Project Angel Heart Fundraiser

by Tanning Guy on 04/20/2013 | 0

Since 1991 Project Angel Heart has been delivering meals to men, women and children facing life threatening illnesses.  At The Beach Cares is taking action to help and support again this worthwhile organization.   How are we helping out this year?  It’s simple.  At The Beach Cares is sponsoring a donation drive in our At The beach Superstores to help support the good work and dedication of Project Angel Hear.  At The Beach Cares believes making a positive impact to those in our community and across the nation is an important part of making the future better and brighter!  Last year Project Angel Heart provided more than 445,581 meals to 1,950 clients free of charge.  Project Angel Heart is striving to cover more ground and reach more people.  At The Beach Cares support of Project Angel Heart makes a difference and you can help out too!

How can you make a difference? Visit any At The Beach location in Colorado, California, Oklahoma and Kansas to help out on your part with donations.  Last year our At The Beach Cares fundraiser raised $25,000 that we were able to donate to help make a difference.  This was strictly through the efforts of our wonderful customer donations. This small step is the beginning to a massive impact we make together in the end.  Doesn’t that feel good? At The Beach Cares believes it does!

Project Angel Heart is 21 years strong and expanding their delivery zone to encompass more territory. Life threatening illnesses can drain a person’s energy and finances, limit their independence and leave them feeling alone and vulnerable.  In 2012 there were more than 8,800 people who donated over 57,000 hours of their time preparing food in the kitchen and delivering nutritious meals to clients’ homes and events.  Your donation makes this possible, don’t wait, and contribute to help out now!  At The Beach Cares and with your donation of any amount, together we’ll touch more hearts, to those in need.

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Saving The Beach’s Most Precious Resource 2012!

by Tanning Guy on 10/04/2012 | 0

Breast Cancer Awareness

Did you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month? At The Beach Cares Knows!  We are excited to be doing our At The Beach Cares Saving the Beach’s Most Precious Resource fundraiser again this year.

Right now you can go to any of our 65 At The Beach Tanning Super Store locations in Colorado, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita Kansas, or Orange County CA and get involved.  This year At The Beach Cares and At The Beach are selling fun pink shirts depicting our tanning sweetheart Donatella as a superhero doing her part to Save the Beach’s Most Precious Resource.  The shirts retail for $30 and all the profits are donated to causes that help prevent and fight Breast Cancer.

Last year At The Beach Cares raised around $26K and we are confident we will raise more this year!  Won’t you help us?  If you live in area without an At The Beach, or just can’t make it to the store you can go here and purchase one on line.  Or check out the shirt link on the upper left hand side of the page. No, other left. See where it says Links to Causes? Under there. See it now? Good.

So please join At The Beach Cares in helping promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Thank you for your support!

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25th Annual AIDS Walk Colorado

by Tanning Guy on 08/10/2012 | 0

Busy this weekend? Live in Denver?  Looking for something to do that helps out a great cause?  This Saturday is Denver’s 25th Annual Aids Walk, brought to you by the Colorado Aids Project.  At The Beach is one of the official sponsors and our At The Beach Cares team will be onsite representing At The Beach at this worthwhile event.

AIDS Walk Colorado is the Rocky Mountain Region’s largest and most successful HIV and AIDS fundraiser. More than 8,000 people from throughout the state come together as a community, fueled by donations from more than 13,000 individuals, to raise money for vital services for HIV/AIDS clients of Colorado AIDS Project and more than 20 other outstanding AIDS service organizations.

The event serves as a day to remember those we have lost to the disease with prominent speakers and panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in addition to the Celebration of Life Festival, live music, food, beverages and the 3rd annual AIDS Walk Colorado Volleyball Tournament, held in conjunction with the Colorado Gay Volleyball Association.

You can get more information here.  Hope to see you there!

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At The Beach Tanning Donates $25,000 to Project Angel Heart

by Tanning Guy on 06/25/2012 | 0

Englewood, Colo. (May 09, 2012) – At the Beach Tanning is known for its 64 tanning superstores, but it is also quickly becoming recognized as a strong advocate for nonprofit organizations in its four state region. Most recently, the longtime supporter of charitable causes raised $25,000 for Project Angel Heart through a special tanning coupon. The donation helped fund the Project Angel Heart’s new, larger facility.

A nonprofit serving the Denver area, Project Angel Heart provides free nutritious, home-delivered meals, to people living with life-threatening illness. Project Angel Heart volunteers work six days per week under the direction of professional chefs to prepare, package and deliver the meals, 70 percent of which are modified to meet recipients’ dietary needs. Now in its 21st year, Project Angel Heart delivered over 427,675 meals to 1,863 clients in 2011.

