Alice Laussade – Funlanthropy & Meat Fight: A Beefy, Hearty Take On Fundraising – TEDxSMU 2015
Alice Laussade, CEO of Meat Fight, Inc., talks about funlanthropy, and how meats, beers, and bacon doughnuts helped her organize a fanatical community in support of her beefy battle against Multiple Sclerosis.
Alice Laussade is the creator and host of the Dallas event, Meat Fight®, a barbecue competition, meat dream and fundraiser that benefits the National MS Society. Last year, Meat Fight raised $100,000 for people living with Multiple Sclerosis, and 750 people could be seen shoving sausage links into their faces. When she’s not fielding emails with “MEAT EMERGENCY” and “Did we remember to spray paint the pigs that we glued on top of the 40 oz. beer can trophies??” in the subject lines, Laussade writes for the Dallas Observer and other publications. In 2013, she won a James Beard Award for Humor in Writing. She finds that when she wears the award into Taco Bell, she gets noticeably better service.