--- title: Mean Girls Is Raising Money for Las Vegas Shooting Victims description: In the wake of the Las Vegas tragedy, the cast of Mean Girls wants fans to donate to the National Compassion Funds to support victims. canonical: https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-03T19:17:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:44.493Z og:title: How the Mean Girls Cast Wants You to Celebrate October 3rd og:description: It's October 3 — and the Mean Girls cast wants fans to donate to Vegas victims og:url: https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3313723a2356a545/6988512ecd1bbacfdd6fb72e/mean-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Mean Girls og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Mean Girls Cast Wants You to Celebrate October 3rd twitter:description: It's October 3 — and the Mean Girls cast wants fans to donate to Vegas victims twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3313723a2356a545/6988512ecd1bbacfdd6fb72e/mean-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How the _Mean Girls_ Cast Wants You Celebrate October 3rd > Sponsored content. 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Instead of asking people to share around memes and funny memories of the classic movie and everyone’s everlasting crush on Aaron Samuels, they’ve banded together [to support](https://www.gofundme.com/october3) the victims of Sunday night’s [Las Vegas shooting](http://time.com/4967505/las-vegas-shooting-victims-scene/). In a video shared to social media, stars Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett and Daniel Franzese — that’s Karen, Gretchen, Aaron and Damian to hard-core fans — call for listeners to contribute to the National Compassion Fund [via a GoFundMe page.](https://www.gofundme.com/october3) “We want to turn the attention to those who need it,” Bennett explains. “If every fan gave just $3 in honor of October 3… we would hit our goal of $300,000 in no time.” “Guys, look. We know fetch is never gonna happen, but we can make this happen,” Chabert adds. “On October 3, I’ll ask you what day it is,” Bennett teases, “but we’ll also ask you to help.” Chabert finishes for him. They note that 100% of the funds raised will go directly to the victims via the [National Compassion Fund](https://nationalcompassionfund.org/), which is a program in the National Center for Victims of Crime and has a track record of organizing donations in the wake of events like the Pulse Nightclub tragedy and the Aurora, Colorado shooting. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/"},"headline":"Here's How the Mean Girls Cast Wants You Celebrate October 3rd","datePublished":"2017-10-03T19:17:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:44.493Z","description":"In the wake of the Las Vegas tragedy, the cast of Mean Girls wants fans to donate to the National Compassion Funds to support victims.","url":"https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","mean girls","movies","Las Vegas"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3313723a2356a545/6988512ecd1bbacfdd6fb72e/mean-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3313723a2356a545/6988512ecd1bbacfdd6fb72e/mean-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mean Girls","caption":"Mean Girls","creditText":"Paramount","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4967672/mean-girls-day-las-vegas/","name":"Here's How the Mean Girls Cast Wants You Celebrate October 3rd"}}]}] ```