'Tis the Season to Give Back

'Tis the season to give back!  Join the YMCA Young Professionals Group for their Annual Toy Drive & Holiday Social tomorrow, December 19, 2013 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Avenue.

Suggested donation of $20 or a toy gets you a 2 hour open bar and hors d'oeuvres.  Special Holiday Raffle for a chance to wine a Royal Caribbean Cruise for Two to Europe!  RSVP to rsvp@ymcamiami.org or 305-357-6635.

Proceeds will benefit the Y and Boystown Miami http://www.boystown.org/what-we-do. The YMCA Young Professionals will visit and spread the spirit of giving to Boystown on December 28^th.

Thank you to all who make the commitment to help your community!

Tomorrow, December 19th Problem Kids will be hosting their first annual Toy Drive to benefit Amigos Near Foundation.

They will be performing at Avenue D, 8 S Miami Avenue at 8pm.  Tickets are $10 or $5 with a toy donation.  Join them for a night of giving back, music and family!

Happy Holidays!

Best Buddies

Best Buddies is excited to announce the Best Buddies Gulfstream Park “Day at the Races” event, set to benefit Best  Buddies Broward Chapter, this Saturday, December 14th from noon to 5p.m.  at the Ten Palms Restaurant inside Gulfstream Park in Hallandale. This event is designed to engage Best Buddies members, Corporate Supporters, Young Professionals and the Horse Racing Community in Dade and Broward County, to share and enjoy a fun filled day while sharing their mission and creating awareness for their various programs serving those individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

A single admission ticket is $25 and includes food, drinks, three drink tickets for the bars, access to activities – such as live music, kids crafts, cigar rolling, etc. – and of course, a view of the races!

Musicians, AmeriCorps and Radio Lollipop

Musicians On Call is honoring three volunteers this Tuesday December 10th at 6pm at The News Lounge, 5580 Northeast 4th Court.  These musical honorees have donated their time to play and bring smiles to patients in local hospitals. Musicians On Call is a national non-profit whose mission is to bring live and recorded music to the bedside of patients in health care facilities. They currently have weekly programs at two Miami hospitals and one in Broward.

Come support the local music scene as well as a great cause!  Your support helps them bring more music to more patients. $10 donation gets you a complimentary cocktail. To purchase tickets here: http://www.stayclassy.org/miami/events/miami-volunteer-spotlight-series/e28542 

The Florida ServiceNation coalition, led by local national service programs including Catalyst Miami, AmeriCorps Alums Miami, and Daughters2Mothers invites you to Stand for Service Miami this Wednesday, December 11th from 6:30 to 8:30pm at Catalyst Miami office located at 1900 Biscayne Blvd.  The goal of this event is to showcase the broad and diverse support national service enjoys in Florida and highlight the numerous ways AmeriCorps and Senior Corps produce enormous value to our state and the nation as a whole.

This FREE event is open to the public and will feature special guest speakers, free food, give aways and more. RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-for-service-miami-registration-9404937421
 
 

Switch up your typical happy hour routine!  Join Identity Media Co. this Wednesday December 11th as they host their monthly mixer benefiting Radio Lollipop at Miami Children's Hospital at Segafredo Brickell.  Each month they showcase a different philanthropic cause in Miami and we are lucky that they show RL!  Guests are encouraged to bring a toy.  Hope to see you there! 

 

Still want to Basel?

Not done enjoying Art Basel?  Good!  Come out tonight and check out Pop Up Piano's Hyde and Seek FREE Concert Series at 8PM at 31st and Biscayne right on the Bay.  The Celebrity Jam Sesh will be led by Grammy Award-Winning Keyboardist from the Foo Fighters Rami Jaffee, along with Jessy Greene and surprise guests at the site of Paraiso Bay.

Besides musical performances, you'll be greeted by KIND Healthy Snacks and ONLI Beverages will be on site serving refreshments. Food and other refreshments will be available for purchase, with a percentage of proceeds also going to the project and beneficiary Guitars Over Guns. Participants include Perry Ellis, Miami Events Group, Monster Energy, Vita Coco Coconut Water, Popsicleta, and BnB Joint Food Truck.

Stardom Up

What we missed?  On November 26th  students from Shenandoah Middle School arrived at The LABMiami for a day-long bootcamp. The students were split into two-teams led by local Tech Entrepreneurs Xavier Gonzalez, Executive Director of Technology of the Americas, and Carlos Curbelo, Miami-Dade School Board Member and US Congressional Candidate.  The program consisted of 3 separate sessions: Inspire, Inform and Involve to provide overviews of Web Development, Web Design and Pitching solutions.

Stardom Up was founded by Dr. Adrienne Celaya, a Sociology Professor at the University of Miami, and Luis F. Martinez, an attorney and local entrepreneur. Stardom Up's mission is to introduce Tech Entrepreneurship to Middle School students in a language they easily understand. 

This program is intended to show students, at a very young age, that there's a different pathway to "Stardom": Tech Entrepreneurship. The goal is to inspire students to enthusiastically join all of the more intensive programs being created throughout the Technology ecosystem.

Art Basel 2013

Give your walls something to talk about!

 

 

 

Create Collect has officially launched and they are celebrating with an inaugural cocktail party this Friday, December 6th in Miami's Wynwood Arts District at 2305 N. Miami Ave. at 7pm.  Hope to see you there! 

Deck the Halls with Young Professionals

 

 

Come kick off Art Basel with some of your favorite Miami Young Professionals groups at the Second Annual Holiday Happy Hour this Tuesday December 3rd at 6:30pm at the Stage!

Featuring local artists Scott M. DubhGhaill, Kareem Piper and Andrew Scoria. 

Presale tickets $5 or $10 at the door

100% of the proceeds will benefit the Overtown Youth Center.  The OYC delivers enrichment services that foster hope and promote life-long learning and success for our inner-city youth and citizens. OYC's goal is to build a community of resilient leaders that can live in an environment with risk factors, including drugs and crime/violence, yet still grow into competent and productive members of society.

 

Participating Young Professionals Groups:  Dade County Bar Young Lawyer's Section, Fairchild Palms Young Professionals of the Garden,  Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami Young Professionals,  History Miami Flagler Street Society Young Professionals,  HYPE Miami of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce,  Junior Chamber International (JCI) Miami, Miami Children's Hospital Foundation Young Ambassadors,  NextGen for Chapman Partnership, Ponce Society of Young Professionals (PSYP),  Miami Pulse for the American Heart Association,  The Seals of Easter Seals South Florida,  United Way Young Leaders,  Young Associates of the Coral Gables Museum,  Young Professionals for the Lighthouse for the Blind,  Young Professionals Network of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce.