TEA PARTY ANGELS

Take an afternoon to teach your daughter (niece, granddaughter, or friend) about giving back while relaxing at a tea party with crafts and entertainment. What a great way to teach young girls to raise money for those in need of an education around the world. This is a perfect, fun way to educate young girls on their social responsibility while enjoying a special afternoon with that little girl in your life.
The debut of Tea Party Angels Philadelphia, a national fundraising initiative for girls’ education around the world, will be hosted by child star Emerald-Angel Young. Emerald-Angel has appeared in several movies and commercials and most recently appeared as Jamie Fox’s daughter in the movie Law Abiding Citizen.
Girls from around the Philadelphia region are invited to bring their moms, grandmothers and friends to the Omni Hotel at 401 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia on April 18th, 2010, from 3 to 6pm.
Mothers and daughters will participate in a tea party, enjoy crafts, learn more about the organization, and be entertained by 6 year old Ava Dressendofer who performed to rave reviews at the New York City launch party.
Tea Party Angels is one woman's story of how to change the world one tea party at a time. Philadelphia native, Cheryl Beck, had the inspiration for Tea Party Angels after reading the bestselling books Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood. Both men she found doing extraordinary things to help educate girls around the world. Specializing in creative fundraising with such events as the Black Tie Charity Bowl and the Reindeer Romp, Beck came up with the simple idea of using tea parties as fundraisers. Proceeds from the tea parties benefit both men's non-profits, Mortenson's The Central Asia Institute and Wood's Room to Read along with other organizations such as Orphaned Starfish, Miracles in Action and Camfed. Imagine mothers and daughters hosting tea parties across the country to raise money for girls around the world in need of education and at the same time teaching girls here social responsibility.

The Philadelphia tea party is also being hosted by Michelle Durham of KYW Newsradio and Renee Chenault-Fattah of NBC 10.

The cost for the event is $45 per mother and $25 per daughter
& is tax deductible.

Reservations can be made at
267.253.0521 or rsvp@teapartyangels.org.

Tea Party Angels offers a turn-key FUNdraising tea party kit that is available on its Web site. Monies are raised by the girls attending the tea party; each girl invited will be asked by her mother to do some sort of chore that will earn her money to donate at the tea party, giving her a sense of empowerment. During the Tea Party, each girl will have a turn to tell what she did to earn her donation. Tea parties will also include the showing of a brief educational video, and a custom "tea-shirt" making activity. Hosts will decide which nonprofit to support from the list of qualified organizations on the Tea Party Angels Web site, or can simply choose the Tea Party Angels Fund which supports all of the organizations equally.

For more information visit:
www.TeaPartyAngels.org