Behind the support of the Arrow clothing line, Save Ellis Island has created nation-wide buzz and attention to the hugely important role Ellis Island had in the flux of immigrants into the United States with their We Are Ellis Island campaign. Celebrities and average Americans who's lives and families began at Ellis Island have taken part in the campaign.

On DoGooderTV, Save Ellis Island has put together a compilation of their PSA's.

Go here to view the We Are Ellis Island channel on DoGooderTV, and go here to get one of those "We Are Ellis Island" t-shirts.

On YouTube, Google reaches out to viewers by broadcasting videos of influential individuals coming by to discuss topics of their respective fields.

Within the channel, located at www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks, you will find videos with presidential candidates who have visited Google, powerful and influential women, well-known filmmakers, and esteemed authors.

Recently, Heather McLeod Grant, the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, (voted a top 10 book for 2007 by The Economist), dropped by to discuss what makes a non-profit great. (Also see onPhilanthropy's recent article by Julie Fagnani on Google, "Google: Better at Doing Good?")

To find out more about Heather's book, or hear more about her views on measuring non-profit impact, check out Sean Stannard-Stockton's (onPhilanthropy guest writer) podcast at his website Tactical Philanthropy. There, he interviews Heather McLeod Grant and Leslie Crutchfield about their book, but also on several topics including the potential Web 2.0 brings non-profits.

Click here to listen. (A transcript of the interview is available here.)

ONE, the huge (2.4 million members) non-profit humanitarian organization that is best known for fighting hunger has recently developed their "On the Record" campaign. The sub-portal on the ONE website, One the Record, interviews presidential candidates from Republican and Democratic parties, and briefs visitors on the candidates stance and approach to ending hunger if elected president. It also allows visitors to select and compare the responses of up to 3 candidates on questions about reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, improving child and maternal health, universal primary education, and some others.

Visit the On the Record website

Learn more about ONE

Website: www.t5m.com

While still maintaining their intent on entertaining and inspiring, t5m now gives users direct access to original, broadcast interviews featuring famous personalities, events and news stories - covering headlines from fashion to the causes the stars support. t5m will feature an extraordinary range of people from actress Kate Bosworth to explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author Barbara Taylor Bradford to musician James Blunt, and from world champion surfer Kelly Slater to actor Christian Slater.

Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS campaign, 46664, is the first cause to announce its involvement. The dedicated 46664 channel is already live as part of today's beta launch of t5m.com.

Charlie Muirhead, founder and CEO of t5m commented: "The next wave of entertainment is inspiration. Nothing else on the web offers such direct, unmediated access to the people and stories shaping the world we live in. We hope that t5m will be a much loved addition to every web user's favorites."

In a rare interview, billionaire and founder of Duty Free Shoppers Chuck Feeney talks with James Hattori, substitute host of Weekend Edition Sunday, about his plan to give away all his money before he dies. Mr. Feeney was born into a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression, fought in the Korean War, and eventually made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world’s largest duty-free retail chain. Mr. Feeney transferred all the money he made from his lucrative businesses to a foundation he created called Atlantic Philanthropies. Now in his mid-seventies, Mr. Feeney is having his foundation spend its remaining $4 billion during the next decade.  Chuck Feeney calls it “giving while living.”

Listen to it here.

About half-way through this near-hour interview with cycling great Lance Armstrong at the Aspen Institute, talk turns to philanthropy and leadership in causes. Good stuff about how starting a movement and raising funds can move government policy.

In this clip, U2's Bono accepts the NAACP Image Award’s Chairman’s Award in 2007. Says the rock star: "Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die." And he talks about race relations in rather open terms. Guys like Bono take a lot of hits for being celebrity philanthropists, but in my view, their public altruism works well in the realm of "aspirational philanthropy." [hat tip: Journey from Ethiopia]

Here is the video the speech Bill Gates gave last week at Harvard's commencement. As one of the world's leading philathropists, Gates attempts to set a tone of service for the graduates.

This video is almost a year old now but we thought we'd post. For one, we didn't have this nifty mediablog a year ago. And it's also interesting to reflect on this "biggest-ever" philanthropic commitment after a year. Here's Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates.

Good on Slate for adding the videos (and some audiocasts) of its Slate 60 philanthropy conference to the website, just a tad on the late side, but we'll take it! We're going to watch these and post selectively, but we thought we'd put up the always interesting Ted Turner as the first installment.

Here's a great video from the National Resources Defense Council featuring rockers Green Day. Very well done, in my view.