Ellen DeGeneres will receive the People's Choice Awards, which will recognize her with the Favorite Humanitarian Honor during the show's ceremony on Wednesday. The award comes with a $200,000 donation from Walgreens, which she is directing toward the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
DeGeneres joked that the honor "sums me up perfectly as I am both a human and an itarian."
According to a Page Six report, she is also being nominated for the Favorite Talk Show Host award at the People's Choice Awards, which will be presented at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on CBS.
Ellen DeGeneres will receive on Wednesday, January 6th, 2016, the fourth annual People's Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian, during the live awards show at the Microsoft Theater, which is to be presented by Walgreens.
DeGeneres has said about the award, "I am so honored to be receiving the People's Choice Humanitarian Award. I think it sums me up perfectly as I am both a human and an itarian."
DeGeneres was chosen as an honoree this year in recognition of her unselfish efforts in helping communities bring awareness to organizations and charitable institutions that are making a huge difference in people's lives. Being the recipient of the Favorite Humanitarian Award, DeGeneres has chosen St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the beneficiary of the annual donation given by Walgreens and Duane Reade, as reported by Business Wire news.
St. Jude is treating childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Treatments at St. Jude have helped push up the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20 percent to more than 80 percent, since it opened more than 50 years ago.
Sandra Bullock is one of the past winners of the award in 2013, in recognition of her work with the Warren Easton High School in New Orleans. Jennifer Hudson was also a winner in 2014, honoring her work with the Julian D. King Gift Foundation, and Ben Affleck was awarded in 2015, recognizing his work with the Eastern Congo Initiative.
