When people give to charity, it is often hard to visualize where exactly their money is going. Many people can question that the money they donate is actually going to directly help the cause they are donating to. WWF wanted to create a tangible link between donation and the animals that were going to benefit from the cause.
WWF was particularly concerned about the plight of the toucan, the sea turtle and the marsh deer. WWF decided to set up donation areas in public places including gyms, cinemas and company reception areas. It created large magnetic posters with a faint painting-by-numbers style outline of a toucan, a sea turtle or a deer. Within the outline were markings where people could place different types of coins to create the features of the creature. The message on the poster read: “Make your donations to WWF Brazil here and see who you’ll be helping”. Silver coloured 50 centavo coins would form the lightest parts of the animal, gold and silver coloured 1 real coins would form the bulk of the animals, while the darker coppery coloured 5 and 1 centavo coins would build the shaded areas. As more people donated by placing their coins on the magnetic surface, the image of the animal appeared.
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