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24-Hour Push: Today is Grammy Foundation Giving Day To Keep Music Alive

24-Hour Push: Today is Grammy Foundation Giving Day To Keep Music Alive GRAMMY Camp kids performing at the Launch Party that concluded GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles this summer at the El Rey Theatre. Courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Mark Sullivan © 2014 With the 57th Grammy Awards taking place this Sunday (Feb. 8), broadcast live from…

Music Exec Expands CITYPAK Project To Help Homeless Survive Street

Music Exec Expands CITYPAK Project To Help Homeless Survive Street The CITYPAK Project distributed 2,000 bags to Austin's homeless, including these four people, last March in partnership with SXSW and the city's music community — photo courtesy of CITYPAK Project.Ron Kaplan, co-founder of the Monterey International booking agency — representing such top…

Mayor John Tory To Shave Head of Gary Slaight For Fundraising Campaign

Mayor John Tory To Shave Head of Gary Slaight For Fundraising Campaign (L to R) Mayor John Tory and friend Gary Slaight. Soon, one of them will have no hair — photo courtesy of Slaight Communications.Gary Slaight and his family have helped so many causes and charities over the years that when the Toronto philanthropist and music industry benefactor…

VIA Rail To Offer Free Rides To Cancer Fighting Hockey Teams

VIA Rail To Offer Free Rides To Cancer Fighting Hockey Teams Hockey great Darryl Sittler signs autographs at Road Hockey To Conquer Cancer — photo courtesy of PMHF.Shooting and scoring to help beat cancer just got a lot easier with news that Via Rail will provide free rail travel to out-of-town teams coming into Toronto to play in the fifth annual Road…

Rock Band Simple Plan Raise & Give Away $300,000 To Cap 2014

Rock Band Simple Plan Raise & Give Away $300,000 To Cap 2014 Marie-Mai joins Simple Plan at the 2nd annual Simple Plan & Friends benefit show — photo credit: Steve Campbell.Simple Plan capped off 2014 by giving away $300,000, a record for the Montreal rock band’s Foundation and bringing its total tally since forming in 2005 to $1.5 million in…

Bryan Adams To Receive Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award

Bryan Adams To Receive Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award Bryan Adams, promo shot, 2014 — photo courtesy of UMG.Bryan Adams will be honoured again for his charity work and social activism. At next year’s Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards in Toronto, the musician will receive the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. In 2010, at the…

Canuck chain Pizza Pizza Slings Slices for Children's Miracle Network

Canuck chain Pizza Pizza Slings Slices for Children's Miracle Network Pat Finelli (third from left), founder of Pizza Pizza's Slices for Smiles program, joins (from left) Ameera Virani, director of corporate partnerships for Children's Miracle Network, and Adrian Horwood from Toronto’s SickKids Hospital, March 19, 2014, to present 2013’s record…

Smooth-Faced Simple Plan Get Limited Edition Kiehl's Cream For Charity

Smooth-Faced Simple Plan Get Limited Edition Kiehl's Cream For Charity Simple Plan (sans drummer) perform acoustically at a private concert for Kiehl's ticket winners, 2014 — photo credit: George Pimentel. Facial moisturizer isn’t a typical fundraising item for an all-male rock band, but Montreal’s Simple Plan gladly teamed with cosmetic company…

MusiCares Challenge: Tom DeSavia Starts Viral Campaign For Music Lovers

MusiCares Challenge: Tom DeSavia Starts Viral Campaign For Music Lovers Music journalist and author Paul Myers chooses the Beach Boys' Smile for his MusiCares Challenge — photo via Facebook.Dismayed by what he saw as a social media backlash against the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge after it became a hugely successful viral fundraising initiative, Tom DeSavia…

Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Honour Susan Sarandon, Common, Jim Brown, Others

Singer Gord Bamford Enlists Hockey Players, Rodeo Champs For Golf

Singer Gord Bamford Enlists Hockey Players, Rodeo Champs For Golf Gord Bamford talks with Make A Wish Foundation recipient Tyler Gauthier at the 2013 Gord Bamford Charity Golf Classic.It will be a motley bunch at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club in Alberta on Aug. 14 when chart-topping country singers, rodeo world champs, NHL and Olympic gold medalist…

Naja Radically Different Lingerie Offers Women Underwear For Hope

Naja Radically Different Lingerie Offers Women Underwear For Hope Model shows off Naja's new Talavera collection: photo courtesy of Naja.With her platinum credentials as a former New York lawyer, Stanford School of Business MBA (class of 2006) and successful entrepreneur Catalina Girald doesn’t seem like a 21st century revolutionary. But her latest and…

1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Auction To Benefit Cancer and Alzheimer's

1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Auction To Benefit Cancer and Alzheimer's This beauty, a 1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K special roadster, goes up for auction July 12, via Bonhams. Proceeds will go to the Swedish cancer and Alzheimer's charities. A 1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K special roadster, up for auction internationally July 12 via Bonhams auction house, is…

Fran Drescher Practices, Preaches Toxic-free Preventative Lifestyle

Fran Drescher Practices, Preaches Toxic-free Preventative Lifestyle Fran Drescher at the Los Angeles Fran Van launch — photo courtesy of Cancer Schmancer.Actress Fran Drescher, best known for creating and starring in 90s sitcom The Nanny and currently appearing as the step-mother in Cinderella on Broadway, has taken on a role as a health and cancer…

TOMS One Day Without Shoes Doesn’t Require Pedicures or Boss Approval

TOMS One Day Without Shoes Doesn’t Require Pedicures or Boss Approval TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie and wife Heather show off their bare feet at the 2013 Los Angeles TOMS One Day Without Shoes walk, held at the Santa Monica Pier. If your boss asks you why you’re not wearing shoes and socks on April 29, tell them it’s TOMS’ seventh annual One Day Without…