Patent ID: 8706594

Claim:
A method for raising funds for a charitable cause comprising the steps of: identifying a charitable cause in need of funding; obtaining one or more sponsors to fund the charitable cause through paying for a plurality of flags prior to their display, with at least a portion of the funds being donated to the charitable cause; transforming a selected location by erecting the plurality of flags at the selected location to comprise a healing field that is, at least in part, expressive of the charitable cause; linking a display of the healing field to the charitable cause in need of funding by carrying out a public awareness campaign designed to educate others about the charitable cause and its relation to the healing field; displaying the healing field as part of the public awareness campaign, the plurality of flags being positioned in a predetermined pattern; selling at least some of the plurality of flags that are displayed in the healing field to raise additional funds for the charitable cause in need of funding; and removing the plurality of flags after a predetermined display period to eliminate the healing field from the location.