By Variety Staff
17.04.2020 - 20:39 / variety.com
By Todd Spangler
NY Digital Editor
Netflix chief Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, donated $30 million to Gavi Alliance, the nonprofit immunization organization started by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Geneva-based Gavi announced the cash donation from Hastings and Quillin on Friday, saying it’s the first private-sector contribution toward its drive to raise at least $7.4 billion to immunize 300 million children over the next five years.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, Gavi said
By Variety Staff
J.K. Rowling pledged $1.25 million to help homeless people and domestic violence victims on the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts.
J.K. Rowling pledged $1.25 million (£1 million) to help homeless people and domestic violence victims on the 22nd anniversary of the fictional Battle of Hogwarts.
AMC Networks president and CEO Josh Sapan received compensation worth $20.2 million in 2019, down 2 percent compared with $20.6 million in 2018 and $29.6 million in 2017. The company behind The Walking Dead home AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel and WE tv disclosed Sapan's pay in a regulatory filing.
By Anita Bennett
A cereal giant is donating half a million food servings to NHS and key workers in the UK.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' compensation reached $38.6 million, up about 7 percent compared with $36.1 million in 2018, the streaming video giant disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday. He had made $24.4 million in 2017 and $23.2 million in 2016.
By Jill Goldsmith
Content chief Ted Sarandos says 2020 originals have been shot, doesn't expect reshuffling of releases
By Dade Hayes, Jill Goldsmith
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are donating their blood to medical researchers in the race for a coronavirus cure after successfully winning their battle with COVID-19.
Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin are helping out.
Canadian Simu Liu is spending his self-isolation in Sydney, Australia, by getting into TikTok and video games.
Rihanna is back again with yet another major donation to help out during this hard time that many people are experiencing due to the spread of COVID-19. This time, she and her Clara Lionel Foundation have teamed up with Twitter/ Square CEO Jack Dorsey to make a joint donation of $4.2 million to domestic violence victims.
Rihanna and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have donated $2.1 million each to the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles.The $4.2 million grant will cover the cost of people with children seeking access to shelters, as "Stay at Home" orders make those facing domestic violence, and their children, unsafe.Rihanna previously donated $5 million to global coronavirus relief.Rihanna is teaming up with Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, to provide funding for people in Los Angeles seeking shelter amid the COVID-19
Rihanna](https://www.glamour.com/about/rihanna) has stepped up in so many different ways to give back to those most in need right now because of the coronavirus.Her Clara Lionel Foundation gave $5 million to relief efforts in marginalized communities. She donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline workers in New York.