(usartical) Taylor Swift is giving generously to a cause that is dear to her heart.
the horrific tornadoes that tore across several counties in Tennessee Swift donated $1 million on Saturday to the Community Foundation of
Middle Tennessee’s Tennessee Emergency Response Fund.The community foundation’s CEO, Hal Cato, attested to Swift’s involvement. The group manages a fund that helps NGOs who offer essential assistance during a disaster’s immediate relief, short-term recovery, and long-term recovery stages. Donors can make their contributions at www.cfmt.org.
The megastar, who was just awarded Time magazine’s Person of the Year, has ties to Nashville, where she currently resides and works, despite the fact that she is frequently spotted socializing on the East Coast.
Cato said Swift’s donation will “support the immediate and long-term recovey needs” in Sumner County and the areas
around it most affected by the tornados.
Swift’s donation is hardly the first time the newly minted billionaire has quietly engaged in philanthropy.
Throughout her Eras Tour this year, Swift made sizable contributions to food banks in every U.S. city she played.
A spokesperson for the Arizona Food Bank Network told CNN that Swift’s donation allowed the organization to send tractor-trailers with 40,000 pounds of fresh produce to its member food banks while also augmenting funding for programs that combat hunger.
During her tour stop in Santa Clara, California, Swift gave enough, according to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Food Bank, “to nourish an average of about 500,000 people every month in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.”
Swift’s generosity was not limited to outside the company. The diva gave $55 million in incentives to her tour family, which included dancers, truck drivers, sound engineers, and catering personnel, when the first leg of the Eras Tour came to an end in August.