You've Seen the Traveling Lab Coat. Now Meet the Traveling Bag

Our regular readers will quickly recognize one of the really feel-good stories we've covered late last year/early this year - The Traveling Lab Coat. The concept was the brainchild of Community Hall of Fame member danna, who saw a way to turn an ordinary coat, which some of our employees had worn during eBay Live! the previous year, into a force for charitable fundraising.

A few eBay employees had signed the coat, which they then listed through eBay Giving Works to raise money for a favorite cause. danna put in the highest bid, and then had a brilliant idea. Instead of simply keeping the coat, why not pay it forward and re-list it herself to raise even more money for charity? That's exactly what she did, and it turned into a small phenomenon -- future buyers knew that they were expected to re-list the coat themselves, and keep the cycle going (in fact, one winner, ebwizcom, even took it on a road trip and kept this fantastic journal). It was a fantastic grassroots effort to raise money for a variety of nonprofits.

And now danna is at it again. To raise funds for the nationwide Stand Up to Cancer campaign, she's listed an eBay Giving Works bag, with the same "keep re-listing it for charity" theme as before. In fact, she's even included a journal so that each buyer-turned-seller can record their story, a note, or whatever they want before sending it on to the next recipient in the chain. Hopefully we'll still be providing updates about this effort to make the world a little better, one bag at a time, for many months and years to come.