Kristen Bell is ending the year by lending a helpful hand to people in need.
The actress, 44, recently teamed up with social media personality Tommy Marcus, better known as Quentin Quarantino, to donate thousands of dollars to people struggling to pay their medical bills. In DM screenshots shared by Marcus via Instagram on Monday, December 30, Marcus reached out to Bell about helping him raise funds for one health-related GoFundMe page per day.
Bell was game for the idea and subsequently fulfilled the remainder of one GoFundMe page’s fundraising goal. “We need to do more things like this, the world needs it 
,” she wrote in one DM.
In another message, Bell asked, “How can I give 100,000 to people who need it for medical bills? I want to make sure we do it in the best way how do we do it??”
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Marcus responded by suggesting that for every fundraiser he posts on his page, Bell can “close it out” once it reaches its halfway goal. “For example, the next one needs around $50k raised, so once it hits $25k from followers, you donate $25k and we move on to the next one?” he asked.
An excited Bell replied, “YES!! TOMMY LETS DO IT!”
According to one GoFundMe page shared on Marcus’ profile, Bell donated $20,932 to help a third grader named Mia fight leukemia, helping the fundraiser surpass its $50,000 goal. Bell helped another page reach its fundraising target, donating $24,182 to a man named Murilo also battling leukemia.
Thanks to Bell’s help, Marcus said his page’s most recent fundraising campaign “has the chance to be some of the most important and impactful work we’ve ever done.” He wrote in the Instagram post’s caption: “The more you can donate, share, like, comment, do anything you can to make this into a movement — the better chance it has to become a huge thing, have other generous high-profile people like Kristen get involved, and overall, be a movement that we create to save and change so many lives.”
Marcus continued to gush about Bell in a Monday Instagram Story, writing, “Thank you @kristenanniebell for listening to my idea, deciding to be the catalyst to help these [people] get to where they need to be, and for helping us start this movement.”
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Bell, for her part, shared links to Mia and Murilo’s GoFundMe pages via her Instagram Story on Monday.
Bell’s generous donations come shortly after she rang in the holidays with her husband, Dax Shepard, and their daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 10. In addition to visiting the festive Descanso Gardens botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Bell drew inspiration from The Wizard of Oz and Wicked for her family’s Christmas tree.
She shared a snap of her creation via Instagram on Wednesday, December 25, which she captioned with pink and green heart emojis. In addition to the Yellow Brick Road and the Wicked Witch of the East’s legs poking out from under the tree skirt, the tree was decorated with pink and green ornaments and topped with Glinda and Elphaba–inspired angels.
