As a nonprofit, thoughts of fundraising and revenue generation are never far. That's why this piece of news caught our eye. A Toronto based hedge fund bid $1.68M USD to have lunch with Warren Buffet. All funds raised by the lunch go to the Glide Foundation in San Francisco.
Not a bad pay day for Glide. But would it work in New Brunswick? How much could be raised using our local celebrities, entertainment, business and political?
We don't need to look far to find out. Laubach Literacy Fredericton does an annual Lunches for Literacy auction with mostly Fredericton based political and business leaders. The list includes Doug Williams, now co-owner of the popular pub, The Garrison Ale House; the Minister of BNB, Victor Boudreau, and even Freddy Mack from the Fox radio Morning Show. The highest bid I could find was $350 for Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside.
If we were able to secure a higher profile individual (not that these folks aren't high profile) would this be worth pursuing? Who might fetch $10,000? $100,000?
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