By Douglas Feiden | New York Daily News

July 24, 2005

...And the proud Internet geeks at EchoDitto Inc., who ran Howard Dean's hugely successful online fund-raising campaign in 2004, will be Web masters for the memorial. Planners hope to collect $100 million in cyberspace, based on an average gift of $100 from a projected 1 million donors.

"The Dean campaign showed that citizens could organize and raise significant small-dollar contributions online," said Nicco Mele, CEO of EchoDitto.

"But the online response to the tsunami - $1 billion in 30 days - showed how the Internet can spur enormous charitable giving globally, and that's the model for the memorial."...
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