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The organizers: Anne Innis Dagg and Mary Dagg
The pitch: Creating the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation
The cause: To raise awareness about giraffes
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In 1956 Anne Innis Dagg was a 23-year-old biology student from Toronto when she took an extraordinary trip to South Africa that started a lifelong passion for giraffes.