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03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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"Cycle Without Limits" Specialized Bike Program
01/13/2012 - By Rohnert Park, CA

"Cycle Without Limits" Specialized Bike Program

"For some children - children with balance or coordination problems or disabilities - learning to ride a bike is like climbing Mt. Everest.

They can now participate alongside their siblings and peers in this pastime that is a childhood rite-of-passage," says Sonoma State University Kinesiology Professor Elaine McHugh, Director of the UCP of the North Bay "Cycle Without Limits" Bike Camps.

United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay held their first "Cycle Without Limits" Winter Bike Camp with 11 children over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend at Sonoma State University, piloting their first set of specialized bikes.
The Big Bike Build 2012 campaign is raising funds to purchase and customize a fleet of bicycles to use at the camps.

“Owning the training bicycles will allow us to run the program with greater frequency and reach a higher percentage of children with disabilities who want to learn to ride a bike,” says Margaret Farman, UCPNB Executive Director. Farman added, “riding a two-wheeled bicycle is an enjoyable and healthy activity; for children with disabilities it can also provide necessary physical therapy and a socialization tool that allows them to participate in an activity with their friends and family without the need for special accommodations or equipment.”

UCP of the North Bay needs to raise $100,000 to fund the purchase, customization, maintenance and storage of the fleet of training bicycles. Raising these funds will allow the bike camp program to continue in 2012.

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