twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

We must say, our sponsors, our supporters and our community are the best!

On March 24th, over 150 people joined us at The Wedge in Deep Deuce to tweet, meet and give.  As guests enjoyed their Wedge Pizza and their COOP Ale Works beer, something great was happening- Over $3,000 was raised for Sunbeam Family Services! Incredible, right? Right.

What made this evening even more special were the sponsons! A HUGE thanks to:

Event Sponsors

Fowler Volkswagen of Norman

Oklahoma Employees Credit Union

The Wedge Pizzaria

COOP Ale Works

SHOP GOOD

Media Sponsors

The Spy FM

NewsOK

Scissortail Creative

Prize Sponsors

Samuel Gordon Jewelers

The Plaza District (and their many shops)

A Good Egg Dining Group

Red Dirt Emporium

Kokopelli

OECU

Trichology

Norman Music Festival (Donated by Fowler VW)

COOP Ale Works

Oklahoma Heritage Museum

Beatnik Cafe

Sonic

Having all of those prizes to raffle off really raised the stakes (and the amount raised for Sunbeam)!  Of course, the biggest, baddest prize of them all was the T-Touch donated by Samuel Gordon Jewelers

If you want to see some lovely pics of the amazing event, head over to Scissortail Creative's Facebook here!

And a great big shout out to everyone who came out to make this event so successful! We love you. We really do.

 Thank you for everything, Oklahoma CIty!

Sincerely, Team TwestivalOKC 2011

For more than 100 years, Sunbeam Family Services has served central Oklahoma’s most vulnerable citizens. Our mission is to provide affordable, quality social services which result in improved individual and family functioning.

The 2011 Twestival OKC will be supporting Sunbeam's School-Based Counseling Program.

Sunbeam has a long-time partnership with Oklahoma City Public Schools and is taking a new approach to how we serve students. One of the main reasons that a student is not successful in school is that they have experienced, or are currently experiencing, adverse experiences in their life, such as trauma, abuse, neglect, unstable home life, etc. These experiences have an incredibly negative impact on that student’s social/emotional development, which is critical to one’s success. Students who have not developed their social/emotional abilities have a very difficult time with focusing, are not able to learn in group settings, have a difficult time with relationships and more.

Currently, the Oklahoma City Public School Districts employs counselors, with each counselor serving approximately 1500 students in their caseload. The counselor’s time is consumed with administering tests, which does not allow them to spend time with the students to help them grow socially and emotionally. To help meet this service gap, Sunbeam places licensed and licensed-eligible counselors in Oklahoma City Public Schools elementary and middle schools to meet with students in small groups and one-on-one. Through these therapeutic sessions, Sunbeam counselors help students overcome deficits and shorten the social/emotional lag.

Students in Sunbeam’s School-Based Counseling Programs experience…

• 33% of students improve in achievement at their grade level
• 26% of students improve their ability to follow direction
• 18% of students show a decrease in bullying behaviors
• 22% of students improve their ability to get along with peers
• 18% of students improve their ability to self-control

With your help, we would be able to serve children in Oklahoma City Public Schools, helping them address the issues that hold them back from academic achievement. Through this effort, we will work with students in their social/emotional development, increasing school success and decreasing drop-out rates. We would love Twestival OKC’s support!

Sunbeam is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care for the poor and working poor in our community. Since 1907, Sunbeam has evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of the community. Today, all services are provided on a sliding-scale fee basis or free of charge, and include Counseling, Early Childhood Education, Foster Care and Senior Services.

Sunbeam is a nonprofit organization that is mission-driven; nationally accredited; provides services that are evidence-based and outcome-measured; debt-free; and with only an 11% administrative overhead. Sunbeam is truly an organization that provides to people of all ages, at all stages of life.

Check out our very own Philip Zorn and Sunbeam Family Service's Kelli Dupuy as they speak to Angi Brus about TwestivalOKC.

Thanks to our friends at NewsOK for putting this together!

How good looking is that tshirt?

Justin Falk at SHOP GOOD designed this bad boy, and you (that's right - YOU!) have the chance to pick one up beginning next week.  Drop by SHOP GOOD at 3 NW 9th Street starting on Monday.  What's even better - they are donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the tshirts to Sunbeam Family Services! Also, you can pick up your Twestival ticket while you're at SHOP GOOD. 

Now that sounds just too GOOD to be true!

On March 24th, Oklahoma Citians will descend upon The Wedge in Deep Deuce to come together for one central purpose - to tweet, meet, and give to Sunbeam Family Services.

The Details:

At 6:00PM  The Wedge Pizzeria in Deep Deuce will become the Twestival OKC hotspot.  The Spy will start jamming their tunes, The Wedge pizza will be hot out of the fire, and your choice of COOP Ale Works or soft drinks will be flowing.  All of that goodness will be provided to you if you pay the $15 to enter! Can you believe it!? If you want to buy your tickets in advance, you can do that here. Or you can purchase them at the door.

You're not going to want to miss the raffle portion of Twestival OKC!

Beginning at 6PM, you will be able to put your millions of raffle tickets toward any and all prizes we will be giving away that evening.  You see, Oklahoma City has some AMAZING sponsors who have so graciously offered their support by donating items for the cause. Keep your eye on this list, because it will continue to grow.

You can buy increments of 10 raffle tickets for $10 HERE. But don't fret - you can also purchase them at the door in $5 increments!

At 7:00PM, the raffle drawings will commence! We will intermittently draw for the prizes throughout the night with the final drawing taking place at 9:00PM.

Wanna know what we're giving away? Sure you do!

- $100 debit card from OECU

- A gift basket of awesome Red Dirt Emporium goodies

- A Good Egg Dining gift card

- A Trichology gift card

- KOKOPELLI gift card

- Two VIP Passes to the Norman Music Festival courtesty of FowlerVW

Drum roll, please....

- Tissot Sailing-Touch from the T-Touch collection from Samuel Gordon Jewelers.  This watch is unique because of its touch screen technology.  It has many great features such as a compass, alarm, and a stopwatch.  It even has the ability to tell you what speed you are traveling on water and when the tide is coming in or going out. Retail $1025.

You know the best part about our raffle? 100% of the proceeds go to Sunbeam Family Services!

There you have it, folks. We will be on the hunt for some more items to raffle, so please keep following @twestivalokc for the newest of news! If, perhaps, you are a local retailer who wants to offer something for this amazing event, please don't hesitate to contact us at twestivalokc@gmail.com.

*This event is an all-ages affair, so bring the kiddos. After all, kiddos LOVE pizza.