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05/13/2013 - NYU Medical Center's Violet Ball
05/13/2013 - 208th New England Society's Founders' Day Celebration
05/08/2013 - New York kick-off reception for Masterpiece London
05/06/2013 - Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard & Airmen’s Club's Fifth Annual Red, White and Blue
04/29/2013 - NY Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s Spring Luncheon “Get Smart” Elizabeth Smart
04/25/2013 - 2013 New England Society Book Awards at the historic Grolier Club
04/25/2013 - Strokes of Genius 3rd Annual International Savant Art Exhibition
04/23/2013 - New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) celebrates their annual Hall of Fame Benefit
04/13/2013 - Culture Lovers Attend Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Festival
04/02/2013 - French Heritage Society Dinner and Exclusive Preview, at the BGC Gallery April 2, 2013
03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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More than Just a BBQ
06/04/2011 - By Far Hills, NJ

More than Just a BBQ

In Saturday, June 4th, we held our largest fundraiser to date – and had a blast doing it!

Advisory Board of Directors member Katie Borghese and her husband Skip opened their beautiful backyard in Far Hills, New Jersey to More than Me and over 150 others for a day of carnival games, delicious barbecue, and awareness of the importance of getting girls off of the street and into school in Liberia. The theme of the day, ‘Making Dreams Come True,’ was inspired by the photo of Agnes pointing to the sky with the word “dream” displayed behind her.

Our amazing volunteers who planned this event wanted to make sure that the girls in Liberia remained at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Pictures that organization founder Katie took of the girls the last time she was in Liberia were everywhere. As each guest checked-in they received a sticker with one of the girls’ faces to wear all day, the centerpieces displayed facts about the power of girls’ education, and the large photos of the girls’ faces were strung behind the live band. A “schoolhouse” was created in the backyard as a site where people could learn more about how to give and the power of their donation. Every time a donation was made to sponsor a year of school for one child, a “school bell” was rung for all to hear! At the start of the day, the photos strung behind the band all simply displayed the word “DREAM.” Each time a year of school was sponsored, that “DREAM” was flipped over to reveal the beautiful, smiling face of a girl from the W est Point area of Liberia whose dream of going to school was coming true.

The kids were encouraged to get involved, too! They had the chance to write cards to the kids in West Point, which Katie will deliver when she returns to Liberia in July. Dream Jars were also given to the kids as little piggy banks with the incentive of a returned jar resulting in a free ice cream. Parents were being dragged to buy More than Me t-shirts because the kids wanted to wear them then and there!

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