Make a Match, Make a Difference

The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce invites the community to join them for the pre-planning party for Boca Festival Days, a month-long city-wide celebration of events partnering local non-profit and for-profit organizations to benefit the community.
When Boca Festival Days was created in 1970, it was initially intended to boost business during what was traditionally Boca Raton’s “slow” month of August, but has now evolved into the Chamber’s commitment to the non-profit community. Boca Festival Days is the result of local business leaders and representatives from area non-profit and media groups working together to plan and promote events throughout the month of August. Boca Festival Days grows each year and now boasts events of all varieties and hosts thousands of participants.
“Boca Festival Days function as a way to raise mission awareness as well as much needed funds for non-profit organizations in our area. Last year, more than $200,000 was raised for participating organizations. The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce is proud to promote the events that take place and asks that the community give their support to the organizations that in turn support our educational, cultural, and fundamental needs,” says Festival Chair Lisa Elkan, Assistant V.P., Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union, Palm Beach County.
“The community is invited to join us as we get together to plan potential Boca Festival Days 2008 events at ‘Make a Match, Make a Difference’,” adds Festival Co-Chair Linda Gove, Executive Director of Boca Helping Hands. “Our goal is to create an opportunity for local for-profit companies to get some hands-on involvement in the community for a good cause.”
Get exposure for your business and become "Socially Conscious" by supporting a charitable organization during Boca Festival Days 2008 . If you would like to be involved, please join us at “Make a Match, Make a Difference”, which will be held on Wednesday, March 19th, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at Gatsby's Boca (5970 SW 18th St., Boca Raton, FL 33433). This pre-Boca Festival Days network will give the non-profit and for-profit businesses the ability to meet and come up with event ideas for Boca Festival Days 2008.
RSVP’s are a MUST! For more information or to RSVP, please visit our website, www.bocaratonchamber.com (events calendar), contact Desiré Salazar at 561.395.4433 ext. 235 or dsalazar@bocaratonchamber.com.