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A fun-filled evening for fashionistas and fashionista wanna-bes will be held Thursday, April 30 at the T. Pepin Hospitality Center in Tampa – and it’s all for a good cause. Clinton Kelly guest speaker at United Way of Tampa Bay’s Fifth Annual Art of Giving, Kelly, co-host of “What Not to Wear”, will give fashion tips and make over two lucky women.
The event benefits Summer Care, a United Way project which provides free summer childcare and financial education to working families, “Caring with Style” is patterned after Kelly’s new bestseller, Freakin’ Fabulous, in which he instructs readers on how to dress, eat, drink, entertain, speak, behave, decorate – in short, how to be fabulous themselves.
Silent and live auctions will include purses by Prada, Dooney & Bourke, Coach, Elliott Lucca, and Michael Kors, and four luxury trips to Paris, Buenos Aires, Isle of Capri and the San Francisco Wine Country. Signed copies of Clinton’s book will be available for an additional donation.
Upon entering the hall, guests will interact with a larger-than-life display of Kelly’s book, Freakin Fabulous, and a pictorial display of what Summer Care means to the families who participate. During the program, a surprise presentation by a woman who used to donate to United Way – and then found herself in need of Summer Care for her children – will include a Kelly makeover. An additional Kelly makeover was auctioned on eBay in the weeks before the event.
“We enjoy preparing for the Art of Giving event and when Clinton Kelly agreed to come, we were thrilled,” said Afira DeVries, United Way of Tampa Bay Vice President of Resource Development. “And when you realize that you’re having all this fun and raising money so parents can send their children to a safe environment during the summer, it’s a satisfying feeling.”
For tickets visit www.unitedwaytampabay.org or call Courtney Smith at 813.274.0914.
Event Schedule:
Art of Giving
Thursday, April 30, 2009
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Cocktails, Registration and Fun
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. – Dinner and Program
T. Pepin Hospitality Center
4121 N. 50th Street, Tampa
Tickets: $100.00
Table sponsorships available
But apparently not like you think.
A new study out suggests that money makes people happy when they spend it on others, give it away to social causes. The study, cited in Science, seems to indicate that there is greater happiness when people spend money on those they can help. That’s not to suggest they have to sacrifice their own well-being to do so, but the study (written about in a recent Yahoo article) does reveal some interesting data and conclusions.
Amanda Gardner (author of the Yahoo article) writes: “Hikes in income can help boost happiness, but the effect is weak, prior studies have found. Research has also found that as the average income rises within a society, people’s reported levels of happiness remain relatively static.”
She goes on to report: A sample of “632 Americans (roughly equivalent between genders) to rate their happiness, report their annual income and estimate how much they spend on a typical month on different items, including gifts to others and donations to charity. Those who had more of this ‘pro-social’ spending were also happier, the team found.”
