December 2nd, 2011
Orphans to Ambassadors celebrated our successful orphanage projects in Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. We held a large silent auction, displayed stories and photos from our project locations, and demonstrated a Solar Water Filtration System, plus, gourmet dinners- free beer and wine!
Location: 415 Westlake Ave N, Seattle WA 98109
Dress: Cocktail attire
May 12th, Spring Wine Cruise Hosted by Rotary
After an Orphans to Ambassadors presentation with the Rotary Club of Lake Norman, they generously offered to contribute funds raised from this year’s Spring Wine Cruise aboard the Yachta Yachta Yachta on Thursday May 12th at 5:30pm-9:30pm. Drinks and food aboard a yacht this summer sounds pretty good and there’s a Raffle on-board to boot.
“It is a great time to enjoy Lake Norman and a sunset cruise benefitting an outstanding beneficiary[that's us]“
May 13th, A Night for Ngara Benefit in Charlotte
We hosted a Live Raffle Party at the super-cool Dharma Lounge on Friday May 13th from 7:00-9:30pm in Charlotte. Winners will be called throughout our Party and, because we’re small, you’re chances of winning [were] big!
Raffle Prizes
- $300 Cash
- 20 Person Wine Tasting from Total Wine
- 4 Person Wine Tasting from Corkscrew
- $100 Gift-Card from FIY Garage
- 1 Month Unlimited Yoga from YogaOne
- Pizza A Month for 1 Year from Wolfman Pizza
- 1 Hour Swedish or Deep-Tissue Massage
- Charlotte Bobcats Fan-Pack
- (2) AllSport Passes from U.S. National Whitewater Center
- (2) One-Day Tickets Carowinds
- (2) Xavier Rudd Tickets May 17th
- (4) Chatham County Line Tickets June 18th
- (4) Kannapolis Intimidator Tickets
- (4) Renaissance Festival Tickets
- Dinner for Two from Cabo Fish Taco
- $25 Gift Card from Run-For-Your-Life (+water bottle)
- $25 Gift Card from Carrabba’s
BakeSale at NoDa Art Crawl
We’ll be set up on Friday from 5pm-Until selling homemade brownies, cookies, muffins and chocolates for small donations. We’ll also have our Raffle Tickets on Sale ($2 or $1 each over 10 Tickets). Come out with Jacob, Nate, Mercedes and our other Charlotte volunteers!
April 2nd, YardSale at Charlotte O2A Headquarters (Jake, Mark and Nate’s house)
This Saturday from 7am-2pm we’ll be hosting another Yardsale to raise funds for the Nazareti Orphanage in Ngara, Tanzania. Left-over baked goods are likely so bring a coffee!
Appalachian State University’s Diversity Celebration
Boone Volunteers will table a booth at ASU’s Diversity Celebration on Wednesday April 6th in the Student Union from 3:00-9:00pm. We’ll be making Paper Flowers for donations and answering any questions about the organization for those interested in supporting or volunteering with us.
Volunteer Meet and Greet with Founder in Charlotte
Wednesday March 23th 6:30-9:00pm at KickStand, our Charlotte volunteer team will be hosting a dinner with long-time friend and Orphans to Ambassadors’ Founder, Jake Gentry.
Our entire Charlotte side project has been conducted by e-mail, Dropbox and Skype so we look forward to catching up in-person and discussing the team’s progress toward the orphanage project in Ngara, Tanzania going out this June.
YardSale at Charlotte Volunteer Headquarters (Jacob, Mark and Nathan’s home)
We’ll start the YardSale at 7am on Saturday March 19 at 2211 Thurmond Place to raise funds for Orphans to Ambassadors. This is part of our big Fundraising push in Charlotte going throughout May all the way to our $5,000 goal. Couches, TVs, albums, the works!
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte BakeSale
UNCC Grads and Charlotte Volunteers will be hosting a BakeSale on March 17th from 10am-3pm at the 1st floor of the Student Union. All our goods are homemade and, though they don’t look like the picture below, they benefit a good cause and taste professional. Proceeds go towards the Nazareti Orphanage Project in Ngara, Tanzania this June where Suzanne, Jacob, Josh, Mark and Nate will personally install solar-powered water filters and a rainwater-harvesting system along with taking interviews of other orphanages in the Rwanda/Tanzania area.
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Water Filter Demonstration in Charlotte, NC - Over four weekends at SouthPark Mall in Charlotte we sold candles from Southern Candle Company back in Wilkesboro and even got some people to sport our O2A t-shirts. Kristin and Jesse did facepainting and you can see there station on the left- if you squint. The biggest draw though was the solar-powered water filter we had running through a fish tank. It looked kind-of like a bomb so people slowed down to check it out and ask questions. The design is real simple and we hope to duplicate if we just get a tech-savvy volunteer.
Gift-Wrapping Kiosk in Tukwila, Wa – Over the holiday weekends this past December, O2A hosted 6 tables at South Center Mall in Tukwila, WA. It was our biggest and most successful fundraiser yet and got us to our 2010 goal of $20,000. The goal wasn’t arbitrary. We had a Full $20,000 match and we made it!
Bumbershoot Music Festival, Seattle, WA – We held an information booth at the Northwest’s largest music festival this summer, with over 200,000 people attending it was a great way to get our name and information out there, plus the free music!
Cooking for a Cause in April - Donors joined us for an O2A benefit which involved a Cooking Class with Wine Pairings from Seattle Chef Karen Binkhorst. Thriftway and QFC made donations toward the food costs and Dish it Up Magnolia donated there cooking class kitchen space!
Cici’s Pizza in Boone, NC – A popular pizza joint near ASU also held a fundraiser this November. The owners gave 10% of their proceeds to O2A and gave us the space to sell our t-shirts.
ASU Hosts Angels for Orphans – Appalachian State students ran a booth selling $1 Angel ornaments to raise funds this November. The ornaments were cheap, which is a plus for college students, and they also help O2A get more exposure around the Founder’s old campus.
