Grey’s Anatomy: Blurring Fact and Fiction
The hospital – Seattle Grace – doesn’t exist and neither does its staff but that’s not stopping them from using the pending nuptials of Dr Derek ‘McDreamy’ Shepard and Dr. Meredith Grey as a fundraiser for a worthy cause.
Actually, it’s a pretty clever idea – creating online wedding registry – that taps the Grey’s Anatomy’s fans into feeling that they are part of the wedding festivities, which allows them to donate in lieu of gifts to one of these three well deserving charities…
- American Academy of Neurology Foundation (ANN)
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Skin Foundation
When contacted by the producers of Grey’s Anatomy as one of the chosen charities, the AAN foundation jumped on the offer. As foundation’s Executive Director, Catherine M Rydell, says
‘…This was an enormous opportunity to get the word out about the AAN Foundation and its mission to raise money and support for brain research. The show’s popularity and avid fan base will be an extraordinary boost to our fundraising initiatives—with 100 percent of all donations going directly to fund brain research, which is critical to developing new treatments and cures for patients.’
A $5 donation to the AAN foundation provides fans with a ‘virtual brain’ that will appear on the site’s virtual brain wall, complete with the donor’s name (and /or someone they choose to honor)
The wedding, by the way, is scheduled for 14th May.
