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Boy's E-mail Helps Raise Thousands for Cancer Fundraiser

by Elizabeth Humphrey, Posted Feb 22nd 2010 4:30PM

An e-mail from a 9-year-old boy helped raise thousands of dollars in a skate-a-thon fund-raiser for cancer. Dan4th, Flickr
What started as an e-mail plea from a hockey-loving 9-year-old from Rhode Island, grew to thousands of dollars in donations ...
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Cancer-fighting lemonade

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 11th 2008 5:01PM

Lots of kids put up lemonade stands to bring in a few dollars for summer fun; it's almost an American tradition. Instead of a trip to an amusement park, a new bike, or even a college education, however, a thirteen-year-old girl in Wisconsin brought ...
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Boy raises $10,000 in pennies for school

by Bethany Sanders, Posted May 18th 2008 4:00PM

Some kids collect bottle caps, Andrew Niemi collected pennies. Lots of them. For over a year, the 10-year-old collected the copper coins and held fundraisers -- aptly named Andrew's Pennies -- at his school and church. On March 17th, the ambitious ...
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Students raise pigs to fund school trip

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Feb 14th 2007 2:30PM

Sure, raffles, auctions and bake sales are great -- but 12 seniors at Eddyville Charter School, a farming community school in Oregon, thought it'd be more fun to raise pigs instead. According to student Ashley Connor, "It started off as a joke," and ...
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Changing the fundraising system?

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Oct 16th 2006 3:01PM

There's a lot of things that make me cringe in life, but when I see a kid pull out the dreaded "sign-up" paper for his school's newest fundraiser, well, I just want to run and hide. Before I say anything, let me tell you this: I do not like ...
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Adoption is love: raising money to help more kids find homes

by Jen Creer, Posted May 1st 2006 6:07PM

Crystal Cave Designs has launched a fundraiser, featuring a new bracelet. The bracelet is called Adoption is Love, and made from colorful crystals representing beautiful families and their children. Forty percent of all revenues from the sales of the ...
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