Calling all animal lovers… This past Saturday, a few Chicks attended Les Compagnons’ wine tasting event at Bowery and Vine downtown. This clever brand, led by a young professional French duo, has selected a line of Boutique Wines, each bottle’s label adorned with an original illustration celebrating man’s best friend! With every purchase, Les Compagnon donates a portion of the sales price to one of four local charities: The Toby Project, Stray from the Heart, Gotham City Kitties and NY Save. Just to add to the cuteness and cleverness? Joining wine tasters at each event are adorable puppies up for adoption! You can bet that you will see us partner with these guys this year….and until then, please check them out by savoring a sip and saving life! http://www.lescompagnonswines.com/

It’s 2010. Do you know what that means? More fun & fundraising!

With help from our friends at Young Wall Street, the City Chicks co-hosted a Happy New Year Happy Hour at Traffic Bar & Lounge in Midtown. By 7:00pm, the bar was packed from top to bottom with 250 guests ranging from Young Wall-streeters, Chicks and their friends and colleagues. By 8:30pm, we had to open the upstairs to make room for more! It felt so good to see that many people out to support the charity we were raising money for: Chess-In-The-Schools.

Guests chatted while snacking on chicken skewers & quesadillas and sipping pink martinis courtesy of Three Olives Bubblegum vodka! We can’t forget to mention the 100-cupcake tower donated by Bonnie Sarana of Vanilya Bakery. She custom baked these tiny confections and before the night was over, all 100 were gobbled up and eaten.

We were so excited to learn that we raised $6,575 during this 3-hour event! This has to be a record!

It looks like 2010 is going to be a great year! Look out for more events to come as the weather warms up! !

CC4C