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Felicia Martin-Hill, who helped create the free festival as a brand manager at Virgin Mobile USA, says that when the Virgin Festival became FreeFest at the height of the recession, organizers decided that if they were going to do a free show, “people should pay it forward.” The company set up ways for concertgoers to text donations, make donations while reserving free tickets and drop off cash during the festival. A portion of drink proceeds from one bar and all money raised from the ferris wheel rides ($5 a pop) go to the cause as well. washingtonpost/goingoutguide/follow-the-money-freefests-donations-put-a-roof-over-homeless-youths-heads-in-southeast/2013/09/18/e8fe0084-1bed-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:59:02 +0000

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