Susan Atkins | PHOTO: BOB ROSS PHOTOGRAPHY National Philanthropy Day We were invited to the 41st luncheon to celebrate National Philanthropy Day at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront by Scatena Daniels Communications. The San Diego chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) hosted it. More than 100 communities celebrate the day across the globe…
The Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) has been nurturing, preserving and celebrating LGBT literature for 25 years, and today have announced six extraordinary LLF donors have pledged $2,500 each – in celebration of LLF’s 25th anniversary – for a total of $15,000. “If you help me match that, we can raise $30,000 for our fall challenge grant and membership…
What happens when the publishing industry is in crisis? The first titles to be dropped are LGBT authors of color. Please support LGBT authors of color and spend a few minutes at the new San Diego Central Library. Hear a panel discussion on this subject and a reading from two brilliant Gay Latino authors, Saturday Nov….
It’s been a rough two weeks for me healthwise and, yes, friendshipwise. It feels at times that I’m in the eye of the storm, and now I’ve found out that the fundraising event that Laura Fink is talking about is the one that, in 2005, Attorney Bruce Abrams and I organized and hosted. A $1,000…
There is still time to donate to the new San Diego Central Library LGBT initiative. To ensure your donation goes to the LGBT initiative please send checks to Jay Hill, chief executive officer, San Diego Public Library Foundation, 820 E Street, San Diego, CA 92101 with LGBT in the memo line, or by going online…
June 28, 2010 the San Diego City Council voted 6-2 to approve construction of the new San Diego Central Library. At the time the project had its detractors. Councilmembers Carl DeMaio and Sherri Lightner voted against the library saying it was too expensive and the City could not afford it. Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre…
