Mid Atlantic Region
DURHAM CHAPTER
Durham Chapter invites you to fellowship with us on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 2 p.m. at our 3rd Annual Celebration of Friends-Big Hat Garden Affair!! Ladies of all generations: mothers, grandmothers, aunts, girlfriends gather above the lawn on the veranda at Treyburn Country Club in Durham wearing beautiful hats for a luncheon, live entertainment, fashion show, photos, cash bar, and more at our Spring Fundraiser.
Tickets are $40 and proceeds from our premiere event will benefit the Center for Child and Family Health, Lincoln Community Health Center, YO:Durham, and Jack and Jill of America National Foundation.
Please don’t delay in contacting our Financial Secretary, Kelly Robinson, at 919.698.8574 or our Fundraising Chair, LaShana Morris, at 919.475.7750 for tickets or more information as seating is limited. We look forward to greeting you soon!
SOUTH CHARLOTTE CHAPTER
Ring in the New Year at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture! The South Charlotte Chapter of Jack & Jill of America Incorporated will celebrate the New Year with good music, good food and good people for a good cause. Tickets are only $75 and are 100% tax deductible. Your contribution supports the Jack and Jill of America Foundation, the Gantt Center and other local charities. Buy tickets online here.
http://www.ganttcenter.org/web/page.asp?urh=CalendarViewer&ref=n&id=185
Queen City Chapter – Kentucky Derby viewers party with a purpose
Written by Ian Flanegan – email
PINEVILLE, NC (WBTV) – Elegantly clad with smiles just as bright as their jewelry, the cultivated crowd at Mercedes Benz South Charlotte supported local youth while indulging in top-shelf liquor.
The Kentucky Derby is the catalyst for this fund-raising event held at the elite car dealership on South Boulevard. Valets tool the parking lot in vehicles with price tags rivaling those of large houses.
The Jack and Jill Foundation’s Queen City chapter played host to this extravagant viewing party. The charity was the gleeful recipient of proceeds of this $50-per-ticket excuse to don a suave new suit or dainty new dress – with matching hat, of course.
“The theme tonight was the Derby,” says Duke Craig, voted Best-Dressed Man by the handsome crowd. He sports a custom gray-and-white pinstripe suit, matching bow tie, top hat and alligator-skin shoes.
Shauna Graves, the Best-Dressed Lady of the evening, is a member of the Queen City chapter of the Jack and Jill Foundation. She says this fund-raising event will benefit children all across the US.
According to the charity’s website, the philanthropic efforts of the Jack and Jill Foundation have distributed millions of dollars to communities all across America. It aims to create opportunities for youth to practice leadership skills.
Event organizer Lydia Taggart shares her excitement of the fund-raising success with a gleaming smile.
“We’ve found that there are so many different aspects and individuals in the community that are willing to give but who also have an interest in children, their welfare, and the joy of the sport of horse racing,” she says underneath a bright, diamond-studded orange hat, the size of a sombrero.
Hats at this function run the gamut from fancy and flashy, to flagrant and perhaps even a bit foolish. It’s all part of the theme; some of us just have good fashion sense. Check out the video and decide for yourself!
http://www.wbtv.com/story/14593970/kentucky-derby-viewers-party-with-a-purpose
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March 19, 2011
Charlotte Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc.
9th Annual Jazzin’ Gala Featuring the Soulful Sounds of Phil Perry
Benefits Jack and Jill Rebuilds America Project, Jack and Jill Foundation and My Sister’s Place
