Fundraisers – Charity Calendar Flops in Madrid


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Fundraisers – Charity Calendar Flops in Madrid

Several well-meaning middle-aged mothers from Spain created a calendar to raise money for their children’s rural school. What they got was a $16,000 debt and 5,000 unwanted copies of the finished product.

Dubbed “discreet,” this naked-wonder Borat-type calendar is not one that they could hang on the wall at Disney World. However, it would be appropriate at an over-the-hill gun club somewhere in the Catskills.

The older I get, I am so thankful that I saved my grandmother’s chocolate fudge brownie and bake sale recipes.

A group of British women made more than a million pounds and worldwide headlines when they came up with the idea of a discreet nude calendar for 2000 to raise money for leukemia research. Their story was made into a hit movie, "Calendar Girls." (msnbc.msn)

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