If you haven’t, clear your schedule on Wednesday. Even if you have, it’s worth watching the movie again. And hey, this time the money goes to a great organization.
COAR (Community Outreach and Advocacy for Refugees) is hosting a movie night at the Valley Arts Theater on Mill. Harkins has donated the theater and the licensing for the evening, in part to celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20th. COAR will receive all of the proceeds of the evening; tickets are only $8 and my friend Kelli has 240 seats to fill. Can you help her?
To RSVP or for questions, shoot a quick email to kdonley [at] coarweb [dot] org. See you Wednesday night!
Cheers, Sam “For you, a thousand times over.” Hassan
From Kris Nowotny, Phoenix Coordinator for Lemonade Day, a project of Prepared 4 Life.
Hi, my name is Kris and I am working with Prepared 4 Life to bring Lemonade Day to the Greater Phoenix area in 2010. Prepared 4 Life’s foremost objective is empowering youth to take ownership of their own lives and become healthy, productive members of society—the business leaders, social advocates, volunteers and forward-thinking citizens of tomorrow. Held on the first Sunday of May every year since 2007, Lemonade Day offers young people the opportunity to savor the sweet taste of success that comes with setting up, owning and operating their very own lemonade business.
The program has seen phenomenal growth, growing from 2,600 stands in Houston its first year to over 27,000 with 75,000 kids participating in 2009! This past May 3rd, the combined youth of the Greater Houston community sold over two million cups of lemonade and, with their profits; they contributed more than $500,000 to local charities.
Lemonade Day’s success hasn’t been limited to just Houston alone. The program recently launched in Austin, Bryan/College Station, Richmond, and Minneapolis. Lemonade Day is coming to Phoenix and ten other cities across the United States in 2010.
It is my goal to see Lemonade Day be a smashing success in the Phoenix metro area.
We offer the program free of cost to the kids and schools who wish to integrate the Lemonade Day Program into their curriculum. To achieve this we seek the involvement of the entire community through sponsorship, donations, and most preferably, active involvement in the program itself. I’ve been hard at work researching local area businesses, foundations, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and any and everyone who would want to participate in or contribute to Lemonade Day.
I’m hoping to get my finger on the pulse of Phoenix, and ask for your help to achieve this. If you are interested or know anyone who you think will be interested in Lemonade Day, I encourage you to e-mail me, and check out the Lemonade Day website. We are going to launch the Phoenix specific site soon so I encourage everyone interested to check frequently as updates will hopefully come quickly. You can follow me on Twitter as well to receive updates.
Thanks to Sam for letting me borrow his soap box and thank you all for reading and hopefully I’ll see all of you May 02, 2010 for Phoenix’s very first Lemonade Day.
The NTEE helps researchers, granters, and individual philanthropists by classifying and categorizing organizations into one or multiple codes describing the work an organization does. For instance, the DC Central Kitchen fits under three codes:
K30 – Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs
J20 – Employment Procurment Assisstant
P85 – Homeless Services / Centers
There are twenty-six main categories (signified by different letters) and each main category has a series of sub-categories. If you want to see it in action, check out your favorite organization on GuideStar to see how they are classified. You can also search by NTEE. Pretty cool, huh? Man, I’m sure glad Kim doesn’t read this everyday…
Cheers, Sam “I’m not kissing a nerd.” Betty Childs, Revenge of the Nerds
In honor of our Independence, I thought I’d share a couple of videos with you. First, a video from chalk artist named Ellis G who really nails the subtle, yet distinct, differences between graffiti and street art. Second, and humorously apropos considering the occasion, is a video from the London Cans Festival. That’s all I have for the weekend. Be safe!
