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Trae Tha Truth made the trek to Mississippi this week to combat Jackson’s water crisis.According to TMZ, the Houston rapper and his team delivered water filters, groceries, and enough supplies to “support up to 50 families.”“Me and my team, you know, we went out there with filters,” Trae told Houston’s KPRC-TV .“Filters don’t necessarily make it the safest. But it puts them in a better standpoint than where they were. We went out there, we blessed hundreds of families with water filters where they can actually have kids…

Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia.Courtesy of Jeff Johnson and PatagoniaPatagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, his spouse and two adult children are giving away their ownership in the apparel maker he started some 50 years ago, dedicating all profits from the company to projects and organizations that will protect wild land and biodiversity and fight the climate crisis.The company is worth about $3 billion, according to the New York Times.In a letter about the decision, published on the Patagonia website on…

Inspired by the record-fast creation of messenger RNA vaccines that blunted the impact of COVID-19, a philanthropist is providing AU$250 million ($172 million) over 20 years to try the same with therapeutics during future pandemic threats. The donation will fund a research center in Melbourne that will develop technologies to quickly create antiviral treatments such as monoclonal antibodies when new infectious diseases emerge. Geoffrey Cumming, who made a global fortune in oil…

Actor Johnny Deep recently sold off his NFTs from his art community, Never Fear Truth, and donated all proceeds to aid charities in need. Interestingly, the list of organisations that received the donation also includes the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, associated with the actor’s ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp’s NFT sale raised a total of $8,00,000. (Also read: Amber Heard asks court to dismiss defamation trial verdict)Never Fever Truth NFT (non-fungible token) tweeted, “Johnny Depp’s Never Fear Truth NFT sale was…

Johnny Depp has donated the proceeds from an NFT sale to four charities, including the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, which has ties to Amber Heard. On Wednesday (6 July), Depp’s Never Fear Truth NFT (non-fungible token) platform announced that it had raised “nearly $800,000 (£666,530) in total donations” which was split between four organisations. The tweet went on to name the beneficiaries: “Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation (via CAF America), Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (via CAF America),…

AMSTERDAM: Uber said that it had donated a customised version of its "Uber Direct" software app to the U.N.'s World Food Programme to help distribute food in Ukraine. The WFP is scaling up operations in Ukraine and expects to be able to provide food and cash to 3 million people per month by June, the agency said in a joint statement with Uber. The software will allow the WFP to coordinate a fleet of vehicles and track deliveries in real time to densely populated areas where larger vehicles might not be able to travel…

Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel (L) and Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off (R)ReutersKen Griffin, billionaire founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, placed the winning $8 million bid in an auction Monday for a seat on a spaceflight with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.Bezos' company donated two seats on its New Shepard rocket for a "buy one, give one" auction at the nonprofit Robin Hood's annual benefit for New York City, with the second seat going to a city teacher.But Griffin will not launch to space himself,…