From an email:

It has only been two months since we put together a mustache-growing team to help raise money and awareness for men’s cancer thru’ the Movember Foundation; your support was amazing and we ended-up donating over $10,000 to the cause!

Well, we are at it again! On March 10th we are helping our good friends at Fadó raise money for St. Baldricks. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives to look forward to.

We, here at the Boundary Stone, are putting together a team willing to help raise money by shaving our heads on March 10th.

We have set a pretty high goal and with your help we can reach it. This fund-raiser is also to help honor those friends and colleagues who have passed as a consequence of this horrible disease.

Read Keeghan Barry’s story, who lost his fight to cancer in August 2008, here.

If anyone would like to join our team and shave with us, please just email me directly at Matt@BoundaryStoneDC.com, or if you or your company would like to donate you can do so here.

From an email:

John Eaton, a local jazz pianist and D.C. native who has performed for packed houses at the White House, the Kool Jazz Festival, and the Smithsonian Institution, is joining forces with John Eaton Elementary School to raise funds for arts and music programs at the 100-year-old public institution in D.C.’s Cleveland Park. The pianist will perform at the school’s Barbara Munday Theater on Saturday January 7 at 7:00 pm.
Mr. Eaton, who Washingtonian Magazine included on its 2008 list of “best-loved veterans of the Washington music scene” has no relation to the 100-year-old school’s namesake—a Civil War-era general who was renowned for his work in education—but offered to do a benefit concert after learning about the school and its work in bringing the arts to D.C. public school students.
“We are delighted and honored that Mr. Eaton has generously offered his talents to help our school raise the much-needed funds that introduce our children to music, dance, and visual arts,” said Dale Mann, principal of John Eaton Elementary.
The concert is open to the entire D.C. community. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased on the school’s website.

This performance will directly support the music and visual arts programs at John Eaton Elementary School. Refreshments will be served.

All are welcome!

From an email:

Admission Price: Bring an unopened toy or $20 for a food basket to donate for the kids

To donate visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2566622838

This is an annual charity thats helps to provide a family with a holiday food basket or a child with a toy for Christmas. Join us for a fun, inspiring, one-of-a kind evening that will benefit these families in need. Mix and mingle, sip a few cocktails, and feel free to grab the microphone to sing your favorite song!

All proceeds from this event will benefit the SE White House, DC Superior Courts – Crime Victims Compensation Program, and the Prince George’s County Department of Social Services.

From an email:

I have a project that I have been working on, which has finally been finished. Behold the Tumbleweave Calendar!

My friends and I have been collecting pics of random hair pieces around DC for a couple of years now, and this is my compilation of the best pics.

I am selling the calendars (which cost about $8.50 each to print) for $21.00 plus shipping. 100% of the proceeds (about $12.00 per calendar) will be donated to a local organization (which does not want to be named) which provides services to victims of domestic violence.

I have about 12 calendars left and would really like to unload all of them before 2012 starts!

From an email:

Distinguished non-profit Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-tem (M.O.M.I.E’s TLC), will be hosting their first annual art auction, “Visions of Greatness” on December 17, 2011 at Sankofa’s Books and Video, at 2714 Georgia Avenue NW, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Proceeds from the Visions of Greatness auction will benefit M.O.M.I.E’s new, eco-green office building. This new location will provide M.O.M.I.E’s with the resources needed to uphold their mission to provide a culture-based education to inner-city youth.

M.O.M.I.E’s TLC is a community-based organization whose mission is to provide an arts education and creative outlet for DC’s at-risk youth. The organization is the recipient of the illustrious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which was presented to M.O.M.I.E’s by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Photo by PoPville flickr user Lauren PM

From an email:

Please help us double our food stamp and WIC programs at the farmers’ markets for 2012.

On Wednesday December 14th the P St and Georgetown Whole Foods will donate 5% of ALL Sales to double food stamps and WIC at BFM, Mount Pleasant, NoMa, Glover Park and 14&U FM for the 2012 season.

