Buoniconti began fund-raising after his son Marc was paralyzed in a football accident.
The zoo immediately began fund-raising efforts to build a new primate house, estimated to cost about $21 million.
In the mid-1970s, he began fund-raising for a new building and scouting for an architect to design it.
And so began fund-raisers and events galore, first at the annual pickle festival, then assorted theater and arts gatherings and online auctions.
So Ms. Scarpa enclosed the woods around her studio, started a nonprofit group and began fund-raising to support the growing cat population.
He repeated the tactic last June when he began fund-raising for the 2004 race, kicking off with burgers, dogs and nachos at the Washington Hilton.
Mrs. Hepburn developed her own ideas along these lines and in 1926 began fund-raising for Panhellenic House, a 380-room apartment hotel intended for college graduates who were sorority members; she herself was a Kappa Kappa Gamma.
And so it is, although it was sad music that played through the crumbling pavilion by the time, 20 years ago, the De La Warr Pavilion Trust began fund-raising to save the structure from ruin.
