American Express and Take Part begin new project in which they will donate $4 million annually to charity organizations according to public vote and reward people for $5 per hour of volunteer to up to $100 per year. All of this is in addition to about $30 million charity given by American Express.
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Shakira, the Colombian pop star, received from the United Nations a medal in respect to her charity work for children. Shakira has founded the Barefoot Foundation which provides education and nutrition to 6,000 children and is a founding member of the ALAS foundation.
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Beyonce Knowles will play as the legendary singer Etta James in the new film Cadillac Records. Her full salary from this movie, about $4 million, will be a donation to a drug treatment center.
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The nonprofit Wikipedia project has met its $6 million fund raising goal, enables to improve the software of the site and upgrading the servers and the site bandwidth. About 50,000 contributors donated a total of $2 million in just 8 days.
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During the year of 2008, Madonna donated more than 3 million dollars through charitable organizations. Some of her donations were towards cancer and Aids research, but the most of the donations were towards the Kabbalah Center.
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