On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, we welcome you to join Party 4 a Cause for our 2nd annual autumnal Wine Tasting Event held at Moore Brothers wine store for the 2nd year in a row!

This is a great event featuring hors d’oeurves from Upper East Side caterer Michelle’s Kitchen, and paired wine from independent wine distributors from across the world brought to you by Moore Brothers Wine. It’s a great way to learn about Wine, learn about how to pair the food with wine, just have some great conversation with some old and new friends.

And the best part, it’s all for a great cause - The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning. This year, we’re giving back to the community by getting back to our educational roots, and partnering up with a great organization focused on putting children on the right path towards education.

We invite you to come party it up, and party for a cause!!! Cheers.

Featuring live performances by Forget the Girl, Scott Harris Project, and C&A. Money goes to Habitat for Humanity

We are only less than 1 month away for the most awesome Charity Beer Pong Tournament in NYC! And this is why it is awesome. We have some new updates to our events:

First off, register your team(2 per team) here!

http://beerpong.eventbrite.com

1st place prize is hundreds of dollars in gift certificates
2nd place prize is free happy hour for your team to Calico Jacks

Money is going to Habitat for Humanity NYC.

AND…it doesn’t stop there…We’re going to be featuring some live performances from 3 great bands!!!

- Forget the Girl - myspace.com/party4acause
- Scott Harris Project - myspace.com/scottharrismusic
- C&A

Trust me, you do NOT want to miss these performances. It is going to be siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!

Saturday, May 16
Beer Pong starts at 2pm
Party till 8pm!

The Deal on Beer Pong:
16 teams of 2 people each team (32 people)
$30 per person ($60 per team) to play in the tourney (beer included)

The tournament will be done bracket style starting with the sweet 16! Winners move on.
First round losers, get to compete in a the “yes-you-suck-but-at-least-you-played” NIT round 2nd game

The Deal on Drinks:
Come support your friends in the tournament and indulge in some sweet drink specials
$15 can get you pitcher of beer, OR any 2 drinks of your choice.
Extra tables for non-tourney beer pong games will be available.

Time and Location:
Calico Jack’s Cantina
800 2nd Ave (at E. 43rd St)
New York, NY 10017 (map)

This is going to be a first of many. We are hosting our very first charity Guest Bartending event on Wednesday, April 29th @ Epistein’s Bar in the Lower East Side. Come and start drinking at 8pm!

Flippin’ the bottles that night will be our feature guest bartender, Carmen Ng! Her prior bartending experience includes bartending all throughout NYC, satisfying customers’ deepest Bacchanalian desires since 2006. Should be a killer time!

Here are the quick details:
Place: Epistein’s Bar
Location: 82 Stanton St (and Allen) (map)
Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm

All of the guest bartender’s tips will be donated to the National MS Society through an MS Walk that one of our volunteers, Amy, will be participating in during early May. Party 4 a Cause supports research to fight multiple sclerosis

We have some GREAT news! We got the OK from the venue, and we are proud to announce that we will be hosting our very First Annual Charity Beer Pong Tournament on Saturday, May 16th @ 2:00pm - 8:00pm! It’s going to be a crazy sick event with drinks, music, and a live performance from a surprise guest! Details on the performer are to come.

The Deal on Beer Pong:
16 teams of 2 people each team (32 people)
$30 per person ($60 per team) to play in the tourney

The tournament will be done bracket style starting with the sweet 16!
First round losers, get to compete in a the “yes-you-suck-but-at-least-you-played” NIT round 2nd game (so you get to compete at least twice)

The Deal on Drinks:
Come support your friends in the tournament and indulge in some sweet drink specials
$15 can get you pitcher of beer, OR any 2 drinks of your choice.

Time and Location:
Calico Jack’s Cantina
800 2nd Ave (at E. 43rd St)
New York, NY 10017 (map)

Saturday, May 16
Tourney from 2:00pm - 5:30pm
Pre-game till 8:00pm

Official press release and more details are to come.

REGISTER AND PURCHASE YOUR TIX HERE

http://beerpong.eventbrite.com/

On Monday, April 6, 2009, P4aC will be hosting a general volunteer meeting that is open to all. At the meeting, we plan to talk about our upcoming events over the next couple months including out beer pong tourney and our guest bartending events.

In addition, we will be having a feature non-profit present to us and share information about the work that they do and how we can help.

If you would like to attend and learn more about the work that we do for other non-profits,

OR

if you are a non-profit and would like to present at this meeting or in future meetings, please email us at:

help@party4acause.com

See you there. Address is below:

230 West 38th Street (b/w 7th and 8th avenue)
14th Floor
(in the Bricken Arcade Building)
Monday, April 6 @ 7:00pm

This has been long and coming. We finally got around to redesigning the home page. It now includes a list of our events, and pictures of our previous parties. We hope that you enjoy the redesign.

If you have any questions about it, shoot us an email or leave a comment.

We met again on March 23rd and continued our planning process for our future events. Here are our meeting notes:

Guest Bartending
- We have a guest bartending event that we are planning.
- We are looking to host it in April
- at least 10% of the bar sales will go to charity, in addition to at least 50% of the guest bartender’s tips
- We are currently looking for a venue to host this event, and bartenders to guest bartend (no experience is necessary)

Beer Pong tournament
- We are planning a Beer Pong Tournament
- The event will be taking place around the end of April/Beginning of May time period
- We are currently looking for a venue to host this event, and people who would like to participate in the tournament

Our Next Meeting will be on Monday, April 6th

If you would like to participate in the above events, please leave a comment or email us at: help@party4acause.com

Last week we met with Samantha from the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning - a charter school that is looking for our support on the fund raising and exposure front. A few of us are going to a presentation that they are giving on March 19th. We will update on that next week.

Samantha gave a presentation about what her school does, we were able to briefly learn about how this school is different from the current public school system in methodology and overall environment. It also gave us a look at how educational methods are changing and evolving in this 2.0 world of ours. Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures posted meeting notes from a forum that USV hosted called, Hacking Education.

After reading his summary, I was very excited to see that some of the things that they discussed were in line with what Samantha was telling us about the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning. In particular, there was a mention that:

“1) The student (and his/her parents) is increasingly going to take control of his/her education including choice of schools, teachers, classes, and even curriculum. That’s what the web does. It transfers control from institutions to individuals and its going to do that to education too.”

This is what the charter school is preaching in their methodology. Check out the post to see more. Included are notes about the educational power of texting and new technologies that were not available to many of us when we were in school. It will be interesting to see how the education evolves in the next 10 years.

- Brian

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/hacking-education-continued.html

Our next Party 4 a Cause volunteer meeting will be on March 9th. Here is the address:

230 West 38th Street (b/w 7th and 8th avenue)
14th Floor
(in the Bricken Arcade Building)
Monday, March 9 @ 7:00pm

Iliana from An Act of Kindness will be presenting to us to talk about the work that her non-profit does. We will also be discussing our next event, and finalizing some logistics for it.

See you on Monday.