After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Bexley Schooling Basis’s BRAVO! fundraiser returns with an in-person occasion this 12 months.
BRAVO! 2022 can be 7-11 p.m. March 26 in St. Charles Preparatory College’s Walter Commons, 2010 E. Broad St.
BRAVO! is the BEF’s main fundraiser, with proceeds benefitting packages all through the district, Govt Director Pamela Glasgow stated.
Since 1983, the BEF has channeled greater than $6 million in personal assist to the Bexley Metropolis Colleges, funding academic programming and educating initiatives.
“It’s actually vital for our capacity to award grants and conduct packages for college kids and lecturers within the faculties,” Glasgow stated.
BRAVO! will embody tasting stations from native eating places and caterers, money bars with a signature drink, reside music from the Large Rockin’ Blues Band and a silent public sale with objects donated by Bexley alumni and central Ohio companies.
“Our whole public sale catalog can be obtainable on-line and other people can begin bidding beginning on March 18,” Glasgow stated. “We’ve had some very nice donations from alumni, together with one from our considered one of our distinguished alumni who was acknowledged this 12 months. Natalia Fedner, who’s a clothier in L.A. who competed on ‘Challenge Runway,’ (has) donated a fabric that she developed and he or she’s ready on a patent on for a chainmail-link scarf.”
A brand new characteristic BRAVO! is providing is a “BRAVO! Dinner to Go” choice from The Berwick with an Italian meal for as much as 4 and a “BRAVO! to Go Celebration Field” with charcuterie for 2 and a bottle of Prosecco.
“We actually wished to have choices for individuals who didn’t really feel snug gathering collectively and with a bigger group,” Glasgow stated. “So we created these ‘BRAVO! to Go’ choices with considered one of our meals companions, The Berwick, to offer the chance for folks to both decide up dinner for his or her household or what we’re calling a celebration field … so they may possibly have their very own little occasion at dwelling.”
To buy the BRAVO! to-go choices and take part within the on-line public sale, members should register at auctria.occasions/bravo.
For extra info, contact BEF Occasions and Advertising and marketing Supervisor Kristen Berry at kristen.berry@bexley.us, name the BEF Workplace at (614) 338-2093, or go to bexleyeducationfoundation.org.
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