Need EXTRA Incentive?

Even if you can't come to the happy hour, here's a good reason to donate to Gilda's Club:

Win an iPad 2 & a Shower Cap

Donate $28 to any Project or Charity by September 30, 2011 and you'll be signed up to win an iPad 2 :)

You know you want it -- go on ... click this link!!

http://www.crowdrise.com/2011ingnewyorkcitymarathon/fundraiser/annachai

3rd Annual Funny T-Shirt Contest

It's that time again ... Sweet Charity is bringing back the "Read It & Weep" Funny T-Shirt Contest!

Get yourself and your terrific tee to the next happy hour:

Friday, Sept 16th

The Ainsworth

122 West 26th Street (btwn 6th/7th Ave)

Subways: 1 & R at 28th Street

Drink Specials will be:

$3 Yuenglings & Bud Lights

$5 Well Drinks, Cosmos, Apple-tinis & Watermelon-tinis

This month's event will be raising money for Gilda's Club.

Since 1989, this organization has offered a place where men, women and children living with cancer -– and their families and friends -– can join together to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care. And it's all free of charge!

Voting -- and drinking -- starts at 6pm! Hope to see you there!

Best,

The Sweet Charity Girls

Planting Hope

We're back :)

Our first happy hour of 2010 will benefit Sustainable Harvest International:



Since 1997, SHI has planted more than 2.7 million trees and converted tens of thousands of acres to sustainable uses. SHI works with families and students throughout Honduras, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua implementing alternatives to slash-and-burn farming, one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction in the region.

Please join us on Monday, May 24th at:
Slate PLUS
54 West 21st St
btwn 5th and 6th Avenue
Subway: 1 @ 18th St, F/V @ 23rd St, R/W @ 23rd St

Thirsty? Specials will be:
$4 domestic beer and well drinks
$5 house wine
$6 house martinis

Hope to see you there!

2010

Happy New Year!!

Thanks again for your support!! In 2010, Sweet Charity will switch to quarterly happy hours. We'll try to keep your favorites ones, i.e. Flip Cup Tourney and Holiday Party. Stay tuned!!

Happy Holidays

Please join us for the 2^nd Annual Sweet Charity Holiday Party!

We have a lot to celebrate. In just 2 years, you have helped Sweet Charity raise over $35,000!! With your help, we are supporting nonprofits in our area and making a difference in our community.

This holiday season, we will be fighting hunger in NYC with City Harvest -- their biggest food drive of the year is running now through January 31:

If you can't join us for happy hour, please consider donating cans food to any NYC firehouse or police station.

But, If you can join us for some merriment and good cheer, we hope you like $5 domestic beer, mojitos, sangria, and margaritas!

Hope you see you to there. And of course, feel free to spread the cheer to your friends and family. All are invited!!

I Heart Lyons

October's Happy Hour will benefit our good friend, Alexis Carrero's charter school:






In its 3rd year since inception, Lyons continues to need to raise money for school supplies and to grow the athletic department.

Please join us Friday October 23rd at:
Common Ground
206 Avenue A
btwn East 12th and 13th

All are welcome, so feel free to bring friends, coworkers, people off the street :)

And The Winner Is . . .

Kelvin Au with his "FedSex" t-shirt!

Runner-Up goes to Soo Kim and her "Gay Pride" t-shirt:

A big thank you to all who came in support of BECA!!

2nd Annual T-Shirt Contest

Whether you like it big, small, long or tall,
tight, loose or just plain white,
Sweet Charity doesn't care,
just bring it all . . . except not bare!

The 1st Annual T-Shirt Contest seemed to be a crowd pleaser, so we're continuing the tradition!

Date: Wed, Sept 30th
Time: 7pm 'til late . . .
Place: Press Box (2nd Floor), 932 2nd Ave btwn 49th and 50th
Subway: 6 @ 51st Street
What: Your donation will get you $4 well drinks and $4 bud drafts and bottles all night long!

This month's event will be raising money for Bilingual Education for Central America (BECA).



BECA is a non-profit organization that recruits volunteer teachers to work for a year at a bilingual school in Honduras. BECA recruits 10-13 teachers each year to work at San Jeronimo Bilingual School (SJBS) in Cofradia, Honduras. In exchange, SJBS offers full and partial scholarships to low-income families in the community. The scholarship program allows many poor children in Cofradia the opportunity to receive a bilingual education, a privilege that is usually only available to upper class families in Honduras.

We hope to see you and your T-shirt there!

P.S. If you need some inspiration, check out a few of last year's favorites!

A Message from Mercy Center

Nice job, people!! This thank you just came in:

Amanda-

The check arrived yesterday and the DB paperwork arrived today. Thank you so much! We really appreciate it!

The total that Sweet Charity raised for Mercy Center will be $1520. This is equivalent to the cost of English as a Second Language (ESL)classes and a range of support programs for 1 ESL student and their family for an entire year. You and Liz and the rest of the Sweet Charity girls should feel very good about this return on all your hard work! Thank you soo much!

I hope to see you guys on Wednesday. It sounds like lots of fun!

Take care,
Sinead

Have Mercy

. . . and help Sweet Charity take drinking for charity to a new height!

