The Avril Lavigne Foundation is pausing!

I wonder why they paused the foundation, and I do hope they will come back!

They had a lot of work this year... Releasing Fly, cooperating with the Special Olympics and the Prizeo-thing.
Maybe it'S been too much work for the workers there... idk...

My thought too, however, why pause it officially and not just keep it active without doing anything? To me,a public statement like this can be a ending or maybe mean they wont come back for a long time :/

It's a shame, but like what Jamie said it's probably so she can focus on other projects- the people at the ALF do a great job and deserve a well earned break IMO.

IMO it is 2 reasons:

1. As others said, Avril herself probably wanting a break as well as her employees and focusing on her health, personal life, other projects, etc.
2. Funding. Her fan base has decreased a lot in the last few years. The only people most likely interested in giving to ALF are her fans, it is not as well recognized as some other celebrity foundations, so likely most of the donations come from her fans. Her fan base is not what it was 5-10 years ago and a foundation cannot rely on the donations of so few people. I'm sure Avril pours a lot of her own money into it as well but she might be interested in putting that money into other things like her medication, which I'm sure is very expensive, hospital visits, etc. that she presumably pays out of pocket for and most likely doesn't have insurance. She might be pouring money into funding music projects like GYWYL video, Fly, etc. There's also probably a lot of legal fees involved due to her recent divorce. Even though she has millions of dollars she can't support her own charity forever. Eventually her real life costs take precedence.

The foundation itself is getting a bit unrealistic with how much they expect fans to contribute, I remember them asking like $100 for a bracelet made of guitar strings and the Prizeo campaign asked quite a lot of money for basic items, even for charity. Her fans are mostly kids or 20 somethings, nobody can afford to donate that kind of money, even if it is for charity. I suspect they just aren't making as much money from donations as they used to when her fan base was bigger. And she is not as prominent of a pop star as she was from 2002-2008, she is less likely to get sponsors and things when she's not as relevant and as in demand by the industry as she once was.

Sad to say it, but I think this may be the beginning of the end for ALF. I deep down believe they have financial troubles and can no longer support themselves. I hope that it's not the case and that it will return because it's a great cause, and who knows, maybe Avril just wants to simply take a break from it, but I just don't know. I sort of figured sooner or later this was going to happen, it happened to Britney Spears's charity several years ago.

It's not totally sad at all, she has tried giving the best role model even as she is rich, as well as the achievements are great, especially, it has raised other pop singers' attention like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga. We cannot summarize anything yet at the moment yet IMO. If she will be able to make better music during the operation paused, she could make a better song to raise money for the foundation.

this is gold