Paying It Forward Pays Off ; 'Oprah' Charity Challenge Reaches Fire Victims in Springs
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › November 27, 2006
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Did you hear that Oprah Winfrey left local waitress Baily Schryver a $1,000 tip?
It's true -- in a way. Back in October, the talk show diva challenged everyone in her studio audience to spend $1,000 to help someone else. The show called it the "Pay It Forward Challenge," after the 2000 Kevin Spacey-Haley Joel Osment movie (and the book by Catherine Ryan Hyde) in which a child's generosity sparks one person after another to help out in a virtuous cycle spanning the globe.See the full content of this document
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Paying It Forward Pays Off ; 'Oprah' Charity Challenge Reaches Fire Victims in Springs
Being helpful herself, Oprah supplied the cash for the 300-plus audience members.
Jodi Champagne of Colorado Springs was in the audience that day. She wrote to the show after seeing a request on the Oprah Web site for people who w...See the full content of this document
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