Taylor Swift Donates $5 Million to Feeding America for Hurricane Relief

Taylor Swift donated 5 million {dollars} to Feeding America in an effort to assist the communities in want as a result of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

“We’re extremely grateful to Taylor Swift for her beneficiant $5 million donation to Hurricanes Helene and Milton aid efforts,” Feeding America shared in an announcement through Instagram on Wednesday, October 9. “This contribution will assist communities rebuild and get better, offering important meals, clear water, and provides to individuals affected by these devastating storms.”

The put up continued: “Collectively, we are able to make an actual influence in supporting households as they navigate the challenges forward. Thanks, Taylor, for standing with us within the motion to finish starvation and for serving to communities in want.”

Communities within the Southeast are nonetheless recovering from the harm from Hurricane Helene as additionally they put together for one more class 3 Hurricane Milton to strike.

All through her record-breaking world Eras Tour, Swift, 34, has donated to meals banks in lots of cities; she made the biggest particular person donation ever to Cardiff Foodbank in Wales the place she carried out in June.

“It will present the load equal to feeding 1,200 individuals three meals a day, for 3 days ¸— or 10,800 meals. This will probably be 2.5 weeks of what we usually distribute,” the charity’s chief govt, Rachel Biggs, advised The Guardian in June. “The respiratory area Taylor’s donation has given us will allow us to raise our heads and shift our focus from the meals financial institution to the creation of a sustainable operation supporting individuals who at the moment want our assist with help to handle the basis reason behind poverty and monetary help to set them on the trail to not needing our help anymore.”

Swift has additionally been very beneficiant to her Eras Tour crew, reportedly giving truck drivers on her tour with $100,000 bonuses in August 2023, per TMZ. The outlet additionally reported that Swift gave her Eras Tour band, dancers, caterers, lighting and sound technicians and different workers members bonuses, though the quantity they obtained is unknown.

In October 2023, Bloomberg reported that Swift is now a billionaire following the huge success of her Eras Tour, her live performance movie, and blockbuster albums gross sales, which embody brand-new releases like Tortured Poets Division in addition to the the Taylor’s Model sequence of re-recordings.

“[Taylor is] one of many few entertainers to achieve that standing based mostly on music and performing alone, the results of work and expertise, but in addition canny advertising and marketing and timing.”

Swift is ready to proceed her final leg of the Eras Tour dates in Miami on October 18, ending in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8.