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March 4th 2008

Celebrities Donate Gowns For The 27 Dresses Charity Auction

Filed under: campaigns, contests, fashion, shopping, thegreenpicture, web — parrish @ 10:26 am

What do Kylie, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Amy Winehouse and Renee Zellweger have in common? They’re all donating gowns to the 27 Dresses Celebrity Dress Auction…starting today! 

The auction is going live on eBay tonight at 7pm and will help raise funds for the Lavender Trust charity- a group supporting women suffering with breast cancer. All the dresses will be sold on eBay at three-day intervals until the release of the film.

Many of the donations are well known red carpet dresses, and straight off the backs of people like Mariah Carey, Geri Halliwell, Thandie Newton, Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum. 

Obviously, the auction comes just in time for the release of Katherine Heigl’s latest film, 27 Dresses, which will hit nationwide March 27th (insert obvious plug here). 

So if you just gotta, gotta, gotta dress like a star and want to help a super neat charity, visit the 27 Dresses Celebrity Dress Auction homepage and find out more.

December 6th 2007

Charity Beat: Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman Sign Kites For Afghans

Filed under: campaigns, donations — michael @ 4:48 pm

Celebrities such as Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Madonna, and Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal have given their signatures to 25 authentic Afghan kites that will go up for auction. The money raised will benefit the the Afghanistan Relief Organization; which directly supports the training of teachers and the building of libraries and education facilities in the newly developing country. [via DVDfeed]

Chef Jaime Oliver raised more than $456,000 at a dinner last night for his Fifteen Foundation. The organization helps train unemployed young people to become chefs and work in the restaurant business. Oliver will use the money to build a training kitchen above Fifteen to help the local community, and increase the number of apprentices each year to 45. [via Bloomberg]

U2 frontman Bono is joining artist Damien Hirst in organizing a charity art auction at Sotheby’s for Valentine’s Day ‘08. Expected to go under the hammer are pieces by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. All of the art presented will revolve around the RED theme and benefit HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa. Sotheby’s expects the auction to raise more than $40 million dollars. [via International Herald Tribune]

November 30th 2007

Maggie Gyllenhaal Fights Poverty With Designer Necklace

The gift that keeps on giving

Filed under: campaigns, donations — michael @ 10:53 am

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has teamed up with the org Trickle Up and New York designer TenThousandThings to create a necklace to help fight poverty this holiday season.

The necklace is part of Tricke Up’s “Seed A Dream” campaign which features a 75-second animated short narrated by Maggie and highlights three visual storylines on how it takes so little to seed a dream in these foreign lands. At the end of the short, the three stories morph into the necklace.

So, want to help? You can pick up this pretty bauble for $100 and it will be delivered before Christmas with a holiday card describing their work. Check out the video with Maggie’s work below:

November 29th 2007

Eco-Hip Babies Take Over Hollywood!

Filed under: babies and bumps, fashion, green and famous, products — parrish @ 12:19 pm

Distinctive Assets, an entertainment marketing and corporate gifting company (typing that makes me feel rich), is putting together a “gift box” for celebrity parents full of various odds and ends for their kiddies this holiday season. Some of the celebrities selected include, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Will Ferrell. In a step towards the “green” direction, Distinctive Assets has selected Farmerkids Organics, a NYC based organic kids clothing and accessory company, to participate by donating one of their organic cotton shirts or hand-stitched hats to the mix.

Farmerkids Organics boasts a product that is unbleached, pesticide-free and is made right here in the ol’ USA. The products are simple in nature and packaged with scraps of cotton, recycled paper bags and hemp cords to tie it all together-proving you don’t have to sacrifice Mother Earth for baby Pitt.  To organify the little tyke in your life you can check out their whole line here.