November 08, 2006

In donations for tretyakov gallery we raised $3500 donating the yacht

http://www.aftgusa.org/custom3_1.html

August 07, 2007

Dear David,

How can I ever thank you? Your generous donation of your loft was the star of the live auction. It raised $7,000 – nearly enough to run a High School chapter for the year. David – you support means the world to us. We share each of our volunteer's triumphs and success as they grow in our programs. Because you are a part of the community that makes Best Buddies possible more kids with special needs are growing up with the understanding of their self worth and greater confidence that they too belong! So much of this couldn't happen without supporters like you.

All our thanks,
Kayle Jacoby
President
Best Buddies, New York

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:25 PM

December 4, 2006

The opportunities

Lalique Crystal and Roberto Cavalli are sponsoring a charity fund raiser. We are currently seeking more people interested in raising funds and awareness for children's chairities. For our next event we had been approached and have agreed to do an event for Ronald McDonald House, and agreed to do an event for them which will take place Thursday May 17th at Carnegie Hall. We are also in the planning phases for a late summer event benefiting Best Buddies. In 2008 we aim to have one Carnegie Hall fundraiser a month, promoting new pianist talent and charities. You will be heavily exposed to the most amazing people and charities in Manhattan. It is an amazing way of meeting committee board members of every conceivable charity in town and celebrities supporting these charities. It will be great fun as we share numerous dinners and cocktails regularly for the different committees.

DRAKE CHARITY TEAM

EVENT CO-CHAIRS
David Drake President & CEO, Drake Corporate Housing

Shana Ehrlich Principal, Individual Solutions

Kate Sullivan President & Executive Director of Trail Blazers



BENEFIT COMMITTEE
David Drake Event /Benefit Committee Co-Chair

Shana Ehrlich Event/Benefit Committee Co-Chair
Kate Sullivan Trail Blazers
Guillaume Gauthereau, CEO Lalique
Allessandro Mattarini, CEO Roberto Cavalli

Lily Lin Chair AUCTION Committee
Tiberius Vadan Chair CHARITY INITIATIVE Committee
Hemali Dassani Chair FETE Committee
Stephen Brind Chair HONOREE Committee
Kathryn Fjeld Chair PUBLIC RELATIONS Committee

We are presently accepting donations for the Live, On-line & Silent Auctions. We have so far accumulated donations of auction items valued at $15,000+ for February 2007!

Please join one of these Sundays 7:30 PM so we can see where you can fit into a committee and help us help others! If you can make it please RSVP. If you would like to invite others to join us please e-mail me to insure we have space. We shall do this again Sundays in January and February.

AUCTION

Total Raised:  $15’000

November 10th DrakeLife  (Wildlife Trust)

Raised $5,000 for the at a beautiful dinner at Chelsea’s pier Light House Restaurant. DrakeLife donated the use of its 70-foot corporate yacht for a day as a live auction gift to the lucky top bidder. An auctioneer from Christie’s Auction House, Richard Brierly, fervently called out the bids to the excited bidders.

December  2006

YEO $2,500 was raised for Yeo.org Fudraiser

Dinner at The Loft:

December 10, 2006

1^st Dinner at the loft “Soho Loft” with Trail Blazers of Drake Life Style with  friends of Charity

December 14, 2006

Dinner with new members: Charity

Sponcerors

Drake Corporate Housing

January 21, 2007

Dinner intro to Ronald McDonald House

January 28, 2007

Dinner intro to NewGlobe.org

February 2, 2007

Dinner intro to Best Buddies

Feb 3, 2007

Dinner intro to review Tian Jiang’s concert

May17

Ronald McDonald House Charity

September 2007

NewGlobe.org

December 2007

Best Buddies Charity

Dear David,

I can't thank you enough for the exciting opportunity  you have provided for Trail Blazers through your Carnegie Hall event. Last night's dinner was phenomenal and I was moved by the wonderful people you brought together and their willingness for the sucess of the event!

You are making it happen for us!
Thanks again.

Warmest Regards,
Kate Sullivan

President
TrailBlazers.org - Inner city kids of NYC gaining self-esteem and confidence at Appalachian 3 week summer camps.

