Core's co-founders Sean Penn and Ann Lee will be honored at the second annual Social Impact Summit on July 24.

The event was co-chaired by the Social Impact Fund, Hollywood Reporter, Aim to inspire accessible and influential philanthropy by breaking down barriers to meaningful change.

This half-day summit will bring together more than 500 cultural creators, production companies, talent agencies, as well as famous figures from the entertainment and creative industries and other regions. The program will explore dynamic evolution, emerging trends in charity and achieve impact through charitable donations and leading challenges.

Pennsylvania and Lee will be respected for their collaboration with the core or community-organized relief efforts as a charity of the year. Lee is CEO of the Global Humanitarian Response Organization, a organization dedicated to empowering and beyond underserved communities in crisis. The organization's plans focus on emergency response and preparation to address climate change and health visits.

The core responds to natural disasters, conflicts, food insecurity, disease outbreaks, climate change and public health emergencies on the five continents. The organization also focused on the ongoing humanitarian response in Ukraine and Sudan, as well as disaster relief and relief and preparation in the Caribbean and coastal United States, and it also held its annual fundraising evening at the Miami Art Gallery in Basel.

In addition, Legend will be honored to be the Philanthropist of the Year. The artist activist has spent more than a decade using his platform, resources and voice to improve equity and opportunity. In 2014, he launched FreeAmerica, a national initiative dedicated to ending mass incarceration and strengthening communities through investment, advocacy and cultural change. FreeAmerica’s two signature programs reflect legendary commitment to lasting change: unlocking the future, supporting previously incarcerated leaders, and challenging systems that drive incarceration, working with local governments to address people’s levels in housing, education, health and safety to help invest on the ground to help implement final solutions.

Through this work, Legend has helped expand the voting rights of people incarcerated and formerly incarcerated in 19 states and mobilize voters through the National PSA, local activities and public advocacy; through the successful efforts to end non-uniform jury in Louisiana, through bail reform laws in New York, Texas and Illinois, and to win major voting initiatives in California, Florida and Louisiana, through the successful improvements in legal reforms to more than two to more than two jurisdictions, now representing more than 50 million Americans; and invest in educational equality, starting with his 2007 show My Movement to expand access to quality public schools and face the school-to-jail pipeline.

“Hollywood Reporter It is an honor to consider the incredible work of Sean Penn, Ann Lee and Core as our charity of the year. Their strong commitment to the crisis response – from communities supporting the impact of LA’s wildfires to mobilizing the aid after Hurricane Milton, it embodies the kind of bold, compassionate leadership we celebrate,” said Dr. Hollywood Reporter.

“Hollywood Reporter Roshan and Halperin continued, too, at this milestone, it’s equally delighted to consider John Legend as our Philanthropist of the Year.

Aiming to “inspire efficient and accessible philanthropy,” the Social Impact Fund has served as a platform for the philanthropic efforts of such Hollywood luminaries as Legend, Will.I.Am, Kerry Washington, Shawn Mendes, Alex Cooper, Lilly Singh, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, Madonna, Jonathan Bailey, Hailey Bieber, Chris Powell, The Kid Laroi and Lily Collins.

“Social Impact Fund, and Hollywood Reporter, Excited to present the Second Social Impact Summit, we will face the evolving challenges facing today’s charitable landscape,” said Craig Cichy, Executive Director of the Social Impact Fund. “Through practical case studies, we will explore what works that are effective now – relative to what works that worked a year ago – and how our industry must adapt to strategies and innovation and innovation and innovation. ”

Details of other programs and other talent will be announced in the coming weeks.

The event will be sponsored by Gilead, a biopharmaceutical company, which has been making breakthroughs in medicine for three decades with the goal of creating a healthier world for all. As a return sponsor of the Social Impact Summit, the company continues to work to advance innovative drugs to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, covid-19, cancer and inflammation.

Other sponsors supported include the Public Interest Registration, more are coming soon.