Pop icon Lady Gaga has joined hands with the prestigious MacArthur Foundation and Harvard to launch her foundation that will focus on empowering youth.
Gaga's Born This Way Foundation will support programmes and initiatives that will help "lead youth into a braver new society where each individual is accepted and loved as the person they were born to be," Gaga said.
The foundation will focus on youth empowerment and equality by addressing issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development,mobilising support through digital media.
Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, will oversee the foundation.
"My mother and I have initiated a passion project. Together we hope to establish a standard of bravery and kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects andnurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment," the pop icon said.
The foundation will partner with the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation and the California Endowment, which are both ranked among the top foundations in the country and focus on youth empowerment.
It will also work with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, known as one of the premier institutions focusing on the power of the internet as a means to promote change.
An advisory board will also be appointed and announced soon and an official launch will take place in 2012.
Gaga, 25, has long campaigned for charity and ethical issues, previously speaking to gay rights campaigners about the repealing of the don't ask, don't tell policy in the US.
Gaga's Born This Way Foundation will support programmes and initiatives that will help "lead youth into a braver new society where each individual is accepted and loved as the person they were born to be," Gaga said.
The foundation will focus on youth empowerment and equality by addressing issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development,mobilising support through digital media.
Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, will oversee the foundation.
"My mother and I have initiated a passion project. Together we hope to establish a standard of bravery and kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects andnurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment," the pop icon said.
The foundation will partner with the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation and the California Endowment, which are both ranked among the top foundations in the country and focus on youth empowerment.
It will also work with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, known as one of the premier institutions focusing on the power of the internet as a means to promote change.
An advisory board will also be appointed and announced soon and an official launch will take place in 2012.
Gaga, 25, has long campaigned for charity and ethical issues, previously speaking to gay rights campaigners about the repealing of the don't ask, don't tell policy in the US.