“For so many of its clients, Project Angel Heart provides healthy food and a much-needed lifeline to those with serious illnesses. At the Beach has been not only a proud financial supporter of the program since 2010, many of our employees also volunteer their time to prepare and deliver meals, so we know firsthand the impact their program has on those in need,” said Brian Belt, CEO of At the Beach. “We are grateful to all of our tanners for their support of this project, which enables Project Angel Heart to feed more people throughout the Denver area through expanded work space.”

The fundraiser, coordinated by At the Beach’s Vice President for Corporate Development, Judson Kinkade, included a special coupon offering clients one week of unlimited tanning for $9.95 at any of its locations. For each coupon redeemed, At the Beach donated the same amount to Project Angel Heart. Within a month, the wildly successful fundraiser netted $25,000. Supporting the in-store fundraising efforts was a special blog, At the Beach Cares (www.atthebeachcares.com), which is devoted to the company’s charitable efforts on behalf of a wide-range of causes.

“We are grateful for At the Beach’s support and commitment to our mission,” Project Angel Heart Executive Director Erin Pulling said. “At the Beach’s generous support helped Project Angel Heart build its new home which provides the capacity for Project Angel Heart to eventually quadruple the number of people who receive our nutritious, and often life-saving home-delivered meals.”

 

About Project Angel Heart

Founded in 1991, by dedicated members of the Denver community, Project Angel Heart began with just 12 clients served from a single, donated pan of lasagna. In the time since, Project Angel Heart has grown to providing meals to over 1,900 clients a year in the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas. Throughout this time, their core service has remained the same: ‘meals with love’ for men, women, and children living with life-threatening illness.

About At the Beach

Founded in 1987, At the Beach is a regional tanning salon chain with 64 stores located throughout California, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. At the Beach is involved in multiple charities and causes, such as the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Project Angel Heart and the Colorado AIDS Project. Additionally, they foster support through their blog, atthebeachcares.com, and provide information at their locations. For more information about At the Beach, please check out http://atbtanning.com.

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At The Beach Cares about The Center!

by Tanning Guy on 06/12/2012 | 0

There is a lot going on in Denver to celebrate Pride, and At The Beach Cares is happy to be a part of that.  Check out the latest pride update from The Center -

Colorado’s Out Gay and Lesbian Legislators Named Grand Marshals of the 2012 CoorsLight PrideFest Parade

The Center is honored to announce our 2012 Denver PrideFest Grand Marshals: the four out gay and lesbian members of the Colorado state legislature: Senator Pat Steadman, Senator Lucia Guzman, Representative Mark Ferrandino, and Representative Sue Schafer. This year’s PrideFest theme is “Fight for your Right to Pride,” in recognition of both Pride month’s roots as a time to honor the Stonewall Rebellion and other moments when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people stood up to oppression, and also in recognition of the work our representatives in the legislature have done in support of Colorado’s LGBT community.

The CoorsLight PrideFest Parade is the seventh largest Pride parade in the nation. This year, the parade is on Sunday, June 17, stepping off from Cheesman park at 9:30am and proceeding down Colfax into Civic Center Park, where the Grand Marshals will address the crowd in a rally. Last year, over 100,000 people attended the CoorsLight PrideFest Parade.

Says Representative Mark Ferrandino on being nominated as Grand Marshal: “I’m honored to serve with my fellow LGBT colleagues as Grand marshal of this year’s Pride Parade. Each of us works every day to move Colorado forward by fighting for our constituents. I am humbled to be able to serve my constituents of Denver who encourage me to fight for equality. The strong and growing numbers of LGBT elected officials has helped to change the hearts and minds of people across our great State. I appreciate the acknowledgment by the Center of the work being done in the legislature to ensure equal rights for our community.”

Senator Lucia Guzman says, “It is an honor to serve in the Legislature and I shall always be appreciative of the support of so many Coloradoans. As an “out” elected official, I find it even more important to the people of Colorado to be honest and “be who I am.” Denver PrideFest is one of the nation’s largest celebrations of LGBT Pride and it is important that the people attending PrideFest understand that their legislators are “leading the march” for respect, justice and equality.”

Denver Pridefest 2012 will be held on Saturday, June 16 and Sunday June 17, in downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park. Founded in 1975, Denver Pridefest is now the third largest pride festival in the country, with attendance for 2012 expected to exceed 325,000. Headliners for this year’s festival are dance superstar Kristine W on Sunday and Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli on Saturday. Entertainment for PrideFest includes the OutWest Country Stage, the Latin Stage, Smirnoff Dance World, and a Family Interactive area with a petting zoo.

Produced by The GLBT Community Center of Colorado (The Center), the mission of Denver PrideFest is to create a fun, safe and empowering space to celebrate and promote the heritage and culture of the LGBT community in Colorado.

At The Beach Cares is proud of the good work The Center is doing!

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At The Beach Cares about the Center

by Tanning Guy on 05/29/2012 | 0

Denver, CO’s annual Pride Fest is just around the corner.  Did you know that this annual event is sponsored by the GLBT Community Center of Colorado? At The Beach Cares knows!  For the past several years At The Beach Cares, as the community involvement arm of At The Beach Tanning Superstores has been a huge supporter of the Center.

