Fundraiser

Chipotle Metro-Area Fundraiser for Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture:

DC Area Chipotle Locations
Monday, July 16th, 2012
5:00pm – 8:00pm |

Visit one of the 59 Chipotles in the metro DC area, mention the Arcadia fundraiser and 50% of the sale will go to Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture. Chipotle will donate up to $15,000 of that evenings sales to support Arcadias programs including eight scholarships to deserving kids to attend Arcadias Farm Camp this summer.

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RaiseDC Presents: Three to One–A Benefit for Perry Center, Inc.

Lost Society Dc
2001 14th Street Northwest
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
6:00pm – 9:00pm | $10

Come join us for rooftop drinks at our second official event!

Well be gathering in support of the Perry Center on Thursday, July 12th from 6 9PM for an extended happy hour at Lost Society at the corner of 14th and U St. NW.

Perry Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Northwest Washington, DC and cares for thousands of our own residents every year. Their mission? To apply the THREE approaches of social services, economic empowerment, and youth development to eradicate ONE critical issue in our citychronic poverty.

The organization provides services ranging from prenatal care, preschool and teen programs, basic adult education and GED programs, job readiness, training and placement, tax support, emergency assistance, family mentoring, father initiatives, elderly care and more.

Its beautiful and historic building has transitioned from the first high school for black students constructed from public funds, to a shelter and food distribution center, and now to the largest human services center in DC serving 5,000 people per month.

http://www.perryschool.org/

See all of tonight’s and all the week’s events here.  To add your event, click the events tab up top and then click “add an event”.  You can add concerts, museum/gallery exhibits, fundraisers, sporting events, bike rides etc. You can add anything you think will be of interest to PoPville.

Photo by PoPville flickr user AWard Tour

From Red Derby, 3718 14th Street, NW:

We’re teaming up with DASH to provide back-to-school supplies for approximately 63 DASH kids.

For more information or to make donations via Paypal please visit our website @ www.redderby.com

We are looking for: backpacks, pens/pencils of various sizes/for various ages, crayons, three ring binders, calculators, pencil sharpeners, rulers, glue sticks, Scotch tape, loose leaf paper, multi-subject notebooks with dividers, dictionaries, pencil cases/pouches.

Cash donations are also fine (leave them with the bartenders). We’ll be collecting supplies through the beginning of August.

Photo by PoPville flickr user ekelly80

Dine Out for Life tonight:

“On Thursday, April 26th, more than 150 restaurants throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area will donate 25%-110% of their proceeds to Food & Friends.

Simply by dining out, you’ll ensure that thousands of children and adults facing HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, receive the daily, nutritious meals so vital to their care.”

Participating restaurants here:

Dine Out for Life Restaurants (PDF)

From an email:

Next week (Wed. April 25th) my office along with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) is doing a memorial stair climb at the Washington Hilton in Dupont (1919 Connecticut Ave NW). Participants pay a $25 fee, climb 110 flights of stairs in memory of a firefighter lost on 9/11. NFFF gets the proceeds. For more information on the Foundation you can visit firehero.org.

For more information and to sign up visit here.