Online fundraising and a comic strip

Posted by Michael Johnston on June 27th, 2005 at 06:19pm

I was in Bismark, North Dakota last Friday and had a wonderful time with the local AFP Chapter. One story stood out for me in the area of online fundraising. A local AFP member told me about a wedding registry gift that she made on behalf of two cartoon characters. Characters, Cathy and Irving from the strip, Cathy, were getting married. The strip’s creator, Cathy Guisewite, asked readers to go online to a gift registry service and make a gift to the Pet Orphans of Southern California, www.petorphansfund.org. Her readers gave over $25,000 online. Is that innovative, wonderful, and I don’t know what else!? Absolutely. When you can make popular culture blend with fundraising, wonderful things happen and I think it’s easier online to do that.

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