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Editor: OK this has nothing to do with privacy, but I wanted to let those of you located in the New York City area know that a charity I work with is having a benefit on Thursday September 27,2007. It is being held at The Capitale (in Manhattan) Come join us and help some children.

Save the Date: Thursday, September 27,2007
Sunflower’s Global Fund - Sunflower Children Heroes Benefit
Presenting Sponsor: Paul Touradji, Touradji Capital Managementc
Special Guests: Helena Houdova, Model & Founder of Sunflower Children and Russell Simmons, Chairman & CEO, Rush Communications
Place: Capitale New York, 130 Bowery, New York, NY
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Tickets On Sale NOW!

100% of all public contributions directly benefit a Sunflower child. This policy is made possible through the generosity of private benefactors who directly fund Sunflower Children’s administrative, fund-raising and staffing expenses.

Sunflower Children is a humanitarian aid organization providing survival and development care for the forgotten children of the world. Sunflower’s efforts encompass medical, nutritional, psychological, educational, adoption and other humanitarian support that nurtures survival, health, growth and hope for orphaned, disabled, abandoned, refugee and impoverished children.

Creation Museum - Religion - New York Times: “PETERSBURG, Ky. The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.

But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away. What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn%u2019t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail. For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28 (just a short drive from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport), this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a little calm in the days after the fall.It also serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and biblical tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to human sin. Evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations are treated as gospel.”

(Read Original Article - Via New York Times .)

John Kenyon - What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About Technology: “Managing technology is no longer optional, it is a critical piece of any nonprofit’s business plan. In this talk, information technology consultant John Kenyon gives invaluable guidance on the planning needed for small and medium sized organizations to get the most out of their tech investment. Using a work systems framework, Kenyon explores the choices needed to minimize risks and strike the right balance between people, data and technology.”

(Read Original Article - Via Social Innovation Conversations.)

Paul Lamb - Nonprofits of the Future: ” Technology is changing the game for organizations in the social space. In this interview with John Powers, nonprofit technology consultant Paul Lamb explores how the web is already transforming nonprofits and NGOs. Lamb looks ahead to the potential that ubiquitous, mobile computing, virtual worlds, user generated content, and social networking have to up-end traditional constraints and to open new doors. Although the pace of change can be daunting, venturing into the tech frontier can increase effectiveness and help smaller nonprofits take destiny into their own hands.

(Via IT Conversations.)

Czech Supermodels & Czech Top Fashion Designers joined forces to provide vital support to disadvantaged children around the world. The first Czech Fashion Show in NYC Presenting its best Czech designers: Libena Rochova, Monika Drapalova, Denisa Nova, Hana Zarubova

Guest of Honor: Miss World 2006 Tatana Kucharova

Purchase tickets online by clicking here

or call +1.212.288.0830 ext. 100
Tickets: $500 - Primary Seating and Afterparty,
$200 - General seating, $100 - Standing room only

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Milk Studios (www.MilkStudios.com),
450 West 15th Street (Corner of 10th Ave), New York, NY 10011

Organized by the Czech Center New York,
info@CzechCenter.com, +1.212.288.0830 ext. 100