3rd Annual Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours Charity Event
Benefits the NICU at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota!
The 3rd Annual TCTHH Charity Event, benefiting the NICU at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota will be on Thursday, May 31st at 514 Studios. Thank you to 514 Studios and Create Catering for partnering with us to make this event happen. Their generosity will allow for us to donate nearly 100% of all ticket sales, sponsorship money and silent auction fundraising at the event to Children’s.
- Date: Thursday, May 31st
- Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- Location: 514 Studios in Downtown Minneapolis’ North Loop District
- Tickets: $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Good for admittance, food and fun!
Tickets for this year’s event are $30 and can be bought in advance online or at the door for $35. There are only 250 tickets available, make sure you get yours well in advance.
ALL proceeds from this event go towards a private patient room in the NICU at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. To date, this event has raised $14,000 towards our ultimate goal of $50,000 over 5 years.
Event highlights include:
- Food catered by Create Catering
- Cheesecake Bar from Muddy Paws Cheesecake
- Silent auction. Items include Twins tickets, golf foursomes, hotel and restaurant gift cards and more!
- Punch Wall – Buy a punch for $20 and win a prize ranging from $25-$50 in value. Every punch wins a prize!
- Coin flip game. Fundraising chance game and opportunity to win a great prize
- Cash bar
- Live music – TBD
Sponsorship opportunities are also available to become an event partner this year. Please contact us for further details.
2nd Annual Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours Charity Event (Benefiting the NICU at Children’s MN)
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours is happy to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 2nd Annual TCTHH Charity Event benefiting the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
My personal connection to hosting and organizing this event as a third-party, is due to the time I spent in the NICU at Children’s when I was born and the spectacular care that I received. I was a preemie at Children’s in very bad health when I was born.
Last year this event, held at Solera, raised $7,000 for the NICU at Children’s. This year’s event is on Thursday, May 26th at Stella’s Fish Cafe in Uptown Minneapolis. This years event will bring together people for a networking event that helps to give back to our local community. There will be food provided by Stella’s for the event, a silent auction, you name the price Sam Adams beer ($1 minium, all Sam Adams proceeds are donated) and fun networking with other Twin Cities business professionals.
Tickets are $20 in advance and can be purchased at: http://tcthh.childrensmn.org. There are only 250 tickets available, so make sure to get yours soon. If there are still tickets remaining before the day of the event, we will sell tickets at the door for $25. If you are unable to attend the event, but would like to support Children’s, you can make a donation.
Please share this event with friends, family, colleagues or business partners that would like to help support this cause and have good time doing it. Thank you all for your support in helping make this event possible, I hope to see you all at the event on the 26th.
-Jeff Nolan
Founder, Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours
Thanks to our Sponsors
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours raises over $1,300 for Second Harvest at its March Networking Event
Last month we had a great event at the Summit Brewing Company brewery which helped to raise over $1,300 for Second Harvest Heartland, which is the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization. We had 150 people attend the event, which included a brewery tour, networking with other Twin Cities professionals, food from Buffalo Wild Wings, beer from Summit and a chance to hear Minnesota Speaker of the House, Kurt Zellers talk about the state of the economy in Minnesota. Thank you to all who attended and helped to contribute to our fundraising efforts as part of this event. Here are some pictures from the event!
March TCTHH Event | “Minnesota Economy Talk and Happy Hour” with Kurt Zellers | Summit Brewing Company
Join us on Thursday, March 24th for a very different Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours event at Summit Brewing Company in Saint Paul, where we’ll be joined by one of the three most important political leaders in the state, Kurt Zellers, Speaker of the Minnesota House. A four-term Republican legislator from Maple Grove, Zellers (39) will talk about the challenges Minnesota faces with a $5 billion budget deficit. We’ll also ask him about balancing the House floor proceedings, negotiating with Governor Dayton and recruiting new candidates. And we’re told he does it all while fitting in home, hunting and North Dakota hockey (really).
To help Summit in their effort to support Second Harvest Heartland, this event will cost $10 per person, which will be donated to help support hunger relief in the Upper Midwest. This month also marks Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign which helps raise money for Minnesota food shelves.
In addition to having a great speaker at this event, Summit Brewing Company will be providing beer, as well as brewery tours and Buffalo Wild Wings will be providing food for the event.
Please note that this event will start at 5:00 pm. Summit would like to offer their brewery tour to any of those that are interested in seeing it. Tours through the brewery will start at 5:15 pm.
Mr. Zellers will start speaking at 6:15 and will speak for about 30 minutes, allowing time for Q&A afterwards. This event will end at 8:00, which will give everyone plenty of time to network as usual and enjoy beer samples from Summit, as well as food from Buffalo Wild Wings.
You will be required to register and pay $10 for a ticket to this event, since it is a fundraiser for Second Harvest and we are limited to 150 people in the space that Summit is kindly providing us.
Please make sure you register for this event as soon as possible to ensure that you get a ticket, space will fill up fast.
You are encouraged to share this with a colleague, friend or business partner that might be interested in attending.
I look forward to seeing you all there, it will be a fun event! If you have any questions, please let me know.
-Jeff
UPCOMING EVENTS
April TCTHH Event | Thursday, April 21st at Uptown Cafeteria – 5:30 pm
2nd Annual TCTHH Charity Event | Thursday, May 26th at Stella’s Fish Cafe – 6:00 pm
*All proceeds from this event will benefit the NICU at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of MN (Please contact Jeff if you are interested in being a sponsor or donating a silent auction item for this event.)
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours Helps Second Harvest Heartland
Thanks to everyone that attended the November Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours event at FACES mears park in Lowertown St. Paul, we collected a lot of food, as well as cash donations to help out Second Harvest Heartland.
