Posts Tagged ‘fundraisers’

This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Apr 1st, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

Share/Save For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY There is art all over Downtown Jersey City this evening. At 6 pm, _gaia gallery hosts an opening reception for Be/Leave, a new show [...]



Jersey City Public Schools Offering Cheap Haircuts Monday to Raise Money for Autism Awareness

By • Apr 1st, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Share/SaveThe Jersey City Public Schools’ Department of Special Education is kicking off Autism Awareness Month with a special fundraising “cut-a-thon” on Monday. The department is offering haircuts and blowouts by licensed professionals for just $10, and is donating all funds raised to Autism New Jersey, a nonprofit that provides information and advocacy, services, family and [...]



‘Art Strike’ Fundraiser Raises Over $3K for 58 Gallery and Creative Grove

By • Mar 28th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

Music, bowling, booze, and good vibes: that’s a recipe for a perfect Saturday night, and when it all helps raise money for two important neighborhood initiatives, it’s easy to see why such an eclectic and excited crowd turned out for the Art Strike benefit at Jersey City’s historic Barrow Mansion on Saturday.



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Mar 25th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

Share/SaveFor full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY What could be better than ending your week with wine and chocolate? Maybe wine and chocolate for a great cause? A wine tasting and chocolate [...]



Jersey City Food Co-op & Made with Love Celebrating Earth Hour with Candlelight Dinner This Saturday

By • Mar 24th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

Share/SaveAt 8:30 pm this Saturday, lights around the world will turn off for the fifth annual celebration known as Earth Hour, a global action to raise awareness about climate change. Here in Jersey City, the Jersey City Food Co-op and Made with Love will celebrate the occasion with a three-course candlelight dinner that will raise [...]



First-Ever Pi-E Day Celebration Raises $1,500 as Several Hundred Turn Out to Celebrate Food & Math

By • Mar 14th, 2011 • Category: Featured, Food

At the Learning Community Charter School this weekend, about 200 people gathered to celebrate pi — everyone’s favorite mathematical constant — by eating pie and participating in a pie-eating contest, a pie walk and math games.



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Mar 11th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

Share/SaveFor full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY As Jersey City emerges from the downpour and gets ready for a near-spring weekend, the Creative Grove Artist Market will be out enjoying the sun’s [...]



Learning Community Charter School to Celebrate Pi and Pie This Weekend

By • Mar 9th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

Share/SaveAlthough pi and pie may, at first glance, seem like an unlikely duo — formulas and math on one hand, and sweet baked goodness on the other — they are linked by shape. Since pies are (usually) round, they all share pi as an “ingredient,” if you will. With this in mind, two local women [...]



Jersey City’s IHOP Offering Free Pancakes Tuesday as Part of Nationwide Fundraiser

By • Feb 28th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

Share/SaveIHOP locations across the nation will continue an annual tradition on Tuesday when they offer every customer a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes and invite them to make charitable donations to Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. The Jersey City IHOP (at 700 Route 440 on the West Side) is once again taking part in the [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Feb 25th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

Share/SaveFor full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Hudson Pride Connections Center hosts an evening benefit for Pandora Scooter‘s new show, OUTwordlyFabulous, which is all about stopping bullying and homophobia. The event is [...]

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