This includes speeches and tables and merch and silent auctions and such.
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These "lunches with the congressman" are used in silent auctions to help raise money for the nonprofits.
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She helped adoptees find their birth parents, and volunteered her services to be bid on at silent auctions.
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The town holds a number of other holiday activities, including Christmas theatre shows, silent auctions, and children's games.
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The Trump Organization regularly donates golf outings to local charities for raffle prizes and silent auctions, she added.
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This benefit is the antidote to the predictable silent auctions or the unexciting musical performances from the local grade school choir (no offense, kids).
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"We get asked all the time to be part of galas and fundraisers and silent auctions—things where it costs $0000,803 to get in the door, where they're not really for you and me and everyone that we know," she says.
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They hold silent auctions, take out second and third mortgages, move to less expensive cities, add baby funds to wedding registries, don't give significant others Christmas or birthday presents, sell engagement rings, and, still, it can take many years to cobble together enough money.
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New this year is the Mushroom and Martini Cocktail party at the Sitzmark, which includes live and silent auctions and live music.
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Between 2003 and 2006, collectSPACE hosted annual silent auctions benefiting the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The astronaut experiences and artifacts auctions have raised more than $180,000 for exceptional college students seeking degrees in science and engineering.
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The Turtle Ball is the Turtle Conservancy's annual benefit. The event's live and silent auctions feature fine artworks from various artists, and the proceeds go to support the Turtle Conservancy's work to protect turtles and tortoises around the world.
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The Taste for Los Al, which since 2001 has been benefitting activities at Los Alamitos High School (home high school for Seal Beach students), takes place every October and has one of the largest silent auctions in the nation, often having over 100 tables.
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San Diego Humane Society hosts the annual "Fur Ball", a dog-friendly fundraiser for the animals at San Diego Humane Society. Fur Ball tickets include an evening of a hosted bar cocktail reception; on-site raffle; live and silent auctions; exquisite vegetarian dinner and wine selections, and dancing to live music.
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Begun in 2008 this annual fund raiser has been held at the Country Club at Mirasol in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The all-day event includes a golf clinic, brunch, an afternoon of golf, dinner, live and silent auctions and entertainment. Professional golfer Wayne Player has co-hosted and conducted the golf clinics.
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Each year, on the weekend closest to Liz Logelin's birthday, the foundation holds a Celebration of Hope gala, with live and silent auctions. A Walk, Run, Hope 5K, to benefit the organization, is also held annually. Matt Logelin donates a portion of his book sales - 7%, his late wife's lucky number - to the foundation.
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Proceeds from ticket sales, vendor tables, and live and silent auctions featuring sports memorabilia including the actual game-used hockey sticks and jerseys were presented to the Lowcountry chapter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Pink in the Rink 2009 raised over $20,000, while the 2010 event raised over $40,000.Press release (2010-03-16). "Stingrays' Pink in the Rink raises over $40,000".
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Bunco fundraisers have become increasingly popular over the years, earning large sums for a wide variety of charities. Large groups of bunco players have come together to support their favorite charities by paying an entry fee into the game, holding silent auctions, and by selling raffle tickets; with all proceeds from the event donated to the cause.Buncogameshop.com According to The Washington Post, Bunco is sometimes referred to as the housewife's drinking game.
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Art for AIDS is AHP's annual fundraiser. The first Art for AIDS took place in 1996, when a group of artists decided to sell their art to benefit their friends living with HIV/AIDS.Christopher Harrity, "Art for AIDS Auction Exceeds Expectations", HIV Plus Magazine, September 20, 2013 The event has grown since, and now features a live auction and silent auctions of both art and gift certificates. In 2013, the event raised $275,000 from more than 800 attendees.
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Beginning in November 2004 in Los Angeles the Foundation has hosted an annual Gala featuring dinner, live and silent auctions and entertainment. Every year special recognition is given to the "Champions of Change" honorees selected by the Foundation. They are individuals, companies or groups who have made a significant effort to promote awareness of the need for inclusion.Clay Aiken's Bubel/Aiken Foundation Raises Over $500,000 to Benefit Children With Disabilities at Gala Honoring the 2008 'Champions Of Change' reuters.com.
