The Beautiful Life Tree in Grant Circle
Welcome to the beautiful life, even when it rains… At the PoPville happy hour there will be lots of drinks and food specials plus live music at Acre 121 (14th and Irving St, NW by the Columbia Heights metro.) Anyone who donates to the St. Baldrick’s foundation gets a free PoP t-shirt (while supplies last.) Please donate here every dollar helps. Thanks again.
Now let’s drink!
I hope many of you can make the next PoPville happy hour tomorrow night (I’ll be there from 5-9pm) at Acre 121 (14th and Irving St, NW next to Tynan Coffee.) There’ll be lots of drink and food specials and some live music.
I’m also gonna take this opportunity to remind folks that I’m still accepting donations for the St. Baldrick’s foundation. I’m gonna shave my head March 10th at Fado to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures. I have a huge goal of raising $5000 and we are almost half way there. I know we can do it. To help encourage people – if you donate $15 or more I’ll give you a PoP t-shirt (while supplies last but I’m bringing a lot of them) at the happy hour tomorrow night. And a huge thanks to everyone who have so generously donated.
Hope to see many of you tomorrow night at Acre 121.
“Oxfam fundraiser at the Pug starting at 8 pm on Thursday. $20 gets you all you care to drink DC Brau drafts and a chance to win VIP tickets to the Flogging Molly show the next night. The band will be at the Pug as well during the fundraiser.”
I’ve decided to join team Boundary Stone to help raise money to prevent childhood cancers. The event is run by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. On March 10th I’ll be shaving my head at Fado in Chinatown with team Boundary Stone.
Help me meet my fundraising goal by donating here (click on the “Make a Donation” button on the left.) Thanks everyone!
From an email:
It has only been two months since we put together a mustache-growing team to help raise money and awareness for men’s cancer thru’ the Movember Foundation; your support was amazing and we ended-up donating over $10,000 to the cause!
Well, we are at it again! On March 10th we are helping our good friends at Fadó raise money for St. Baldricks. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives to look forward to.
We, here at the Boundary Stone, are putting together a team willing to help raise money by shaving our heads on March 10th.
We have set a pretty high goal and with your help we can reach it. This fund-raiser is also to help honor those friends and colleagues who have passed as a consequence of this horrible disease.
Read Keeghan Barry’s story, who lost his fight to cancer in August 2008, here.
If anyone would like to join our team and shave with us, please just email me directly at [email protected], or if you or your company would like to donate you can do so here.
From an email:
John Eaton, a local jazz pianist and D.C. native who has performed for packed houses at the White House, the Kool Jazz Festival, and the Smithsonian Institution, is joining forces with John Eaton Elementary School to raise funds for arts and music programs at the 100-year-old public institution in D.C.’s Cleveland Park. The pianist will perform at the school’s Barbara Munday Theater on Saturday January 7 at 7:00 pm.
Mr. Eaton, who Washingtonian Magazine included on its 2008 list of “best-loved veterans of the Washington music scene” has no relation to the 100-year-old school’s namesake—a Civil War-era general who was renowned for his work in education—but offered to do a benefit concert after learning about the school and its work in bringing the arts to D.C. public school students.
“We are delighted and honored that Mr. Eaton has generously offered his talents to help our school raise the much-needed funds that introduce our children to music, dance, and visual arts,” said Dale Mann, principal of John Eaton Elementary.
The concert is open to the entire D.C. community. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased on the school’s website.This performance will directly support the music and visual arts programs at John Eaton Elementary School. Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome!
From an email:
Admission Price: Bring an unopened toy or $20 for a food basket to donate for the kids
To donate visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2566622838
This is an annual charity thats helps to provide a family with a holiday food basket or a child with a toy for Christmas. Join us for a fun, inspiring, one-of-a kind evening that will benefit these families in need. Mix and mingle, sip a few cocktails, and feel free to grab the microphone to sing your favorite song!
All proceeds from this event will benefit the SE White House, DC Superior Courts – Crime Victims Compensation Program, and the Prince George’s County Department of Social Services.
From an email:
I have a project that I have been working on, which has finally been finished. Behold the Tumbleweave Calendar!
My friends and I have been collecting pics of random hair pieces around DC for a couple of years now, and this is my compilation of the best pics.
I am selling the calendars (which cost about $8.50 each to print) for $21.00 plus shipping. 100% of the proceeds (about $12.00 per calendar) will be donated to a local organization (which does not want to be named) which provides services to victims of domestic violence.
I have about 12 calendars left and would really like to unload all of them before 2012 starts!
From an email:
Distinguished non-profit Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-tem (M.O.M.I.E’s TLC), will be hosting their first annual art auction, “Visions of Greatness” on December 17, 2011 at Sankofa’s Books and Video, at 2714 Georgia Avenue NW, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Proceeds from the Visions of Greatness auction will benefit M.O.M.I.E’s new, eco-green office building. This new location will provide M.O.M.I.E’s with the resources needed to uphold their mission to provide a culture-based education to inner-city youth.
M.O.M.I.E’s TLC is a community-based organization whose mission is to provide an arts education and creative outlet for DC’s at-risk youth. The organization is the recipient of the illustrious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which was presented to M.O.M.I.E’s by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Photo by PoPville flickr user Lauren PM
From an email:
Please help us double our food stamp and WIC programs at the farmers’ markets for 2012.
On Wednesday December 14th the P St and Georgetown Whole Foods will donate 5% of ALL Sales to double food stamps and WIC at BFM, Mount Pleasant, NoMa, Glover Park and 14&U FM for the 2012 season.
We will then be able to match the value of food stamps and WiC so our low income customers can double their purchasing power for fruits and vegetables.
Please spread the word.. We are trying to raise 20,000 dollars. So we are asking people to do some holiday shopping on Wednesday so that we can double food stamps at markets in 2012.. Everything counts from Amaryllis bulbs to wine, sandwiches to flour and eggs.
Thank you. There will be great chef demos at WF in support of this event: from Blue Duck Tavern, Brasserie Beck , Ris, and PS7. As well as Loulies and Company’s Coming Cooking School.
You can find out more at:DCGREENS.ORG