Justin Bieber needs your help with heart campaign

Justin Bieber is looking to make the world a better place and he’s looking to his fans to help him out as he cannot do it on his own.

Justin is looking to make the biggest digital chain of hearts across the web.  If you join his campaign you will be joining a great cause, all you have to do is send him your hearts.  Once he has reached his goal donors and proceeds from his fragrance ‘Someday’ he promises to build 50 schools for underprivileged kids.  You can check out the campaign below.  Joining is fairly simple, all you have to do is upload your picture as if  were joining others in the heart chain.  Meanwhile, Justin Bieber is getting a lot of help with his forthcoming Christmas album.  Already the ‘Baby’ singer has already recorded songs with Taylor Swift, Sean Kingston and even 90′s R&B group Boyz II Men.

Now it’s likely that the Boyz are getting what’s known as a “Bieber Boost” as girls who weren’t yet born when “End of the Road” was the world’s biggest slow jam rush to acquaint themselves with decades of perfect harmonization.  Luckily, the Boyz are making it easy on Beliebers, as they’ll soon release the LP Twenty in honor of the group’s two decades in the music business. The album will feature 10 new songs in addition to 10 updated versions of their classic hits.  Will you joining Justin’s campaign?

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Join Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga to “Show Your Hearts” for Berry Children

The “Show Your Hearts” fundraising campaign to benefit the Joshua and Robin Berry Children’s Trust officially begins tomorrow, July 27.

It will be aided by celebrities including the Kardashians, Diddy, Jennifer Hudson, Selena Gomez, Julianne Hough, Nicole Scherzinger and “Glee” cast members.

These stars and others are asking everyone to spread awareness about the Berry kids by swapping out profile pictures and avatars for “Show Your Hearts” artwork.

People are also encouraged to post a picture or video of themselves making the “heart” symbol with their hands.

Donations can be made via PayPal and text.

More information can be found on the Joshua and Robin Berry Children’s Trust’s Facebook page and on ShowYourHearts.org.

Spread the word!

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Greenpeace brings Just Beeber tour to Oakville

Justin Bieber is coming to a town near you – in cut out form, that is.

Greenpeace Canada is using images of the Canadian pop star in cutouts and billboards as a front to raise awareness of the tar sands in Alberta. The Just Beeber tour kicked off in Oakville Tuesday on a five-city tour across southern Ontario to educate people about the tar sands with the group's new tabloid-style magazine, GP in Touch.

Bieber fever. From left, Greenpeace Canada's Just Beeber tour volunteers, from left, Sandra Sinayuk and Peter de Vries, and volunteer organizer Natalie Caine, as the Tar Sands awareness campaign rolled into the Towne Square in downtown Oakville Tuesday.

“A lot of people read tabloid magazines (and) a lot of people are talking about celebrity scandals and love affairs, but really the biggest scandal in Canada right now is the Alberta tar sands,” said Natalie Caine, Greenpeace Canada volunteer organizer. 

“We’re using this tabloid magazine as a way to get people to think about how shameful a project this is and all of the social costs and environmental destruction that goes with it.” 

Fans can interact and pose with a life-sized photo of Bieber, and with a billboard sized cutout of their magazine cover featuring other celebrities, and upload them to Facebook and Twitter in an effort to try and persuade Bieber to be a spokesperson for the campaign, said Caine.

“What would be great is if we had more celebrities signing on through the campaign, endorsing it and helping spread awareness and education about Canada’s poor record when it comes to reducing our climate change greenhouse gases,” said Caine.

Caine said people have been contacting Bieber through social media, e-mails and messages on his website, but doesn’t know if the singer has received them.

“We’re trying to get in talks with him and we would love it if he would endorse the campaign, but that’s not the goal or objective of the campaign, the message of this tour is to really get people thinking about what’s going on in Alberta and the impact of the tar sands,” said Caine.

The photos will be added to a gallery that will be shared with participants who will be asked to post their photos on their social networks via Facebook and Twitter, she added.

“Getting people to interact with our campaign that way (will) educate the public about what’s really going on in Alberta and the energy policies that Canada is adopting and how they are shameful practices as we are facing global climate change,” said Caine.

Caine said the tar sands is the number one reason why Canada isn’t able to reach its Kyoto protocol agreements, and emits more greenhouse gas emissions just in production than all cars in Canada.

“When you have real and clean green energy solutions, like renewable energies, it doesn’t make any sense to subsidize an industry that makes billions of dollars a year with our government money when we could be using that money to subsidize a cleaner and greener future,” said Caine.

“Once people know it exists (clean energy), I think everyone (will) get on board that we don’t want a tar sands future, and that’s one of the biggest challenges and blockages to us transitioning to such a green economy that uses a cleaner renewable energy.”  

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Why you don't text and drive - video

Justin says on his twitter, and in this video, why you don't text and drive.




