Drinks with Malcolm Gladwell

This event benefited RAND Corporation, which is a non-profit research organization. Their mission is to develop solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer, healthier, and more prosperous.

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Dinner with Annie Duke

This Reserve Dinner was in aid of the Decision Education Foundation, which is dedicated to helping young people learn how to make better decisions. “High school dropout numbers, substance abuse, and violence are some of the visible signs of poor decision making. In addition, mainstream students are frequently failing to reach their full academic and personal potential because they lack good decision-making skills.”

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Dinner with General John Abizaid

Donations were made to the work of Fisher House, “Supporting America’s military in their time of need, providing a home away from home that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time — during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.”

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Dinner with Sir Richard Branson

Over $75,000 raised for Sir Richard’s Virgin Unite charity, “Getting involved and doing things differently, it’s always been the Virgin way. So mobilizing our entrepreneurial energy and all we’ve got into making a difference – well, it just makes sense.” (www.virginunite.com)

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Dinner with Rob Carter
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of FedEx.

100% of the money raised went to Rob’s charity of choice.

Rob says that ”Memphis is a huge center for kid’s cancer with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital…I have a special interest in retinoblastoma – a completely curable cancer when properly treated, but taking lives of children all over the world.”

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