Sabrina Carpenter is opening up about her partnership with PLUS1 and using her Short n’ Sweet tour to make a real difference for some very important causes.
The singer/songwriter told Forbes, "Less than a year ago, I launched a fund with PLUS1 around the Short n’ Sweet tour to help support some of the issue areas that matter most to me—mental health, animal welfare and LGBTQ+ rights. I’m so grateful that I get to use my platform to amplify the work of incredible organizations like the JED Foundation, PAPYRUS, and Rainbow Railroad. The work of these groups is truly life-changing – from The JED Foundation’s focus on protecting teen mental health and preventing suicide, to PAPYRUS, which provides mental health support for LGBTQ+ youth in the UK through its 24/7 hotline, to Rainbow Railroad, which helps ensure safety and freedom for LGBTQ+ people around the world."
PLUS1 originated with the band Arcade Fire, who wanted to find a way to support Haiti. The answer? Committing to a simple $1 donation from every concert ticket that was sold. Since then, the registered 501(c)(3) has continued to help artists and their audiences make a collective impact.
The Sabrina Carpenter Fund, which was established in 2024, has officially surpassed more than $1 million thanks to her North American and European tour dates. With this incredible milestone taking less than a year to achieve, it was reached faster than any other PLUS1 collaboration.
After the North American leg, the total was $824,000, with $493,740.73 given to the LGBT National Help Center, The Jed Foundation, and Best Friends Animal Society. As for 2025, over $281,000 has been raised so far from European and United Kingdom ticket sales.
Founder & CEO Marika Anthony-Shaw revealed, “She really came to us with a strong sense of the issues that she cared about and wanting to do something about that, and those issues were connected in many ways, and also separate. So, mental health, animal welfare, LGBTQ rights - our role was really to help make those passions actionable. So, that was really her strong sense of purpose, and leadership kind of came to us to be a strategic guidance."
He continued to share, "I think when we’re talking about being an important leader, she’s an exceptional philanthropic partner. She’s deeply thoughtful about the causes that she supports. She’s incredibly engaged in the strategic process - and so, she’s really involved in every kind of strategic decision. She brings a lot of creative ideas to this. She’s interested in bringing in multiple facets of her business. Whether that’s the tour itself - she went beyond the traditional dollar per ticket model and had an Erewhon brand partnership, where that was also able to support mental health for folks - thinking creatively through all aspects of her business on how she can also contribute."
Carpenter's new album, Man’s Best Friend, comes out on August 29.
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