Past Events

WINTER EVENT 2009: PROJECT HOPE AND FAIRNESS (human rights)

On February 14th, 2009 we hosted a Valentine's Day Chocolate Tasting Extravaganza - Forget Love, Fall In Chocolate - to benefit Project Hope & Fairness which supports African cocoa farmers and their families.

Our sponsors included: Amano Chocolate, Baked NYC, Bittersweet Escapes, Chocolate for Change, Divine Chocolate USA, Donna & Company, Fine & Raw, Jacques Torres, Marie Belle, Stogo NYC, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, sweetriot, The Chocolate Room, Theo Chocolate, Thirst Wine Merchants, Vere , and Vosges Haut-Chocolat.

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SPRING EVENT 2009: LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB/NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT (global warming)

On April 19, 2009 during Earth Week, the GGC hosted a dance party benefit to fund two environmental education and job training programs: "Girls Gone Green," a project of the Lower East Side Girls Club (LESGC) and the New York Restoration Project's (NYRP) pilot program "Green Teens."

The proceeds of the dance party were donated to the LESGC. For the GREENteens (a then pilot project of the NYRP), we developed a Professinal Development Program where we worked with the teens that founded this group to help them create a green youth movement in NYC. The five week program was comprised of leadership training, event producing, fundraising, communication skills and social networking led by GGC members, NYRP's staff and the co-president of Net Impact's NY chapter. The summer program enabled the girls to fulfill on their vision and mission - to share their thoughts and concerns about nature and the environment with like-minded teens, and to inspire activism. The program culminated with a presentation to the Executive Director who then green lighted the program officially.

Our sponsors and DJs included: Club Cielo, Bill Bragin/Globesonic, Jeannie Hopper/Liquid Sound Lounge, Kervyn Mark/Melting Pot Global and MKL/Lion1Music.

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WINTER EVENT 2009: 12 SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND NON-PROFITS AT A DECEMBER ECO-CONSCIOUS GIFT FAIR (women and social enterprise

On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 the Global Giving Circle hosted a holiday party, ChrismaHanuKwanzakah: A Holiday Anxiety Spectacular, at the Galapagos Arts Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The party kicked off the Global Gifts That Matter campaign. Through this campaign, the Global Giving Circle raised awareness and generated support for selected grassroots organizations around the world that address some of our world's most devastating issues. The public became a part of the solution by the simple act of purchasing gifts from these organizations for the holidays!

The organizations included: Better World Books, Cards from Africa, Cheeky Living, Development in Gardening, Eco Africa Social Ventures, Gone Rural boMake, GreenSoul Shoes, L.E.A.D Uganda, Project Hope and Fairness, The Andean Collection, Urban Arts Partnership, Women's Peace Collection and XSProject Group.

Our sponsors included: Amy's Cookies, Divine Chocolate, Garden of Eden, J.R. Watkins Naturals, Sweet Earth Chocolates, The Body Shop, and Unemployed Philosophers Guild.

WINTER EVENT 2010: GLOBAL COCOA PROJECT LAUNCH AT HUDSON TERRACE (human rights)

On February 11th from 6-9pm the Global Giving Circle launched the Global Cocoa Project with a chocolate and wine tasting at the Hudson Terrace.

Our chocolate sponsors included Bond Street Chocolate, Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates, Coppeneur USA, Divine Chocolate, Gnosis Chocolate, Lake Champlain Chocolates, Kallari Chocolates, Kama Sutra, Madecasse, Roni Sue's Chocolates, Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, and Tcho.

Our gift sponsors included Kama Sutra, J.R. Watkins, Putamayo World Music and the Unemployed Philosophers Guild.