# Click to give for free for breast cancer

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/10/26/click-give-free-breast-cancer/
- Published: 2000-10-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

US breast cancer charity the Komen Foundation received donations from two major 
Web sites which ran click-to-give for free campaigns.
US breast cancer charity the
Komen Foundation received donations from two major Web sites which ran click-to-
give for free campaigns.

[Yahoo!’s health section](http://health.yahoo.com) raised $10,000 for breast cancer
charity the Komen Foundation. It donated a dollar for the first 5,000 people to 
click on the pink ribbon at the health site. Yahoo!’s original maximum donation 
of $5,000 was doubled following the huge response.

NFL.com received 1.75 million unique users on its site during NFL’s Breast Cancer
Awareness Day on October 24. The NFL donated US$50,000 to the Komen Foundation.

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