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The Music Industry's Greatest Givers
The Music Industry's Greatest Givers
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The Kid Crusaders
Usher, Scooter Braun, Adam Braun and Questlove
Usher started the New Look Foundation in 1999 to give underprivileged kids the skills to be future leaders, while Questlove, right, raised fund for Harlem Village Academies, charter schools that boast top-tier performance while defying socio-economic expectations. Adam Braun, standing center, quit his finance job and started Pencils of Promise with $25. Two years later, Braun had built 41 schools in Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala and raised more than $3 million. Adam's brother Scooter, who manages Justin Bieber, has been active in the charity that builds schools in the developing world, and Bieber earmarked profits from his Someday perfume for the charity.
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Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews has been very active in the political realm, using his celebrity status to get people to vote. He published an internet video before the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign and played a concert called "Change Rocks" in 2008 encouraging Indiana University students to elect Obama.
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John Legend
John Legend has participated in the 2007 Live Earth concert and the Peace One Day concerts, both in London. But his most notable contribution is The Show Me Campaign, which raises funds for the impoverished in Mbola, Tanzania.
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Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has helped raise over $1.5 million in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami by selling custom designed Japan Prayer Bracelets. She also performed at MTV Japan's charity show earlier this June and advocated traveling to the country to boost its economy.
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Bono
Bono's humanitarian work is widespread, but he is perhaps best recognized as the co-founder of the ONE Campaign, a nonpartisan and non-profit organization which sponsors government funding for international aid programs. The campaign, launched in May 2004, has over 2.4 million members.
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Madonna
Madonna and Michael Berg founded Raising Malawi in 2006. The non-profit charity aims to help extreme poverty and raise awareness of Malawi's one million orphans. She has hosted a number of fundraisers and even wrote and produced a documentary, I Am Because We Are, in its honor.
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Sting
Sting has been involved with human rights since 1981, when he performed in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Since then he has worked with a number of charities and released music to help causes and countries. His 2008 album Songs for Tibet was in support of the country, and he performed "Driven to Tears" during the telethon for Haiti.
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Elton John
Elton John AIDS Foundation raises awareness and money in the fight against the disease. Founded in 1992, the foundation highlights a personal cause for Elton John, who had been involved in AIDS charities since the 1980s, when friends and fellow musicians Ryan White and Freddie Mercury died as a result of HIV/AIDS complications.
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Cher
Cher's Cher Charitable Foundation donates funds and times to numerous charities and causes. In 1993, Cher aided Armenia (her parents' home country) by donating food and medical supplies.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand's The Streisand Foundation was established in 1986 and has helped raise over $25 million through live performances. Over $16 million has been donated to almost 1,000 causes, including programs at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.
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