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'Outside': A Charity Plans for Big Growth

Here's a fund-raising strategy many charities have probably never tried: asking donors to give money if staff members eat nothing but grapefruit for two weeks. Grist.org, a nonprofit environmental-news Web site in Seattle, helped pay part of a staff member's $35,000 salary with money raised from readers who responded to the challenge,...

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