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Matthew McConaughey rounds up Texas celebs for winter storm benefit Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey will host a star-studded benefit later this month. Photo by Tyler Schmitt Actor Matthew McConaughey (our future governor of Texas?) is gathering some of the state's most beloved celebrities for a star-studded affair benefiting victims of Winter Storm Uri.  On Sunday, March 21, he and wife  Camilla Alves McConaughey will host We Are Texas, a special event to raise funds for those impacted by February's catastrophic winter storms. We Are Texas begins at 7 pm and is avai...

Texas actor Matthew McConaughey and Reliant Energy are teaming up for a benefit concert that will provide aid to those affected by last month’s winter freeze.

Austin 360 When Matthew McConaughey realized the level of devastation wreaked by the deadly winter storm that hit his home state in February, he said he wanted to do whatever he could to aid people in recovering from what he called the largely “invisible disaster” inside so many people’s homes.  So he went to his formidable Rolodex and started making a bunch of calls. And McConaughey said he got a lot of quick yeses from top-tier musicians, actors and big businesses when he asked if they’d participate in a fundraiser that he and his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, were quickly putti...

After hurricane katrina, and she hasn't stopped since then. "cnn heroes" honored liz and her organization, the st. bernard project, in 2008. today her organization is called simply sbp, and they're stronger and larger than ever. >> please join us. together we can continue to rebuild families' homes and lives. thank you. [ applause ] we've rebuilt almost 1,200 houses with help from over 130,000 volunteers from every state in the country, from over 70 countries from around the world. it's been an extraordinary outpouring of support. sbp now works in seven different disaster-impacted communities ...

Feeling to put inside of you, you'll be doing just what i'm doing. just -- and it's not sad. they're really tears of joy, because it feels so good to have such a beautiful home to say this is our family home. >> reporter: all of that made possible through volunteers and funding from a faith-based group called project homecoming. and to commemorate this anniversary, other groups hosting a 48-hour home build across the city. volunteers working six-hour rotating shifts through the st. bernard project. the build 48 homes in 48 hours. translating into another 48 families who will soon have a new ro...