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Peet's participates in many community fundraisers and cultural events year-round. Please join us in supporting these upcoming events.
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Northern California
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2009
July 19, 2009
On Sunday, July 19, a Peet’s team of more than 80 Peetniks, from our home office and Northern California retail stores, will join thousands of individuals to walk and raise money in Northern California's largest AIDS fundraising event. Mission Street will provide brewed coffee for AIDS Walk SF event organizers and volunteers for the week leading up to the event to keep them fueled while preparing for this very important day. For more information on AIDS Walk or to learn more about how you can participate in an AIDS Walk in other cities, please visit www.aidswalk.net.
Stern Grove Festival
June 21 – August 23, 2009
Now in its 72nd season, The Stern Grove Music Festival has filled an important role in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1938, attracting 100,000 people every summer to experience world-renown performing arts absolutely free of charge.
For more information, please visit www.sterngrove.org.
California Shakespeare Festival
May 28 through October 5, 2009
Founded in 1974, the award-winning California Shakespeare Festival presents more than 100 performances of Shakespeare and classic plays each summer. This year’s season includes productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Noel Coward’s Private Lives, and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.
For more information, please visit www.calshakes.org.
Eden’s Run to the Lake 10K/5K
July 12, 2009
Benefiting Eden Medical Center’s Trauma Center. The course begins and ends at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and run to Lake Chabot Park. The 5k course is flat and fast. The challenging 10K course runs along the rolling, hilly west trail of Lake Chabot, with paved and trail surfaces. Eden Medical Center participates in a series of community events, where the hospital is on hand to offer free health screenings and information. For more details, call Community Health Education at (510) 889-5078.
Lance Armstrong’s Live Strong Challenge, San Jose
July 12, 2009
The people of San Jose and its surrounding communities will descend on downtown San Jose to take its second LIVESTRONG Challenge, the Lance Armstrong Foundation's signature fundraising event. The 5K Run/Walk and 10, 50, 65, and 100-mile rides will raise money and awareness to inspire and empower the nearly 12 million Americans affected by cancer.
For more information, please visit www.livestrong.org.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
July 23 – August 10, 2009
Founded in 1980, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the first and largest of its kind in the world. This hallmark program is a renowned three-week summer festival screening in four Bay Area venues, featuring the highest quality Jewish films from around the world. As the first of more than 100 Jewish film festivals worldwide—and still the largest, with some 30,000 attendees—SFJFF is an influential showcase bringing together filmmakers and audiences to celebrate Jewish cinema and explore its new frontiers.
For more information, please visit www.sfjff.org.
San Jose Memory Walk
September 12, 2009
Memory Walk is the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research. Since 1989, Memory Walk has raised more than $260 million for the cause. All Memory Walk donations benefit the Alzheimer's Association, the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. The mission of the Alzheimer's Association is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.
For more information, please visit www.alz.org/norcal.
American Heart Association’s 2009 Start! San Mateo County Heart Walk
September 20, 2009
The 2009 Start! Heart Walk is the local chapter’s premier fundraising event where more the 65 companies will participate and raise funds by walking. The 2009 goal is to raise $750,000 for the fight against heart disease and stroke.
For more information, please visit www.americanheart.org.
Southern California
Bike the Bay
August 30, 2009
“Bike the Bay” is an annual fundraising/community event that brings residents of all over San Diego County. The 25-mile ride takes cyclists of all abilities on a scenic and primarily flat ride around the San Diego Bay via the recently improved Bayshore Bikeway. Along the way, riders will travel through surrounding cities and ride across the Coronado Bay Bridge. Proceeds from the ride will benefit the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to making bicycling better in San Diego.
For more information, visit
www.bikethebay.net.
The Geffen Playhouse – Talk Back Tuesdays Sponsored by Peet’s
September 2009 - June 2010
Now in its 12th year, the Geffen Playhouse continues to build a body of work growing into a vital performing arts organization with over 130,000 annual attendees. The 2009-2010 season will showcase, Mathew Modine Saves the Alpacas, Equivocation, The Female of Species (starring Annette Bening), Nightmare Alley, and Thurgood (starring Lawrence Fishburn). As the official sponsor of Talk Back Tuesdays, Peetniks will be on site the first two Tuesdays prior to each performance serving coffee and tea to patrons.
For more information, visit
www.geffenplayhouse.com.
Pacific Northwest
Portland Race for the Cure®
September 20, 2009
This year marks the 18th year of the Komen Portland Race for the Cure®. On Sunday, September 20, thousands will join together at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Last year, nearly 46,000 participants and 1,200 volunteers joined together for the third largest Komen Race event in the country. Participants generated more than $2.6 million dollars for the Oregon & SW Washington Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.
For more information, visit
www.komenoregon.org.
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