#benefit-concerts

#benefit-concerts

"Live music is one of the most powerful ways fans connect with the artists they love-something we've seen firsthand through the livestream performances we've brought to fans worldwide," said Karolina Joynathsing, Director of Business Development, Amazon Music.

Broadway Bares: License to Strip is a spy-inspired spectacle that leans into intrigue, fantasy, and a whole lot of skin, featuring over 200 dancers.

Duboce ParkJam is a free event sponsored by Friends of Duboce Park, encouraging attendees to bring blankets, chairs, and picnics for an enjoyable afternoon of music.

Gigs allows users to import concert details from various sources, utilizing Apple's Foundation Models to extract dates, venues, and lineups, creating a comprehensive concert archive.

"The bikes we give are brand new, because part of it is the delight of getting a new bike. These kids have been in treatment for so long and can miss out on big stages of development."

The annual Show of Hope gala benefiting the San Francisco Community Health Center's lifesaving services took place on April 4, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

Despite expert treatment, Andrew's illness led to multiple organ complications and extensive treatment in the ICU, where he is still receiving treatment over 6 weeks later.

The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s.

Most for-profit companies still confine nonprofit relationships to corporate philanthropy. Donations flow through foundations, annual reports highlight community contributions, and nonprofit engagement is framed as evidence of corporate responsibility.

In frightening times, it makes a huge difference not to feel alone. Creating art with others in community enhances agency and strengthens self. Creativity requires an open heart; love enhances hope and diminishes fear.

Why do I get to be the runner, and these guys get to be the homeless guys on the corner? Why can't we all be runners? She didn't have an answer. It would've been easy to let that question dissolve with her footsteps. Most people would have. But Mahlum saw something in those men that others had missed.

I've always thought it would be good to acquire an old warehouse in every town throughout the land and convert it into low-rent community workspaces for artists, local charities and small businesses getting off the ground. A kind of people's WeWork. What would others do with a humungous, but not unlimited, pile of dosh to benefit society? Roland Freeman, West Yorkshire Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

Losing staff could be detrimental to the projects we worked on, and there was a growing dissatisfaction with how meetings were run. These mostly one-sided discussions left the quieter half of us feeling pushed aside, like our thoughts didn't matter much. If things stayed this way, I worried the good people on our team would start quitting one by one.

"Hello, how are you doing? Good to see you," says Honor Cousens, as she pushes a trolley loaded with cold drinks, sweets, biscuits, toiletries, newspapers and magazines. The volunteer at the Royal London Hospital is a familiar face on the wards, and has been supporting staff and patients for many years. She is part of the Friends of the Royal London Hospital, a charity that has been running at the Whitechapel site since 1979.

"Are you okay?" These were Alex Pretti's last words, said to a woman after ICE agents had tackled and pepper-sprayed her. Videos from bystanders show Pretti holding up a phone, attempting to document what was happening before he himself was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground, and killed by those officers. He lost his life not for committing violence, but for documenting it, and stepping in to protect someone facing it.

As if demolishing the East Wing, gutting arts agencies, and slapping his name and face on several federal buildings weren't enough, the US president now wants to do away with a DC building known as the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal art." This week, we reported on a burgeoning campaign to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, and other major American artists. We will continue to follow this story.

Ground Control Touring held their fourth annual Abortion Access Benefit Series on Saturday, with shows in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Austin raising funds for independent abortion clinics. The NYC edition, which happened at Bowery Ballroom, featured performances from Been Stellar, Golden Apples, Holidays in United States, Joyer, Sharp Pins, Victoryland, and Widowspeak, and DJ sets from Maurice, Icky!/Shower Curtain, Lip Critic, and Mgna Crrrta, with Sienna Hubert-Ross hosting, and you can see pictures from the night by Emilio Herce below.

Broadway Bound Kids, the nonprofit that provides performing arts education to New York City students K-12, will be hosting their fourth annual benefit concert, Empower State of Mind, on Feb. 2 at City Winery in Manhattan at 7:30 pm. The evening will include show-stopping performances by theater legends who have starred on the Broadway stage. The participating performers include Kate Baldwin (Chicago), Kelsee Kimmel (Hell's Kitchen), Storm Lever (Six), Olivia Donalson (Six), Daniel Quadrino (Wicked) and Jacob Keith Watson (Ragtime), among others.

The Emerald Ball is more than just a fundraising event; it is a vital reflection of IMPACCT Brooklyn's core values: quality, transparency, consistency, and partnership. At its heart, the Ball serves as a powerful catalyst to ignite possibility within the communities we serve, demonstrating the profound potential that exists when people are empowered and supported.