We will then be able to match the value of food stamps and WiC so our low income customers can double their purchasing power for fruits and vegetables.

Please spread the word.. We are trying to raise 20,000 dollars. So we are asking people to do some holiday shopping on Wednesday so that we can double food stamps at markets in 2012.. Everything counts from Amaryllis bulbs to wine, sandwiches to flour and eggs.

Thank you. There will be great chef demos at WF in support of this event: from Blue Duck Tavern, Brasserie Beck , Ris, and PS7. As well as Loulies and Company’s Coming Cooking School.

You can find out more at:DCGREENS.ORG

From an email:

The Friends of the Petworth Library are hosting a holiday event at the Petworth Library on Dec 10 from 11-4! Its the Peworth Library’s A Winter Wonderland Book Sale with hot cocoa stand, milk & cookies, story time for kiddies, arts & crafts, and more!

Photo from last year’s Santa Paws event at Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco

From an email:

We’re hosting our annual “Santa Paws” event benefiting the Washington Humane Society on Sunday, December 11 from 2 – 4 p.m. at Kimpton’s Monaco Washington DC.

Guests are allowed to bring their pets (yes…any pet, not just dogs), grab a snapshot with Santa (free with their own camera, or $20 for a framed professional photo with proceeds benefiting WHS), and enjoy homemade gourmet dog biscuits from Poste Moderne Brasserie’s Chef Dennis Marron or hot chocolate, spiced chai, or warm cider in the lobby of the hotel.

Full press release after the jump. (more…)

From an email

BUILD, a successful national organization using entrepreneurship to propel disengaged, low-income youth through high school to college success, will hold its third annual Holiday Sales Bazaar December 7 at Eastern Market North Hall in Washington D.C. More than 50 youth entrepreneurs will sell their wares at the event.

BUILD has a mission to use entrepreneurship to excite and propel disengaged, low-income students through high school to college success. The use of entrepreneurship as a vehicle to engage and motivate students is the exceptional idea around which BUILD operates. In turn, our students’ ideas can have a dramatic positive impact on their current outlook and long-term potential. Entrepreneurship and business development programs, research shows, bridge the relevancy gap for students thinking about dropping out of school by connecting the classroom to career success.

In its 12 years of operation, 100% of BUILD seniors have graduated high school and been accepted to college, with 91% earning admission to four-year colleges. Last year, three BUILD Metro DC juniors graduated early from high school, all of them were accepted into a 4-year college, and one received a $20,000 scholarship for college.

Attached is the press release and below is the flyer that will also be featured in this weekend’s City Paper. We would love it if you could run this as well – perhaps a day or two before the event itself.

What: Annual Youth Entrepreneurship Holiday Sales Bazaar
When: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Wed., December 7 (Brown is scheduled to speak at 6:45 p.m.)
Where: Eastern Market North Hall, 225 7th Street SE

From an email:

“Destination Abricots – The Basics

Did you know that as a result of the earthquake, the orphan population of Haiti has more than doubled to close to 800,000? We are approaching the second anniversary of Haiti’s worst earthquake and many are still without the most basic of needs. Please join us in making a difference in one small community in Haiti, Abricots, by donating goods to the children of this village. Abricots is a small fishing village located in the Grand d’Anse region of Haiti. Access to this part of the country is difficult, especially during the rainy season. Roads to the surrounding villages are in some cases non-existent. Many thousands of Abricots’ residents are part of the post-earthquake mass exodus out of Port-au-Prince. Included in this number are several hundred orphans that have been transplanted to this region. The four local orphanages are filled beyond capacity, and local families have reached out to host the remaining children in their homes. Grant money from the city council and aid organizations has run out, and many of these children do not have the most basic of supplies.

Give your gently used and new children’s items a new life. Support Destination Abricots and your donations will go directly to the orphan and disadvantaged children of Abricots.

Visit us at http://www.destinationabricots.com/ for more information.

