Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:48:39 -0700 From: Eros Publishing Subject: Press Release We have some very exciting news to share with everyone this month: 1) The owners of Habitat Espresso have purchased the Four Angels Cafe on Capitol Hill. Like Habitat, Four Angels will donate 50% of its net profits to community charities and 50% to an advised fund at the Seattle Foundation. 2) We've created a foundation called giving.org whose mission will be to oversee all of our present and future not for profit businesses. Please visit our new website http://giving.org and tell your friends about it. We also now have an automated mailing list service that will make it easy to subscribe to this newsletter (or unsubscribe). See instructions at the bottom of this message. 3) Four Angels has a long-awaited private meeting space that can hold up to 15 people. This meeting space will be FREE for small private groups, non-profit organizations, community meetings, special events, etc. E-mail us at info@giving.org or visit http://giving.org/meeting.htm to request reservations. Take advantage of our meeting space and spread the word! 4) Both Habitat Espresso and Four Angels have new, longer summer hours (see the press release below) and a full schedule of events including Living Room Spoken Word on Monday's at Habitat, Revival Night Saturdays on Saturday's at Four Angels, RecRoom Jeopardy, Walter's Electronic Wonderland aka Inner Rhythms and other Unplugged Musical Acts. Visit http://giving.org/calendar.htm for details. Four Angels is a cozy and comfortable cafe offering organic coffees and teas, vegetarian soups and sandwiches and homemade baked goods and desserts. Four Angels is conveniently located between the Central District and Capitol Hill near Seattle University at the corner of 14th Avenue and Union Street. Nearby landmarks include The Elysian Pub and Brewery, The Breakroom, Piecoras and the Crypt. Four Angels' first charitable partner will be the Pride Foundation. The Pride Foundation (http://www.pridefoundation.org) is a community foundation working to strengthen the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual community today, and build an endowment fund for tomorrow. Contributions from Four Angels will be used to support Pride's grants and scholarships programs. Please forward this message to your friends to get the word out about the giving.org foundation, Four Angels Cafe and Habitat Espresso. Thanks again for your continued support! giving.org 1400 14th Avenue Seattle, Wa. 98122 Phone 206-329-4066 E-mail info@giving.org Four Angels Café Becomes Not For Profit Owners of Habitat Espresso purchase Four Angels; Community space opens; giving.org non-profit business network is founded Seattle, August 6th, 1998: The newly formed foundation, giving.org, in conjunction with Habitat Espresso today announced their purchase of Four Angels Café, a neighborhood bistro and coffeehouse near Seattle University on Capitol Hill. Like Habitat Espresso, Four Angels will donate 50% of its net profits to community charities, initially working with the Pride Foundation. Four Angels will add the remaining 50% of its net profits to the Seattle Foundation’s giving.org advised fund. Grant requests to the advised fund at The Seattle Foundation will focus on starting other non-profit businesses. Community Space Opens Four Angels’ fifteen person meeting room is now freely available to any community group or non-profit organization that needs a private space for meetings or regular working sessions. The Café itself will also be available for performances, special events and benefits. Groups can call 206-329-4066 or send e-mail to info@giving.org to reserve times. giving.org Non-Profit Business Network Is Founded Habitat Espresso and Four Angels Café are members of giving.org, a foundation whose mission is to build businesses to raise capital for community charities in a manner that scales with the needs of today’s social problems. The giving.org foundation will initially operate in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. “The opening of Four Angels as part of giving.org is a very exciting step in our vision of having a number of non-profit businesses on Capitol Hill generating revenue for community charities”, said Jeff Reifman, co-founder of giving.org. “Customers who frequent giving.org businesses, such as Habitat Espresso and the Four Angels Café, enjoy knowing their purchasing decisions are directly impacting their community in a positive way”, said Matthew Gurney, also a co-founder. Habitat Espresso has already donated more than $9,300 to Chicken Soup Brigade, Childhaven’s Crisis Nursery and the Seattle Foundation. Microsoft Corporation matched these gifts to bring the total to over $18,600, as part of their employee matching gifts program (Reifman is an employee of Microsoft Corporation). Other Information More information about giving.org and its member businesses is available on the Internet at http://giving.org. The Pride Foundation is a community foundation working to strengthen the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual community today, and build an endowment fund for tomorrow. Contributions from Four Angels will be used to support Pride's grants and scholarships programs. Four Angels Café is located in Seattle at 1400 14th Avenue at the corner of 14th Avenue and Union Street near Seattle University. Its hours are Monday - Friday 6:30 AM - 11 PM and Saturday - Sunday 8:00 AM - 11 PM. Habitat Espresso is located at 202 Broadway Avenue East in Seattle’s Broadway neighborhood on Capitol Hill. It opens at 6:30 AM Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM Saturday and Sunday. It closes at midnight Sunday through Thursday and at 1:00 AM on Friday and Saturday. Speakeasy RAIN (Internet and E-mail) terminals are available at Habitat Espresso and are coming soon to Four Angels. Contact Information Jeff Reifman, giving.org, (206) 329-4066 or jeff@giving.org Matt Gurney, giving.org, (206) 329-4066 or matt@giving.org Audrey Haberman, The Pride Foundation, (206) 323-3318 William Sperling, The Seattle Foundation, (206) 622-2294 Carol Vogt, Chicken Soup Brigade, (206) 320-0266 Sarah Townsend, Childhaven, (206) 328-KIDS John Pinette, Microsoft Corporation, (425) 936-0755 For more information, visit our web site at http://giving.org or e-mail info@giving.org. To subscribe to this mailinglist, simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to the giving-list-request@giving.org. As in: To: giving-list-request@giving.org Subject: subscribe To unsubscribe, simply send a message with the word (you guessed it :-) "unsubscribe" in the Subject: field to giving-list-request@giving.org. As in: To: giving-list-request@giving.org Subject: unsubscribe http://www.wolfenet.com/~aubrey/aubrey.htm