Sincerely, David Drake

"Trail Blazers is an award winning youth development organization that for the past 120 years has touched the lives of thousands of urban youth from New York and New Jersey. Each year in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy, hundreds of urban youth attend Trail Blazers' Summer Outdoor Experiential Education, Winter Education, Leadership Training and Mentoring Programs. Trail Blazers offers a comprehensive network of services designed to help young people make positive life choices through exposure to the outdoors, community living, education and play."

We would love to have you involved! Please join committee chairs and me for dinner and a meeting Sunday Jan 14th or 21st at the loft. Last Sundays December 3rd and Dec 17th had too many people show up. We are helping Kate Sullivan, of Trailblazers.org, raise funds via a concert featuring classical pianist Tian Jiang at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, February 18th. “The experience of meeting one of these amazing kids will move you as it did me to become a part of positive change.”

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

December 13

A discussion of the current world economic situation with the following experts: Sean King, senior analyst for Asia policy for the U.S. Commerce Department for the first five years of George W. Bush’s presidency; and currently a senior consultant for former Senator Alfonse D'Amato's global business consulting firm. Nouriel Roubini, a macro economist at NYU and founder of www.rgemonitor.com, one of the world’s largest websites for global economic data. Mr. Roubini is a leading economic commentator in the media. In the past year he has been quoted extensively by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Reuters and the New York Times among many others. Mr. Roubini is recognized as one of the top five global macroeconomists in the world. His experience includes broad academic and policy experience in senior positions in the White House Council of Economic Advisers as well as at the US.. Treasury.

September 21

The last concert produced by DrakeLife at Carnegie Hall in September with Julian Gargiulo sold out. Mr. Gargiulo is a fast-rising, young Italian virtuoso pianist who performed selections from Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin. The concert took place on Thursday, September 21st at 8pm, and had people lined up at the doors at the last minute trying to get tickets. Tickets were sold at:
http://carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_9677.html
The September 21st Carnegie Hall event was sponsored by Drake Corporate Housing, Opia Restaurant and Lalique Italian luxury crystals.

May 17

The same corporations will sponsor the next concert on Thursday, May 17th. These sponsors paid to have their name and logo appear in the program; Lalique had their crystal next to the piano during the performance and all three sponsors were included in both online and print-media coverage.
Lalique luxury products is a 140-year-old French luxury crystal firm that sells its products in their Madison Avenue store; they secured the first row of the hall. In addition to these sponsors, Italian clothing designer Roberto Cavalli has signed on to sponsor the next event. Half of the revenue from this show will be donated to the Ronald MacDonald House charity and partial of the income will go towards raising funds for a grand piano at TheSohoLoft.com whereas to arrange a summer and fall competition of 10 weekly Julliard students. The winner (at least one) shall be offered to play at Carnegie Hall for the upcoming fundraiser 2008.

February 18

Why don't you sponsor this or my Sunday Feb 18 Carnegie Hall concert for as little as $2000-$4000? its for a good cause and we are attaching our names to luxury products like Lalique, Roberto Cavalli and Carnegie Hall not to mention this charity?
Here are the sponsorship details: DrakeLife is producing a Carnegie Hall Concert at Zenkel Hall. Talented young Italian virtuoso pianist Julian Gargiulo will again be the performer. He sold out Weill Hall (the other hall at Carnegie) in September 2006 with his unique blend of classical piano and his ability to make classical music more accessible to a mass audience by speaking directly to the audience between pieces using a friendly, humorous tone. This is what one reviewer said: "To play like this, one must be born to it. Once again Julian Lawrence Gargiulo amazed with his Chopin, to whom he dedicated the entire first have of his concert Thursday, September 21 at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York." Then went on to say: "…as usual, Gargiulo talked, joked and laughed with his audience, combining classical piano with his unique style of "stand-up comedy" to create an original and fresh performance." He is of world class caliber and also extremely personable and connects with the audience to give a lasting impression. Other firms are invited to sponsor the event as well as indicated below. It would be fun and good exposure to be associated with names like Carnegie Hall, Roberto Cavalli and Lalique as well as the fact that this is a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House.
Tickets selling for $100 will be 50% tax deductible for this event as the fundraising is done for the Ronald McDonald House of New York. I'm very excited about raising these funds. Talent magazine is sponsoring the event and my PR department will work closely with you, the Ronald McDonald House and the performer to create the right publicity for this event. This should be fun for us all to get involved with minimum effort.
Sincerely,

