Topic: daily do-gooder

Christina Applegate for Surfrider Foundation: Daily Do-Gooder

Christina Applegate for Surfrider Foundation: Daily Do-Gooder

This Saturday, Christina Applegate is hosting the fifth annual Celebrity Expression Session for Surfrider Foundation – an organization that works to protect oceans and beaches. The event, which will take place this year at First Point, Surfrider Beach in Malibu, is meant to attract celebrities willing to show off their skills while raising money for every wave they catch and ride (event sponsors like Barefoot Wine and Cali Bamboo are donating $100 per wave caught and ridden). More »

George Clooney’s Tux for Charity: Daily Do-Gooder

George Clooney's Tux for Charity: Daily Do-Gooder

Who doesn’t want to get into George Clooney’s pants? Well, now here’s your chance. We featured a post-Emmy-Awards Clooney and his irresistible charms in last Tuesday’s Daily Do-Gooder, but his clothes keep giving to charity long after he’s taken them off. Clothes Off Our Back is auctioning off the hunky humanitarian’s custom-made Giorgio Armani suits. Proceeds will benefit nonprofit charities including: Feeding America, Malaria No More, Hope North, AbilityFirst, Villa Esperanza, and Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Clooney’s tuxedo pants and two full tuxedos will be up for auction until September 14.

You may not be able to turn your man into George (and score an Italian villa), but at least you can dress him up in Clooney’s tux – and then just close your eyes. More »

Taylor Swift Rebuilds Hometown Playground: Daily Do-Gooder

Taylor Swift Rebuilds Hometown Playground: Daily Do-Gooder

You can’t ever go home again, but you can visit briefly and donate a lot of money to a good cause. That’s why we’re particularly proud of country superstar Taylor Swift, who, despite her early career success (which includes a fling with another talented Taylor – score!), has given $100,000 to rebuild a flooded playground in her hometown of Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift went to school in Hendersonville, and the local park was flooded earlier this year. So Swift did her roots a solid. More »

J.K. Rowling Funds Multiple Sclerosis Clinic: Daily Do-Gooder

J.K. Rowling Funds Multiple Sclerosis Clinic: Daily Do-Gooder

J.K. Rowling made millions off the Harry Potter Series, but you can’t say she didn’t do well with her fortune: It was announced yesterday that she’s donating $15.4 million to set up a clinic for Multiple Sclerosis testing and research at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, in honor of her mother, who died of complications related to MS when she was only 45 years old. More »