Woman Raised $20,000 for Hurricane Harvey Victims, All Thanks to Photos of Her Cat

• Rachel Millman is a 29-year-old writer from New York who saw the devastating consequences of Hurricane Harvey and decided to do something.

  
  Via Rachel Milman twitter
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• Last Monday, she asked people to donate to relief organizations Through a post on twitter explaining potential donors that if they sent her a receipt of their donation, she would in return provide them with photos of her cat, Jerry, misbehaving.

  
  Via Rachel Milman on twitter

• Apparently, Twitter users were eager to see photos of the feline, a sizable animal who has a habit of stealing the food of Rachel’s other cat, Meryl.

  
  Via Rachel Milman on twitter

• Apparently, Twitter users were eager to see photos of the feline, a sizable animal who has a habit of stealing the food of Rachel’s other cat, Meryl.

  
  Via Rachel Milman on twitter
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• Apparently, Twitter users were eager to see photos of the feline, a sizable animal who has a habit of stealing the food of Rachel’s other cat, Meryl.

  
  Via Rachel Milman on twitter

• Apparently, Twitter users were eager to see photos of the feline, a sizable animal who has a habit of stealing the food of Rachel’s other cat, Meryl.

  
  Via Rachel Milman on twitter

• Rachel thought her idea would generate $1,000 at the very most, but donations kept pouring in, and she and Jerry ended up raising an astonishing $20,533 by Thursday.

  
  Via Rachel Millman on twitter
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• ‘My dad was making fun of me earlier for this being the most millennial fundraising,’ she went on to say

  

  As for Jerry, he was apparently just a bit annoyed at his owner, who kept grabbing him to record videos as prizes for higher donors.
  

  Via Rachel Milman on twitter

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