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When it comes to philanthropy, Billie Eilish has her money where her mouth is at the moment.<\/p>\n
The Grammy winner recently accepted the Music Innovator Award at the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards held in New York City.<\/p>\n
Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert thanked her right before for allowing him to \u201cbreak some news.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is extraordinary,\u201d Colbert said. <\/a>\u201cBillie Eilish will be donating proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to support organizations, projects and voices dedicated to food equity, client justice, reducing carbon pollution and combating the climate crisis. That donation, ladies and gentleman, is $11.5 million.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s wonderful,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cBillie, on behalf of humans, thank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n Eilish then took to the stage<\/a> to accept the award and had some words for the billionaires in the room, which reportedly included Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than kind of ever, especially in our country,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things, maybe give it to some people that need it.\u201d<\/p>\n Eilish then added: \u201cLove you all, but there\u2019s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?,\u201d she said. \u201cNo hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.\u201d<\/p>\n She then expressed her love again and thanked everyone.<\/p>\n For more celebrity.land news and newsletters create an account at celebrity.land.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n