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A party with a thesis statement: give us money, keep the snacks.
means A person or event organized to collect money, usually for a cause, campaign, or organization that needs it.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'fund' (a pool of money set aside for a purpose, from Latin fundus, 'bottom' or 'foundation') plus 'raiser,' the one who lifts it up and gets it moving. English had been 'raising funds' for centuries, but the job title and the event both solidified into one word as organized charity and campaign-finance culture professionalized — turning 'raising funds' from a verb phrase into a career and an evening you RSVP to.
- tax trick
- donation minus the fair value of your dinner is deductible
- silent auctions
- designed to make you overbid out of social pressure
- galas secretly fund
- the gala, before anything else does
- peer pressure math
- people give more when donations are shown publicly