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December 2008 Charitable Registry


December 4 • Bouquets A Wine Tasting
A benefit for Como Zoo & Conservatory.  Enjoy the enchanting environment of the Marjorie McNeely will sampling over 40 varieties of wine. You will also preview the beautiful Holiday Poinesetta Show. 6  p.m.  St. Paul. www.comozooconservatory.org.  

December 4 • Band Together. The American Refugee Committee’s Annual Gala
Join us for a very special evening of music and merriment at one of the Twin Cities’ premier music venues and restaurants, the Dakota Jazz Club. Come for a fabulous dinner, stay for live world music, and dance in celebration of ARC’s work helping people around the world take back control of their lives. Please contact www.ARCrelief.org or Susan Fink at susanf@archq.org.

December 7 • Friends of Gillette 24th Annual Benefit
A benefit for Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare.  Silent Auction and reception with hot hors d’oeuvres,  with featured presentation of Wicked.”  This benefit supports Gillette Children’s and the services they provide each year to more than 20,000 children, enabling them to realize greater well-being, independence and enjoyment in life. 6:30 p.m.  Orpheum Theater. 901 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis. www.gillettechildrens.org. 

December 14 • Angelica Cantanti Winter Choral Concert
A benefit for Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs.  Come listen to one of the premier Twin Cities youth choirs. The Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs will present their annual winter choral concert on Sunday, December 14,  at 2:30 p.m. St. Michael’s Lutheran Church.  Bloomington. www.angelicacantanti.org.  

December 31 • Three Sons Signature Cuisine’s New Year’s Eve 2009
A benefit for Emergency Foodshelf Network. Sponsored by Three Sons Signature Cuisine. Ring in the New Year proper with gourment buffet, live entertainment and champaign toast benefitting Emergency Foodshelf Network. All proceeds from silent auction  benefit Emergency Foodshelf Network. 8  p.m. St. Anthony Main Event Center. 219 Main Street SE. Minneapolis. www.threesonssignature.com.  

December TBD • Stuff the Bus
A benefit for The Salvation Army. Sponsored by KS95. KS95 on-air talent and The Salvation Army join together for a three-day event collecting donations of new toys.  These toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the Twin Cities area. A bus will travel to various Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations to be “stuffed” with toys.  9  a.m. Twin Cities area Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations.   

December TBD • Adopt-a-Family
LITE FM hosts a two-day radio-a-thon connecting community members with area families in need of Christmas gifts and food. Donors call in and select the size of the family they’d like to “adopt” based on the amount of money they would like to spend;  donors then shop for gifts for the family. 6  a.m.
 
TBD • Perk’s Abominable Snow Party
A benefit for Children’s Cancer Research Fund®. Join KARE 11’s Eric Perkins and kick off the winter season in style at Perk’s Abominable Snow Party. Enjoy a day of skiing and snowboarding, a celebrity  snowboard race, Mascot Mayhem Tubing Spectacular, rail jam,  live entertainment, product demos and much more.  www.perksnowparty.com.  

TBD • A Toast to Courage Presented by RBC Dain Rauscher
A benefit for Camp Courage.  This is a black-tie optional, multi-course,  gourmet food and wine event to benefit Camp Courage. 6:30 p.m. Varsity Theater. 1308 4th Street SE. Minneapolis.  www.courage.org.  

TBD • Hard Hat and Black Tie Gala
A benefit for Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.  The Hard Hat & Black Tie Gala is a little less formal and alot more fun!  Guests are encouraged to wear creative black tie with a construction twist. You might wear a pair of work boots with your cocktail dress. Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s goal is to eliminate poverty housing. www.tchabitat.org.  

TBD • TCQAA Golf Classic Driving Out Hunger
A benefit for Emergency Foodshelf  Network.  Sponsored by the Twin Cities Quality of Life Golf Classic. Twin Cities Quality of Life Golf Classic has raised $36,000  for Emergency Foodshelf Network since 2003. Get golfing before the weather turns winter and help drive out hunger.  www.emergencyfoodshelf.org. 

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