A Port Coquitlam charity that twice boosted its fundraising target this month has wound up with more than $27,000.
The seventh auction for surpassed its goal two times during its two-week run online, bringing in the $25,000 needed to launch an endowment fund at Capilano University for music therapy undergraduates.
The society had nearly 400 prizes to bid on.
"The success of this year's Legacy Auction in Amanda's memory has been overwhelming in so many positive ways," society founder Carol Todd, Amanda's mother, told the Tri-City News.
"We will be able to implement the music therapy bursary at Capilano University and also continue to support our community members in need of something extra. I believe that Amanda would supportive of everything that continues to be created and established because of her courage to share her story."
Amanda Todd was 15 and a student at the Coquitlam Alternative Balanced Education (CABE) school when she took her life after years of being tormented and bullied online.
A month before her death in October 2012, she posted a that described how she felt.
Meanwhile, a fundraiser for the Amanda Todd Legacy Society continues this month at in Coquitlam.
Owner Kat Hiles said this year's Amanda Todd Snowflake Dream doughnut is a brioche bullseye dipped in a lemon glaze filled with a blackberry cream cheese mousse, sprinkled with powdered icing sugar snow and topped with an edible sugar snowflake.
