Angelina Jolie - Anannounced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children.

Angelina Jolie in 2005, she took part at a National Press Club luncheon, where Angelina Jolie announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.

Angelina Jolie also pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in the Third World. In addition to her political involvement, Angelina Jolie began using her public profile to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media.

Angelina Jolie filmed an MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on a trip to a remote group of villages in Western Kenya.

In 2006, Angelina Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.

Angelina Jolie also co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, founded at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006, which helps fund education programs for children affected by conflict.