Tag: Charity

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“Did This Heifer Raise Her 1 Million For AIDS?”

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The singer was highly criticized by her followers on Twitter.com Wednesday, after she broke her own vow not to tweet until she had raised $1 million for AIDS research.

Alicia Keys rocked a tight black dress at an event for The Cinema Society on Wednesday night, displaying a remarkable post-baby body less than two months after giving birth.

Keys tweeted a number that her followers could text to “buy” her life back. But apparently, her followers didn’t care if she came back to life or not.

Therefore, she deleted her tweets once her followers protested.

So is she really serious about her cause? 

The poorly received ‘Dead Celebrities’ campaign, featuring stars such as Serena Williams and Ryan Seacrest lying in open caskets, has raised less than $100,000 so far.

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“They Are All Dead Today – For A Cause”

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Singer and new mom Alicia keys joined a host of celebrities who are helping to raise money for AIDS research by suffering a ‘digital death’ which involves them logging off their Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites for 24 hours today (Wednesday, Dec. 1).

Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Kim Kardashian, P. Diddy, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Jay Sean, Swizz Beatz and more, make beautiful corpses while lying in their coffins in a series of ghastly portraits released by the Worlds AIDS organization.

In my opinion, I think it’s too much!

The stars logged offline on Tuesday, Nov. 30, and will not sign back on until $1 million has been raised for Alicia Keys’ Keep A Child Alive foundation.

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“Alicia Keys Boycotts Facebook & Twitter”

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For a greater good!

Celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Alicia Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive.

The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day. The participants will sign back on when the charity raises $1 million.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York last week.

For the campaign – which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz – celebrities have filmed “last tweet and testament” videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.

“It’s so important to shock you to the point of waking up,” Keys said. “It’s not that people don’t care or it’s not that people don’t want to do something, it’s that they never thought of it quite like that.”

Keys who has 2.6 million followers on twitter said, the foundation, which began in 2003, will accept donations through text messages and bar-code technology, which is featured in the charity’s Buy Life campaign and will raise efforts to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Of course media whore, Kootie/Kim Kardasian (pictured below) is the first to leak her ad for the cause.

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“Bill Clinton Gives Sean Penn $500K For Haiti”

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Former president Bill Clinton, gave $500,000 to actor and humanitarian Sean Penn (Not Wyclef Jean), for Haiti toward continued earthquake relief efforts.

It is important to note: that former president Clinton didn’t even consider giving that money to singer Wyclef Jean, who has proven himself to be a greedy, attention seeking opportunist.

The Clinton Foundation gave $500,000 to Penn’s charity, J/P Haitian Relief Organisation.

The donated money will be used to provide bridge funding for a camp in Petionville, which is run by the organization.

Penn, 50, told People.com: ‘The support of President Clinton and the Clinton Foundation is an extraordinary boost in our organization’s ability to continue its work in Haiti. [link]

 “From the beginning the Clinton Foundation’s staff and leadership have generously shared expertise and essential logistical support,” Penn said, who spent 6 months helping out in a refugee camp.