Water Aid
May 2008
Spark members and supporters gathered at Mighty in San Francisco for Water Aid:
A Myanmar Relief Event. Michelle Forte, CARE's Senior Director of Development
for the Western Region, described the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone
Nargis and CARE's immediate response to the crisis. All proceeds from Water Aid
were donated to CARE's Myanmar Cyclone Response Fund to ensure that the most
vulnerable - female-headed households, mothers with young children, the ill and
the elderly - are able to access clean drinking water and sanitation to prevent
the spread of disease. |
Cocktails for a Cause
April 2008
Spark members came together at Apartment 24 to raise a grant for the women of the Mandiso Water Pump Project in Madagascar. While mingling and sipping cocktails, 250 Spark members contributed to provide approximately 500 foot-powered water pumps to woman subsistence farmers.
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Reading, Watching and Learning with Spark
March 2008
Spark and Human Rights Watch Network members screened Eva Mulvad's award-winning documentary Enemies of Happiness. The film was followed by a cocktail reception with the authors of
Human Rights Watch's report Against Fear: Women's Participation in Afghanistan's 2005 Elections.
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Nightlife Napa Valley at San Francisco's City Hall
March 2008
500 Spark members and over 70 vintners sipped, savored and mingled the night away at this fundraiser hosted by the Napa Valley Vintners. To view pictures from this fabulous event, please
click here.
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Spark Speaker Series Featuring Anne Firth Murray
February 2008
Renown global women's activist, intellectual and author Anne Firth Murray spoke before a captivated Spark audience at Hotel Vitale. Weaving artfully between anecdotes of her time as the
Founding President of the Global Fund for Women and stories of the struggles and courageous acts of women facing systemic violence, Anne shed new light on innovations in women's human
rights.
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Spark's Annual Global Gala: The Black and Pink Ball
October 2007
Over 600 Spark members and
supporters mixed, mingled and
danced the night away in support
of girls' education at Spark's
Second Annual Black and Pink
Ball.
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Spark Co-Sponsored Event: CARE's National Day of Action
October 2007
CARE and Spark supporters
gathered at FiftyCrows in San
Francisco in celebration of the
International Day for the
Eradication of Poverty.�
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Spark Speaker Series Featuring Jessica Flannery of Kiva and Debbie Hall of Village Enterprise Fund
September 2007
Over 60 Spark members listened to the incredible tales of starting a social enterprise and creating a new field of philanthropy one loan at a time.
Both Village Enterprise Fund and Kiva's
innovations are changing the landscape of women and
microenterprise across the globe.
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The Annual Gala Kickoff Event at Tres Agaves
July 17, 2007
Over 300 guests joined Spark to kickoff the Black and Pink Ball.
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Spark's Annual Membership Mixer
June 14, 2007
Members gathered to meet like-minded individuals,
hear about the work of Spark and enjoy fantastic San
Francisco sunset. |
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Speaker Series Featuring Sakena Yacoobi of the
Afghan Institute of Learning
May 17, 2007
Spark members gathered to hear the harrowing tales
securing a right to education in a country in
turmoil from a woman who touches the lives of over
200,000 girls each day. |
 Cocktails
for a Cause at ROE
April 2007
200 Spark members came together to support CAMFED
Mothers Support Groups (Zimbabwe). These Mothers
Support Groups are creating an environment where
girls education is not only an opportunity, it is an
expectation. |
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Presents Images of Jordan:
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
February 20, 2007
111 Minna Gallery hosted this Spark event where
delegation trip attendees shared the stories of
their journey to Jordan and guests enjoyed the
stunning photography of Marianna Nobre. |
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and ITVS Film Screening
December 6, 2006
This film screening featured SHADYA which tells the
story of a girl who strives to succeed on her own
terms as a world champion in karate - while
remaining committed to her life in an Arab community
in Northern Israel. |
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Evening With Swanee Hunt
November 15, 2006
Leaders from women's organizations in San Francisco
and Spark members gathered to hear from the inspired
Swanee Hunt, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
(1993-1997) and Founding Director of the Women and
Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government. |
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Co-Sponsored "Sparks of Humanity" � The United
Nations Association Film Festival
October 22, 2006
This film screening featured In the Tall Grass, a
film by J. Coll Metcalfe, that tells the story of a
Rwandan genocide survivor as she navigates through
the historic community courts, "gacaca", in order to
confront the neighbor she says killed her family,
and the community that sanctioned the murders. |
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First Annual Global Gala�The Black and Pink Ball
October 2006
Over 400 guests gathered at the W Hotel in San
Francisco to raise $15,000 for grassroots women's
organizations in Kenya, Jordan and San Francisco.
This signature event featuring the famous San
Francisco cover band Tainted Love. |
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Annual Membership Mixer
August 2, 2006
Members gathered to meet like-minded individuals,
learn about the work of Spark and hear the story of
champion marathon runner Lornah Kiplagat and her
High Altitude Training Center for Girls in Kenya. |
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Film Screening
June 14, 2006
Spark co-sponsored this event with the International
Museum of Women, where award-winning Canadian
filmmaker, Ric Bienstock previewed her acclaimed
documentary Sex Slaves and provided an informative
and chilling look at the exploitation of women in
the global sex trade. |
 Cocktails
for a Cause at Lucid Gallery
April 21, 2006
200 Spark members gathered to enjoy cocktails, each
other and raise over $4,000 for Salima Sarwar of ACD
in Bangladesh to support her work fighting the
sex-trafficking issues in the region. |
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Presents a Photographic Journey Celebrating
Extraordinary Women
December 6, 2005
The photographs and anecdotes of authors Faith
D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel provided Spark members
with the opportunity to travel vicariously from Mali
to Bhutan, and to discover the opportunities around
the world that some women have and that others do
not. |
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Membership Kickoff
August 2005
Renown women and children's rights advocate, Angela
Mason, spoke to 200 Spark members at this membership
kickoff event. |
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Hosts an Evening for the Women of Juarez and Chihuahua,
Mexico
April 6, 2005
Spark members raised $4,500 for organizations in
Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico whose efforts are
bringing a halt to the mysterious disappearances of
young women in their communities. |
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Hosts an Intimate Gathering With Patricia Cervantes
of Justicia Para Nuestra Hijas
March 13, 005
Activists Patricia Cervantes Pertenece of Justicia
Para Nuestras Hijas and Jessica Marques of the
Mexico Solidarity Network spoke of the femicides in
Mexico and their ongoing work to eradicate these
tragedies. |
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Kickoff Event
November 11, 2004
300 people joined our board to ignite Spark and
create a burgeoning, community-based organization in
San Francisco. The event raised $4,500 for women
rebuilding their lives following the Rwandan
genocide. |
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