By Monday morning, the page had received over half a million dollars.

He elaborated on what was going through his head at that time in an interview with MSNBC Monday.

So maybe we can raise 2,500 bucks.

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Within about 20 minutes, Penn said, they raised the goal of $2,500.

As of noon ET Monday, more than $550,000 has been donated.

And I thought that was such a beautiful thing.

Penns CrowdRise page is still accepting donationshere.

See a clip from his MSNBC interview below.