Celebrities

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…

It’s a fact: Other industries have received far worse hits than fundraising ever will and yet they’ve learned how to grow, change and adapt. In the face of rising challenges in fundraising, what steps can the smart fundraiser take to rise above it all and succeed despite the odds?

Amid his national anthem protest, Colin Kaepernick feels his patriotism has come into question. "The media painted this as I'm anti-American, anti-men-and-women of the military, and that’s not the case at all," the San Francisco 49ers quarterback told reporters after his team defeated the San Diego Chargers on Thursday. During the game, fans repeatedly booed…

The Bruno Manser Fund, a rainforest conservation charity based in Switzerland, wants the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to pay back millions in donations from individuals connected to a Malaysian money-laundering scandal. In an open letter published to its website, the charity called for DiCaprio to "disclose and restitute to Malaysia" any funds the foundation received from Riza Aziz and Jho Low, two key figures in the $3 billion scam...

In December, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), pledging to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, worth approximately $45 billion, over their lifetimes to further the cause. Now, the couple is making moves to keep their promise by making the first cash infusion into the for-profit charitable initiative...

Amber Heard is donating the entirety of her settlement money from Johnny Depp to charity, the actress said in a statement on Thursday. "As described in the restraining order and divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in…

Leonardo DiCaprio is known for many things—his acting, his philanthropy, his unbridled love for Girl Scout cookies. But now, the actor might be in a bit of trouble over one of them, and it's not the Thin Mints. According to a lengthy piece in The Hollywood Reporter, the U.S. Department of Justice named DiCaprio twice…