Over the year‘s Michael Jackson supported many charities & foundations, so much so he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star”. As a humanitarian, he is perhaps best known for “We Are the World”, the 1985 song he wrote with Lionel Richie that raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa.
Here is a list of charities that Michael supported;
AIDS Project Los Angeles
American Cancer Society
American Foundation for AIDS Research
Amnesty International
BID 2 BEAT AIDS
Big Brothers Big Sisters
BMI Foundation
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Brotherhood Crusade
Bush Clinton Katrina Fund
Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times
Caudwell Children
Celebrity Fight Night Foundation
Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project
Childhelp USA
Children in Need
Children's Defense Fund
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Institute Inc.
Clinton Foundation
Congressional Black Caucus
Cure4Lupus
DonorsChoose.org
Dreams Come True
Dream Street
Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Elton John AIDS Foundation
End Hunger Network
Farm Aid
Feeding America
GLAAD
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Greenpeace
HEART
Help for Heroes
Jane Goodall Institute
JDRF
Keep Memory Alive
LIFEbeat
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Minority AIDS Projects
Motown Museum
Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center
Muscular Dystrophy Association
MusiCares
NAACP
New York Restoration Project
Oprah's Angel Network
Oxfam
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
PETA
Prince's Trust
Project Angel Food
Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Randy Foye Foundation
Red Cross
Rock the Vote
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California
Society of Singers
Stand Up For A Cure
Starlight Children's Foundation
Starship Foundation
The Black Eyed Peas Foundation
TJ Martell Foundation
UNAIDS
UNICEF
United Nations Foundation
United Negro College Fund
Volunteers of America
Women's Image Network
YMCA