--- title: Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Donate to Flood Relief description: The pop star and talk-show host both hail from Louisiana, and are teaming up to contribute $250,000 to relief efforts in the flooded state canonical: https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-09T18:43:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:23.096Z og:title: Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Donate to Flood Relief og:description: The pop star and talk-show host both hail originally from Louisiana og:url: https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Donate to Flood Relief twitter:description: The pop star and talk-show host both hail originally from Louisiana twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Are Giving Back to Their Flooded Home State of Louisiana > Sponsored content. 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The [catastrophic flooding in their home state](http://time.com/4464474/louisiana-governor-flooding-president-obama-alton-sterling/?iid=sr-link1) over the past few weeks has driven the two to team up and contribute to rebuilding the effected communities. More than 60,000 homes have been impacted, and the Red Cross estimates relief efforts [will cost $30 million](http://time.com/4462729/red-cross-louisiana-relief-effort-cost/?iid=sr-link2). In a short video shared by DeGeneres, Spears explains that she’s donating a $125,000 emergency-response vehicle to the cause. DeGeneres, meanwhile, connected with a teacher and principal of a school that was flooded with more than 2 ft. of water — and is matching Spears’ gift, with $125,000 direct to the middle school for their rebuilding efforts. This [isn’t the first donation](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/britney-spears-donates-vma-dress-for-louisiana-flood-relief-w435788) that Spears has made, however; she also [auctioned off the chance to meet her](https://www.crowdrise.com/britneyforlouisiana) and the dress she wore to her appearance on MTV’s Video Music Awards, sharing the proceeds with the Red Cross. Taylor Swift, meanwhile, [donated $1 million](http://time.com/4455655/taylor-swift-louisiana-flood-donate/?iid=sr-link3) to Louisiana. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/"},"headline":"Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Are Giving Back to Their Flooded Home State of Louisiana","datePublished":"2016-09-09T18:43:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:23.096Z","description":"Contributing to the rebuilding efforts","url":"https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4485706/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-louisiana/","name":"Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Are Giving Back to Their Flooded Home State of Louisiana"}}]}] ```