>>Rebecca did a great job at
>the event, which is one
>of the reason why Yahoo
>has to make a donation
>at the end. Actually, it was a CHARITY event....to raise money for CHARITY. Yes, Rebecca did a great job, as Carolyn stated, in underscoring YAHOO complete with "Yahoo-tinis", purple ice, purple gift bags, etc; BUT the FOCUS was on the CHARITY.
Yahoo made a PUBLIC donation for the attention, for the "Look at US, WE donated $$$" accolades, and finally to save face for rebuking the idea of asking for money (Heaven forbid!) at a charity event!
As of yet, as far as I know, the total sum of funds raised from mailed in donations is still in question...so in answer to the original post/subject line: We really do NOT know if Rebecca "raised A LOT of money".