promise he made to high school students four years ago, NFL Braylon Edwards has kept his promise to help 100 high school students through college if they met certain academic and community service requirements. In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition, a total [...]
Michael Vick gave a commencement speech Friday to the students of the Camelot Alternative School at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. During his speech Vick surprised two deserving students with $5,000 college scholarships. Both Monique Joseph and Rickey Savage received a $5,000 scholarship. Joseph plans to attend Penn State in the fall while Savage will go [...]
With the generous donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the Joplin Recovery Fund will surpass $1 million in donations to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks., and regional community foundations in Tulsa, Kansas City, Southeast Kansas, and Oklahoma City collaborating to provide philanthropic support to the rebuilding effort of Joplin, Missouri. A tornado, which swept through Joplin on [...]
Boxing champion Floyd Mayweathr Jr. continues to sponsor a free summer camp for youth boys and girls ages 5-18 from Las Vegas and around the country who are interested in learning the basic fundamentals of boxing. The camp takes place in an environment where hard work, dedication, responsibility, integrity and the importance of education are promoted in [...]
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