Radical Benefit for Humanity: On Thursday at the Regency Center in San Francisco, the X Prize Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to improving the world by forming new industries and revitalizing failed markets — held an event subtitled “Making the Impossible Possible, One Prize at a Time.” The guest list for the “evening of entertainment, intelligence and vision” hosted by Wendy and Eric Schmidt and James and Suzy Cameron included internationalleaders, entrepreneurs and philanthropists
Read More
Menlo Charity Horse Show: The 41st annual event, held Aug. 9-14 at Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, featured some 400 of the finest horses and riders in the U.S. in jumping competitions, as well as a benefit gala dinner “Celebrating the Horse” on Aug. 12. Festivities were a benefit for Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a group serving clients in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.
Read More
‘This Old Bag’ preview: Health and community advocates gathered last week at the Fairmont Hotel to take a peek at celebrity and designer handbags that will be auctioned at the sixth annual “This Old Bag: The Power of the Purse” benefit for the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund on Oct. 15. Hilary Newsom Callan and Elizabeth Thieriot hosted the Aug. 17 preview party. Kaiser Permanente is the presenting sponsor of the upcoming auction.
Read More
URL: http://www.sfexaminer.com/taxonomy/term/7027
