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If you follow employees of the Phoenix Suns on Twitter, you know they have been cooking up a very unique event for a Suns regular season game. During the Phoenix Suns/Houston Rockets game on April 11th, will be ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’ night.

If you purchase tickets via the link below, you not only can get discounted tickets (Lexus Club tickets start at just $96) but a portion of the proceeds will benefit Phoenix Suns Charities that help children in need across Arizona.

According to the Suns promo page here’s what you can expect at ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’ night:
* Exclusive Phoenix Suns / Star Wars t-shirt with every ticket purchased through this page.
* Photo opportunities with classic Star Wars characters throughout US Airways Center.
* Costume contest. Dress as your favorite character for a chance to win official Star Wars merchandise!
* In-game Star Wars entertainment. Can you say Suns Dancers in hair buns?
* Sneak peek at the upcoming The Clone Wars season finale.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nba.com/suns/tickets/starwars_night_2010.html

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iHop would like you to come on in on February 23rd from 7 AM to 10 PM and they will give you a free short stack (three) of their buttermilk pancakes.  All that they ask in return is for you to make a donation to the Children’s Miracle Network to support local chidren’s hospitals and/or other local charities.

http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/

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With the greater Phoenix area schools out for the summer there’s tons of kids out there with nothing to do and even more who really can’t afford something to do this summer.  Why not help deserving kids around the Valley get some positive influences and role models in their lives by giving them the gift of Tickets to the Phoenix Mercury this season.

For as little as $10 per ticket here’s how you can help:

PhoenixMercury.com is asking fans to participate in a special initiative, “Mercury Madness,” which will allow children from the United Way agencies, Special Olympics and a host of other community groups to experience a Mercury game.

Last season, Phoenix Mercury and Phoenix Suns employees rallied support from the local community to provide more than 10,000 children a chance to enjoy a WNBA game and be exposed to some positive role models. This season, the local hoops organizations are looking to provide even more children the same opportunity and you can help!

Click here to make a donation by purchasing $12 tickets (regularly $43), which will go to deserving childred from the Phoenix area; or e-mail Dan Hilton at dhilton@suns.com to purchase the tickets for $10 to avoid the online transaction fee.

Visitors should enter password: DHILTON

Everyone who purchases tickets through the promotion will receive a donation letter, so that you can receive the tax benefit of your donation.

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Our good friends at Ear Candy have teamed up with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood to provide you with three great ways to help out Ear Candy Productions, an amazing charity in the Greater Phoenix Area, and provide you with the potential to walk away with some EXCELLENT Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood memories.

First off, Ear Candy is auctioning off the ONLY premier seats to the Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood show.  You can bid on these tickets now but keep in mind, the deadline for the auction is Friday, June 26th at 2:00 PM Arizona Time.  The winner will be notified by Ear Candy on how and where to pick up the tickets.

To bid on the tickets just follow this link!

http://www.earcandycharity.org/Charity-Auction.aspx?Id=9

Secondly, on the night of the concert you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle to win Eric Claption/Steve Winwood merchandise inside and outside of the Jobing.com Arena.  Prizes include Exclusive Clapton/Winwood Madison Square Garden Concert DVD’s, Tour T-shirts, Tour Programs, and other cool Clapton/Winwood schwag.  Just look for the Ear Candy booths inside and outside the Jobing.com Arena.

Finally, Ear Candy Volunteers will collecting donated instruments at the Ear Candy booth outside the concert.  For every instrument donated donors will receive an Ear Candy T-shirt, Two Raffle tickets for the contest mentioned in the previous paragraph.  All instrument donations are tax deductible and Tax forms will be available at the Ear Candy Booths.

Don’t miss this opportunity to help out a tremendous charity.  If you need a refresher on what Nate and the great people at Ear Candy are doing for your community, please read this:

http://www.earcandycharity.org/About.aspx

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One of the best fundraising events of the season is coming in May to the City Center of City North.  The Valley of the Sun Active 20-30 club is hosting this amazing fundraiser for their philanthropic arm, the Valley Kids Foundation.  All of the proceeds raised for this event will go to the Valley Kids Foundation.

The night will feature Casino grade games like craps, and blackjack will be available all during the event.  There will also be entertainment, an open bar, a silent raffle and much much more!

In addition, attendees will be able to sample some amazing cuisine from many of the top restaurants around the valley.

So come on out to one of the best social events of the season that is all for an amazing cause!

