Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation raises $21,000 online
Howard Lake | 18 November 2000 | News
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation’s “Mission: Possible” campaign ended this week, raising more than $21,000 dollars through the Internet for spinal cord research. This is the largest sum ever raised online by the foundation for a single campaign.
The event drew over 200 bids and 7,000 visits to the auction, which offered 14 different items. The online auction featured a variety of celebrity experiences and memorabilia, including a lap around the race track with Paul Newman in a PPG Pace car, lunch with Emmy-Award winning actress Sela Ward and a role on Broadway in the current production of Les Miserables.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.