We will be holding donation drives in NW Washington DC (Tenleytown) and Alexandria, VA:

· Friday, December 2nd – St Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St NE, Washington DC 20016, 7:30am to 3pm

· Saturday, December 3rd – Forum One, 2200 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA 22301, 9am to 3pm

Here’s what we are collecting for ages 0 to 18 years:

Basic needs: shoes, underwear, rain gear, school bags, lunchboxes, dress and everyday clothes (no winter), toiletries, and toys

Educational needs: musical instruments, board games, school and craft supplies, early reader and comic books, teacher’s edition books, and translation dictionaries in English to French / Spanish to French.

Sporting equipment: soccer and basketballs, goal nets and basketball hoop rings, sporting gear for these games like jerseys, shoes and socks.

Uniforms: 11-15 matching used khaki uniforms for newly established girl and boy scout troops in Abricots.

We are looking for 11 – 15 matching boys’ basketball and soccer jerseys in sizes medium and large and 11 -15 matching girls’ soccer and basketball uniforms in sizes small and medium.”

From an email:

“I work at a local non-profit youth/community bike shop (Phoenix Bikes) and wanted to I wanted to alert you to something your readers might be interested in this weekend:

Phoenix Bikes is having our annual sale of refurbished bikes this Saturday, December 3rd @ Big Bear Cafe (1st and R St, NW). All of the bikes we are selling have been donated by people in the DC/MD/VA area and are worked on by young people and volunteers in our mentoring program. Each bike has been tuned up and checked out by a bike mechanic, and is ready to ride. All of the proceeds from the bikes sold will go back into our youth program.

We will have over 40 bikes for sale including mountain bikes, road bikes, hybrid bikes, single speeds and cruisers.”

From an email:

“Team DC MO will host a Movember fundraiser raffle and mustache contest at Meridian Pint, sponsored by Flying Dog, on November 29th. Movember is about raising awareness for men’s health issues, especially prostate cancer, and fundraising efforts benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Livestrong.

This fundraiser will feature a mustache contest for categories such a “Man of Movember”, which will receive a $25 Gift Card to Dawson’s Liquor and a special bottle from Dawson’s private cellar! Attendees can enter into other categories such as “Miss Movember”, “Best MO in Character”, “Team MO BRO”, “Ultimate Mo” and “Mo Bro and Mo Sista” which will also have prizes for the winners.. Another category “Lame MO” will have some stiff competition! Judges for the mustache contest include Brandon from DC Brau, Tommy from Flying Dog, Tim from Meridian Pint, and J from Dawson’s Liquors.”

For others who are having Movember fundraising events please let us know here. Good luck!

Photo by flickr user Gage Skidmore

From a press release:

“Saturday, December 3rd, Steve-O, the star of MTV’s Jackass and Wildboyz and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars will host a fundraiser to benefit The Kindness Collective. Guests of the event will be able to meet Steve-O, take a photo with the star, and have a copy of his book signed.

The December 3rd event will occur from 1 to 2pm in the loft of Busboys and Poets, located at 1025 5th St. NW DC. Free tickets may be obtained at http://guestli.st/78474. An $8 donation is requested.

Donations will benefit The Kindness Collective’s work with domestic violence shelters to accommodate survivors’ pets. Up to 40% of domestic violence victims report that they are unable to escape their abusers because they are afraid of what will happen to their pets when they leave. The Kindness Collective hopes to bring an end to the abuse by permitting victims of domestic violence to seek safety along with their pets.”

“We are collecting clean and wearable coats (and other wintery accessories) from now through December 2nd at three sites, our anchor site on Columbia Road and two sites in Maryland. Everything we collect will go to our clients and participants from programs like Foster Care, the Young Parents Program, the Street Outreach Program, and the Residential Housing programs.”

Photo by PoPville flickr user ekelly80

“Give to the Max Day is a one-day fundraising event on November 9, 2011 that will unite local Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC communities to support nonprofits serving the area. Our goal is to get thousands of local residents to support their favorite regional charity, raising millions in donations and grants in just 24 hours! ”

Donate to nonprofit participants here.