From an email:
The Friends of the Petworth Library are hosting a holiday event at the Petworth Library on Dec 10 from 11-4! Its the Peworth Library’s A Winter Wonderland Book Sale with hot cocoa stand, milk & cookies, story time for kiddies, arts & crafts, and more!
Photo from last year’s Santa Paws event at Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco
From an email:
We’re hosting our annual “Santa Paws” event benefiting the Washington Humane Society on Sunday, December 11 from 2 – 4 p.m. at Kimpton’s Monaco Washington DC.
Guests are allowed to bring their pets (yes…any pet, not just dogs), grab a snapshot with Santa (free with their own camera, or $20 for a framed professional photo with proceeds benefiting WHS), and enjoy homemade gourmet dog biscuits from Poste Moderne Brasserie’s Chef Dennis Marron or hot chocolate, spiced chai, or warm cider in the lobby of the hotel.
Full press release after the jump. (more…)
From an email
BUILD, a successful national organization using entrepreneurship to propel disengaged, low-income youth through high school to college success, will hold its third annual Holiday Sales Bazaar December 7 at Eastern Market North Hall in Washington D.C. More than 50 youth entrepreneurs will sell their wares at the event.
BUILD has a mission to use entrepreneurship to excite and propel disengaged, low-income students through high school to college success. The use of entrepreneurship as a vehicle to engage and motivate students is the exceptional idea around which BUILD operates. In turn, our students’ ideas can have a dramatic positive impact on their current outlook and long-term potential. Entrepreneurship and business development programs, research shows, bridge the relevancy gap for students thinking about dropping out of school by connecting the classroom to career success.
In its 12 years of operation, 100% of BUILD seniors have graduated high school and been accepted to college, with 91% earning admission to four-year colleges. Last year, three BUILD Metro DC juniors graduated early from high school, all of them were accepted into a 4-year college, and one received a $20,000 scholarship for college.
Attached is the press release and below is the flyer that will also be featured in this weekend’s City Paper. We would love it if you could run this as well – perhaps a day or two before the event itself.
What: Annual Youth Entrepreneurship Holiday Sales Bazaar
When: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Wed., December 7 (Brown is scheduled to speak at 6:45 p.m.)
Where: Eastern Market North Hall, 225 7th Street SE
From an email:
“Destination Abricots – The Basics
Did you know that as a result of the earthquake, the orphan population of Haiti has more than doubled to close to 800,000? We are approaching the second anniversary of Haiti’s worst earthquake and many are still without the most basic of needs. Please join us in making a difference in one small community in Haiti, Abricots, by donating goods to the children of this village. Abricots is a small fishing village located in the Grand d’Anse region of Haiti. Access to this part of the country is difficult, especially during the rainy season. Roads to the surrounding villages are in some cases non-existent. Many thousands of Abricots’ residents are part of the post-earthquake mass exodus out of Port-au-Prince. Included in this number are several hundred orphans that have been transplanted to this region. The four local orphanages are filled beyond capacity, and local families have reached out to host the remaining children in their homes. Grant money from the city council and aid organizations has run out, and many of these children do not have the most basic of supplies.
Give your gently used and new children’s items a new life. Support Destination Abricots and your donations will go directly to the orphan and disadvantaged children of Abricots.
Visit us at http://www.destinationabricots.com/ for more information.
We will be holding donation drives in NW Washington DC (Tenleytown) and Alexandria, VA:
· Friday, December 2nd – St Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St NE, Washington DC 20016, 7:30am to 3pm
· Saturday, December 3rd – Forum One, 2200 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA 22301, 9am to 3pm
Here’s what we are collecting for ages 0 to 18 years:
Basic needs: shoes, underwear, rain gear, school bags, lunchboxes, dress and everyday clothes (no winter), toiletries, and toys
Educational needs: musical instruments, board games, school and craft supplies, early reader and comic books, teacher’s edition books, and translation dictionaries in English to French / Spanish to French.
Sporting equipment: soccer and basketballs, goal nets and basketball hoop rings, sporting gear for these games like jerseys, shoes and socks.
