"Festival of Giving" Shopping Extravaganza

Mark your calendar for Ward Centers' annual  "Festival of Giving" happening Friday, November 6, through Sunday, November 8.  This annual event provides schools and non-profit organizations an easy way to fundraise by selling $10 Festival of Giving tickets, with the non-profit keeping 100% of the ticket price.  Shoppers enjoy exclusive discounts and special offers at over 90 participating shops and restaurants throughout Ward Centers when they present their Festival of Giving tickets (click here for offers as of 8/27/09).  Ticketholders also receive special gift-wrapping services, enter-to-win shopping sprees, and other festivities.  Tickets are now available for purchase from any one of the school groups and organizations listed below.

FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY! School groups and all 501(c)3 nonprofits are eligible to participate in the Festival of Giving fundraiser.  Register to sell tickets now through October.  If you would like more information on how your group can participate and fundraise, please email [email protected].  Last year, 75 organizations sold over 9500 tickets and raised a total of over $95,000 for their causes.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS (as of 9/09)

100th Infantry Battalion Vets

American Box Car Racing                   

American Society of Civil Engineers, Student Chapter              

Au's Shaolin Arts                     

B94 Rush Soccer Team, 688-6912     

Boy Scouts of America            

Central Oahu Youth Services Association, 637-9344   

Cheer808                    

Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa                

East West Oigong                    

Friends for Life, No-Kill Animal Shelter, [email protected]
        www.friendsforlifehawaii.org

Habitat for Humanity - Honolulu                       

Halau Ku Mana PCS               

Hawaii Academy Booster Club            

Hawaii Jaycees Adopt-A-School                     

Hawaii Mother's Milk, Inc., 949-1723 

Hawaii National Guard Youth              

Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus                

HECO for Aloha United Way,  543-4816        

Honolulu Bulls Soccer '99 Boys, 352-0129      

Honolulu Habitat for Humanity             

Law Enforcement Explorers                 

Hurricanes Basketball              

Iolani School, 943-2329, www.iolani.org

KCAA Muriel             

KCAA Na Lei            

Kuikahi                       

Leahi Soccer Club Girls 97 (Maile Team), 524-9639   

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, [email protected], www.ills.org

Lutheran High School, 949-5302         

Making Ends Meet                  

Mahetia Productions                

McKinley High School Cross Country             

McKinley High School Tennis Team                

Missing Child Center - Hawaii             

Moanalua High School Football                       

Noelani Elementary School                  

Occupational Therapy Association, 386-2779  

Our Savior Lutheran School                 

P.A.R.E.N.T.S., Inc., 235-0488, [email protected]

Pacific Buddhist Academy                   

Palama Settlement                   

Punahou School Girls Varsity Basketball                      

Riggers Alaka'i Soccer             

Roosevelt High School Music, www.rhs.k12.hi.us/~abe/index/html

Serteens Club of Hawaii                      

Sounding Joy Music Therapy               

St. Francis School Music Dept.            

St. Theresa School, 536-4703 

Susannah Wesley Community Center

Taiko Arts Center