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Since donating $10,000 to charity at the 1938 Palm Beach Invitational, the PGA Tour, which operates the main men's professional golf tours, has donated more than $1.4 billion. But the Tour's donations are down 10% to 15% this year from a record $124 million in 2008. The Tour's response? A renewed commitment to fundraising with a website coming in January 2010 and an advertising campaign, "Together, anything is possible."
Teen star helps stop bullies

When Disney star Demi Lovato was in middle school five years ago, she started playing concerts — and getting bullied.

After a hate petition, text-messaged threats and nasty names on bathroom walls, her parents turned to home schooling. Her celebrity was "hard for some of my friends to adjust to," she says. Now the 17-year-old Camp Rock co-star does public service announcements and helped launch teensagainstbullying.com for the non-profit PACER's National Center for Bullying Prevention.

"When I talk to kids they say, 'I can't believe you were bullied.' "

By Jayne O'Donnell

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The Body Shop helps fight sex trafficking

The Body Shop has put its 2,500-store might behind the fight against sex trafficking of children. And it is working with a victim to help do it.

The beauty-products retailer donates a portion of money spent on some of its products to the Somaly Mam Foundation and ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes).