An 8000-person tribe is angling to become a cause célèbre via Avatar. "Appeal to James Cameron. Avatar is fantasy... and real," their ad in Variety implores. The Dongria Kondh's land is being mined and polluted. Luckily, their publicist is shrewd.

Pitcher of cellphones Naomi Campbell will accompany British First Lady Sarah Brown's charity group to quake-ravaged Haiti. "I am not a humanitarian leader, but someone who wishes to improve the world." The first part we can confirm. [NYDN]

Yele Haiti, Wyclef Jean's troubled charity, will get just $1 million, or 2.8%, of the more than $35 million raised so far by the Hope for Haiti Telethon that Jean co-hosted.

More than 200 villagers have to move from land Madonna bought from the government for a $15m girls' school just outside the capital, Lilongwe. Don't worry though, they got 16m Kwacha in compensation. That's a lot of Kwacha. [AP]

The Way We Live Now: recalibrating our responsibilities. In tough times, we can't be expected to support certain causes as effusively as we once did. Such causes include, but are not limited to: Colleges, mortgage payments, and the poors.

Are you and your art a charity case? Good news! Goldman Sachs is now in the charity business (as well as the taking-billions-from-the-government-and handing-it-over-to-its-bankers-as-bonus business). Darcie Dennigan and Carl Dimitri have posted the grant application at The Rumpus.

A planned fundraiser for Wyclef Jean's charity in 2006 was canceled in part because Jean's personal $100,000 performance fee made the event too expensive, according to internal e-mails and a source familiar with the event.

What are you doing now? We're watching live streaming video of models playing ping pong at SPiN, the Manhattan ping pong club co-owned by Susan Sarandon and her rumored boytoy, Jonathan Bricklin. Yep, supermodels are playing ping pong for Haiti.

Ego and financial improprieties aside, Wyclef Jean has demonstrated a genuine desire to help the people of Haiti. To do that, it's time he acknowledge his personal foundation isn't equipped to provide disaster relief and donate to those who can.

Wyclef Jean's aspirations for his foundation, Yele Haiti, to be more than just a celebrity vanity project have long been outstripped by realities on the ground, people who've worked in Haiti for the organization tell Gawker.

Wyclef Jean offered a teary defense of his charity work with Yele Haiti in a press conference just now, admitting that he made some mistakes but denying that he profited from the charitable donations he directed toward his business interests.

Earlier this evening, a video was posted to YouTube of Wyclef Jean addressing questions that have arisen regarding his charity, Yele Haiti, their financial history, and their ability to impact disaster relief efforts right now.

There's no doubt Wyclef Jean — who has raised $1 million since the Haiti earthquake — wants to help his homeland. But a look at his personal foundation's finances raises questions about whether it's wisely managing the donations it's collecting.

The earthquake in Haiti has led to an outpouring of calls for help on Twitter and Facebook. But like previous humanitarian crises and calls for charitable giving, there are right ways and wrong ways to help.

To help Haiti, send money. Not supplies or medicine or anything else.

After Ontario Hockey League's London Knights scored their first goal last night, their fans threw teddy bears onto the ice to go to needy children during the holidays. Can Canada go ONE DAY without making America look like heartless jerks?!

Quick! There's just over an hour left in Gawker's Sarah Palin Slambook charity auction. Bid!

The moment's almost here: one lucky bidder is going to be the proud owner of our charity-friendly National Book Award-winner and James Franco-endorsed copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, which is going to benefit Save The Children. Not Dave Eggers.

At 2009's National Book Awards we honored Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as 2010's frontrunner for the NBA Fiction Prize by getting it signed by the gathered literary luminaries. And now, it can be the best charitable, tax-deductible present ever.

The only thing worse than your unemployed friend who's always borrowing money and eating the food at your apartment is your fabulous unemployed friend, the one who loses weight and befriends the idle rich and gets chic haircuts for free.