Celebrities

Leo DiCaprio is cooperating with the feds and plans to return more than $1 million worth of donations tainted by a massive international corruption scandal, according to a statement from his charitable foundation Tuesday. The Oscar-winning actor bowed to increasing public pressure that he make amends for his ties to infamous party animal Jho Low,…

Members of a rainforest charity have issued an ultimatum to actor Leonardo DiCaprio, asking him to either return illegal funds he allegedly received for starring in Martin Scorsese’s "The Wolf Of Wall Street," or step down from his position as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change. The demand…

Before digital connectivity, nonprofit organizations benefited from concerts that solicited donations and touted their causes. The 1971 Concert for Bangladesh raised money for UNICEF; 1985’s Live Aid sent famine relief to Ethiopia; and since 2004, the Black Ball has collected millions to fight AIDS. Now the charity concert model is changing. Millennials prefer festivals to…

Earlier this year, my friend Vu Le suggested on his hilarious (yet pointed) blog, Nonprofit With Balls, that we need a nonprofit-themed reality TV show. He suggested titles like: "Dancing With Program Officers" "Hell’s Charity" "So You Think You Can Run a Nonprofit" "America’s Funniest Fundraising Videos" I think Vu was serious. And I had…

Martin Shkreli wants you to punch him in the face. Well, not you, in particular. But it could be you—if you're the highest bidder in this, um, unique charity auction. If you're not familiar with Shkreli, you may know him better as the "most hated man in America." He's the smarmy pharma bro who jacked up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,556 percent, allegedly helmed multiple Ponzi schemes, and turned a congressional hearing into a clown show...

This keeps getting more interesting. I’m talking about what happens when two idealistic and ambitious Millennials decide to devote tens of billions of dollars to making the world a better place. It almost sounds like a fantasy project—more akin to the augmented reality that Facebook is working on than traditional philanthropy. What would you do…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, are launching an ambitious effort to spend $3 billion over the next decade to cure disease. The goal is to "work together to cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime," Chan said during an event in San Francisco for the Chan…

As "Star Trek" celebrates its 50th birthday, we take a look at the philanthropy of creator Gene Roddenberry’s family, including a new prize with a total of $1 million in annual awards. Any sci-fi fan (myself included) will argue to the bitter end that a successful work of speculative fiction is about so much more…

The NFL is planning to relent on its notoriously strict uniform policy this season, but only for a week. There are a few more catches, but, according to a league source, you’ll see more personal messages on players’ cleats in Week 13. The NFL is planning to allow players to promote a charitable cause of…

Colin Kaepernick on Wednesday thanked the public for making his jersey the NFL's top seller after his national anthem protest and vowed to donate all the proceeds he receives "back into the communities." The San Francisco 49ers quarterback made his pledge in an Instagram post. Before Kaepernick first sat down in protest during the playing…