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Hyatt on the Bund’s 2010 Fundraiser

tomstader — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:02:23 +0000

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Hyatt on the Bund celebrates the success of the Vue Restaurant Charity Month programme by donating libraries to under-financed schools in Anhui Province

Shanghai, China – 25 January 2011 – Hyatt on the Bund, one of the top luxury international hotels in Shanghai, celebrates the success of its charity programme – the Vue Restaurant Charity Month – with more than 150 guests, media and employees today.

From 1 March to 31 December 2010, Vue Restaurant, the hotel’s award-wining signature restaurant, offered two specially designed set menus each month, with 10% of the revenue generated from their purchase donated to The Library Project.

“Vue Restaurant is the most popular dining venue in our hotel and has been recognized as the best European restaurant in Shanghai since opening in 2007. Vue is also very active in social and community programmes,” says Mr. Gottfried Bogensperger, general manager of Hyatt on the Bund, who adds, “With the support of our great media partners, such as Shanghai Daily, Noblesse, City Weekend, TimeOut and Femina, to name just a few, we were able to raise a total of CNY128,977 for our charity fund. This is enough for more than 21,500 books and we are delighted that we will now be able to set up more libraries in remote areas of Anhui Province.”

The Library Project’s main objective is to donate books and set up libraries in schools and orphanages in developing areas in China. “We believe that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty that exists in developing areas of China. It is everyone’s role in the community to be involved in this CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programme,” says Christine Zhu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Shanghai Daily, one of the long-term partners of the Vue Charity Month Programme.

“Libraries put children in the driver’s seat of their education,” says Tom Stader, founder of The Library Project. “Library books are different from textbooks. Kids can be inspired by the teachers during their lessons and then explore their interests further in a library. With a library, children have more access to an improved educational infrastructure and their imagination is stimulated.”

Around 150 guests, including media, Library Project representatives, hotel employees and children from the local community, attended the fun gathering held at the hotel today. The event was designed as a high-tea party, along with a series of activities, including letter-writing, painting, book donations and a charity fund handover ceremony. Many guests also brought with them their favorite books and asked the hotel to take them to the libraries when the team goes on its second field trip in April. “I just want to share my favorite book with them,” says Yan Junwen, an 8-year-old girl at a local school. “I hope I can visit them at their school one day.”

A field trip will be organized in the near future to establish libraries in She County in Anhui Province. A team of representatives from the media, hotel employees and guests will visit the schools and participate in setting up the libraries, as well as in such other activities as painting, games and actually building the libraries, where needed.

MAYA Charity Art Exhibition

tomstader — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:56:46 +0000

MAYA Art Charity Season
Shanghai, China
Dates: Sep 1st – Nov 30th, 2010
Time: Mon-Fri 5:00-late Sat-Sun 11am-late
Location: No 568 Ju Lu Road, Grand Plaza, Club House, 2nd floor
Price: Free entrance. 10% from each paiting’s knocked down price donates to The Library Project

We warmly invite you, your friends, and your family to a Charity Art Exhibition for all guests who love the art and fine dining. Please contact Tom @ 159 2955 6183 tom@library-project.org or Karen 159 0057 2723 karen@cosmogroup.cn

Love Box Self Storage – Donates a free storage space

tomstader — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:50:36 +0000

Love Box Self Storage believes in helping non-profit organizations in creative ways to maximize their good work. Love Box first heard about The Library Project in early 2009 from one of our staff members. After finding out more details about the organization’s great work in building community libraries in rural parts of China, Love Box decided to help by offering one of our self storage units for free. With their main operations based in Xi’an, The Library Project can now use our self storage facility as a friendly, convenient and safe way to store their marketing collateral and materials for fundraising events held regularly in Shanghai. “Love Box Self Storage has helped us to considerably cut down on our overhead expenses by offering us a free space to store our posters, flyers, and other materials that we use at our Shanghai fundraising events. Because of their support we are able to spend more of a donor’s financial contribution on books, and less on shipping costs,” says Tom Stader, The Library Project’s Founder. Love Box Self Storage is also our first book donation drop-off point in Shanghai.

And really, don’t they not have the cutest logo ever created? Seriously…

Hyatt on the Bund: Set Menu Fundraiser

tomstader — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:22:29 +0000

Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghai have been running a wonderful fundraiser that we’d like to share with you. They created a Library Project set menu that 10% of the money generated goes toward library donations in the Anhui Province. To date they have raised over 27,000 CNY and sold more than 380 sets. Take a look at the wonderful advertisements that they put together for this fundraiser. They are all very bright and fun.

Thank you Hyatt on the Bund for all of your support!

Book Collection: The Peninsula Beijing

tomstader — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:30:23 +0000

The Peninsula Beijing just completed a book collection to support The Library Project. They collected 150 hi-quality Chinese language children’s books through a “Children’s Party” for their employee’s children. They collected a wide range of children’s books that included: history, science, short stories, fairy tales, books for very young readers, children’s reference books, and an assortment of comic books.

These books will go into a school located in the Shaanxi Province in the coming months. We will be complimenting their donation of used books with new books. Book collections like these really help us keep our costs down, but also get more books into the hands of eager young readers. We’ll keep you posted as to the progress of their books finding a new home.

The Peninsula Beijing learned about The Library Project through a book collection conducted by ClarkMorgan at one of their recent free “demo” courses.