A-RU RESTAURANT WINE DINNER TO BENEFIT VINEYARD WORKERS
On Sunday, March 11th, A-RU Japanese Restaurant in Buellton will host a dinner to raise funds to support services that Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People (PHP) furnishes to vineyard and farm workers. This annual dinner which has quickly sold out each of the past three years is a six course gourmet dinner designed by [...]
read morePeople Helping People Fulfills Needs at Holidays
People Helping People has just completed our Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday programs. Through our Food Program, we furnished over 25,000 pounds of food to 225 families in the Santa Ynez Valley and Los Alamos. In addition to our normal biweekly grocery distribution, we presented each family with a turkey for each holiday. Via our Christmas Fulfill-A-Wish [...]
read moreHoliday Services Season – Call For Volunteers
With Halloween celebrated, attention turns to preparations for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. We here at People Helping People (PHP), are already very busy planning and recruiting volunteers to help those in need during these holidays. However, we cannot be successful without help from the community. At Thanksgiving, PHP expands its regular biweekly food [...]
read moreWine Release Celebration to Benefit Vineyard Workers
This fundraiser, begun in November 2008, is a unique event planned and supported by a small group of local premium winemakers to benefit farm and vineyard workers. Vino de Sueños or “Wine of Dreams”, is the brand name for the wine series released each year at this event. Last year, 17 wineries donated wine to [...]
read moreYet Another Fundraiser for PHP?
In reading about the Marriott’s 25th Anniversary Celebration dinner as a benefit for People Helping People some of you must think, “Not yet another fundraiser for People Helping People (PHP).” Well yes, the dinner is another benefit for PHP in a relatively long list over the past year. However it is important to note that [...]
read moreVino De Suenos Proceeds Helps Vineyard, Farm Workers' Families
Lupita, a young girl of 16 and Lompoc resident is one of the many beneficiaries of PHP programs whose funding is generated from events such as this weekend’s Vino de Suenos Release Celebration. Lupita, whose family members are vineyard and farm workers here in the Santa Ynez family are the reason the Vino De Suenos [...]
read moreVino De Suenos Event Nov 12th Aids Vineyard, Farm Workers
This Saturday, November 12, we will hold our 3rd annual Vino De Suenos Wine Release Celebration, a fundraising event for Valley’s vineyard and farm workers. Proceeds from the event provide vineyard and farm workers and their families the assistance they need during difficult economic times. PHP administers the funds to furnish basic needs (food, rent, and [...]
read morePHP Sogno del Fiore Fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes
On Saturday evening August 21st Liz and Jerry Fiore hosted 150 of their Friends and Friends of Friends for a wine tasting and dinner featuring 10 chefs and 14 wineries. The occasion was a benefit for People Helping People and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. PHP hosts such events and as an amateur oenophile, I [...]
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