FOLSOM STREET EVENTS™ DONATES MASSIVE CHARITY CHECK TO NONPROFIT AGENCIES
FOLSOM STREET EVENTS™ DONATES MASSIVE CHARITY CHECK TO NONPROFIT AGENCIES $350,066 Check Represents 16% Increase Over Previous Year’s Giving Level
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 12, 2006) – The Board of Directors of Folsom Street Events announced charitable giving in the amount of $350,066 today. Andy Copper, Board President, says, “We are deeply humbled by this philanthropic achievement. We are so very grateful to our sponsors, beneficiaries, beverage partners, and the leather/fetish community for its growing generous support. This is absolutely a record-breaking year, and we are already working diligently on our upcoming 25th Folsom Street Fair in 2008.”
According to Demetri Moshoyannis, Executive Director, “The vast majority of this check will support the work of our 16 Bay Area major and supporting beneficiaries that are working diligently to improve our communities in the areas of public health, human services, and the arts. However, our grant-making extends beyond these groups to include our nonprofit beverage partners and a new National Community Grants Program. Combined, we support over 60 worthy charities; and, we couldn’t be happier with the amount of this check and the results of our giving programs.”
On Tuesday, November 13th, Folsom Street Events hosts a very special evening to honor its beneficiaries, sponsors, and nonprofit beverage partners with a check ceremony. The event is by invitation only and will be held again at the incredibly chic and charity-minded supperclub in the South of Market neighborhood. Special invited guests include Mayor Gavin Newsom, Supervisors Bevan Dufty, Chris Daly, and Tom Ammiano as well as Assemblymember Mark Leno.
Presenting sponsors of Folsom Street Events were Miller Lite/Miller Genuine Draft, NakedSword, TitanMen.com, and GLOSS. Premier sponsors were RECON, Hot House Entertainment, Elbow Grease, Mr. S Leather, and Maximus Vodka. Charter sponsors were Steamworks, BigMuscle.com, Blow Buddies, Dungeonbeds, Leatherpost.com, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, and Powerhouse. Media sponsors were SF Bay Guardian, IN LA Magazine, and Bear Party Magazine.
Major beneficiaries included AIDS Emergency Fund, Dolores Street Community Services, Frameline, Healing Waters, Lyon-Martin Health Services, Pets Are Wonderful Support, Positive Resource Center, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, STOP AIDS Project, and Tenderloin Health. Supporting beneficiaries included Berkeley Free Clinic, Black Rock Arts Foundation, GLBT Historical Society, Transgender Law Center, and Triangle Martial Arts Association.
About Folsom Street Events
Folsom Street Events is a 501(c)3 nonprofit agency that produces four annual fetish events: Bay of Pigs™, Up Your Alley™, Magnitude™, and Folsom Street Fair™. The mission is to create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish and raising funds to benefit charity. In 2006, over 350,000 attendees raised $301,512 for charitable donations. 2008 marks the historic 25th Folsom Street Fair.
For More Information
Contact: Demetri Moshoyannis at 415.777.3247
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