Food Banks
Bezos Earth Fund Grants $791 Million To 16 Climate Crisis-Fighting Organizations
Bezos Earth Fund Grants $791 Million To 16 Climate Crisis-Fighting Organizations Bezos Earth Fund — graphic via Jeff Bezos InstagramAmazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled the first grant recipients from the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund created to battle environmental destruction. The Earth Fund will distribute $791 million USD ($1.035 million CAD…
Metallica Auctions off Zoom Call and More For All Within My Hands Foundation
Metallica Auctions off Zoom Call and More For All Within My Hands Foundation Metallica's James Hetfield — photo provided. Metallica staged its first worldwide pay-per-view event, the Helping Hands acoustic concert, to benefit its All Within My Hands foundation, on Nov. 14. Fans who didn’t see the concert live can still watch it on demand through nugs.tv…
Amazon Runs Consumer-powered Promos With Kelloggs and Food Network Kitchen For Feeidng America
Amazon Runs Consumer-powered Promos With Kelloggs and Food Network Kitchen For Feeidng America To mark World Food Day on Oct. 16, and extending to Nov. 1, e-commerce giant Amazon has resurrected its Stream it Forward promo using the Food Kitchen Network app, as well as partnered with Kellogg's to raise funds for Feeding America by asking the public to…
5 Ways To Support Lebanon As it Struggles to Recover from Beirut Blasts
5 Ways To Support Lebanon As it Struggles to Recover from Beirut Blasts Damage from Aug. 4 blast in Beirut — photo credit: Islamic Relief Centre The widespread devastation in Beirut from the Aug. 4 twin explosions on its dockfront has Lebanon requiring urgent aid and relief efforts to support ongoing recovery efforts. That Middle Eastern country's…
Alessia Cara Donates EP Royalties To Save the Children For 21 Years
Alessia Cara Donates EP Royalties To Save the Children For 21 Years Alessia Cara promo shot Alessia Cara will donated net royalties from her new EP to Save the Children for the next 21 years. The Grammy-winning Canadian singer-songwriter said the release of This Summer: Live Off the Floor on July 17 has come amid the impact of the coronavirus pandemic…
Robert Kraft's Super Bowl Ring Auction Raises $1.02 Million for Food Charities
Robert Kraft's Super Bowl Ring Auction Raises $1.02 Million for Food Charities Robert Kraft's Super Bowl LI ring — photo credit: All In ChallengeNew England Patriots owner Robert Kraft donated a Super Bowl ring to be auctioned off to support food charities Feeding America, Meals On Wheels, World Central Kitchen and No Kid Hungry during the…
Toronto Blue Jays’ From Home Plate to Your Plate Food Drive
Toronto Blue Jays’ From Home Plate to Your Plate Food Drive The Toronto Blue Jays and its Jays Care Foundation have launched the From Home Plate to Your Plate virtual fundraising food drive to benefit Food Banks Canada. The charitable organization’s 2019 “HungerCount” report showed there were 1.08 million visits to 2,326 reporting food banks, resulting…
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble Raises More Than $6 Million
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble Raises More Than $6 Million Mike Myers was just one of many Canadians to participate in Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble — photo credit: screenshot. Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble raised more than $6 million for Food Banks Canada in the first 24 hours. The 90-minute multi-platform special was the most-watched non-sports…
Stars Galore To Participate in Historical Canadian Fundraiser Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Stars Galore To Participate in Historical Canadian Fundraiser Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble A star-studded all-Canadian lineup of artists, activists, actors, and athletes are joining forces April 26 in support of Food Banks Canada for special entitled Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, the biggest multi-platform broadcast in Canadian history. Among the…
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello perform for iHeart Living Room Concert For America — screenshot. Amid the coronavirus crisis, major at-home fundraising concerts have taken place to raise funds for frontline workers, food security, and other related-issues arising from the the impact of the…
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight photo credit: Kaikoro (iStock)The three multi-national major labels, Universal, Warner and Sony, have all taken significant steps to help their employees, as well as artists and songwriters, by dedicating funds to aid them during the covid-19 pandemic. How the monies are being allocated by…
Shania Twain, Lady Antebellum, Many Others To Perform for Five-Night Country Music Charity Concert Series
Shania Twain, Lady Antebellum, Many Others To Perform for Five-Night Country Music Charity Concert Series The Canadian Country Music Association Foundation is joining with 20 country music performers for Canada Together: In Concert, a five-night TV at-home concert series to support the COVID-19 relief efforts by Food Banks Canada and Unison Benevolent…
Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Others Help Launch $15 Million Food Fund
Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Others Help Launch $15 Million Food Fund Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurene Powell Jobs and Oprah Winfrey have made donations to help launch America's Food Fund, via GoFundMe page, to help tackle hunger during the COVID-19 crisis. The fund will work initially with existing hunger relief charities World Central Kitchen and…
Schitt's Creek Cast Asks Fans To Contribute To Food Bank Funding Campaign, Halfway There
Schitt's Creek Cast Asks Fans To Contribute To Food Bank Funding Campaign, Halfway There Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy — photo provided. The cast behind the popular Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek have asked their fans to help tackle food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis by supporting Food Banks Canada and Feeding…
Slaight Family Foundation Donate $3M to Four Food-Focused Organizations
Slaight Family Foundation Donate $3M to Four Food-Focused Organizations Photo credit: iStock's mangostock.The Slaight Family Foundation, the philanthropic fund created by the Toronto-based broadcast media family, is donating $3 million to help bring food security to people in need during the COVID-19 crisis. The recipients are Breakfast Club of Canada,…