Rainforest Partnership’s First Project Anniversary: Celebrating Chipaota
November 5, 2009, Thursday, 6:30 – 9:00 P.M.
*** Click here to buy tickets***
*** Click here to be a sponsor***
The Event:
Hosted by: Elizabeth Avellán & Richard Linklater
(Troublemaker Studios) & (Detour FilmProduction)
Venue & Dinner by : Barr Mansion nation’s only certified organic events facility
Music by: Chaski, Latin American folk music
We will also be featuring a short film about Rainforest Partnership’s Chipaota project produced by award-winning documentarian Michel Scott, who recently released the film The Horse Boy.
TO RSVP AND ORDER TICKETS, GO TO:
https://secure.piryx.com/donate/H2YAO5SN/rainforestpartnership/celebrationevent
Sponsoring Rainforest Partnership and our celebration event:
Your support enables us to have more successful projects like Chipaota.
- $5,000 – Funds 6 months of Chipaota’s 9,000 acre management plan implementation. Designation as an event “Presenting Sponsor”, 8 tickets*, reserved table, recognition + showcasing of your organization at the event
- $2,500 – Funds entire small project (e.g., ecotourism infrastructure in Pampa Hermosa). Logo on website, 4 tickets*, recognition + showcasing of your organization at the event
- $1,000 – Funds one month of costs for our Peru program coordinator. Logo on website + at the event, 4 tickets*
- $500 – Funds one month of costs for our program coordinator in Sani Isla, Ecuador. Logo on the website + at the event, 2 tickets*.
- Silent Auction Items: Listing on website + at the event.
* Individual tickets to the event are available at $100 each.
Part of your sponsorship and ticket is deductible as a donation to a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.
Thank you to our sponsors to date:
$5,000
Rio’s Brazilian
$2,500
Detour Filmproduction
EYA Productions
Event Sponsors
Barr Mansion
Kay & Bobby Gregory
Twin Liquors
$1,000
Chinatown Center
Cypress Valley Canopy Tours
Maurine Thomason
Sheridan & Perry Lorenz
JoAnna & Mike Troppy
$500
Hazel Barbour
Hejl, Lee & Associates, Inc.
Hill Country Outdoors
JB Journeys
Jordan Erdos
MWM Design Group
Nikelle Meade
Susan Moffatt & Nick Barbaro
Teresa & John Harris
Marcy Garriott
Winkley Engineering
About Us: Rainforest Partnership (RP) is an Austin-based nonprofit working on preservation of tropical rainforests. We do this by working with Latin American rainforest communities in supporting sustainable means of earning an income that makes it more valuable for our partner communities to keep their forests standing.
About Chipaota: A year ago, Chipaota’s 23 square-mile community-owned forest in the Peruvian Amazon Basin was in danger from unsustainable uses and cutting of trees. The main source of income for this indigenous community was fiber from the piassaba palm, used for making brooms. Rainforest Partnership worked with the residents to develop a new way to manage the forest, allowing them to harvest more fibers without damaging or cutting the trees and conserving almost 9,000 acres (14 square miles) of their forest. Today, the residents make more money through a business that RP helped create and the forest is protected.
