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CELEBRATING LATIN AMERICAN CUISINE, WINE AND TANGO: AN FSD FUNDRAISER

When? Saturday, October 25th, 3-6pm

Where? Destino: Nuevo Latino Bistro in San Francisco. The address is 1815 Market St.

What? FSD is hosting a cocktail and tango party to raise awareness and fundraise for our work in Argentina. Destino’s menu will include:

  • Grilled Ribeye Steak with Chimichurri sauce and Yuca chips
  • Quinoa Risotto balls with Shiitake mushrooms and Romesco salsa
  • Tiger Prawns with Corn Goat Cheese
  • Alfajores as a dessert platter
Cheese sampling, courtesy of Bristol Farm
Chocolate tasting featuring Chocolates by Tomattete

Californian & Latin American wine tasting, including:

  • Chilean Carmenere
  • Argentinian Malbec
Raffle Prizes, including:
  • Brunch for two, courtesy of the Ritz
  • Tango dancer starter kit, courtesy of Tango & More
  • Argentina travel books
  • Chocolates by Tomattete

Tickets should be purchased in advance by clicking the donate button below:

The event begins at 3pm and will last about three hours!

There will be a guest list at the door.

Minimum donation is $35 per person, $20 for students or past FSD program participants.

Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization (Tax ID/EIN: 56-1938284); a portion of the donation is deductible for U.S. citizens. Receipts will be available at door.




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Recent Events

An Evening with the Foundation for Sustainable Development
Wednesday, September 19th
6:00-9:00pm

Sur La Table
77 Maiden Lane
San Francisco, CA
www.surlatable.com

Come learn about FSD over wine and gourmet Indian appetizers you learn to make from Namrata Kapoor, our Udaipur, India Program Coordinator.

To register for this event, please click on the Pay Pal link below. Donations are $75

India-art.jpg An Evening of Art and Inspiration with FSD
Tuesday, September 18th
6:00-9:00pm

Aicon Gallery
535 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301

The Foundation for Sustainable Development is pleased to invite you to a special event highlighting FSDs work in India. Please join us on this occasion to celebrate contemporary Indian Art, and learn about FSDs India Program from our special guests India Program Coordinator, Namrata Kapoor, and recent FSD program alum, Edie Hofmeister.

Namrata will be joining us from Udaipur, India and will share her extensive experience and passion for grassroots development work with FSD. Edie, a former attorney, recently traveled to Udaipur, India through FSDs ProCorp internship program to lend her legal expertise to a local non-profit organization working to achieve land rights for the rural poor.

FSD is pleased to feature this event at Aicon Gallery of Palo Alto. Committed to generating a global audience for art that is genereally unseen in the West, Aicon Gallery features well-known and emerging contemporary Indian artists, including Payal Khandwala, artist of the above piece.

The Foundation for Sustainable Development would be delighted for you to join us for this enlightening event! Donations of $50-$100 are requested for this occasion.

Fall Benefit: Sunday, September 16th, 5:00 PM
San Rafael, California

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Join FSD Founder, Alicia Robb, and other members of FSD's Board of Directors, and our special guest, Namrata Kapoor.

Namrata is visiting from India, where she is our India Program Coordinator and chef extraordinaire! She will be making a home cooked Indian meal for all of our guests.

Come and enjoy exquisite food, fine wine, a silent auction with items from around the world, and an update of FSD's grant making in 2007. The event will take place in the home of Alicia Robb and Mark Doms in San Rafael, California

Enjoy Hors d'Oeuvres and wine from 5-6, dinner will be served at 6:30. Directions will be given the week before the event. All funds raised will go towards our grantmaking this fall and winter in India.

Please join us! RSVP by emailing alicia@fsdinternational.org



IND04.9498.xf1b.jpg ------------------------------------------- "The Idea of Justice"
Guest speaker: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
April 8-9-10, 2008 (three sessions)
4:15 to 6:00 PM

Stanford University
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building

The Center for South Asia at Stanford University will be hosting three mini-course sessions in which Professor Sen will discuss alternative concepts of justice and the need for foundational rethinking of the mainstream approaches to the theory of justice in contemporary political philosophy. While the discussion will be primarily conceptual, there will be illustrations drawn from history as well as the use of classic arguments related to justice in different societies, including in India as well as in the Western world. Each lecture will be followed by a response from Stanford faculty member and Q&A.

  • Lecture 1: Indignation and Room for Reason
  • Lecture 2: Impartiality: Contracts versus Voice
  • Lecture 3: Beyond Institutional Fundamentalism
"Global Poverty & Human Rights"
Guest speaker: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
April 5, 2008 - 10:00 AM

Stanford University
Kresge Auditorium

Keynote address at all-day conference on Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty, commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, sponsored by the Aurora Forum and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute. For details, click here