Famed celebrity photographer, Nigel Barker gets surrounded by a bevy of beautiful models while shooting a Nine West Runway Relief campaign.
To learn more about the Nine West Runway Relief click here.
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Things seems to be getting serious between Reese Witherspoon and her new beau Jim Toth. The couple was spotted this weekend getting in some quality time with her kids, out and about in Los Angeles.
Joined by her son Deacon, daughter Ava, and boyfriend Jim Toth, the group grabbed some brunch at a local eatery.
In related news: Reese has signed on for the Stand Up to Cancer telethon set to broadcast across the four major television networks on September 10th.
Ms. Witherspoon will be joined by stars like Stevie Wonder, Lance Armstrong, Christina Applegate, Katie Couric, and Diane Sawyer.
Having Reese on board will be a valuable addition.
An important telethon that we will continue to keep you posted on.
Brad Pitt brought in some ammunition when he visited the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans Saturday. The actor brought along Super Bowl hero ‘Drew Brees’ to help bring awareness to a place that still needs tons of help.
With the country remembering the devastation of hurricane Katrina five years ago, both Pitt and Brees, the beloved Saints quarterback, want everyone to see how much work still needs to be done to restore New Orleans.
They visited several of the homes Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation has built, and met with many local residents.
There is still so much work to be done. If you would like to help to restore New Orleans click here.
WaterAid America helps communities solve their own water and sanitation problems through the use of low-cost sustainable technologies such as hand-dug wells, boreholes, rainwater harvesting and pit latrines.
In partnership with local NGOs we give communities the training they need to manage and maintain their water projects so that they can enjoy access to clean, safe drinking water for long into the future.
As a charity that focuses solely on water, sanitation and hygiene education we have developed the expertise in designing aid projects that effectively address the problems of water scarcity and water-related diseases across Africa and Asia for the long term.
Worldwide, nearly 900 million people lack access to safe water, while 2.5 billion people have nowhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. The result is widespread diarrheal diseases that kill 4,000 children every day.
You can help by making a donation to support WaterAid’s vital work bringing safe, clean water and sanitation to poor communities in Africa and Asia.
Justin Timberlake has announced that he has recruited some of his famous friends for his annual fundraiser for the Shriners Hospital for Children.
The charity event will be held on 23 October at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, and will feature A-list performers including Christina Aguilera, P Diddy, Selena Gomez and T-Pain.
The SexyBack singer will also perform at the show.
Tickets for the benefit concert reportedly cost from $100 to $350 and go on sale on 21 August. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
We’re definitely going to this one. Hope to see you there. 
In the meantime check out Justin’s new fragrance ad for Givenchy.
As part of a new long-term alliance, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is gearing up for its next Team Fundraising Challenge by joining forces with one of television’s most popular shows, Survivor on CBS. For the first time ever, Survivor will stand up and issue the “Challenge The Odds” Team Challenge with Stand Up To Cancer Ambassador and winner of Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn. Zohn, whose Hodgkin’s lymphoma is in remission, appeared on CBS News’s The Early Show this morning to announce the partnership and his new role as spokesperson for the Survivor team’s SU2C fundraising efforts. CBS will engage its viewers on-air and online through Survivor fan sites in the challenge. The SU2C fundraising widget is available to all SU2C Team Community participants to share on blogs and social media platforms (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) in order to rally support and encourage donations.
The SU2C Teams are a year-round fundraising program that offers a unique community where everyone is challenged to join an existing team or create a new one, which can honor a loved one or just raise funds for the fight. Periodically, Stand Up To Cancer runs online fundraising challenges, such as our current Challenge The Odds campaign, which will run from August 17-September 1. One hundred percent of contributions received from the public will go directly to research. The top fundraising teams will be highlighted during the nationally televised Stand Up To Cancer broadcast event on September 10 and the winning team captain may have the opportunity to Skype with a celebrity on-air. New CBS Survivor / SU2C PSA
In addition, a CBS PSA campaign driving viewers to the Survivor SU2C donations page will launch tonight and run throughout the year. Among the Survivors participating in the spots are fan-favorites such as Rupert Boneham, Amber Brkich-Mariano, James Clement, Colby Donaldson, Cirie Fields, Russell Hantz, Jerri Manthey, Rob Mariano, Jenna Morasca, Parvati Shallow, James “JT” Thomas Jr., Sandra Diaz-Twine, Benjamin “Coach” Wade, Tom Westman and Ethan Zohn.
