Virtual Breasts Raise $2821 To Fight Real Breast Cancer

The Boobie-Thon is a silly name for an awesome enterprise: a Web 2.0-powered movement to raise money for fighting breast cancer.  For inspiration, the site encourages you to submit and/or view topless photos.  Expanding that concept into the metaverse, steampunk mistress Eva Bellambi launched a Boobie Ball earlier this month, daring guests' to dance topless, and definitely donate Linden Dollars for converting into US$ for the Boobie-Thon. When the ball was over and all the donations were tallied, they came out to nearly USD$3000.  Still more impressive, that SL donation to the Boobie-Thon was nearly a third of the fundraiser's general total of $9300. 

Not bad for virtual breasts.  And despite all the current conflict, it's yet another reminder of Second Life's transformative potential as a unified and communal world.  Pictured: Hypatia Calisto and Ms. Bellambi, courtesy of the latter.

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[Eva Bellambi]

Thanks for covering this story! I did not work on this alone, however. Miss Serra Anansi, the Seneschal of Winterfell, was a true partner in this venture.
To say we were pleased with the generosity of our friends and neighbors in Caledon and Winterfell and several sister sims would be an understatement. The generosity for such a good cause was amazing.

If you missed this event - never fear - there will be a Boobie Ball II coming next year. And thanks to Miss Serra's forethought, there will be other activities as we work collaboratively again to fight breast cancer during the SLRFL events in 2009.

Cheers!
EB