An elegant evening. A unique live charity auction. A truly inspiring cause.

Event Overview:

The Samasouce Charity Gala will begin promptly at 7:30PM at The University Club, 800 Powell St., San Francisco. Feel free to park at the Sutter/Stockton Parking Garage located at 444 Stockton St. A complimentary parking shuttle will be provided for our guests from this garage. Samasource volunteers will meet you at the garage and direct you to the Shuttle to the Club. Dinner and our one-of-a-kind Samasource Live Auction will be followed by a Night of Dancing to be concluded at midnight.

All of the evening’s proceeds will directly support projects that bring dignified work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Evening Agenda:

7:30pm Cocktail Reception

8:30pm Dinner

9:15pm Live Auction

10:15pm Dance the night away...

Auction Items Include:

*Coffee with Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof and Myron Scholes

*Photo session with award-winning photographer Gregory Goode (www.gregorygoode.com)

*One week in a 4 -bedroom, 5,000+ square foot home on the beautiful island of Maui (www.kapalua.com)

*Dinner with EcoModel Summer Rayne Oakes (http://www.summerrayne.net/index.php/press/)\

*Spend the day with Miss Afghanistan, Vida Samasdzai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vida_Samadzai)

*Dinner with and by Miss India Universe 1996, Sandhya Chib

*Private Performance by Vienna Teng (http://viennateng.com/)

*A secret session with best-selling author Tim Ferriss (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/)

*Spend New Years in Kauai at The Point At Poipu (www.the-point-at-poipu.com)

*Secret SF Adventure with Amazing Race Champion, Tyler MacNiven (www.tylermacniven.com)

*Make Art in the Air-- Leave your mark on a conceptual work of art by prominent artist Drue Kataoka (http://www.drue.net).  What is required?  Just sit back, relax & enjoy a free flight on a private jet across the Bay.

All of the evening’s proceeds will support projects that bring dignified work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty.


Silvia Console Battilana and Nina Leis, Gala Co-Chairs
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Samasource, a non-profit social enterprise, brings dignified, computer-based work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty. Samasource empowers the world's untapped talent - from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan - with work that changes their lives. So far, Samasource has provided jobs to more than 500 marginalized people in Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana, rural India and Pakistan.

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www.samasource.org
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