For more information on Viva Las Vegas night and to purchase tickets, please refer to the following website:

http://www.vivalasvegasaz.com

For more information on the Valley of the Sun Active 20-30 club, please refer to their website:

http://www.vos2030az.org

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Starting December 1, 2008 through the end of January 2009, the wonderful folks at Ear Candy Productions are launching an Instrument Drive.  Ear Candy Productions are asking all residents of Phoenix to donate any new or ‘gently used’ instrument to any one of 30 drop off stations around the greater Phoenix area (a drop off station map can be found here).

The people that benefit from the Instrument Drive is the core foundation that Ear Candy Productions is built on:  making sure children have an opportunity to have their lives enriched through music.  All instruments “will be used to help revive and create music programs in schools, camps and youth organizations near the area they are being collected.”

If you don’t have an instrument to donate, you can still help out Ear Candy Productions by making a donation in numerous ways.

If you have an instrument to donate, please do not pass up the opportunity to give the gift of music this holiday season!

More information and details about where to drop off your instrument can be found here:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/Instrument-Drive.aspx

To learn more about the wonderful organization that Ear Candy Productions is you have to check out their ‘About’ Page:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/About.aspx

If you would like to support the wonderful work that Ear Candy Productions does for the community, they offer numerous ways you can support this amazing organization:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/Support.aspx

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If you’re a Hockey fan, I mean a REAL hockey fan you know that the best way to become a fan is to go to a game in person. Every single aspect of the game on and off the ice is part of the game experience. 50/50 raffles, the food, the sounds and feelings that occur when your favorite team scores a goal or wins the game. All of these experiences from going to a Hockey game, no matter what level of a hockey game you go to, carries on with you for the rest of your life.

However, not everyone gets to experience the joy of going to an NHL game let alone a hockey game.  Especially the disadvantaged children of the Greater Phoenix area.  Would you not like to offer the chance for a child who may not be able to get to experience a hockey game the chance to go?

The Phoenix Coyotes ‘Tickets for Kids’ campaign gives everyone the chance to donate tickets and suites to numerous Valley non-profit organizations. Why not give the gift of Hockey to kids who just might become life long fans? Who knows, perhaps that child will become the next Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky? It all starts with you and your gift of a ticket to a Coyotes game!

“Last season, we were able to donate about 20,000 tickets through the Tickets for Kids program,” said Flavil Hampsten, vice president of ticket sales for the Coyotes.

Tickets are distributed to non-profit organizations that apply each year to the Coyotes front office.  Among the organizations that have benefited from Coyotes Fans Generosity are:

- The Arizona Lost Boys Center
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona
- Chicanos Por La Causa
- The Single Parents Association
- The Sojourner Center

“The Coyotes truly have some of the most loyal and generous fans in the league. This concept of fans giving back to fans is really inspiring to us,” added Hampsten.

For more information on the ‘Tickets for Kids’ program call the Phoenix Coyotes at 480-563-PUCK (7825)

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The Phoenix Coyotes along with Coyotes Charities are holding the inaugural Pucks and Passports fundraising event on Monday October 6th starting at 6:00 PM.  The Jobing.com arena in Glendale will be the location of this unique event where you will be able to go on a culinary journey through the homelands of the Coyotes sampling various foods and drinks from many countries.  Coyotes players will be among the guides taking you on this amazing journey of culinary delights.

In addition to the Coyotes players, Managing Partner and Head Coach Wayne Gretzky along with General Manager Don Maloney are scheduled to be in attendance.

Tickets to this amazing event are $250 per person and Table sponsorship starts at $1,500.

To purchase tickets contact Maggie Goble at 623-772-3556

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This is the first time I’ve posted an event about a local music show at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Phoenix and this looks to be a great one!  This Sunday September 21st at 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM) will be the Humanity Rocks charity concert.  This event will be a part of the International Day of Peace with the Hard Rock Cafe in Phoenix featuring a live global online Charity Concert featuring Steve McCarthy of the Steve Miller Band.

Proceeds for this event will help support the Starshine Academy whose focus is to create transformation community schools by igniting and enabling the aspirations of children in at-risk communities.

More information can be found here:

http://www.vbn.tv/humanityrocks/

http://www.hardrock.com/live2/eventDetails.aspx?LocationID=34&eventID=32801&MIBEnumID=3

Hard Rock Cafe Phoenix
3 South 2nd Street
Suite 117
Phoenix, AZ 85004

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110117270783108833567.0004575018912c7506b8e&ll=33.446437,-112.06986&spn=0.003966,0.007124&z=17

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