I posted recently about the online fundraising move to save the 2010 IFBB Tampa Pro Female Bodybuilding contest – and the online drive was met with astounding success.
Not only was the 2010 pro show saved, the previously canceled 2009 pro show has been reinstated.
Over a dozen individuals and websites combined for this great effort, with the members of the Unrealmuscle.com community kicking in a staggering $8,600.00 in only a few days.
According to a post [on the website Siouxcountry.com where the concept originated] by the promoter, $17,000 was raised in under 2 weeks. Tim Gardner said:
It was quite the painful dilemma on March 17th to publically announce that I would have to cancel the IFBB female bodybuilding division from the 2009 IFBB Tampa Pro Bodybuilding Weekly Championships’ schedule. After the announcement reached the bodybuilding community, a few individuals reached out to me and asked what could be done to bring female bodybuilding back to Tampa in 2010. I simply replied that just that particular division alone budgets out to $12,000 which does not include any costs of the venue, judges, stage set, hotel, advertising, transportation, trophies, etc. and that I would require it by December of 2009 to inform the IFBB office of my 2010 intentions.
Two weeks later, we fast forward to what has miraculously transpired to only a short ten days of effort to raise, collect and dedicate not $12,000 but $17,000 to the IFBB female bodybuilding sponsorship of our Tampa production.
Kudos to all involved.