Celebrity

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The Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April is the opportunity for plenty of fundraising. Here are some of the initiatives we've spotted. What have we missed?

The Digital Death campaign earlier this month for the Keep a Child Alive Foundation raised $950,000 in under a week using a combination of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

I daresay I wasn’t the only one to be a bit surprised to read of the recent £1,000,000 donation that the actor Ricky Tomlinson (Royle Family, etc) made to Ronald McDonald House.

Never knowingly underdone, the build up to the 2010 World Cup seems to have gone on forever in England.

I once saw an extremely funny American comedian who explained that the only way you could ever hope to be cured of a major disease was if someone famous also had it. 

Recent research from the University of Kent has suggested that some of the techniques we might associate with the more cheesy end of consumer advertising might actually help to support fundraising campaigns.

Comedian and author Stephen Fry has used his high-profile Twitter account to help boost donations for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, following a direct appeal via a Twitter message from the father of

Whilst not related to fundraising specifically (PG's links to the Rain Forest Alliance aside), I thought it worth a mention because I think it is an excellent example of 21st century, coordinated advertising.

Some celebrities become untouchable. For very different reasons. We won’t hear a bad word about Michael Palin or Dame Judi Dench.