Extreme Celebrity Giving

Come the vacation season, we all put option a few other vaulting horses in the aggregation plate or driblet some alteration in the Redemption Army bucket. If you're a celebrity, you can just drop your pants.

That's right. When Hollywood's hottest aid a cause they've got wealthiness and celebrity in their favor. And that open ups doors to some very originative giving.

This year, Queen Victoria Beckham will deprive for charity. London's Daily Mirror studies Beckham, 33, will look in the fan on T-shirts for interior designer Marc Jacobs, the return going to a tegument malignant neoplastic disease charity. Stars such as as Julianne Moore, Dita Von Teese and Noemi Joseph Campbell all got bare for his shirts in 2006, raising 30,000 pounds.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have got been wise to this for old age with their long-running "I'd Rather Travel Bare Than Wear Fur" campaign, featuring musca volitans by Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Pamela Anderson.

Supermodel Noemi Joseph Campbell cognizes the value of celebrity and glamor too. She enlisted people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for her "Fashion For Relief" demoes in New House Of York and Greater London to profit victims of Hurricane Katrina and this year's U.K. floods, respectively. Beyoncé, Wyclef Jean, Faye Dunaway and British association football star Rio De Janeiro Ferdinand were among the models.

If you're fabulously rich, opportunities are you can afford to portion with some of the material in your closet. Earlier this year, U2 guitar player Edge donated one of his guitars for an auction bridge benefiting Hurricane Katrina victims. The Price Is Right host British Shilling Barker donated one of his mikes for an eBay
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Another option not readily available to the remainder of us: moviemaking. Former Frailty President Aluminum Al Gore raised consciousness about planetary heating with An Inconvenient Truth. Bonus: Well-executed movies with a cause often make well during awarding season. An Inconvenient Truth, the Uncle Tom Tom Hanks 1994 acquired immune deficiency syndrome play City Of Brotherly Love and the 2000 Julia Richard J. Roberts legal play Erin Brockovich all South Korean won Oscars.

Getting busted by the bulls is another attention-grabber. Nothing serious, head you, just acquire arrested for disorderly behavior or trespassing to bring forth news insurance for a cause. Just inquire Danny Glover, who was arrested in 2004 during a protestation against the race murder in the Darfur part of Sudan, or Heroes star Hayden Panettiere, who was reportedly issued an apprehension warrant last calendar month by Nipponese police force after she paddled out on a surfboard in southwesterly Japanese Islands with other militants to forestall a dolphinfish hunt.

Paulette Maehara, president and main executive director of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Arlington, Va., have long worked with people on charitable causes. She admonishes there are risks. They might make something foolish or irresponsible that could reflect badly on an organization. Or they could simply flake out and not demo up for an visual aspect at a widely publicized charity event.

But the possible benefits are difficult to ignore, such as as a celebrity's name acknowledgment and his or her connexions to other entertainers and flush would-be donors.

"There's greater consciousness for the charity,'' Maehara says. "There's a batch of exposure."