One of the goals of TCTHH is to give back to the community through our events and I am glad we have such great members that are willing to support the TCTHH vision when we partner with a charity like Second Harvest.
All totaled up, the November event helped to provide 229 lbs of food for Second Harvest to add to their food shelves during the holiday season. Thanks to others that donated money as well, we were able to give $132 to the organization to help buy even more food.
Through efforts like this, the TCTHH community can not only grow business/social connections through events, but we can help make a difference by giving back to local organizations in need.
Thanks for your generosity!
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours – September Event at moto-i
The next Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours monthly event is on Thursday, September 23rd at moto-i in Uptown. The event will start at 5:30 and go as late as people want to stay.
We will be collecting school supplies this month as part of our “Back to School” event, all donations will be given to an inner city Minneapolis school in need of extra supplies for less fortunate students.
If you are able to pick up an item to donate, you are encouraged to do so. Items that are needed include:
- Backpacks
- Pencils/Pens/Markers
- Notebooks/Three Ring Binders
- Used computers
- Calculators
- Musical Instruments
- Money
If you want to get to know other Twin Cities professionals, make valuable connections, help out kids in need and have a good time doing it, join us on the 23rd for drinks and networking.
moto-i has been kind enough to sponsor this event, which will provide us with a great atmosphere and appetizers to enjoy. moto-i is the first sake brewery restaurant outside of Japan. Located in Uptown, Minneapolis, moto-i is a full service restaurant with liquor, beer, wine and, of course, sake! moto-i makes draft sake or namazake. Please make sure to thank them. We will be on the roof top if the weather is nice, if it is raining we will be on the first floor space.
Mid-Summer Charity and Networking Events in the Twin Cities
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and is staying busy with family, friends, work and other fun summer activities. Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours has been on a short break in the months of June and July to enjoy the summer here in Minnesota.
In case you missed our May charity event for the NICU at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, we had a very successful event that raised over $7,000 for the neonatal unit at Children’s. Thank you to our many sponsors, guests, supporters and Solera for making the event such a great time.
1st Annual TCTHH Charity Event at Solera
Here are some upcoming charity, networking and business events that are happening in Minneapolis/St. Paul later this month and into August.
Friday, July 16 – Ad Fed MN Golferoo
Ad Fed’s annual golf event at Braemar Golf Course is July 16. Golferoo is a fun event that attracts players from the Twin Cities marketing and advertising community. Players include men and women with a wide range of golf skill and ability. The event starts with lunch on the grill, followed by an 18-hole scramble tournament. Then it’s time to relax with appetizers, drinks, a raffle and silent auction. Enjoy great games including “Hole in One,” “Closest to the Gin,” and “Keg Hole.” As always, a portion of the proceeds from this event are dedicated to charitable giving.
Saturday, July 17 – Rock the Cause presents “Rock the Vine”
Rock the Cause, Youth Advantage and Saint Croix Vineyards are proud to host the inaugural Rock the Vine Music Festival at Saint Croix Vineyards on Saturday, July 17 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Top local and regional artists will come together for an afternoon of music, food, wine tastings and more, all while benefiting local charity, Youth Advantage.
Friday, July 23 – SMBMSP 28, Small Business Gets Social
This month Social Media Breakfast will be outdoors at Deluxe Corp in Shoreview talking with five small business people about their approach to social media. Each small business is unique and so are their needs. Another interesting thing this month is that each of these business people have elected to DIY their social media strategy and solution.
1st Annual Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours Charity Event at Solera
I am happy to announce that tickets are now available for the 1st ever Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours Charity Event. All proceeds raised from this event including tickets, sponsorships and donations will be given to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. The event will take place on Thursday, May 27th at Solera, in Downtown Minneapolis. The event starts at 6:00 and will end around 9:30.
Tickets are $15.00 in advance ($20.00 at the door).
In addition to this being a great networking event for Twin Cities professionals, Solera will be providing appetizers for the event, there will be beer from Summit, along with a cash bar, live music from local up and coming musician Dan Rodriguez and a silent auction.
Not only is the mission of TCTHH to bring together Minneapolis and St. Paul professionals for networking events, but it is also the goal to be able to give back to local organizations. Through events like this, we will be able to continue to expand our professional networks, have fun and help to support organizations through the Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours community.
I hope that you can all make it to the event on May 27th, it surely will be a great time! If you have any questions, please let me know.
-Jeff
Thank you to our sponsors for this great event and organization!
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours in 2010
I am truly amazed by the response that I have received towards Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours and the wonderful people that have contributed to the success of the community. I would like to thank everyone that has attended an event (upcoming events), told a friend or colleague about an event or passed along information via one of the many social networks that have helped connect me with so many people interested in what has been created this past year.
In an effort to improve upon the first year of this group’s existence, I would like to open up the discussion for our community members to share ideas or thoughts on what we can do to make TCTHH events better and more meaningful in 2010.
I would like to do more charity events this year, growing upon what we were able to do with Toys for Tots, Finnegans and our “Back to School”, school supply collection, as well as more creative events, such as a golf tournament, BBQ or a boat cruise.
We will also be collecting cash/check donations for the American Red Cross – Haiti Relief and Development at this month’s happy hour at the W Hotel, Living Room. If you are unable to make it to the happy hour, you can donate here.
The ultimate goal of this group is to connect people in an environment that can help build valuable business relationships, with the approach to help others make meaningful connections that will ultimately benefit the whole of the group. I have been very pleased with the quality of individuals that have helped me to make these events possible and beneficial to all of those that attend. If we all put our heads together, I imagine that the group will continue to grow and we can make a difference in the Twin Cities business and social communities, while having fun at the same time.
- Jeff Nolan
What ideas or suggestions do you have to improve Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours, from an event and community perspective?
