MEDIA ADVISORY
WHAT: REALITY TV STARS & LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS TEAM UP TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WESTCHESTER-BASED NON-PROFIT, EMPOWER-TECH
WHEN: Wednesday March 13, 2013
5:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Melody Bar and Grill
9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310)-670-1194/ http://www.barmelodylax.com/
EVENT: An extended happy hour to raise funds for EmpowerTech, a Westchester-based non-profit that provides computer training to persons living with disabilities. 100% of customer tips will be donated to EmpowerTech; the public is welcome and encouraged to attend.
WHO: Juliannah Richmond & Kimberli Russell—stars of the hit reality series, “Basketball Wives,” will join local community business leaders as “guest bartenders.”
FOR MORE Joan Anderson, Executive Director-- EmpowerTech
INFORMATION: (818) -665-8001/ janderson@empowertech.org
About Empowrtech:
Founded in 1986 as the “Computer Access Center”, EmpowerTech today uses modern Assistive Technology to help persons with disability obtain the skills and the confidence to perform important computing tasks that many take for granted such as accessing and using the Internet and creating and reading documents.
To learn more about EmpowerTech and to view some of its many, many success stories, please visit: http://www.empowertech.org/success.html.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
EmpowerTech is having a FUNdraiser at Melody Bar & Grill!
Melody Bar and Grill is featuring the first annual Celebrity Bartending Event from 5pm to 9pm on Wednesday March 13. During that time, all tips from drinks poured by volunteer celebrity bartenders, 100% of tips collected go directly to support EmpowerTech’s programs.
Where: Melody Bar
and Grill
9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd Westchester, CA (4 minutes from LAX)
9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd Westchester, CA (4 minutes from LAX)
When: Wednesday
March 13th 5pm-9pm. We will work in shifts.
Why: Because you all are fun and it’s for a good
cause!!!
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Drinks will be poured by volunteer
celebrity bartenders
o Celebrity bartenders include:
Juliannah Richmond (actress),
Kimberli Russell (Basketball Wives), Barry Van Dyke, Karen Dial, Jim Kennedy,
Dr. Kevin Walsh, Chamberlain Duru, and MORE!
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100% of their collected tips will be used
to support EmpowerTech programs
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
EmpowerTech Celebrity Bartender FUNdraiser!
Hi all.
Everyone has thought it would be fun bartending
for their family and friends behind a real bar before. Now you can make your
dream come true! Your family, friends, co-workers, people in your organization
and even yourself can work with the finest Bartenders in Westchester! I am
going to put you and/or people from your organization behind the bar at Melody
Bar and Grill to pour the finest drinks to members of your team and the bar
patrons. 100% of the tips go directly to support EmpowerTech’s programs.
What I will need from all of you other than bartending, is to make sure you
bring people that you know in for the FUNdraiser. The larger the crowd, the
more cocktails to be poured the bigger the tips! I will follow up this email
with a flyer for you all to send out to your contact lists.
Where: Melody Bar and Grill
9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd Westchester, CA
9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd Westchester, CA
When: Wednesday March 13th 5pm-9pm.
We will work in shifts.
Why: Because you all are fun and it’s for a
good cause!!!
***If any of you know any actors or athletes, can you ask if they
would like to help out a good cause?
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Volunteer Opportunities at EmpowerTech!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Are YOU Interested in Making a Difference in the Life of Someone with Disabilities?
EMPOWERTECH is Los Angeles County's only non-profit organization devoted to bringing the latest in assistive technology to children and adults living with disabilities.
We are looking for people of all ages with:
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Applications
• A teaching background or experience helping people with disabilities (not required but always a plus!)
• A great attitude!
If you can help, please visit us at: http://empowertech.org
Or give us a call at: (310) 338-1597
EmpowerTech
9100 S. Sepulveda Suite 204
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Message from the new Director of Development, Lisa Gaynor
I wanted to take a brief moment of your time to introduce myself to all of you.
I’m Lisa Gaynor a long time community member of both Westchester and Santa Monica. I am so pleased to let you all know that I am now the new senior development director of EmpowerTech. I know that I have some big shoes to fill following behind Ally Walker, but I do want to assure you all that I have the background and the resources to do a fantastic job not only for EmpowerTech’s students but for the organization as a whole.
For the past 5 years I have been an independent grant writer primarily working with nonprofits in the LA County area. It is through my expertise that Common Ground received one of their largest grants to date. I am a mother of 3 children all of whom graduated Santa Monica High School and both of my son’s are recent graduates of LMU (class of 2008 and 2010).
I want to let you in on the true reason that I made my decision to join EmpowerTech, and that is I had an uncle with a disability. He was diagnosed with polio in 1938 at 20 months old. We all seem to forget that back then this was a death sentence but due to perseverance by my grandmother he became an invaluable member of the community. He was an extremely talented artist, but the only job that he could get was working in an electronics firm as an assistant.
His dream was to design sports car models similar to “Hot Wheels”. I can only wonder what his life would have been like if EmpowerTech and assistive technology was around back then. His struggles and disenfranchisement from the community may not have happened had he had a computer and the necessary training. The first time I walked through EmpowerTech’s doors I remembered all the stories my uncle told me of his childhood and the taunts other kids bestowed upon him. I don’t ever want that to happen to anyone that comes to EmpowerTech. I want to give them the tools that allow them to achieve unprecedented levels of independence, self-confidence and fulfillment. I am honored to be a part of EmpowerTech’s team and to the memory of my uncle and those that will come behind him, I promise all of you I will do my job and do it well
I’m Lisa Gaynor a long time community member of both Westchester and Santa Monica. I am so pleased to let you all know that I am now the new senior development director of EmpowerTech. I know that I have some big shoes to fill following behind Ally Walker, but I do want to assure you all that I have the background and the resources to do a fantastic job not only for EmpowerTech’s students but for the organization as a whole.
For the past 5 years I have been an independent grant writer primarily working with nonprofits in the LA County area. It is through my expertise that Common Ground received one of their largest grants to date. I am a mother of 3 children all of whom graduated Santa Monica High School and both of my son’s are recent graduates of LMU (class of 2008 and 2010).
I want to let you in on the true reason that I made my decision to join EmpowerTech, and that is I had an uncle with a disability. He was diagnosed with polio in 1938 at 20 months old. We all seem to forget that back then this was a death sentence but due to perseverance by my grandmother he became an invaluable member of the community. He was an extremely talented artist, but the only job that he could get was working in an electronics firm as an assistant.
His dream was to design sports car models similar to “Hot Wheels”. I can only wonder what his life would have been like if EmpowerTech and assistive technology was around back then. His struggles and disenfranchisement from the community may not have happened had he had a computer and the necessary training. The first time I walked through EmpowerTech’s doors I remembered all the stories my uncle told me of his childhood and the taunts other kids bestowed upon him. I don’t ever want that to happen to anyone that comes to EmpowerTech. I want to give them the tools that allow them to achieve unprecedented levels of independence, self-confidence and fulfillment. I am honored to be a part of EmpowerTech’s team and to the memory of my uncle and those that will come behind him, I promise all of you I will do my job and do it well
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