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Bieber silences youth - Don't text while driving

Justin Bieber and PhoneGuard, Inc. Join "Remember Alex Brown Foundation" To Launch a Campaign To Encourage Responsible Texting

This one's right up my alley in the roiling confluence of Bieberwatch and PR stunts. Our boy hero is teaming up with a company called PhoneGuard to preach safe phone habits and memorialize a young lady who died while texting on the road:

"As a 17-year-old driver, I am aware of the countless distractions that we teenagers face on the road, and texting is one that is preventable. There are too many young people, like Alex Brown, whom we've lost because of texting while driving, and it is my hope that, through this partnership with PhoneGuard, we will raise awareness of this issue and create safer conditions for everyone on the road."

But this isn't just another celebrity-endorsed "don't text while driving" campaign. I'm fine with those; I think it's important to educate teens about the dangers of texting on the road, especially since it's inevitably going to kill me. (Not as quickly as it'll kill my friend Sherman. He confessed the other day that he once replied to a text while riding his motorcycle on the freeway. He even had to take his gloves off first.) But this time, it's not just about education. This is much more ominous:

"PhoneGuard's revolutionary Drive Safe™ anti-texting while driving software application suite disables the texting, e-mailing, and keyboard functions of a mobile phone in a vehicle that is in motion."

Clearly, Bieber believes that education has failed, and America's teenagers are so reckless and untrainable that we have to gag them in the name of safety. A better headline: "Bieber silences youth with anti-expression shackles!" I may not agree with the practice of texting while driving, but I'd die for every American's constitutional right to do it. Probably soon.

Oddly, PhoneGuard CEO Scott Frohman seems to imply that Bieber helped design the software: "Justin has played a key role in developing the program and his extraordinary reach will make him instrumental in promoting it," says Frohman. Did Bieber do a little coding on the back end? I e-mailed the people at PhoneGuard asking them to clarify that statement, but they wisely ignored me.

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Justin Bieber joins fight for safer roads

While Justin Timberlake is busy trying to bring MySpace back, the other Justin heartthrob is out joining the cause to rid the world of texting and driving.

In an anti-pot-ad-style commercial, The Bieb calmly admits: “I get it. It’s tempting to text and drive. But maybe it’s time to take responsibility for our actions.”

The ad is part of a campaign promoting a new app users can download that will lock a phone’s text-messaging function when in a car going faster than 10 mph.

Baby, baby, baby… Ohhh, how I love learning life lessons from 17-year-old boys.

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Justin Bieber and PhoneGuard, Inc. Join "Remember Alex Brown Foundation" to Launch a Campaign to Encourage Responsible Texting

Initiative to include PSAs from Bieber and Brown Family and will introduce use of PhoneGuard's Drive Safe(TM) texting prevention software

Two-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Justin Bieber and PhoneGuard, Inc., formerly known as Options Media Group Holdings, Inc., (otcqb:OPMG) (pinksheets:OPMG) today announced the launch of a campaign dedicated to encouraging responsible texting, through the use of PhoneGuard's acclaimed Drive Safe(TM) software application, which disables the texting, emailing and keyboard functions of a mobile phone while in a vehicle moving faster than 10 miles per hour.

Justin and PhoneGuard ( www.PhoneGuard.com ) are working closely with the Remember Alex Brown Foundation, organized by the family of teenager Alex Brown who tragically lost her life because of texting and driving. A multi-platform campaign will be rolled out over the next several weeks that will include a wide range of content, including PSA videos by Justin and the family of Alex Brown.

According to the United States Department of Transportation, more than 1,000 people die each year within the U.S. due to texting while driving. Working with PhoneGuard on this important initiative reinforces Justin's long-standing commitment to increasing public awareness of texting while driving, while at the same time providing financial support for charities such as the Remember Alex Brown Foundation.

"As a 17-year-old driver, I am aware of the countless distractions that we teenagers face on the road, and texting is one that is preventable," said Justin. "There are too many young people, like Alex Brown, whom we've lost because of texting while driving, and it is my hope that, through this partnership with PhoneGuard, we will raise awareness of this issue and create safer conditions for everyone on the road."

Bieber's Pencils of Promise is Kicking Butt - Let's Bring it Home!

You may remember that crazy adorable video of Justin Bieber and his partner in the incredible Pencils of Promise initiative via Schoools4All, the very handsome and personable Adam Braun.

I got to ask Adam a few questions about his work with The Biebs, and he was kind enough to delve a little deeper in how the two became involved with this incredible program:

Me: You mentioned wanting to do something like this together for years, so why now? What moved you guys to action, and how did the two of you start working on it?

AB: Justin and I have been friends for years, and we've always talked about doing something big together that enabled education for kids around the world. We knew that the gamechanger would be if he could visit a school, but we had to wait until after his movie was released so that we could figure out scheduling. It took time for our team to fully build out the platform as we'd envisioned it, for us to develop the expertise on the ground to build truly sustainable schools, and for Justin to get a break from his world tour. But now that it's all come together, we're incredibly proud of what Schools4All has become.

I'd be proud too Adam, it's pretty crazy impressive. I asked him about how he got Justin to join up - apparently the two had been wanting to do something to counteract the trouble in our schools for quite some time - I loved what he had to say...

