London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/25/2013 -- Followers of Danny Sawrij Twitter user learned via social media that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer will auction herself off for charity; offering a private lunch with the highest bidder. The money will go to Aspire East Palo Alto Charter School, the charity of Mayer's choice.

Friends of Danny Sawrij Facebook also learned that the minimum bid starts at $42,000. Friends of Danny Sawrij also read that Mayer was inspired by Berkshire-Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet's similar move. The auction will be hosted by online charity site CharityBuzz.

Mayer will dine with the winning bidder at the Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The winner will get one hour with Mayer. To social media users; such a fans of Danny Sawrij photos are an important social media experience and Mayer will allow photos to be taken. To social media followers of Danny Sawrij photos of the meeting can then be shared via social media. Incidentally, Yahoo! Purchased microblog site Tumblr! last month, so photos of the event may be rapidly shared on that site.

To friends of social media user Danny Sawrij fundraising such auctioned-off lunches with corporate superstars are a staple of high-profile causes. Buffet has been auctioning off lunches since 1999, with 2012's lunch topping $1 million, down from the previous year's record $3.5 million price tag.

Supporters of Danny Sawrij fundraising also read that former U.S. president Bill Clinton, Oprah, rapper Jay-Z, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and Apple CEO Tim Cook have also raised millions of dollars for charities. Fans of Danny Sawrij just giving consider such pages to be the easiest way to give to charity.

"More and more folks from the world of technology are getting that superstar status," said Holzman, the Charitybuzz CEO. "People like Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer absolutely have that star power."

Charitybuzz will give 80% of the proceeds to Mayer's appointed charity. They will keep the remaining 20%

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This story was reported by money.cnn.com, CNN's business and finance portal. Marissa Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo! and was previously an executive at Google. She joined Yahoo! in 20012. She was named to Forbes' list of most powerful businesswomen in 2012.

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