Lady Gaga’s Philanthropy Encourages Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities: Lady Gaga hooked up with Virgin Mobile during her 2nd global tour – Monster Ball – and offered premium VIP tickets that offered charitable volunteer opportunities to her fans. Gaga has been on the music scene two short years, yet she was voted celebrity philanthropist of 2010. And for good reason: Her Monster Ball VIP ticket offering generated over $80,000 to support homeless youth and 30,000 hours of community service to be undertaken at charities across the country. A recipient of the evening’s generosity, The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to eradicating homelessness in the United States.
Gaga Supports More Than Volunteer Opportunities
Gaga is aware of and supports a multitude of issues through concert sales, online donations and show ticket sales. With her January 24, 2010 show, all three areas totaled over $500,000 in support of victims of the Haiti quake; most specifically for charities based in Haiti. Lady Gaga also encourages fans to finish their education on a successful note so they might have “choices” in life. In May, she joined Sir Elton John at the 16th Annual Rainforest Benefit celebrating the organization’s 21st anniversary.
But Lady Gaga’s true passion is national equality for gays and lesbians. She considered her speech at the National Equality March in October 2009 to be one of the most important events of her career to date. Gaga recently joined Cyndi Lauper and MAC Cosmetics to fight HIV and AIDS; the campaign is targeted to educate women about the risks of this disease. Gaga and Lauper have launched their own lipstick line with MAC; all net proceeds of line sales are donated to prevent HIV and AIDS worldwide.
Seizing Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Microgiving applauds Lady Gaga and all of her philanthropy efforts. Like Lady Gaga, Microgiving works to help other through the online donations of others. If you would like to assist Microgiving in crowdfunding efforts – or you might benefit from our help – please register with our website and see what volunteer opportunities are available.
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