<p>Here’s more information about Jackson’s Heal the World Foundation when it was still in existence: [Jackson’s</a> foundation now virtually defunct - Michael Jackson Trial- msnbc.com ](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4601265]Jackson’s ”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4601265 )</p>
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With his career soaring thanks to a new album, “Dangerous,” and a lucrative Pepsi endorsement deal, the singer planned a world tour to help raise $100 million for his new children’s charity and “spread the message of global love.”</p>
<p>The organization built playgrounds, provided immunizations and funded scores of children’s causes around the world. It helped pay for a Hungarian boy’s lifesaving liver transplant and co-sponsored an airlift of more than 46 tons of relief supplies to war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.</p>
<p>Although it never reached the pop star’s lofty $100 million goal, the foundation doled out about $4 million in its first five years, said Richard Fowler, director from 1995 to 1997.
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<p>Although Heal the World is no longer in existence, it has a symbolic meaning. Michael Jackson made it possible for other artists to support humanitarian causes and establish their own foundations. Many artists today participate in community service and reach out to their own communities.</p>