Sentence examples for performing benefit from inspiring English sources

For those showy, super-industrious types, there's also the option of raising money for themselves and their fellow-writers by performing "benefit" comedy.

Comedian Lizz Winstead -- recently named HuffPost's "Greatest Person Of The Day" -- has spent her summer performing benefit shows all over the country on behalf of Planned Parenthood.

Mr. Buffett has performed benefit concerts for victims of hurricanes and other environmental disasters.

He has also performed benefit concerts for UNICEF in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America and attended musical workshops and master classes with children in Serbia, Uganda and the United States of America.

In later years, though blind and almost completely deaf, he performed benefits for various civic organizations and institutions.

The band's keen ear for thwarted longing, their appeal to stragglers and dreamers, was born of personal experience and also informed their politics: they later performed benefits for the Scottish Socialist Party.

Peter Yarrow has performed benefits for us in his own home, spoke on orphans in Vietnam at our Congresses, and sits on the Global Advisory Board of OI Worldwide.

Although Bragg had met like-minded musicians such as Paul Weller while performing his benefit concerts, getting performers together was like the BBC trying to make a music promo.

Still, Mr. Grippo said children studying the performing arts benefit in ways that cannot be measured on standardized tests.

The noted funnyman is performing to benefit "Stand Up for a Cure," a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending lung cancer.

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