AB: Coming up with Schools4All was really a collaborative process between the two of us. We were roommates while on a trip to Africa last September and one morning in the room we just started tossing around ideas about how we could work together to raise money to build new PoP schools. By the time we went down to breakfast we had the entire idea concepted, and I reminded him that it'd require him to visit a school in person. I asked him, "Are you sure you'd be willing to do that?" Without hesitation he looked at me and said, "For Pencils of Promise? 100%." From then on I just ran full steam at making this a reality, and as usual we've had a blast together.

Adam told me that when they first started working on this project, there were 75 million children worldwide without ACCESS to education. That number was staggering to both Justin and himself, and The Biebs knew he was in a unique position to reach out and make change. Now, it's the results of their efforts that are staggering.

In just 2.5 years PoP has broken ground on nearly 40 schools in the developing world, created a movement of over 250,000 individuals and delivered more than 1 million student educational hours in our classrooms. Our goal is to break ground on 100 schools by the end of 2012, and through campaigns like Schools4All we're excited to watch that become a reality.

The ultimate goal of PoP is to grow the movement towards quality education for every child on the planet. We do so by building schools on the ground and hopefully putting out a model for others to replicate, and also by training a new generation of young leaders to take action at home and abroad. We talk a lot about how one person can make a change but only together can we change the world.

Well, Pencils of Promise, their little fundraiser that could has now raised over $200,000.00 for Schools 4 All, and we want to make sure that we help them hit ohhhhh...what do you think, like a quarter million by midnight? I think we BlogHers have the social media wherewithall to make that happen, don't you?

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Normal school fundraiser vies to bring Justin Bieber to town

NORMAL -- Epiphany School in Normal may be penciling in a visit by pop superstar Justin Bieber.

Epiphany School in Normal is participating in a fundraising contest in which the grand prize is a local appearance by pop superstar Justin Bieber.

The personal appearance is the grand prize for schools participating in the singer's personally endorsed Pencils of Promise fundraising campaign.

Pencils of Promise, also known as PoP, provides money for the building of schools around the world and creating educational opportunities for underprivileged children.

As of today, a dozen seventh-grade girls representing Epiphany School had raised more than $5,000 over the past two months, with $3,000 of that total collected in the last three days alone, said Michelle Massey, mother of one of the girls, Christine Travis.

Epiphany is currently ranked at around seventh place among schools across the country participating.

"I think it's amazing what they've done," Massey said.

Though Bieber originally said he would visit only the No. 1 fund-raising school, he has since amended that promise to visiting the top five schools, said Massey.

The Epiphany girls have until 10:59 p.m. Thursday to raise more funds and crack the Top 5.

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Justin Bieber raises nearly 200k for Pencils of Promise Organization

Canadian cutie, Justin Bieber, is lending his name to an organization that helps establish schools in areas where education is not readily available for children. Pencils of Promise is a nonprofit charity created by Adam Braun. Braun is hoping Justin’s attachment to the charity will help raise funds for more schools to be built in third world countries. PoP has already built 30 schools.

Justin’s involvement with the actual fundraising is minimal. He just happens to be the prize waiting for the lucky few who raise the most money for the cause. Braun estimates more than 75 million children are not given the opportunity for an education. Something that most people in developed countries could not fathom.

Justin Bieber and Braun got together and created the “Schools 4 All” campaign. Young people are challenged with the task of creating personal fundraising pages in an effort to raise donations for the cause. Whoever raises the most money will get a visit from Justin and Braun to the school of their choice. What an amazing motivator for kids everywhere.

PoP believes it can change the world for the better with just one pencil at a time. The campaign started on April 15th and wraps up on June 30th. The 17-year-old singing sensation sat down to film a short clip promoting the cause with founder, Braun.

So far, the campaign has raised a staggering $192,609 dollars. These funds will build 9 new schools. Katrina Davies is leading the charge with an amazing $17,545! You go girl! Only 2 days are left, and anybody can help out our favorite Canadian by donating to PoP. It looks like Miss Davies is about to meet one of the biggest stars on the planet.




Source: Wakey Wakey News

Singer Natalia Kills Joins Justin Bieber In Support Of Pencils Of Promise

Justin Bieber isn’t the only musician behind Pencils of Promise.  British singer Natalia Kills, signed by Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am, and whose album,Perfectionist, comes out August 16, is already supporting the New York-based charity which builds schools in the developing world.

 “I think it’s actually the fastest rising non-profit that exists at the moment. They’ve built over 35 schools in less than 5 years, so they’re doing really well right now.  I don’t know anyone else [musician-wise] who supports it, but I know me and Justin Bieber do “, she said.

Bieber started Schools 4 All with Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, a campaign that challenges students, parents, entire schools and communities to launch a personal fundraising page to help PoP build more schools. The campaign ends June 30 and the person who raises the most money will receive a visit at the school of their choice from Bieber and Braun.

“There are more than 75 million children without access to education, and together we can do something about it,” it says on the site.

Source: SamaritanMag