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By August 2015, it had hosted 250 events for the year, averaging about three to five a week. The organizations helped by Win-Win Entertainment include the American Cancer Society, The Shade Tree Shelter, St. Jude's Ranch for Children, Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, and the Lili Claire Foundation. It helps non-profit organizations with obtaining show tickets and performers' merchandise to sell at silent auctions. The organization's second annual fundraiser, "The Headliner Bash 2013", was hosted by the John C. Kish Foundation.
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The benefit concert raised $140,000 for the Sheriff's Office Benevolent Fund through an entrance fee, silent auctions, raffles, and children's events. For the month of May 2017, Looney's Pub - Canton was one of ten partnering Maryland restaurants to raise money for Brigance Brigade Foundation's second annual "ALS Bites!" Campaign. This campaign established by former Baltimore Ravens player O. J. Brigance and his wife Chanda Brigance raises awareness and funds to help encourage and empower people with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Annually, Creighton Prep will host a dinner auction in April referred to as BASH (Building a Scholastic Heritage) as a means to provide financial aid to the student body. This includes live and silent auctions, a student-driven raffle, and dinner predominately staffed by student volunteers. The student-led raffle ticket event alone has constituted in nearly $210,000, providing 21 students with full tuition financial aid. BASH annuals has approximately 650-750 attendees and relies on both donors and advertisers as the means of income.
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Branson described the first Rock the Kasbah event as "one of the best parties I've ever been to" and musical guest Jewel performed. Funds raised at this event, via ticket sales and live and silent auctions, went to help build schools in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, as well as three villages near Kasbah Tamadot. Celebrity guests included Buzz Aldrin and Rachel Hunter. The 2008 Rock the Kasbah event was also held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on October 23 in Los Angeles, California.
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Since the pipeline break, these villages receive clean water by truck once every two weeks at best.Global Water Foundation (GWF) Recauda Fondos para Proyecto Ecuatoriano – Agua Latinoamerica, June 2007. To raise funds for this project, the GWF teamed up with the International Tennis Group (ITG) and the Rotary Club of Naples to host an Ecuadorian Evening during the Association of Tennis Professionals ATP Challenger Series on 28 April 2007 at the Naples Tennis Club. Mayor of Manta Jorge Zambrano attended the event, which featured a dinner of Ecuadorian fare and live and silent auctions.
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Afterwards, members of the office ask if he is having a breakdown, and, at Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner)'s urging, Andy sadly agrees that he is. Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) attends without understanding how silent auctions work: he believes that the purpose of the function is to guess correctly the market price of the objects. By the end of the night, Dwight has put exorbitant amounts on the items and ends up accidentally donating over $34,000. He flees when he discovers his mistake, giving a bizarre speech on the value of animals before doing so.
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It is Dwight, not him, who misunderstands the rules of silent auctions. Kevin comments this as Dwight being the "stupid guy" in the office and says that no one had borne this title before. He (apart from Ryan and a therapy dog named Kenny) also seems to be the only one to notice that Andy is suffering from a mental breakdown after his abrupt dismissal from Dunder Mifflin that he tries to conceal by unnatural cheerfulness and generosity. When Pam, Erin, and Jim reassure Andy that he would be all right, Kevin says that he would not be.
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The core events currently occur in Munich, Germany, Charlotte and Raleigh North Carolina. Thanksgiving (Munich, Germany) The Thanksgiving event, sponsored by the Eichbauer family (owners of the world-famous Tantris Restaurant in Munich), takes place every year on Thanksgiving with all proceeds from the food and drinks benefitting the charity. Thanksgiving Fundraiser Oktoberfest (Raleigh, North Carolina) In Raleigh, the US team has created Oktoberfest in a response to the well established Thanksgiving event. Silent auctions, beer, sausages, pretzels and great music from the Little German Band help the team to also create a fun atmosphere for helping the people in Uganda.
