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Town Fiesta Cinco de Mayo
This
annual three-day event takes place in Old Town San Diego, the birthplace
of California. Old Town Fiesta Cinco de Mayo is now the third largest
celebration of Hispanic arts and culture in the US. The event is
supported by a unique cooperative effort between the California
State Parks, City and County of San Diego, and community of Old
Town. Event entertainment includes seven stages, and three activity
areas featuring a wide variety of historic and contemporary music,
reenactments of the 1862 Battle of Puebla, a Children’s “Pueblo
de los Ninos” activity area, and the dazzling horsewomen;
Las Escaramuzas Golondrinas. Each year, an average 200,000 visitors
enjoy this event set against the historic streets and plazas of
Old Town, 33 Old Town restaurants, dozens of museums and over 100
retail establishments. Net event funds support the Old Town School
program providing over 35,000 youth per year with diversity and
history educational outreach.
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Project Safe Kids™
Catalyst
has developed a partnership with San Diego Children’s Hospital
and the Safe Kids Coalition, part of a national coalition or organizations
promoting child safety in the home, at play, and on the road. This
partnership offers companies targeting child, youth, and young adult
safety through schools, PTA’s, youth service organizations,
and parents. Project Safe Seat is a component of this overall campaign,
targeted to the parents of infants and children between the ages
of one and eight. The campaign is promoted through print and broadcast
media, promotional materials, web site, on-site child safety seat
and vehicle safety clinics.
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VolunTours™
In
2000, Catalyst partners Brian Hawkins and David Clemmons conceived
of a new social enterprise that combines business and pleasure travel,
team building and relationship building with volunteer community
service. Catalyst has partnered with one of North America’s
most prominent volunteer service based organizations, Los Niños
International in order to expand VolunTours services and opportunities
in the United States and Mexico. Los Niños International/VolunTours™
currently works with over 40 universities and several corporations
in the planning, implementation and follow-up for a wide variety
of volunteer vacations and conventions on both sides of the border.
For further information on VolunTours, please visit www.sandiegovoluntours.com
or www.voluntours.org
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Fiesta
del Rio
An
annual, three-day, bi-national event located in the cities of Imperial
Beach (USA), Tecate and Tijuana (Baja California Mexico). Fiesta
del Rio is supported by a partnership of Federal State municipal
art organizations and corporation in the US and Mexico. The event
celebrates the past, present and future of the Tijuana River Valley
Estuary, the peoples and cultures of the border region and encourages
the protection and understanding of this unique habitat and region…
Where Nations & Nature Meet. Net event funds support educational
programming at the Tijuana River Valley Estuary Visitors Center.
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Jr. Sports Beat
Catalyst created the high school sports journalism conference in
1991 for AT&T in conjunction with the 1992 America’s Cup.
Since renamed Jr.SportsBeat™, this event combines the excitement
of sports with education and communications. The program uses the
backdrop of major sporting events, such as the America’s Cup,
Baseball Spring Training, and the X Games to introduce juniors in
high school to the fields of journalism, sports marketing and special
events. Jr. SportsBeat™ uses professional athletes and coaches,
the input of sports journalists and reporters, and the experience
of sports marketing, media, and special event planning executives
to provide High School youth with hands-on experience in reporting,
writing, the sports industry, and the technologies that are revolutionizing
communications. Past partners include AT&T, Nike, McDonald’s,
USA Today, Baseball Weekly, and Times Mirror Magazines. Current
opportunities exist for companies and media to integrate this program
within their primary special events, for further information, please
visit www.jrsportsbeat.com
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