Creative pumpkins with themes from the “Barbie” movie to the actors’ strike again stole the show at the annual Halloween luncheon.
First 5 Santa Clara County CEO Jennifer Kelleher Cloyd used her pumpkin as the centerpiece in a very pink tribute to this summer’s hit movie “Barbie” for pumpkin decorating contest at the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits’ Be Our Guest luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 at Excite Ballpark in San Jose. The Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits’ annual Be Our Guest luncheon has earned a reputation over the years as the premier fall networking event for that sector.
Jennifer Kelleher Cloyd, CEO of First 5 Santa Clara County, took the top pumpkin prize with her “Barbie” tribute. All the pumpkins were auctioned off, and the one that got the highest bids was brought by Janikke Klem of Heritage Bank of Commerce, who didn’t make hers but bought a succulent-filled pumpkin from Fractal Flora in San Jose. She says it saves her time and supports a local business to boot. And here I spent all day painting a pumpkin to look like the Babadook.
Elevate Community Center and Razing the Bar received the Nonprofits of the Year awards, and the Emerging Nonprofit Leader awards went to Katie Blevins of Humane Society Silicon Valley and Cris Unciano Jr., who runs the Here4You call center for the Bill Wilson Center. Using tax-deductible donations to buy books, the program has been able distribute up to 10,000 books a year to San Jose kids, and the idea has spread to other communities, too. This year’s distribution is happening at the Garden Theater on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen on Tuesday, which is Halloween. Books for kindergarteners and younger will be given out from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with books for first through sixth-graders given out from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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