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Hal-Con is active in charity events. Each year they host a live charity auction at the convention as well as numerous silent auctions with profits going to the IWK Children's Hospital and Kids Help Phone. They also participate with local groups such as Let It Roll, The Board Room Game Cafe, Cape and Cowl Collectibles and Gelatinous Dudes, to help with numerous charity fund-raising events with the funds going to local children groups, IWK Children's Hospital, Kids Help Phone, special needs camps, and Japan Disaster Relief. In the first five years (2010–2015), they raised over $45,000 for charity.
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Annual meetings of the Theodore Roosevelt Association - held near TR's October 27 birthday - occur generally in places that are somehow associated with TR, such as Boston/Cambridge, where he attended college and met his first wife; New York/Oyster Bay, where he lived most of his life; Norfolk, around the USS Theodore Roosevelt; Washington, where he worked as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice President and President; Atlanta, where his mother grew up; and even the Netherlands, where the Roosevelts originated. The annual dinner frequently includes the awarding of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. Annual meetings often include lectures on TR, visits to Roosevelt-related sites, and silent auctions and bartering/selling of TR collectibles by collector members of the association.
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In the late 1990s during the very start of his career, Milou opened American Milou’s Studio for Children in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Through the 2000s’ Milou was involved in philanthropic organizations such as Co-Founder of Philadelphia Art for ALS, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, an annual supporter of CVI, the Cardiovascular Institute of Philadelphia, MOCA Shakers and Gen. Art. In 2009 Milou provided a series of art workshops called “Palette Kids” while he was living in Miami, in collaboration with the Miami Children's Museum. Milou has sold several paintings in silent auctions and donated the proceeds to charitable organizations, including his own retrospective show in 2013 featuring 50 of his original paintings with proceeds donated to the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society and One Fund Boston.
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Past events that H.O.W. Journal has hosted for issue launches have incorporated costume parties, literary contests, and silent auctions featuring designer clothing and jewelry, gift certificates, and many wonderful pieces of art donated by H.O.W. Journal contributors. Events have been held at venues such as Macao Trading Co. in Tribeca, New York City and Carly Simon's Midnight Farm store on Martha's Vineyard. Events have also included guest readings from prominent authors and contributors such as Catherine O'Hara, Ben Taylor, Carly Simon, Harold Ramis, Susan Minot, Mary Gaitskill, David Gates, Justin Taylor, Jonathan Lethem, Barry Yourgrau, Tao Lin, Willie Perdomo, Joan Benefeil, Sam Lipsyte, Eileen Myles, Geraldine Brooks, Fanny Howe, Honor Moore, Alexandra Styron and Natasha Radojcic, as well as musical performances by Stephanie McKay and the indie rock band Drug Rug. By hosting these literary events, H.O.W. Journal has successfully raised over $40,000 to date in aid of charity.
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Since 2009 Triumph has signed over 100 Fender guitars and donated them to various charities for live and silent auctions, raising between $1,500 and $6,500 each. Individually, Emmett has also contributed guitars for Kids With Cancer, CNIB Ride For Sight and Barrett House Aids Hospice. In 2011 Triumph donated their music and business archives to the University of Toronto Libraries. Moore, Levine and Emmett have participated, together and separately, in many major fundraising events, including the latter’s appearance on “Tears Are Not Enough”, the Canadian music industry single for Ethiopian Famine Release in 1985, which would eventually raise over $3.5 million. Moore, along with Tom Cochrane and Rush’s Alex Lifeson, and others, served on the committee which spearheaded the tsunami relief effort, Canada for Asia, in 2005. Other causes Triumph and Metalworks have supported and/or sponsored include: MusiCounts, Rock Star for a Day Program, the Children’s Wish Foundation, Canada's Walk of Fame Emerging Artist Program, Canadian Music Week National Songwriting Contests, many High School Battle of the Bands, Full Circle, Camp Rock, Bike for Betty, and Friends of We Care – Easter Seals.
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