CNN Readers Donate $116,000 Overnight

CNN's Tuesday story about a small donation aggregator, Modest Needs brought out an unprecedented giving spirit among their Web site's reader.

According to the story update:

On a very good day, Modest Needs will receive $5,000 in individual donations, Taylor said. A $15,000 day would be "absolutely unbelievable," he said. Prior to Tuesday, the most it brought in on a single day was $32,800, after Hurricane Katrina. In the 24 hours after this story appeared on CNN.com, Modest Needs Foundation founder and CEO Keith Taylor said, individual donors ponied up more than $116,000 to help people through Modest Needs. A matching grant from the Zegar Family Foundation doubles the take to $232,000.

The money funded 30 percent of people who were asking for help on the site, including a senior citizen who couldn't afford much-needed dental work and and a florida resident who needed a few extra dollars to move into a new apartment after her longtime roommate left her high and dry.

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