David Drake
President & CEO

Drake Life Capital

85 Fifth Avenue, 7th floor
New York, NY 10003

Tel: 12129246666
Fax:12122554429



Trail Blazers is an award winning youth development organization that for the past 120 years has touched the lives of thousands of urban youth from New York and New Jersey. Each year in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy, hundreds of urban youth attend Trail Blazers' Summer Outdoor Experiential Education, Winter Education, Leadership Training and Mentoring Programs. Trail Blazers offers a comprehensive network of services designed to help young people make positive life choices through exposure to the outdoors, community living, education and play.

The Benefit for Trail Blazers will take place at Carnegie Hall on 18, February 2007. It will include a classical concert by virtuoso pianist Tian Jiang (www.tianmusic.com), a live auction with a Christie's Auctioneer and a pre-concert Cocktail & Silent Auction which will be hosted by Lalique on Madison Avenue (Lalique items will be available with a percentage of sales going directly to Trail Blazers). If you are unable to attend the event, and would like to support Trail Blazers please look for the online auction that will commence on 18, February. The organization is presently accepting auction donations (large & small) for the event. To make a donation for the auction please contact the Auction Committee Chair Lily Lin at businessfancy@yahoo.com. If you would like to make a donation directly to Trail Blazers, please contact Executive Director Kate Sullivan ksullivan@trailblazers.org.

For tickets to the event please contact Carnegie Hall at:
www.carnegiehall.org
212-247-7800

To attend the pre-party at Lalique, please contact (space will be limited):
212-529-5113


We are also accepting sponsors for the event. Current sponsors include Drake Corporate Housing (www.drakelife.com), Carnegie Hall (www.carnegiehall.org), Roberto Cavalli (www.robertocavalli.net), Lalique French Luxury Crystal (www.lalique.com).

Sponsorship levels are as follows:

-Benefactors ($2000)

1. 10 tickets - Top 8 VIP rows
2. 10 signed CDs
3. Mention on the flyers and invitations

-Sponsors ($4000)

1. 20 tickets - top 6 rows
2. 20 signed CDs
3. Mention on the flyer and invitations
4. Mention on corporate websites (Drake Life, Drake Corporate Housing)

-Main Sponsor $8,000
Main sponsor with Drake LifeStyle and Trail Blazers

1. 40 tickets - top 5 rows
2. 20 signed CDs
3. Corporate Sponsor of the evening on the flyer, poster, program and invitations
4. Mention on corporate websites, press releases, and possible editorials (produced by Drake LifeStyle)

-Platinum Honor Sponsor of the Event $15,000

1. 40 tickets - top 5 rows
2. 20 signed CDs
3. Corporate Sponsor of the evening on the flyer, poster, program and invitations
4. Mention on corporate websites, press releases, and possible editorials (produced by Drake Life)
5. Special mention and receiving a plaque onstage for supporting Carnegie Hall’s friends for Trail Blazer of the Year Award.

Sponsorships are 50% tax deductible for this event as fundraising is done for Trail Blazers.
Event details:

Sunday, February 18, 2007
Pre-concert Cocktails & Silent Auction 5:30PM - 7:30PM Boutique Lalique
712 Madison Avenue (at 63rd St)

Tian Jiang Concert & Live Auction 8:30PM - 10:30PM Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall 154 West 57th Street (at 7th Ave.)v

Tian Jiang Carnegie Hall Concert Program:

       Bach-Busoni: Organ Toccata in C major
       1, Prelude
       2, Intermezzo
       3, Fugue

       Tian Jiang: Shanghai Dream Suite (Selections)
       1, Shanghai Dream
       2, Old Spirit
       3, Silk Road
       4, The Sun
       5, Secret Desire

       Tian Jiang: Dancing Waves Suite
       (Selections)
       1, Dancing Waves
       2, Lament

       Tian-Yin: Defend the Yellow River

INTERMISSION --- Live Auction

       Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op.48

       Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op.62 No.1