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September, 2009 Events

Naperville Last Fling

Friday, September 4, 2009 - Sunday, September 6, 2009
City: 
Chicago
Province/State: 
Illinois

Music, family activities and entertainment, and an end of summer Labor Day celebration make the Naperville Last Fling an event not to miss.  Additionally, this event places heavy focus on raising money to support local charities.

14th annual Hollyhock SVI

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - Sunday, September 13, 2009
City: 
Cortes Island
Province/State: 
Washington

Take advantage of this opportunity to fine tune business strategies, learn best practices for solving problems and build long lasting relationships with business peers and mentors. Get direct feedback for your current business challenges from a faculty of successful socially responsible enterprise leaders. Hear inspiring "True Confessions" - personal stories from experienced entrepreneurs and their struggles to reach success combining social mission with business.

Whole Foods Coastal Clean up

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
City: 
Menlo
Province/State: 
California

The California Coastal Commission and Whole Foods Market sponsors the Coastal Cleanup where volunteers will clean trash and debris from 1,100 miles of the California coast as well as another 1,000 miles along the inland shorelines of bays, creeks, rivers, and lakes throughout California. The 2009 Cleanup will look to build on the success of last year’s event, when 61,112 volunteers turned out to remove just under 1 million pounds of debris – the largest Cleanup in California’s history.

Socially Responsible Business Awards

Thursday, September 24, 2009
City: 
Boston
Province/State: 
Massachusetts

Arran as keynote speaker at the annual awards breakfast, to be held Thursday, September 24, at 8:30 am in the Convention Center. Not sure you’re aware of the awards, but they’ve been given for more than 14 years as determined by an independent board of industry-based judges to companies that best exemplify the ideals of socially responsible business in the natural products trade. We usually bring in from 300-400 industry members. You can see more information, including a list of past winners, at http://www.sociallyresponsibleawards.org/

Educating the Heart - Peace Summit

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Tuesday, September 29, 2009
City: 
Vancouver
Province/State: 
BC

The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is honoured to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Vancouver, September 26-29, 2009 for the Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue. Joining the Dalai Lama will be Nobel Laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Mairead McGuire and Betty Williams, as well as a number of respected international leaders from the realms of education, the arts, business, politics and social transformation. The Summit will be built on dialogues held at the Chan Center for the Performing Arts and the Orpheum Theatre.

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