✨ Charity vs. Self-Promotion: A Tale of Two Public Figures ✨
Jimmy Kimmel has used his platform for years to help others in real, tangible ways:
- Donated $1 million of his own money to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after his son’s surgery.
- Helped raise over $1.3 million for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to fight childhood cancer.
- Regularly supports St. Jude’s, Boys & Girls Clubs, and other children’s health causes.
- Turned his late-night stage into a fundraising engine for ALS research, wildfire victims, and homeless families in LA.
Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, built Turning Point USA and related organizations. But instead of channeling money toward food banks, hospitals, or disaster relief, the dollars raised go to political conferences, student recruitment, media campaigns, and personal branding. These may promote an ideology, but they don’t put food on tables, roofs over heads, or medicine in kids’ veins.
👉 The difference matters.
Kimmel’s charity work directly benefits children and families in crisis. Kirk’s “charity” grew his own influence.
One builds communities. The other built a brand.
Still think CK deserved the “saint” claim some lauded on him?
I do not.
Julie Bolejack, MBA
