The widow of Apple founder and impresario Steve Jobs is now the ninth-wealthiest woman in the world. Fortunately for all of us, she has an eye toward charitable giving.

Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre are hoping to strike gold through establishing an innovation-centered academy at a California university.

Leonardo DiCaprio hosted a charity auction that brought in $38.8 million for environmental and conservation projects.

How much is the time of one of the most successful people in the world worth? Better make that a venti.

The charitable deduction controversy reverberates through federal and state policy discussions, but does the possibility of changes in the tax code really affect charitable giving behavior?

A searing new investigation by the Boston Globe finds that many professional athletes’ charities are not even close to operating in line with basic best practices.

In one of the worst end results from celebrity charity we’ve seen, a headline in USA TODAY reads, “Andy Roddick sues cancer charity for unpaid appearance fee.”

What motivated the Church of Scientology’s biggest donor? We’ll give you one guess.

Matt Damon has announced that he isn’t going to the bathroom anymore. What does that mean and why should you care?

Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is healthy enough to leave the hospital and now has a charitable fund.

Colin Greenwood, the bassist for the British rock band Radiohead, recently concluded an 11-day trip to South Africa to work with the Children’s Radio Foundation.

Why is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg hosting a fundraiser for Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) after a $100 million donation to Mayor Cory Booker’s Newark, N.J. school system? We have a guess.

Even though Lance Armstrong has left the board of LIVESTRONG, the organization is still associated with him in the public’s mind and it has already suffered from its founder’s disgrace.

Stephen Colbert, host of the satirical Comedy Central television program, “The Colbert Report,” announced that he will donate the remainder of money raised by his super PAC to charities—and makes a statement in doing so.

Pop music icon Lady Gaga recently bought 55 items that belonged to another pop singer, the late Michael Jackson, at auction, but reports that it was all for charity are incorrect.

How does a charity suddenly show up with over $157,000 in assets, spend it all out in one year, go bankrupt with a very visible socialite – Jill Kelley - in charge, and no one notices? Until now, that is.

Why is it that the Michael J. Fox Foundation always seems to strike us as the exemplary celebrity charity?

Older, well-heeled philanthropists like Bob Hope and Walter and Leonore Annenberg have watered the charity garden in Palm Springs, Calif., but who will take their place, and what are they seeking?

Now that George Lucas is selling his company to Disney for more than $4 million, the Star Wars creator, already among Hollywood’s most charitable, says he plans to focus, in part, on philanthropy.

In support of her new Forty to None Project, pop icon Cyndi Lauper, co-founder of the True Colors Fund, prepares a second annual “Home for the Holidays” concert with other celebrities.

If you’re a professional hockey player, what do you do when your fellow players and the owners can’t come to an agreement in the current National Hockey League lockout?

Comedy Central’s fourth biennial “Night of Too Many Stars,” a phone bank broadcast fundraiser for educational programs for those with autism, pulls out all the stops.

A New York State attorney general’s investigation charges that singer Wyclef Jean’s Haiti charity, Yéle, used funding in inappropriate ways and failed to deliver on several projects.

A slew of celebrities, including Edward Norton, Eva Longoria, and Snoop Dogg, are showing off their wordplay skills in a charity tournament of “Words With Friends.”

The Casey Anthony trial created a subculture that need not be revived here. But the brief and all too vague history Caylee’s Fund creates an impression of a none too salutary charitable endeavor.

At age 82, Louise Harrison has started an effort to keep the arts alive – using the siren call of the music of the Beatles – a band, by the way, that her brother, George, used to be a part of.

Every year, the Glide Foundation auctions off a lunch with Warren Buffet and the proceeds have broken records every year. This year was no exception. 

In Marin County, Calif., film legend George Lucas has decided to scrap plans to build a new digital studio and instead offer land up for affordable housing, and not all neighbors are pleased.

Country singer and actor Tim McGraw has declared that he will give each of 25 veterans a mortgage-free house this summer as he tours the country with Kenny Chesney.

To celebrate 30 years of Newman’s Own, the late actor’s foundation will give away more $30 million to various charities this year.