Friends! This Thursday, October 27th we have a really special event for you. Rise2Shine & Marilyn’s Mission is collaborating to bring their 1st Annual MONSTER MASH @ MARS Fundraiser to help alleviate the suffering of young underprivileged children, locally and in Haiti. Our local favorite Superstar DJ’s Clarkie and Dirtyhertz will be gracing the decks & providing us with some great tunes for the eve! The event will be held at Mars Bar, SF located at 798 Brannan St and will run from 9:00pm-1:00am. Costumes are optional and there will be some other fun stuff in store including a Raffle & great prizes! For more information and to RSVP, you can visit the Facebook Event Page.

Marilyn’s Mission has been supplying household necessities to children and families in need for 13 years. They work in conjunction with Holy Family Day Home, a day care center for homeless and low income children, and many other charitable organizations. Many people want to be charitable around the holidays, but the people who need it most, are in continuous need. Marilyn’s mission strives to supply all year round.

Rise2Shine (R2S) is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization established to help alleviate the suffering of young children living in impoverished developing countries worldwide, with a current focus on Haiti. R2S concentrates on helping the forgotten children, those children from six months to five years of age. These children live in abject poverty and are too young to attend public school, resulting in minimal access to essential food and educational services.They are super excited to finally announce the grand opening of their flagship location in Fond-Parisien, Haiti on 11-11-11 (only 2wks after this fundraiser).

With your help, we can all make this possible. To ensure a better future for our children, please RSVP today and come out and show your support! Suggested donation $15! You can also make donations on the Rise2Shine website here.

In the event planning industry, it is vital to have a good stock of vendors and partners in other related industries in order to produce great events.  One of these vendors must be a DJ you have worked with and whom you know will provide the right kind of atmosphere for various events.  In case you don’t already have a good DJ, here is a set of guidelines by which you can narrow down your search to find one who’s right for you!

1. Consider the DJ’s reputation in the industry: Do a little sleuthing and see if other event planners have used the DJ’s services and have graced him or her with good reviews.  Also check to see if the DJ’s customer reviews are available online and if they are positive and numerous.

2. Review the DJ’s contract thoroughly: As with any vendor you are potentially hiring, know exactly what you are signing.  Read all the find print.  Is the contract vague or does it give detailed information about the services provided?

3. Check to see if the DJ carries full liability insurance: Coverage of at least $1,000,000 is expected.

4. Ask about the DJ’s policies: How will the DJ dress for the event?  Where will the equipment be set up?  How does the DJ stand on drinking at the event? etc.

5. Consider the DJ’s overall attitude and listening skills: It should be the DJ’s primary concern to understand and correctly interpret what exactly the client wants for their event in terms of ambiance and music, and carry these wishes out to their fullest ability.  If their attitude suggests otherwise, look elsewhere.

What kinds of things do you look for in vendors?  How about in DJs?  What are some signs that a vendor is right or wrong for your company?

To hear the rest of these great tips, click here!

ABCey Events is excited to be involved with NextAid again for Ladies of the House, an event geared towards raising awareness and money for NextAid’s work in Kenya and Sierra Leone and honoring National Women’s History Month this March. “Ladies of the House” will take place March 31, at Public Works SF from 7:30pm to 2:00am. This event is produced by Digital Bliss Productions and Boutique Electronique Records, two unique San Francisco based music production and promotions companies that are also thrilled to collaborate with NextAid in this important fundraising event.

For over seven years NextAid has rallied music industry leaders and enthusiasts from the electronic dance music community to action, channeling the positive energy from the dance floor to sustainable development projects that support orphans and women in Africa.

“Ladies of the House” will feature leading women DJs and electronic artists from San Francisco including DJ Icon (Illeven Eleven Records), DJ Dulce Vita (Opel Productions), Tamo (Angels of Bass/Space Cowboys), DJ shOOey (Space Cowboys) and Marissa Guzman LIVE (Juicy Lucy Records).

Other partners for this event include The Space Cowboys, Opel Productions, Nitevibe, Angels Of Bass, The Women’s Recording Mission, Sexyvisuals, ABCey Events, and Illeven Eleven Records. Each with its own strong following, they are joining forces to ensure that “Ladies of the House” will have a wide reach to a diverse and sophisticated audience.

