Starbucks, Lady Gaga team up on ‘Cups of Kindness’ charity

SEATTLE — Starbucks has teame up with Lady Gaga for a set of brightly colored summer drinks that will r aise money for the singer’s foundation.

The “Cups of Kindness” campaign begins t oday and runs through next Monday. Starbucks said 25 cents from every drink will be donated to Gaga’s “Born This Way” foundation, which has an ongoing campaign to encourage kindness.

The drinks include two of Starbucks’ famous pink drinks and tw o new beverages. One of them is a blackberry-flavored violet drink and matcha lemonade, a combination of matcha tea with traditional lemonade that Gaga said she “instantly fell in love with.”