Archive for December, 2006

help me pick a charity

every year, Yahoo! founders jerry yang and david filo personally fund and distribute holiday gifts to the employees here at the sunnyvale headquarters. we’ve received some pretty snazzy gifts over the years: mp3 player, a fleece, gym bag, a comfy wool blanket that still gets a lot of use at home, and another jacket last year to name a few. this year they’ve flipped the script in giving us $100 to give to a charity of our choice. jerry and david have long been community minded as evidenced in the Yahoo! Employee Foundation. so they teamed up with four organizations to help us find a cause: DonorsChoose.org, globalgiving.com, Network for Good, and YEFI (Yahoo! Employee Foundation India) and Parikrma. as i was looking thru the various charities lists, i thought it would be good to choose one that’s affiliated with Phi Beta Sigma. personally, i’m partial to children’s charities, but if your chapter works with a particular charity you want to make a plug for, send it my way or leave me a comment and i’d be happy to see if it’s on the list. and if it moves me, you can consider it done.

D.C. Area Founders’ Day Weekend

Join us in a weekend of fellowship and entertainment as we celebrate the founding of the greatest fraternity in the world. Take advantage of this $30 weekend package!!!

For more information visit us on-line at http://www.pbstrisigma1914.org or take a look at the flyer.

Stepshow on ESPN2

set your tivos for this saturday, dec 16th at 7pm est (4pm pst) and tune it to espn2. stomping on the yard national step show championship. my tivo and tvguide.com lists the show as “national step competition”. “part I: practice and preparation” airs first immediately followed by “part II: men’s and women’s championship“. according to bro. eric jaffe:

This documentary style show will feature the Sponsored team who was not in the competition, Phi Beta Sigma “UnKNOWn” Stepteam (Army Elite Stepteam), and the winners of the competition…

Phi Beta Sigma – New Jersey (Dem Boys)

and

Zeta Phi Beta – Philly.

Congrats to both teams!

Fall 2006 Crescent Mag

just came in the mail yesterday. should be coming soon to a mailbox near you.

Help a Brother Win

i was forwarded an email earlier this week from brother david anderson. his blog, titled In Search of Utopia, is up for an award for best blog in latin america for the third straight year. he’s asking for our help by voting once a day to push his blog to the top. bro. anderson says “i try to do good things with my blog, including supporting poor children here in costa rica.” let’s do all we can to shine the light on bro. anderson’s great work.

click here to vote and be sure to vote daily until dec 15.