- The Giving Back Fund's Headlines
- More coming soon about our newest
Foundations: Antoine Bethea Foundation,
Jordan Farmer Foundation, Maurice
Jones-Drew Foundation, and Leonard
Weaver Foundation
- Utah's Jazz's Carlos Boozer and his wife Cece
establish Boozer's Buddies to assist families
affected by Sickle Cell Disease
- The Loved World by Tamar Geller rescues
shelter dogs and helps reduce recidivism of
prison inmates
- Shawn Marion establishes The Shawn
Marion Foundation to support single parent
families
- Bobcats' Gerald Wallace establishes the Gerald
Wallace Foundation to improve the lives of
children in Charlotte, NC and Childersburg,
Alabama
- The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation grants
to Pittsburgh area K-9 units will be announced in
April. Applicants will be notified. The grant cycle
for this year is closed. Please revisit the website
for updates on next year's grant cycle
 | Scholarship Applications |
- Shane and Heidi Battier provide scholarships
for members of the Boys and Girls Club of South
Oakland; applications available from the
Executive Director's office
- La'Roi Glover Foundation provides
scholarships for high school seniors at Point
Loma High School in San Diego; applications
available in the Guidance office
- Jalen Rose Foundation scholarship
applications available online
The Giving Back Fund is a national nonprofit
organization established in 1997 to help promote
effective philanthropy in the sports and
entertainment communities.
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Our Vision A society in which becoming a successful philanthropist is as valued and desirable a goal as success in athletics, business, entertainment, or any other field. |
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Giving Back 30
Oprah Winfrey tops the inaugural Giving
Back 30, a list compiled by The Giving
Back Fund of the celebrities who have
made the largest personal public
donations to charity in 2006. Rounding
out the top five are the estates of the late
fashion designer Geoffrey Beene and the
late actor Jack Lord and his wife Marie,
singer/actress Barbra Streisand, and
golfer Tiger Woods.
The 2007 list will be announced in the
spring.
Continue to encourage
responsible and effective
celebrity philanthropy
Oprah Winfrey tops the inaugural Giving
Back 30, a list compiled by The Giving
Back Fund of the celebrities who have
made the largest personal public
donations to charity in 2006. Rounding
out the top five are the estates of the late
fashion designer Geoffrey Beene and the
late actor Jack Lord and his wife Marie,
singer/actress Barbra Streisand, and
golfer Tiger Woods.
The 2007 list will be announced in the
spring.
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| Related Story: 2005 Calendar | |
| Honorees |
Continue to encourage
responsible and effective
celebrity philanthropy
| the premier philanthropic resource for the sports and entertainment communities |
Our Mission
The Giving Back Fund is a national
public charity with the following goals:
The Giving Back Fund is a national
public charity with the following goals:
- To help cultivate a new group of
philanthropists within the
entertainment and sports
industries, with a particular
emphasis on groups often
underrepresented in traditional
philanthropy such as people of
color, women, and youth - To help establish new
philanthropic role-models who
will inspire others to give back
to their communities and create
a high-profile, mutually
supportive charitable
community that works together,
when appropriate, in support of
a diverse range of missions and
goals - To honor philanthropy in all of
its aspects, whether manifested
by the giving of time, talent, or
money to assist others - To encourage and support new
philanthropy by offering
professional, strategic, and cost-
effective philanthropic
consulting and management
services
Sponsors and Corporate Supporters
We thank the following corporate sponsors and
supporters for sharing our passion to give back:
As a public charity we can only continue toencourage and honor charitable giving with your
support.
We thank the following corporate sponsors and
supporters for sharing our passion to give back:
 | Arden Realty | |
| Blanchard Press | |
| BurrellesLuce | |
| Changing Our World | |
| GivingTree | |
| Google Inc. | |
| Grassroots.org | |
| LA84 | |
| Time Warner, Inc. |
As a public charity we can only continue to
support.
| The Best Practices Fundraising Summit 2008 convened by The Giving Back Fund in collaboration with the University of Southern California's Sports Business Institute Thank you to our Sponsors, Attendees and Volunteers for making the Summit such a success! *** “I can't thank you both enough for inviting me to your absolutely fabulous Philanthropic Summit. It was very informative… -!!” - Diana Miller, Executive Director of Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation
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| Jalen Rose with scholarship recipients |
| La'Roi Glover with his "Little" |
| Gerald Wallace rebuilding community gym |
| Carmani Boozer |