Boston Marathon Runner Up for Bid on eBay for Children’s Hospital Boston

If you’ve been reading A New Marketing Commentator over the course of the last few months, you know that in less than five weeks, I’ll be running the Boston Marathon once again for one of the best pediatric hospitals in the country, Children’s Hospital Boston.

This year I have pledged to raise a minimum of $3,500 for Children’s, and I still have a little way to go. So if you would like to contribute to this cause, I certainly would appreciate it. To make a secure, online donation, simply click here or write a check – payable to Children’s Hospital Boston – and return it to my attention at 33 Oakwood Avenue, Sudbury, MA 01776.

To be honest with you, I thought I was conducting a fairly ambitious fundraising campaign until I heard yesterday from another runner – David Paterson, Ph.D (see photo below) – on the Children’s Hospital Miles for Miracles Team Boston, announcing that he was auctioning himself off on eBay in hopes of raising $8,000 for the hospital.

Now that’s what I call going the extra mile.

David Paterson, Ph.D

If you visit his auction page on eBay, the description of the “item” (a dinner date with Dave) up for bid reads, “Dave is 33, single, smart, shy, sensitive, incredibly sexy and Scottish. He grew up in Stirling, the home of Braveheart’s William Wallace and he’s a bit of a Mel Gibson himself. He is an instructor at Harvard with a PHD in Neurology, and works as a medical research scientist in the Dept. of Pathology at Children’s Hospital Boston. He lives in Fenway in Boston now but has lived in Scotland and in Sweden too. He’s a skier as well as a runner and so basically he’s as fit as a butcher’s dog!”

Here’s betting that David will easily reach his fundraising goal, a credit to, well, his brave heart. I haven’t met him yet, but I’ll be looking for him on April 17 at the starting line in Hopkinton to congratulate him on the inventiveness of his campaign.

Boston Marathon Runner David Paterson’s eBay Auction Page for Children’s Hospital Boston

Note from Bob Cargill: To read more about my current fundraising campaign on behalf of Children’s Hospital Boston, click here and here. To read about the other four times I’ve run the Boston Marathon for charity, click here, here, here, here and here.

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