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Press Release: Mambo #8 is

THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010!

For Immediate Release on Monday, November 29,

2010

Contact: Alayne

Unterberger, PhD, Executive Director, 813.477.2882 or 813.249.8100

Tampa, FL:

Working for change is never easy. Just like learning a new dance, it requires

both immense creativity and commitment. And,

like everyone else, we have had leaps forward and setbacks but

generally, we at the Florida Institute for

Community Studies (FICS) are proud of what we have accomplished

over the past eight years. As our Mambo #8

is almost here, FICS extends an open invitation to our community

partners, friends and the greater Tampa Bay area celebrate our

past, present and especially our future

with us on Friday, December 3, 2010 at

the Doubletree Hotel, Westshore, 500 West Cypress

Street, Tampa, FL 33607. In keeping with the Mambo

theme, we invite participants to dress in 40’s style Mambo

clothing, such as zootsuits! There will be

salsa lessons, great food, entertainment and plenty of opportunity

to Mambo!

Complimentary

hors d’oeuvres and silent auction begin at 6:30 PM and the

festivities kick off at 7:30 PM. We will

have various types of entertainment, including testimonials,

Peruvian traditional dancing and our DJ Otero will spin

some good music for us to mambo or whatever we want to do! Read more at http://northwest2.tbo.com/content/2010/nov/24/NWNEWSO10-mambo-event-supports-free-programs/news/.

As our main fundraiser for the year, we are

proud to welcome Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union as our

Silver Sponsor and Blue Cross/Blue Shield as our Hero. Our

silent auction items include: original art by Joanne Osborn, Pablo

DeLuna and Guillermo Portieles; four tickets to Big Cat Rescue, 4

tickets to the Lowry Park Zoo, an autographed hockey stick from

the Tampa Bay Lightning, gift certificates from Paris Hair, Salsa

Dance Lessons by Salsa Caliente, Spanish Lessons, homemade

limoncello (an Italian beverage) by Larry Aiello and much more! Tickets are on sale now and include: the

happy hour/hors d’oeuvres, dinner, entertainment, beverage and

dessert at $40/person, $75/couple and $400/table.

The first fifty people to arrive will receive a

complementary drink ticket, good for a mixed drink or wine!

In

2001, a group of students, professors, university personnel and

activists began a dialogue about how to solve the gaps that exist

for communities across our state. In 2002,

the Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS) was born, with

a mission of “partnering with communities across Florida to help

them achieve their goals through research, service, education and

training.” Learn more at www.ficsinc.org, which

includes our calendar of events. We are

a statewide non-profit organization that reaches over two

thousand people annually through our programming.

For

more information, please contact FICS at 813.249.8100 or

email Alayne@....

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Alayne Unterberger, PhD Florida Institute for Community Studies

(FICS) PO Box 16745 Tampa FL 33687 813.249.8100 Community.

Activism. Research. Education.

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Alayne Unterberger, PhD

Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS)

PO Box 16745

Tampa FL 33687

813.249.8100

Community. Activism. Research. Education.