Hundred Nights Annual Benefit Dance

February 17, 2011 by Dale Everett · Leave a Comment
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Join the Keene community for the First Annual Benefit Dance to benefit the local Hundred Nights Cold Weather Shelter!

Friday, February 26th, 8 pm, at the Elks Lodge. BE THERE!

Good music, refreshments, friends, a 50/50 raffle, and a cash bar!
What more could you want?

Tickets just $10. All proceeds benefit the local shelter.

Questions? Contact Deb at 352-5197

Help Get Meg Home to NH!

November 12, 2010 by Ian · 68 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, Issues, National, News, Personal Freedom

Meg In case you missed it, Meg posted earlier today here on the blog, but likely because she is modest, didn’t make a big deal out of the fact that there is a fundraiser going on to help her get home to the Shire from Florida. See, US Airways screwed her over and reneged on their offer to get her home, and she doesn’t have enough cash to get back. Can you help? We’re already halfway to the goal, and any money that is raised over and above the cost of travel will be donated to WeWontFly.com!

UPDATE: Apparently Meg had the money fronted by WeWontFly‘s George Donnelly – thanks George. Every dollar raised will go to pay him back and beyond that will benefit WeWontFly.com

Saturday 10/2 – Hundred Nights Shelter Yard Sale

September 27, 2010 by Ian · 6 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, ToDo

Heika reports that the Hundred Nights Shelter is having a yard sale Saturday, October 2nd from 8-2 on Emerald Street in the old City Tire lot across from the Center at Keene. They do not receive any government funding and rely solely on donations. The donations have been getting scarce as of late. So the yard sale is a fundraiser to help with these costs. I encourage everyone to please take a few minutes and look through your things for anything that may be donated to sell in the yard sale. The only things not accepted at this time are clothing and large pieces of furniture. Books, dvds, videos, video games, kitchenware, board games, toys, etc would be great! Please send Heika an email at h_courser at yahoo.com or post to the forum thread if you have anything you are willing to part with to help this shelter. I will do my best to accommodate your schedule to pick things up from you throughout the week. Also, on Saturday, I will have a separate table to accept sleeping bags, tents, tarps, winter jackets, and any cash donations. So stop on by, donate items, buy something, or give the change in your pocket! Everything is greatly appreciated!

VIDEO: Helping People Without Coercion

August 24, 2010 by Ian · 18 Comments
Filed under: Charity, Video

Liberty on Tour investigates the St. Louis Bread Company’s awesome experiment in charity. Guess what? Turns out people really do care about each other and that we don’t need a violent monopoly to facilitate helping the poor:

Free Keene Donates Ideas… How About Some Blood?

July 31, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 11 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, Outreach

We who blog here at Free Keene do so not for money… we do so to offer our ideas and opinions about how a society can exist without the need for initiating violence against the peaceful. Many of you who read here may vastly disagree with what we advocate, but I don’t think you could claim that we are not advocating what we truly believe is the “right” thing to do.

We believe in helping people… mostly, by helping people to understand how a society can exist without the initiation of force. Helping people is not always limited to ideas, writing, activism, and politics though.

Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund Looking For Volunteers

July 21, 2010 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, Civil Disobedience

Cuffs The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund is looking for media volunteers. Want to support the good people who break bad laws like Keene’s Disobedient Seven? We’re looking for volunteers to assist with new media initiatives like researching, writing press releases, blogging, social media broadcasting etc. Want in? Get in touch.

Keeniacs: Project Graduation Needs Your Help!

June 7, 2010 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Charity

Last year, a good group of liberty activists made a difference at the “Project Graduation” event. We’re going back this year, but without your help it may not happen! There are different shifts available, but they really need people for 12:15a-4a this Fri/Sat night. (The event starts 6/11 and ends early 6/12 AM.) Here’s the message from volunteer coordinator Christine Kehoe:

We are still very short of the number of volunteers we need to chaperon and run games and activities!!!

Please, if you have not already signed up to cover a 4 hour shift, we need you!! We are only halfway to the number of people we need to make sure we can go forward with the event.

The chaperon shifts are 9pm-12:30 and 12:15-4 am and the clean-up shifts are 4-8am and 6-10am. The 12:15 shift is always the hardest to fill and is where we have the greatest need!

Can you help late Friday night, particularly from 12:15a-4a (technically early Sat AM)? Throw in your name here on the forum thread, and I’ll pass on your info to Christine. Thanks!

FK Sponsors Hundred Nights Shelter’s Mini-Golf Tournament!

May 15, 2010 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Charity, ToDo

Minigolf Free Keene is sponsoring a hole at the upcoming first annual charity miniature golf tournament, benefiting Hundred Nights Shelter. The event is happening at Arnone’s Family Fun Center on Route 32 in Swanzey, Saturday 5/22, starting with an 11:00am “Tee Off”. Tickets are $8 for an individual and $30 for a foursome. Individual players will be combined into a team of four. There will be prize drawings all day and the round of mini golf and a go-cart ride is included with every ticket! Tickets are available the day-of or in advance by calling 313-5807 or 352-8105. Hundred Nights t-shirts commemorating the event will be given to the first hundred registrants.

Plus, anybody that shows up and orders breakfast between 9:00 and noon at Arnone’s, owner John Arnone will donate 10% of the tab to Hundred Nights. Please note that thanks to Arnone’s, 100% of the proceeds from the golf tournament, the go-karts, face painting, raffles and everything else going on during the hours of 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM will go to Hundred Nights!

See you there! Here’s the forum thread for further discussion.

Help Free Keene Sponsor Porcfest!

April 19, 2010 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Charity

I have actually already paid for the sponsorship from my own pocket, but if you’d like to help Free Keene sponsor the 2010 Porcupine Freedom Festival, I’ve created a Chip-In to help cover the cost. Free Keene is going to have a banner hung during all of Porcfest which will be moved on stage for exclusive sponsorship of the very popular “Soapbox Idol” event. We’ll also get an ad in the event program, among other things.

If you’d like to help pay for it, donate to the chip-in at the top right of Free Keene, or just become a monthly contributor here. Thanks for supporting Free Keene!

Book & Food Drive at Free Keene Fest this Sunday!

April 12, 2010 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, ToDo

Food As you know, the Spring 2010 Free Keene Fest is this Sunday at Railroad Sq. in downtown Keene from 11a-4p. If you are coming out, please bring some non-perishable food for the Free Keene food drive to be donated to the Community Kitchen. Also please bring any books you’d like to donate to the Cheshire jail library. (Preferably pro-liberty books.) Here’s the forum thread about this event.