“I am grateful to CBS for encouraging the world to outwit, outplay and outlast cancer,” said Laura Ziskin, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer and executive producer of the 2010 show. “Ethan has been a champion from our early days, and he knows first hand the trials and tribulations of what 12 million U.S. cancer survivors go through. He is an inspiration to us all. I am a big believer in social media, and this challenge will help us engage fans and friends in the fight against cancer and get them excited for our show.”
“For me personally, this challenge represents the coming together of two worlds as a television survivor and a cancer survivor,“ said Zohn. “As thrilling as winning the show Survivor was, I want to see everyone diagnosed with cancer become a survivor. That would be the ultimate reward. I hope fans of our show will stand up and participate in this great cause and this important challenge.”
Currently, one in two men and one and three women in this country will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. This online fundraising program encourages people to “Challenge The Odds” by forming teams to support innovative cancer research that is, in turn, being done by “Dream Teams” of scientists from different institutions, as well as young, individual researchers pursuing high-risk / potentially high-reward – in terms of saving lives – projects.
The 2008 Team Community Challenge brought in more than $80,000 in the run-up to the inaugural Stand Up To Cancer broadcast, which was a key component of the effort that raised over $100 million for innovative cancer research. “Crush Kids’ Cancer – David Archuleta’s Angels”, the 2008 winning team that has raised more than $50,000, will be participating again in the 2010 challenge, led by Archuleta fan Stacie Goldberg, who is herself a cancer survivor.
Archuleta encouraged all of his fans to watch the 2008 Stand Up To Cancer broadcast, and Marge Lees, one of the members of the fundraising team, did. After seeing Katie Couric speak about the importance of colorectal cancer screening with Charles Barkley during the broadcast, Lees – who was 51 year old at the time – had a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with colon cancer. Lees and her Team Captain Goldberg had become friendly, and Goldberg – a cancer researcher who is an oncologist – was able to help Lees navigate some of the healthcare decisions she faced. Lees had surgery and treatment, and is now going on two years of being cancer-free. She credits Archuleta and Couric with saving her life. Representing her winning fundraising team, Lees appeared with Ethan Zohn on CBS’s Early Show this morning.
Stand Up To Cancer will return to primetime TV on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. The one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, The Style Network, TV One, and VH1.
To find out more about the fundraising teams, visit www.su2c.org/teams.
The adorable Jessica Alba (with hubby Cash Warren behind her) gets playful on Saturday at the first annual Rising Stars of America All-Star Kickball Game in Santa Monica, Calif., to benefit the youth organization.
To learn more about Rising Stars Of America click here.
This is just awesome… Please spread the news and let’s SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
The Boot Campaign was created to generate American awareness about the needs of our military men and women coming home from combat.
The money raised from boot sales will go to the Lone Survivor Foundation and the USO to support our returning active duty and combat veterans.
Our military heroes volunteered to put themselves in dangerous, life-threatening situations to preserve human freedom. The Boot Campaign motto is simple…“When they come back, we give back.” The Boot Girls want every person within reach of our website to tangibly give back to our troops by buying a pair of combat boots and proudly wearing or displaying them.
Learn more by watching the video below!
Boot Campaign from Travis Television on Vimeo.
Wearing the same boots our military's finest wear...humbling...and an AMAZING feeling! Rick Dees
Ciara posed with tween throb Justin Bieber during Usher’s New Look Foundation’s First Annual World Leadership Awards at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta.
Usher has taken Justin under his wing not just in music but in philanthropy as well:
At his New Look Foundation’s World Leadership Awards in Atlanta, GA, hosted by ET’s very own Kevin Frazier, Usher continued to set a good example for Justin. The veteran artist said poetically, “Philanthropy starts in the heart. It’s not hard work, it’s heart-work.”
Tween heartthrob Justin commented, “It’s good to be here to support my big brother and mentor.” Singer Ciara added, “It’s about taking that large platform we’ve been given as entertainers and using it for more than just entertainment. It’s fun when you can see somebody else smile and you can light somebody’s heart.”
Awesome! Justin is lucky to have Usher as a mentor. Usher wasn’t so lucky with Diddy but at least he can somewhat protect Justin from what he learned early on.
