# Dead unusual

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/07/21/dead-unusual/
- Published: 1999-07-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

How can you bring new life to legacy fundraising? You could always try the approach
of The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office Gift Shop and set up a non-profit gift-
shop.

 

 

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How can you bring new life to legacy fundraising? You could always try the approach
of The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office Gift Shop and set up a non-profit gift-
shop. Visitors can buy crime-related gifts, such as toe-tag keyrings and beach towels
with crime-scene chalk body outlines. Perhaps instead of carrier bags they offer
you body bags. Anyway, the £1.25 million profits are used to fund a local anti-drink
driving campaign.

 

 

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