Third Thursdays

How I Helped Save the World

Our Panelists Like…

As we bring 2007 to a close, we wanted to highlight some of our past panelists’ favorite organizations. As a token of our appreciation for our panelists time and great experience, we make a small gift in their name to an organization they like. We hope you’ll take some time to learn more about these great organizations!

Diana Lee:

One Acre Fund. One Acre Fund is a 501c3 non-profit organization started in January 2006, with the goal of completely re-thinking how to solve the chronic hunger problem in Africa. We don’t give food away ? handing out food will never solve hunger for more than one meal. Rather, we are pioneering a tiny investment package that will enable farm families to grow their own way out of hunger, permanently.

Ted Ko

Donors Choose. DonorsChoose.org was pioneered by teachers at a Bronx public high school in the spring of 2000. Charles Best, then a social studies teacher, saw first-hand the scarcity of materials in our public school classrooms and the profound impact of this scarcity on kids’ education. Looking for a way to address this problem, he sensed an untapped potential in people who were frustrated by their lack of influence over the use of their charitable donations. DonorsChoose.org, a website connecting classrooms in need with individuals who want to help, was born.

Nelson Layag

Women’s Cancer Resource Center. To empower women with cancer to be active and informed consumers and survivors; to provide community for women with cancer and their supporters; to educate the general community about cancer; and to be actively involved in the struggle for a life-affirming, cancer-free society.

Frederik L. Schodt

Doctors without Borders. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

Trina Williams

The National Organization for Women Foundation
The National Organization for Women Foundation (”NOW Foundation”) is a 501(c) (3) organization devoted to furthering women’s rights through education and litigation. The NOW Foundation is affiliated with the National Organization for Women, the largest women’s rights organization in the United States, with a membership of over 500,000 contributing women and men in more than 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Alice Ng (she also likes Animals Asia Foundation)

Animal Balance. Animal Balance works with the local authorities to organize community-based sterilization programs for cats and dogs on islands and areas where the local ecology is fragile. By humanely reducing and controlling cat and dog populations the community is healthier and the native species are protected, helping to conserve biodiversity in fragile ecosystems around the world.

Wei-Ming Dariotis

iPrideiPride’s mission is to cultivate positive identity formation in children who are of more than one racial or ethnic heritage and/or who have been transracially adopted. We strive to create a more inclusive and equitable society by educating ourselves, our children, and our communities, about multiethnic families, mixed heritage identity and transracial adoptee experiences.

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posted December 31, 2007

Co-sponsoring UNDOING Movie San Francisco Afterparty — Friday November 30th

UNDOING Movie San Francisco Afterparty
A Chris Chan Lee movie starring Sung Kang, Kelly Hu and Russell Wong
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 10:00pm
O Izakaya Lounge in Hotel Kabuki
1625 Post Street
San Francisco, CA

MANJA, hapihour.org, APA|FIVE, CAAM, Third Thursdays, Kearny Street Workshop, Asian American Theater Company, Locus Arts, Hyphen Magazine, Asian Business League, NAAAP-SF, KACSF/BAKAs, and KAPS invite you to join us for the opening weekend of Chris Chan Lee’s UNDOING, opening in the San Francisco Bay Area exclusively at the Sundance Kabuki in Japantown.

UNDOING stars Sung Kang, Kelly Hu and Russell Wong. See the movie on Friday, November 30, at Kabuki Theater and then join us in the new O Izakaya Lounge in the Hotel Kabuki, formerly the Dot Bar in Miyako Hotel. Q+A sessions with director Chris Chan Lee and others over the premiere weekend are being planned.

One year after the death of his best friend, Sam (Sung Kang) returns to Los Angeles determined to find redemption from the past. His mentor and only friend is a retired gangster with a parallel desire to leave the former world behind. Sam comes back not only to avenge the death of a friend, but also to win back his love (Kelly Hu). But as Sam tries to balance revenge with reconciliation, he is drawn into the shadowy world he had left behind. Can he undo his mistakes before losing what he came back to save?

“(Chris Chan Lee’s) new film is an energetic, visually stunning and absorbing neo noir about a Korean American gangster (the excellent Sung Kang) who returns to L.A. after a mysterious absence determined to rectify the past.” — G. Allen Johnson, SF Chronicle

To RSVP for the afterparty:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/keith@keithpr.com/undoingmovie
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5361724963
http://sanfrancisco.going.com/undoingmovie

For more information, visit:
http://www.undoingmovie.com
http://myspace.com/undoingmovie
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5154952083

UNDOING starting November 30
Kabuki Theater
http://www.sundancecinemas.com/coming_soon.html
Q+A sessions with Chris Chan Lee (Director) and others over the premiere weekend are being planned.

The UNDOING Movie San Francisco Afterparty is co-sponsored by:

MANJA
http://manja.org

HAPI hour
http://hapihour.org

APA|FIVE
http://apafive.org

Center for Asian American Media
http://asianamericanmedia.org

Third Thursdays
http://thirdthursdays.org

Kearny Street Workshop
Http://kearnystreet.org

Locus Arts
http://locusarts.org

Asian American Theater Company
http://asianamericantheater.org

HYPHEN
http://hyphenmagazine.com

Asian Business League
http://ablsf.org

NAAAP San Francisco
http://naaapsf.org

KACSF/BAKAs
http://kacsf.org

KAPS
http://kaps.org

posted November 16, 2007

TT Year-End Mixer

Let’s hear it for another great year at Third Thursdays! For November’s TT, we are planning to have a mixer at a bar/lounge. We are looking forward to reconnecting with long-time supporters and meeting new TT participants!

Thursday, November 15, 6:30PM
Straits Restaurant
(Inside Westfield San Francisco)
845 Market Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103

Come meet the TT organizers and learn more about the organization and how you can help out with next year’s programming! Or, just throw down a few drinks, have a great time and meet new friends!

Read the evite for the party for more info.

posted November 12, 2007

If it looks a little odd

We went through a server migration and are working on resolving the issues. Thank you for your patience.

posted November 11, 2007

September’s program has been postponed.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we have to postpone this month’s Third Thursdays. We will reschedule the topic to a date in the future. Please make sure you’re on our mailing list to receive the latest updates.

posted September 19, 2007