Category: non-profit
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Best Buddies DC 2014
The annual Best Buddies bike ride/run/walk in DC was held on Saturday, October 18. Best Buddies is a non-profit that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, both socially (hence its name) and professionally, by encouraging companies to hire people with disabilities and by providing leadership development. The annual event is made up of a…
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Children’s Ball 2014
The Children’s Ball, a fundraiser to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center, was held on Friday, April 11 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, DC. The Ball was co-chaired by Yousef and Abeer Al-Otaiba (the UAE Ambassador and his wife) and Amy and Bret Baier. There were over 900 people in attendance with a lengthy waitlist…
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Institute for Justice dinner
Jim is on the board of the Institute for Justice, and we had the board and almost everyone in the organization (approximately 44 people) over for dinner last night. Robert, Jim’s nephew, came out and helped cook. Without him, we would never have been able to pull this dinner off. The menu was as follows…
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Sips & Suppers 2014
We attended one of the Sips & Suppers that were hosted last night. Sips & Suppers benefits Martha’s Table and D.C. Central Kitchen. Chefs from across the country (and sometimes from around the world) cook meals in private homes to benefit the charities. Our dinner was prepared by Scott Drewno of The Source and Peter…
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Best Buddies Miami 2013
We flew down to Miami last weekend to attend the Best Buddies Miami gala. Best Buddies is an organization that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with friendships, employment, and leadership development. We’ve been involved with the organization for 20 years, and Jim is on the board. The Miami event is especially entertaining because…
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Best Buddies Challenge 2013
October 19 was the date of the Best Buddies Challenge in Washington, DC. (It was also the date of Homecoming for our high schooler, and Jim was in Japan for the weekend, but I digress.) Best Buddies is a charity that helps folks with intellectual disabilities with friendship and job prospects. The organization was founded…
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Hobbesian Choice
We were presented with the dilemma of the following choices: (i) 7 5th grade boys (10-11 years old) at a black tie event for Children’s National Medical Center; and (ii) 20 8th grade girls (13-14 years old) at a Taylor Swift concert. As a practical matter, there was no choice in the matter. Jim is…
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The New Epilepsy Foundation
As of January 1, the Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation merged and became one organization, the Epilepsy Foundation. The first board meeting of the new organization was held this past weekend in Miami. Jim and I flew down on Friday afternoon and participated in the tail end of the Anti-Epileptic Drug and Devices…
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Hawaii (and the US-Japan Leadership Program)
I highly recommend the concept of being in Hawaii in February. (Yes, that absolutely was an exercise in gloating.) I was there for an executive committee meeting of the US-Japan Leadership Program, and Jim and I stayed a few extra days afterwards to enjoy paradise (aka Hawaii). We stayed in Honolulu, as we think the…
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Sips & Suppers
We went to a supper hosted in conjunction with Sips & Suppers, a fundraiser benefiting Martha’s Table (marthastable.org) and DC Central Kitchen (dccentralkitchen.org) where local chefs prepare meals at the hosts’ homes. At the dinner we attended, the chefs were Scott Drewno from The Source (wolfgangpuck.com/restaurants) and Erik Bruner-Yang from Toki Underground (tokiunderground.com). The chefs…