In addition to the massive talent in the main room, there will be a second room upstairs dedicated to projecting footage of NextAid’s sustainable development projects for women and youth in Africa, food, raffle prizes, massages, and other activities to pamper the soul.  The event will also feature and onsite art gallery show by various artists and visual effects by: sexyvisuals- www.sexyvisuals.net.

We’d love your support, so please purchase your tickets at www.nextaid.org.  And remember, Public Works is 21+over! If you cannot make it, Please consider making a donation! http://nextaid.org/donation.htm

On December 10, ABCey Events helped Razorfish celebrate the holidays with a casino themed party at Mighty.  Razorfish is one of the world’s largest interactive agencies, providing services to its clients in the realms of digital advertising and content creation, media buying, strategic counsel, analytics, technology and user experience.  Their clients include Mercedes, AT&T, Capital One, Adidas, Kraft and many, many more. At Mighty, Razorfish’s employees gambled the night away on five casino tables, playing craps, roulette, blackjack and poker as they sipped on champagne and snacked on mini burgers from the tri-variety sliders bar.  DJ David Carvalho pleased the crowd with an accumulation of electronic, mash-up, reggae, funk, soul, hip-hop, and had guests dancing all night long!

The big winner of the night took home a Wii Fit, while the runners up walked away with an iPod and a Kindle.  We could tell you more, but why do that when we could just show you?  Thus, we bring you ABCey’s first foray into the world of film:

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A full gallery of photos can be viewed here.

Beats for Boobs (http://www.beatsforboobs.org), will host its 6th annual fundraiser on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd @ 111 Minna Gallery, 6 p.m. – 2 a.m. Beats for Boobs is an annual fundraising event that raises community awareness for breast cancer through a collective celebration of art, fashion, food and music.

This year will be the biggest yet!! B4B hopes to raise over $25,000. (Last year Beats for Boobs raised over $16,800 for the breast cancer cause). How are they doing this? With YOU, YOU, AND YOU!

What else are they up to this year?

- This year the event will be held on a Friday for the very first time.
- Beyond the four walls of their home away from home, 111 Minna, B4B’s is hosting an array of entertainment and performances in the Minna alley which we will be taking over in full this year also for the first time!
- Loads of FOOD, EDUCATIONAL GAMES, FASHION, ART and BEATS to boot for the boobie!

Please take a minute to peruse and join (if you haven’t already) the FB fan page. You can see photos from past years, videos, and loads of detail and updates as to this year’s goals and event details. We also have a list of the organizations to whom funds will go from this 100% volunteer and charitable event!

Become a Fan: http://www.facebook.com/beatsforboobs

“GREEN IS THE NEW PINK” is the theme this year! Knowing that environmental toxins are one of the leading causes of disease, cancer, birth defects, asthma, and reproductive harm, Beats for Boobs will help educate people on how to reduce exposure in their own lives and live at a higher level of health & wellness. The best cure for breast cancer is prevention.

Why wait in line when you can pre-purchase VIP Tickets and VIP Packages on their website: http://www.beatsforboobs.org. Music, food, fashion and live performances will be provided by the following sponsors, contributors and volunteers who make this annual event possible:

We recently came across a blog article about all of the ways to support charity through social media. Being our social media loving selves, we promptly posted this link to twitter. But then, on second thought, we realized the purpose of this blog was not to talk about social media, but to explain how to harness the power of social media to promote charities.

One of the local charities that we are excited about is NextAid, a charity dedicated to helping children in Africa affected by AIDS. ABCey Events organized a fundraiser called “A Night for Nextaid” at Vessel here in San Francisco back in July of 2007. We also helped spread the word for another fundraiser called “Reflections” at Levende Lounge in March of 2008. They are a great organization and always happy to help support them!

Cafe Cocomo is hosting their 5th annual event to support NextAid on July 26th from 12:00 pm to 2:00 am. In addition to supporting a great charity, come listen to some great music by some of SF’s hottest DJ’s. The ticket price is $10 ahead, and goes up to $15 at the door. You’ll also receive a raffle ticket upon entry before 3pm. Click here to learn more about NextAid.

Here is the facebook page for the event.

So hop to it! Tweet, Retweet, blog, update your facebook status about this charity or any other you are passionate about.a