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By Michael Y. Park, PEOPLE.com
November 25, 2009 2:03 p.m. EST
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are huge movie stars, but also huge givers to charity.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave $6.8 million to charities in 2008
* That amount was given to various charities through the couple's Jolie-Pitt foundation
* Another $1 million went to various causes in Cambodia where son Maddox is from
(PEOPLE.com) -- Big-name stars? Definitely.

But big givers? Of that, there is even less doubt.

Angelina Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, gave a whopping $6.8 million to charities in 2008, the Hollywood Reporter says.

That was the amount given to various groups through the philanthropically minded couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which donated about half of the $13 million it raised last year to nonprofits like Global Health, Human Rights Watch, the Armed Services YMCA, and Pitt's own Make It Right Foundation, dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans.

Another $1 million went to various causes in Cambodia, home country for their son Maddox.

I found this article on CNN.com

[Patrick F]

Same story from Contact Music :

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PITT & JOLIE GAVE $6.8 MILLION IN 2008

BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE are the king and queen of the Hollywood philanthropy sect - the pair donated over $6.8 million (GBP4.3 million) to various charities in 2008.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the power couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation earned just over $13 million (GBP8.1 million) last year.
A tax return obtained for the organisation shows half that amount was donated to charities, including $2 million (GBP1.3 million) to non-profit Global Health, and another $1 million (GBP625,000) to both Human Rights Watch and Pitt's Make it Right Foundation, a fund created to help build homes in the movie couple's adopted, Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, Louisiana.
They also gave $500,000 (GBP312,500) to the Armed Services YMCA (The Young Men's Christian Association), $50,000 (GBP31,250) to public schools in Pitt's native Springfield, Missouri and approximately another $1 million to projects in Cambodia, where Jolie adopted eight-year-old Maddox, who has since become Pitt's son too.

23 November 2009 22:06