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I used to do volunteer work on donations.
You want high profile names to donate money and you want to publicize it heavily. It drives other high profile names to donate, as well as driving general donations. We would have VIPS donate large sums and ask to remain anonymous. Almost every time we asked them NOT to remain anonymous, as we needed to publicize their donation. They generally agreed once we explained it to them.
I watched this happen last night on the NBC fundraiser. Merck donates a million. Pfizer donates 2 million. Then another company donates 1.5 million. Sure, they want the good will publicity. But there's also truth that they are people and wanted to do something to help. The good news is, none of the starving children care WHY the money putting food in their mouths came to be there.
Whatever the motivation, there is absolutely no downside to her donation. None at all.
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