Ice Bucket Challenge: Antoine Roussel
Roussel accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Vernon Fiddler, Ryan Garbutt, and Alex Burrows.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Jimmy Kimmel
Kimmel accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Ed Harding (ABC5-Boston), Kerry Washington, and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and nominates Matt Damon.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Victoria Azarenka
Azarenka accepts the ALS challenge and nominates Laird Hamilton and Joakim Noah.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Ana Ivanovic
Ivanovic accepts ALS challenge and nominates Roger Federer, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Serena Williams.
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Schweinsteiger does a creative form of the Ice Bucket Challenge from a roof, passing opponents likes a soccer game and several kids dump bucket of water on the star at the end.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Frank Beamer
Beamer accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Bruce Arians.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Duff McKagan
McKagan accepts the ALS Challenge and nominates Zakk Wilde, Corey Taylor, Joe Elliot and Steve Jones.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Harry Douglas
Douglas accepts the ALS challenge from Matt Ryan and nominates LaBron James.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Matt Ryan
Ryan accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Roddy White, Julio Jones and Harry Douglas to do the same.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Martha Stewart
Stewart is challenged by Matt Lauer and accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. She nominates Ellen DeGeneres, Blake Lively and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Donates to Houston housing project
Beyonce’ donates $7 million to a Houston, TX low-income housing project. The 43-unit apartment complex, which has been named Knowles-Temenos Place offers housing to low-income and homeless individuals. Pastor Rudy Rasmus:
She’s an incredible human being. Has an incredible heart and has been extremely helpful in our mission and our ministry here.
Retweet donation raises over $150K
Ver creates a donation program for Ulbright’s legal fund:
I’ll give $10 to @Free_Ross for each RT. If guilty, he’s a hero. If innocent, he needs help.http://freeross.org/
The post quickly receives over 15,000 retweets, or around $150,000, which Ver pledges will be give to the Free Ross Ulbright campaign. In a statement to Coin Telegraph:
I think that each individual owns their own body, and has the absolute right to put whatever they want into it. The police, judges, and jail guards who lock people in cages for ingesting substances without the permission of strangers, are the ones committing evil and need to stop. If Ross Ulbricht is DPR and helped facilitate the these voluntary interactions, he is a hero for helping provide the technology that allowed peaceful people to ignore the violent threats from strangers calling themselves politicians and law enforcement. If Ross is falsely accused, and was not DPR, then he deserves the best defense money can buy. Either way, he deserves the support of anyone who is opposed to the war on drugs.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Blair O’Neal
Blair O’Neal accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Zack Byrd, Ryan O’Toole and Greg Norman.
Wounded Warrior Project donation
Starbucks donates $50,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project – a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to men and women who incurred physical or mental injuries while serving in the military. For every specially marked Verismo System that was sold, $5 of the funds went to the Project.
There’s so much more that we can do. It feels good to know that we – along with our customers – are helping make a difference in the lives of military men and women with specific needs after their service.
Pledges $50m to teach girls to code
Google pledges $50 million over the next three years into its Made With Code effort. The Company hopes to connect more girls to CS courses available through Khan Academy or Code academy. Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube says that less than 1% of high school girls expressed an interest in majoring in computer science.
Coding isn’t just a skill useful for working at a tech company; engineering isn’t just for engineers. Interior design. Medicine. Architecture. Music. No matter what a girl dreams of doing, learning how to code will help her get there.
Youth center project
Sheeran buys a police station, to convert into a youth center, for his home town of Framlingham, Suffolk. Sheeran has spent more than £1 million on the home town that he credits for getting him started in music. His dream is to retire in his home town and give back by running the community center.
Donates to Chime Projects
Beyonce’ donates a total of $500,000 to Chime Projects, a program for girls and women in the areas of education, health and justice. Chimes co-founder, Frida Giannini:
At the Gucci Chime for Change event in NYC, Beyoncé just announced a personal donation of $500,000 to the charity.
$200K National Recording Preservation Foundation donation
White donates $200,000 to help launch the National Recording Preservation Foundation. The donation allows the foundation to start awarding grants and debut its National Recording Preservation Plan. Chairman Brylawski:
With its national plan, the Library of Congress has laid the groundwork for the long-term preservation of our audio history but the challenges to achieving this at a significant scale are daunting. I hope that Mr. White’s extraordinarily generous donation inspires many others, especially those in the recording business — record companies, artists, songwriters, and others — to follow his lead to help ensure that we are able to preserve and make accessible recent and historical recordings at risk of loss.
Donates to Barrier Brewing Company
Ommegang presents a check for $9,300 to the Barrier Brewing Company to aid in repairs. The donation, stemming from the Barrier Relief Ale collaboration, includes contributions from Ommegang and from Union Beer Distributers located in Brooklyn. Union Beer Distributers donated $10 for every keg sold ($3200) and Ommegang donated all of their profit from the collaboration ($6100).
$75,000 cancer donation
Sheen donates $75,000.00 to a police officer with a 10 year old daughter who was recently diagnosed with cancer. The donation is placed in a family fund to help pay for their incurred expenses.
No parent should have to watch their kid go through that.