According to the Centers website, the GLBT Community Center of Colorado is the third-oldest LGBT community center in the country.   Their purpose is to engage, empower enrich and advance the LGBT community through statewide advocacy and nationally recognized cultural and educational programming.  At The Beach Cares has long been a supporter of the LGBT community and is proud to support the Center.

Denver Pride Fest draws more than 300,000 people and At The Beach Cares will be part of that; Rainbow Alley, the youth drop-in center sees more than 750 visits per month. SAGE and Family Programs connect the community with each other and with the Center events; the Legal & Advocacy program represents clients in impact litigation and assists over 350 people a year through the legal hotline, At The Beach Cares supports the Annual JJJ event that is a big fundraiser for the Legal & Advocacy program. The Center partners with over fifty statewide organizations and annually serves nearly 25,000 individuals who visit their safe and welcoming space.

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Relay for Life

by Tanning Guy on 05/15/2012 | 0

Did you know that on June 8th 2012 Rose State in Oklahoma is sponsoring a Relay for Life event? At The Beach Cares knows!  Not sure what Relay for Life is?  According to the national website Relay for Life is an overnight relay-style event where teams of people camp out around a track and members of each team take turns walking around the track for the duration of the event.  There will be food, games and activities providing entertainment and fundraising opportunities, and a family-friendly environment for the entire community.  Proceeds from the fundraising events benefit the American Cancer Society.

This year At The Beach Cares has donated two one year memberships to be auctioned off as a fundraiser for this worthy event.  At The Beach supports the work of the American Cancer Society and congratulates the hard working volunteers at Rose State for all the work they have put in to promote this worthy event.  One thing the At The Beach Cares teams has learned about cancer is that it is a disease that does not discriminate, many members of the At The Beach family have lost loved ones, and this is the reason we support this cause.

If you are in the Midwest City, Norman or Oklahoma City Area and want more information about this event, feel free to check out the national website here. At The Beach Cares encourages everyone to take part.

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At The Beach Cares about Project Angel Heart!

by Tanning Guy on 04/20/2012 | 0

This afternoon the At The Beach Cares team is excited to be presenting one big giant check for 25K to Project Angel Heart!  This is the result of our March fundraiser.  Our At The Beach Tanning members from Tulsa Oklahoma, Wichita Kansas, Orange County CA, Oklahoma City OK and Denver Colorado all participated and helped to raise this money.

Project Angel Heart’s mission is providing notorious, good tasting meals to people facing life threatening illnesses.  At The Beach Cares supports Project Angel Heart through our fundraising efforts but also through our employees and employee families who volunteer for Project Angel Heart.

Check back next week for pictures of the At The Beach Cares team and Project Angel Heart and our big giant check presentation.

Don’t forget April 26th is Project Angel Heart’s Dining Out for Life Event.  Pick a participating restaurant, go to dinner, and 25% of your bill goes to Project Angel Heart.  What a great idea!

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At The Beach Cares about Causes

by Tanning Guy on 04/13/2012 | 0

Did you know that in the last 12 months At The Beach has donated more than $80,000 in financial gifts, goods and/or services?  At The Beach Cares knows!

At The Beach Tanning Superstores have been strong supporters of many causes for years, but in the last year we launched At The Beach Cares to coordinate and facilitate our charitable giving.  One of the questions we get asked a lot is how we decide which fundraisers to participate in?  Sometimes we get involved because the cause is something that At The Beach Tanning superstores CEO and President Brian Belt is involved in; like Project Angel Heart, Colorado Aids Project, or The Center.  Other times the fundraiser is something that has touched members of our At The Beach cares team; the donation to Jennifer Owen’s English classes at PC North.  We have also gotten involved in causes that speak directly to the At The Beach Tanning Salon customers; like the breast cancer fundraiser or the donations for the battered women’s shelter in Kansas.  The other way we get involved is through our customers.

All year long customers reach out to our corporate offices asking us to get involved in their organizations, or fundraisers.  At The Beach Cares LOVES to help out on these things.  Right now we are looking at a Relay for Life Auction request, a fundraiser for Teenage Mothers of Preschoolers, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, and Fashion for a Cause.  It is exciting that we may be able to contribute to these wonderful organizations.

What do you care about?

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Counting down. . .

by Tanning Guy on 03/27/2012 | 0

 

We are down to the final days of the At The Beach Cares/ Project Angel Heart fundraiser.  The numbers are not all in yet, but At The Beach Cares and At The Beach Tanning Superstores are excited about how successful this fundraiser has been.

Some of our stores have even reported that people are coming in and buying the special even though they are not tanners.  How heartwarming is that? At The Beach Cares appreciates the level of involvement our employees and customers have put in on this fundraiser for an excellent cause.

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