Backstreet Boys' Charity Donation Held Up By Fiscal Issues

Backstreet Boys' A.J.

Fiscal problems are temporarily interrupting the Backstreet Boys plans to donate $75,000 to the Columbine College Fund, which was to have provided scholarships to students involved in the massacre at Columbine High School in April. The Backstreet Boys wanted to make the $75,000 donation after discovering that 1,200 tickets to its Halloween show at Denver's Pepsi Center were scalped for $110 a piece, an almost 200 percent mark-up from the tickets' $38.50 face value. The Columbine College Fund is about to fold because of a lack of funds, as the San Francisco-based non-profit organization has only received $800 in donations so far, according to the Associated Press. House of Blues, the promoter charged by the boy band to make the $75,000 donation, is currently attempting to find another organization for the money, and wants to make sure that the funds will go to benefit students at Columbine High School. -- David Basham

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