The Tallest FundRaiser in Town Over the Edge for Charism
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hile the Black Building's Art Moderne style usually catches eyes in downtown Fargo, on August 10, pedestrians were looking up at it for a different reason. The block of Broadway hosted necks craned backwards, cautiously watching as person after person rappelled 110 feet down the historic building. But these daredevils weren't rappelling down just for the thrill of it. In a fundraising effort for CHARISM, 80 volunteers, or "Edgers," rappelled eight stories down from the top of the building. CHARISM, in partnership with Over the Edge USA, brought back this unique fundraising event to Fargo for the second year in a row. It only made sense that such an unique
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organization would hold an equally unique fundraising event. In a sea of galas and golf tournaments, Over The Edge provides a fun way to raise money for a cause. They work with non-profits and charities across the United States and Canada by providing them a fresh and heart-racing opportunity to bring in people of the community for good causes. With them, volunteers have the opportunity to pledge an amount of money to a charity in exchange for the experience of getting to rappel great heights down iconic buildings. When approached with the idea of this type of fundraiser, CHARISM's executive director John Fisher said, "We were nimble and crazy enough to try something like this." And sure enough, from their past