Uniforms: 11-15 matching used khaki uniforms for newly established girl and boy scout troops in Abricots.
We are looking for 11 – 15 matching boys’ basketball and soccer jerseys in sizes medium and large and 11 -15 matching girls’ soccer and basketball uniforms in sizes small and medium.”
From an email:
“I work at a local non-profit youth/community bike shop (Phoenix Bikes) and wanted to I wanted to alert you to something your readers might be interested in this weekend:
Phoenix Bikes is having our annual sale of refurbished bikes this Saturday, December 3rd @ Big Bear Cafe (1st and R St, NW). All of the bikes we are selling have been donated by people in the DC/MD/VA area and are worked on by young people and volunteers in our mentoring program. Each bike has been tuned up and checked out by a bike mechanic, and is ready to ride. All of the proceeds from the bikes sold will go back into our youth program.
We will have over 40 bikes for sale including mountain bikes, road bikes, hybrid bikes, single speeds and cruisers.”
From an email:
“Team DC MO will host a Movember fundraiser raffle and mustache contest at Meridian Pint, sponsored by Flying Dog, on November 29th. Movember is about raising awareness for men’s health issues, especially prostate cancer, and fundraising efforts benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Livestrong.
This fundraiser will feature a mustache contest for categories such a “Man of Movember”, which will receive a $25 Gift Card to Dawson’s Liquor and a special bottle from Dawson’s private cellar! Attendees can enter into other categories such as “Miss Movember”, “Best MO in Character”, “Team MO BRO”, “Ultimate Mo” and “Mo Bro and Mo Sista” which will also have prizes for the winners.. Another category “Lame MO” will have some stiff competition! Judges for the mustache contest include Brandon from DC Brau, Tommy from Flying Dog, Tim from Meridian Pint, and J from Dawson’s Liquors.”
For others who are having Movember fundraising events please let us know here. Good luck!
Photo by flickr user Gage Skidmore
From a press release:
“Saturday, December 3rd, Steve-O, the star of MTV’s Jackass and Wildboyz and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars will host a fundraiser to benefit The Kindness Collective. Guests of the event will be able to meet Steve-O, take a photo with the star, and have a copy of his book signed.
The December 3rd event will occur from 1 to 2pm in the loft of Busboys and Poets, located at 1025 5th St. NW DC. Free tickets may be obtained at http://guestli.st/78474. An $8 donation is requested.
Donations will benefit The Kindness Collective’s work with domestic violence shelters to accommodate survivors’ pets. Up to 40% of domestic violence victims report that they are unable to escape their abusers because they are afraid of what will happen to their pets when they leave. The Kindness Collective hopes to bring an end to the abuse by permitting victims of domestic violence to seek safety along with their pets.”
“We are collecting clean and wearable coats (and other wintery accessories) from now through December 2nd at three sites, our anchor site on Columbia Road and two sites in Maryland. Everything we collect will go to our clients and participants from programs like Foster Care, the Young Parents Program, the Street Outreach Program, and the Residential Housing programs.”
Photo by PoPville flickr user ekelly80
“Give to the Max Day is a one-day fundraising event on November 9, 2011 that will unite local Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC communities to support nonprofits serving the area. Our goal is to get thousands of local residents to support their favorite regional charity, raising millions in donations and grants in just 24 hours! ”
Donate to nonprofit participants here.
From an email:
“The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) will walk at the Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon on Saturday, November 19th at the National Mall and tomorrow LAYC is hosting a Happy Hour at Tabaq Bistro on U Street [1336 U St, NW] to raise funds for this purpose.
As you know LAYC has been serving at-risk youth in the DC area for many years. This event will be a great way to bring the community together for a fun night in support of a nonprofit that has helped our community and our youth since 1968.
All proceeds from the cover charge will go to pay for youth registrations to participate at the Walkathon. Funds raised from the Walkathon will directly support LAYC’s bilingual residential programs that serve runaway and homeless youth in the Washington, DC area.”