World Wines and Global Poverty
On January 9th, we hosted our first major fundraising event, a wine tasting at the FedEx Global Education Center. The event was a great success! It brought over 100 established and new Nourish supporters together and Nourish Chapter leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill, NCSU, and Duke attended. We were able to raise over $4000, that we plan to put towards adding 10 Chapters to our network and running 8 projects this summer.
Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Fuqua School of Business, joined us as our guest speaker. He spoke about his bestselling book, Predictably Irrational.
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Dan Ariely speaks as Nourish staff, students and supporters listen.
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Our founder, Sindhura and our Executive Director, James overview the history of Nourish and our goals moving forward
3Cups provided a selection of European wines, and Foster's Market provided a hunger lunch meal of rice, beans and cornbread. By juxtaposing the fine wines with the simple hunger lunch, we hoped to demonstrate the gap between the developed and developing world that Nourish seeks to bridge through its students.
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Guests at World Wines and Global Poverty
Additionally, we would like to thank the hosts, sponsors and volunteers that made this event possible. We couldn't have done it without you!
Host Committee:
Ryan Allis, iContact
Neil Bagchi, Icanus Advisors
Merrette Moore, Idea Fund Partners
Sponsors:
3Cups
Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill
FedEx Global Education Center
Foster's Market Chapel Hill
Lone Rider Brewing Company
Special Thanks:
Dan Ariely
Laura Griest
Niklaus Steiner
Braden Rawls
Liz Dyar
Michelle Rugel
Carlyn Cowen