Date: Thursday, August 27th
Time: 7:00PM to 10:00PM
Place: Harbour Lounge, a.k.a. fancy Manhattan rooftop
What: $25 donation gets you food and drink for the night!

All donations will go to the Mercy Center, a community center in the South Bronx to empower women and help them reach their full potential and become the agents for change for themselves and their families.



If you cannot attend but would like to donate money or volunteer your time, please visit: www.mercycenterbronx.org

Hope to see you there!!
Anna, Rachael, Trang, Amanda & Liz

You Go, Girl

Thanks to everyone who braved the rainy rain last night!

We had a small but strong group and managed to raise over $800 for the Lower Eastside Girls Club :)

Attention, Girls and Boys!!

This month's happy hour, we will be helping:



When: Thursday, July 23rd @ 7pm
What: Happy Hour for The Lower Eastside Girls Club
Where: SideBar, 120 East 15th Street (& Irving)
Why: The Lower Eastside Girls Club provides girls and young women with "the vision to plan - and the tools to build - their future."

As thanks for your donation, drink Specials will be extended until 8:30pm:
$3 Bud Lite
2-for-1: Domestic Bottled Beer, Margaritas, Mojitos, Caipirinhas, Jim Beam & Coke

Hope to see you!!

Thank You

A big thanks to everyone who braved the vertigo and chilly temperatures last night!

With your help and generosity, we were able to raise $950 for Books For Kids! And, that brings our total money raised to over $30,000 since January 2008 . . . Yay!

Red Sky's The Limit

Hooray for summer, lots of daylight and roofdeck bars!!

It's June and we're collecting donations for Books For Kids. This organization is dedicated to promoting literacy among young children, especially those lacking access to book at home, by creating libraries, donating books and partnering with literacy programs.

Please join us on Wed, June 17th @ 7pm!

The Roofdeck @ Red Sky

47 East 29th Street

Subways: 6 and R/W@ 28th Street

See you then!!

YES WE MAY!

Tra la, it's May ... which has been sung about as "that darling month when everyone throws self-control away" and "that lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray."

And why not? How about next Thursday night at Black Finn?

Thu, May 14th @ 7pm (until ??)
Black Finn
218 East 53rd St (just east of 3rd)
Subway: 6 to 51st; E/V to 53rd

Which non-profit benefits this month? The New York Quarterly (NYQ). Our own Sweet Charity co-founder and NYQ board member Kristi Patterson is trying to help save this 40-year-old New York institution, which Rolling Stone called "the most important poetry magazine in America"... and your help would be most appreciated.

Hope to see you Thursday the 14th!

Girl Power

Thanks to everyone who braved the trek downtown!

With your help, we raised $2550 for Girls Inc.

Yay!! Keep up the good work :)

Spring Break in the City

Remember when April used to mean more than, "Oh no, I need to do my taxes!" Yes, the good ol' days -- when April's only challenge was "Cancun or Jamaica?" We may be older and, arguably, a little wiser, but we deserve a break too!

Please join us for Sweet Charity's next event: "We deserve a Spring Break too, dammit!"

Thu, April 30th @ 7pm
Tropical 128
128 Elizabeth Street
www.tropical128.com

This month, we are helping Girls Incorporated of NYC.






Girls Inc seeks to "inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold." This group is currently fundraising for their 10th Annual College Shower, a generous program helping local girls get ready for college. For more details, please visit www.girlsincnyc.org -- buy something off the registry if you can't make it!

P.S. Thursday is Ladies Night, 2 for 1 drink specials. Gents, we bet the lovely ladies would be happy to share.

Sweet Charity Strikes Again

Bend (Your Elbow) Like Beckham

Join us for our very first SOCCER-themed happy hour!

New York Red Bulls Pro Soccer Midfielder Seth Stammler and friends will be on hand to help us raise money for the Sporting Chance Foundation, a charity that funds the general education of children in Haiti and the distribution of potable water. 

To help out, our water will have beer in it! A $15 donation will get you a wristband good for 3 hours of drink specials. 

Thursday, March 26th @ 7-10pm

Nevada Smith's 

74 3rd Ave

between East 11th/12th Street

Transit: L to 3rd Ave, 4/5/6/N/Q/R/W to Union Square, Path to 9th Street

The New York Red Bulls will be there to donate autographed team apparel. Everyone is welcome -- fans and non-fans alike -- to show up and join in the fun! Feel free to wear your own footie gear, just please don't cleat your bartender. We'll set you up with some great new folks, no matter what team they support :)

The more the merrier . . . Please invite all the fun people you know! 

Thanks!!

Flippin' FeBREWary

It's the 2nd Annual Flip Cup Tournament!

Dear Liz Berls is training for another triathlon! So, please come and support the fight against leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma!

Fri, Feb 20th @ 7pm
The Back Room @ Bar None
98 3rd Ave (btwn E12/13th)

A donation gets you a fancy wristband and DRINK SPECIALS until 11pm:
$7 Pitchers of Bud Light / Bud
$2 Draft Bud Light / Bud
$3 Well Drinks
$4 Shots or Cuervo or Jager

The more the merrier . . . Invite all the fun people you know :)

P.S. If you can't make happy hour, you can still donate here:
http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/anttry09/eberls