Pastels on the Plaza Fundraiser Enters 30th Year

Arcata, CA - Northcoast Children’s Services’ “Pastels on the Plaza” has been filling Arcata’s city center with colorfully original artwork on the first Saturday of October for the past three decades.  This creative fundraiser has also been helping to support the local nonprofit organization, which serves low-income pregnant women and families with children from birth through kindergarten age. Here’s how Pastels works: Businesses, organizations, schools and other groups “buy” a square of cement on the Arcata Plaza for $125 or $225 and artists — both experienced and new — sign up to participate. Artists are matched with a sponsor and, on the morning of the event, they go to work creating a temporary sidewalk gallery of art for all to see. www.fundraising-ideas.org 

BeWitched & BeDazzled Fundraising Event

Rochester, MI - The Meadow Brook Theatre Guild will present its second annual fundraising event, BeWitched & BeDazzled on Thursday.  The event will be held from at the Palazzo Grande Banquet Facility located in Shelby Township. Karen Carter, chief forecaster, WWJ-TV CBS Detroit will serve as Master of Ceremonies.   When guests arrive, they will be greeted by MBT Guild members dressed in their finest Witches’ costumes. Guests are encouraged to join in the festivities and dress up too, or at least wear their favorite witch’s hat.   www.fundraising-ideas.org 

"Beers for a Porpoise" Fundraising Event

Morehead City, NC – Party with a purpose with “Beers for a Porpoise” from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Crystal Coast Brewing.  The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores and Crystal Coast Brewing Co. are co-hosting a fundraising event to help save the endangered vaquita porpoise 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the brewery in downtown Morehead City. The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is partnering with the brewery for the fundraising event to help save the vaquita porpoise, which is nearing extinction with fewer than 30 left in the world.  www.fundraising-ideas.org 

Fundraising Production of The Sunshine Boys

Willimantic, CT - Windham Theatre Guild presents a very special fundraising production of The Sunshine Boys, for three days only, October6, 7 & 8 at the Burton Leavitt Theatre.  The Sunshine Boys is Neil Simon's bittersweet comedy about two elderly vaudevillians who have a caustic relationship with each other and are coaxed out of retirement to do one more show together.  www.fundraising-ideas.org 

Mom's Night Out Painting Fundraiser for Lakeshore General Hospital

Montreal, QC - School is back in session, activities are in full swing, and the homework has started streaming in. Precisely why parents need to get out every once in a while and have a good time.   Tina Wentzell, owner of the blog West Island Mommies, was speaking with some fellow moms recently when she realized that moms often want or need a night out. She thought “what better thing to do than a Paint Night with an amazing local company such as West Island Arts Centre.  “It’s a fun night out with moms, (a chance to) meet new moms and fundraise for our local hospital (the Lakeshore General Hospital),” Wentzell added. www.fundraising-ideas.org

Annual Bennett Fall Birding Classic Fundraiser

Charlottetown, PEI - The annual Bennett Fall Birding Classic fundraiser will take place Saturday.   Each autumn for the past 22 years, Island Nature Trust and Nature P.E.I. have joined forces in a team event, featuring groups with three- to seven-member teams heading out in the wee hours of the morning to find as many species of birds as possible in one 24-hour period.  This fun marathon count is an opportunity to get involved in bird watching or birding at any level. Strict rules are followed to avoid interfering with bird behavior or causing harm.  Teams will collect pledges based on the number of species they find. All funds raised go to Island Nature Trust’s land acquisition and stewardship work.  www.fundraising-ideas.org