Celebrity Apprentice Charities

Trace Adkins
$0
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network

Carol Alt
$40,000
Tony Alt Memorial Foundation Inc.
Benefits various children’s causes

Stephen Baldwin
$89,000
Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund

Nadia Comaneci
$0
Special Olympics
Benefits athletes with intellectual disabilities

Tiffany Fallon
$0
Walter Reed Society
Benefits the Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Jennie Finch
$0
Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Nely Galan
$0
Count Me In
Benefits women entrepreneurs

Marilu Henner
$0
The Cancer Project
Promotes cancer prevention and survival through healthy living habits

Lennox Lewis
$40,000
Muhammad Ali Center
Honors the champion boxer’s life and achievements

Piers Morgan
$366,000
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
Benefits injured soldiers and their families

Omarosa
$0
Positive Vibrations
Motivates and inspires at-risk youth

Tito Ortiz
$20,000 + personal donation of $50,000 from Donald Trump
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Researches and treats childhood diseases

Vincent Pastore
$50,000
Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Gene Simmons
$20,000
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Funds pediatric HIV prevention and research

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A note on the charities

Breast cancer is a serious, terrifying, deadly disease. Funding for research and treatment is very important; two of the celebrities chose to play for breast cancer research organizations. However, breast cancer is not the greatest killer of women. It’s not even the greatest cancer killer of women.

The number one killer of men and of women in the US is heart disease. Except for Asian Americans, who are slightly more likely to be killed by some form of cancer, heart disease is a greater killer of men and women than all cancers combined.

The number two killer of men and of women is all forms of cancer combined... but lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of both men and women. It kills more women in the US than breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and uterine cancer together.

Additionally, one in five women who develop lung cancer have never smoked (while almost all men who develop lung cancer have been smokers), so a healthy lifestyle may not be enough to prevent it.

The celebrities chose excellent nonprofit organizations, but none of them selected a heart disease or lung cancer organization. If you’re in a giving, disease-fighting mood today, consider throwing your loose change in the direction of the American Heart Association or the American Lung Association to fight the USA’s top two killers.