Let's give credit where it's do.

I know on the Purple Rain tour, Prince encouraged concert goers to donate food to the less fortunate.

The New Year's Eve show from December 31st 1987 was a benefit for the homeless.

An after show in 87 was for a children's hospital.

Prince helped his sister Tyka by paying for her rehab.

Gave credit,reportedly, to his father for songwriting credits to help him financially.

Continue please...

not really charitable but thoughtful: during the last celebration, when the a/c went out over at paisley he took everybody to the theater down the street to go see minority report. i wasn't there, but i remember reading peoples' stories about it here and i thought, "cool!"

That is cool!

He was involved for years in contributing to Marva Collins school for underpriveledged children in Chicago. Just because a celebrity doesn't publicize everything they do to help people, doesn't mean they're not doing anything. I have more respect for someone who does things and not seek publicity for it, than someone like Michael Jackson, or other publicity hunger celebrities who has to publicize every time they do one little thing.

SST/Brand New Orleans proceeds supposedly going to victims of Hurrican Katrina.

sharonbell said:

Same here!

Chick Huntsberry benefit concert - Ruperts Niteclub, Golden Valley, Minneapolis (30th April, 1990)

"Dont be mourning him, he's probably smiling at us from a place better than this..."

ElCapitan said:

That's right! It was for his widow and their (6 I believe) kids.

sharonbell said:

I agree .

He gave all the members of Vanity/Appolonia 6 a job. Eventhough none of them had any discernible talent.

i guess u could say that he filled me with luv and laughter nuff said,...

sitruk7 said:

I totally agree!! Bono, didya hear that?!

NatePerk said:

lol

nice idea for a thread imo.

reminds me of the story in the Bible where Jesus said the woman who gave her last penny was far more charitable than the rich man who gave more than her, but not his last.

dont misread me here, i know Prince has a good heart, and as its been stated, it isnt really known how many 'charitable' or thoughtful things he has done because they are not necessarily publicised.

i am very interested to hopefully read about occasions where he really went all out. x

I'm not sure of the details but he did numerous L4OA concerts to benifit his L4OA charities.

wasn't there a concert for the special olympics?

he did a bunch of free concerts for handicapped children while he was touring for PR.

donated 4 the tears in your eyes to the "we are the world" effort.

Did a concert to benefit the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless at Paisley Park Studios, joined on by Miles Davis.

Prince played a benefit concert in Boston, MA, to establish a scholarship in the name of 17-year-old Frederick Weber, who was killed when hit by an automobile while waiting in line for Prince concert tickets outside Boston’s Tower Records store.)

Money Don’t Matter 2 Night, profits donated to the United Negro College Fund.

as you can tell.... I like this topic

He performed at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York, before a specially invited audience of under-privileged children’s groups from the local community

donated mucho buckos to the Rhythm & Blues Foundation

Signed George Clinton to Paisley Park to help him out financially as well.

See the thread I started called "My Brush with Mortality; Lovesexy 1988". He almost did a charity concert for me.

redsock34 said:

I saw that and it helped inspire this thread!

Wasn't it rumored that Prince helped Denise "Vanity" Matthews pay her hospital bills?

He's one of the founding donors of Sheila E.'s Elevate Hope Foundation. (btw...if you donate $50 or more, you get a signed (by Sheila) Family Jamm t-shirt. It's pretty cool cuz it has all the participants listed on the back.)

he wore those assless pants at the MTV music awards and gave me hours of countless viewing pleasure and fantasies not to mention mutiple intense well ummm you know the rest.

Donated money to the town of Princeville, NC after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

(and no the town is not named after P.)