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SUMMARY:Give Thanks Cocktail Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 GIVE THANKS Cocktail Fundraiser is being held at the Montclair Art Museum. Guests will enjoy the beautiful African drumming sounds of Yahya Kamate and poetry by the GrassROOTS SuperGirls. Following the award presentations\, DJ Scotty Nevers will keep us on the dance floor all night. \n  \nFor the past eight  years\, GrassROOTS\, through our intensive summer leadership camp and SuperGirls Society\, has encouraged and activated girls to become youth leaders and changemakers. \n  \nThrough their local\, national and international meeting and training program\, these SuperGirls have developed a series of social actions projects via the following programs: \n\n#MathWizGames held free STEM (science\, technology\, engineering & mathematics) games for girls\n#1000BlackGirlBooks collected 10\,000 books and donated 2\,000 books to local schools and libraries\n#RoomForChange program decorated and redesigned rooms at the YMCA in Newark for unaccompanied minors\n#FullCourtDress collected and donated winter coats\, hats and scarves for youth experiencing housing insecurity\n#Food4Life Summit organized food justice games to educate young people on healthy eating\n\n  \nRWJBarnabas HealthCare Fellows Program: \n\n25 hours of training by doctoral level scholars on healthcare and health disparities\n6 hour training on implicit bias and professional development\n32 hours of onsite experiential learning under the leadership of top level healthcare executives. Girls explore various aspects of health care including policy\, pharmacology\, and marketing\, and develop a culminating capstone project.\n\n  \nAccomplishments in 2018: \n\nSuperGirl Marley Dias published her book\, Marley Dias Gets It Done and So Can You.\nSuperGirls launched #GreenRibbonWeek- a public health initiative to promote positive mental health for youth.\nIn 2018\, we expanded our summer leadership camp to serve more girls in Philadelphia\nWe also partnered with New York University to increase our girls’ training in public health. Click here for a video of our work.\n\n  \nThis year we are honoring our “Philly Collaborative”: an extraordinary group of community change agents who have helped in training over 300 youth as well as directed and organized our largest public health initiative (#RootsRockRun5k training and race). For the past 6 years Roots\, Rock\, Run 5k race and training program has served over 3000 individuals. We are grateful to them for their unwavering commitment to our health and well-being. \nHonorees: \n\n      Amy Kelley\n      Darrence Roberson\n      Dr. David Coughlin\n      Jason Floyd\n      Leslie Marant\, ESQ\n      Lily Fung\n      Michelle Alcaraz\n      Montez Roberts\n      Takeya McLeod\n\n  \nGIVE THANKS Corporate Sponsor Opportunities (Contact us to participate)\n \n\nBrand mention and logo in program and in all pre and post-event press and recaps.\nBrand/Logo on step and repeat and all printed materials\nOpportunity to include products in gift bags (Scholastic and Monami Entertainment)\n\n  \nDiamond Sponsorship- $15\,000 \nAllows GrassROOTS to provide all below: \n\nSend 5 SuperGirls to Ghana to support girls education\n\n  \nPlatinum Sponsorship- $10\,000 \nAllows GrassROOTS to provide all below: \n\n Full scholarship for 4 girls to attend SuperCamp\, our summer leadership camp\n Family strengthening program for mothers of children\n\n  \nGold Sponsorship- $5\,000 \nAllows GrassROOTS to provide all below: \nFull scholarship for 3 girls to attend SuperCamp\, our summer leadership camp \n  \n\n\n\nTickets\n$50 – $75\n\n\n\nEarly Bird tickets ends October 30\, 2018 \n  \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n  \n \n 
URL:https://grassrootscommunityfoundation.org/event/give-thanks-cocktail-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Montclair Art Museum\, 3 S. Mountain Ave\, Montclair\, NJ\, 07042\, United States
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