FatCow Donates Part of Fees to Rescue Farm

• By theWHIR.com , March 31, 2003

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March 31, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting company FatCow (FatCow.com) announced this week that it has begun donating 50 cents from every new customer's $99 per year hosting fee to The Purple Cow & Friends, a not-for-profit farm animal rescue organization devoted to saving cows, pigs, ducks, chickens and other animals.

With an average of 1,000 new customers every month, says FatCow, the company expects to donate at least $1,500 in the first three months, enough to buy more than 150 bales of alfalfa for the shelter's animals.

?Some people might see a high-tech company like FatCow and a low-tech organization like The Purple Cow as the ultimate odd couple, but we have fun with our name so figured we might as well have fun with our philanthropy, too,? says Peter Ziesmann, marketing and development director for FatCow. ?Besides, with all of the great branding that our bovine friends have given us, the least we can do in return is to help put animals that are no longer wanted out to pasture rather than let them go to the slaughterhouse.?

According to FatCow, The Purple Cow & Friends ministers to cows donated by children who raise them for 4-H projects, milk companies that have used the animals as mascots and agricultural colleges that have used them for educational purposes.

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