Opening of Wishes Granted: Nonprofit Commons Stories of Postitive Impact

Huge thank you to my teammates, Par, Brena, and Buffy for our lovely Opening of “Wishes Granted: Stories of Positive Impact” at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. The amazing Avantgarde Frequency performed as we skated among true fairy tales including Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, Preferred Family Healthcare, Bridges for Women, Project Jason, The Love Foundation, Giving Circle Network, Protect Yourself 1, Inc, Elder Voices, Virtual Ability, Inc. and TechSoup. Thank you everyone for attending and your excellent support! More events to come! http://nonprofitcommons.org/content/wishes-granted-winter-festival-nonprofit-commons-december-11-17

Halloween at Common Ground

We had a wonderful Nonprofit Commons Halloween Party at Common Ground! Fab Boo costumes, friends, and awesome tunes spun by DJ LilTank! I continued my disco theme for costumes in Second Life by creating “Shining Star” to remind everyone that are one no matter who they are! ArminasX made my custom particle Nova to match my dress! You just can’t have enough orange on Halloween!

Looking for Orgs for the Nonprofit Commons Exhibit for SL6B

The Sierra Club Sponsors Common Ground

A “green” themed night was full of celebration as The Sierra Club sponsored Common Ground to include the grand opening of their office on the Eco Commons. Gabby shared with everyone their mission and great freebies like the chance to plant trees!

The Common Ground Photo Op continues to be a fun element of the evening!

Shiny New Year

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Everyone around, love them, love them
Put it in your hands
Take it, take it
There’s no time to cry
Happy, happy
Put it in your heart
Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine
- REM

We had a very Happy New Year party at Common Ground with our Shiny theme! Everyone enjoyed our new Photo Op, Photobooth, and Slideshow! Let’s Shine in O9!

Sunrise at Common Ground

Our color theme was Sunrise at Common Ground and everyone rose to the challenge. Par and Penguin enjoyed our new Tinies Dance Ball donated by Rhiannon to Common Ground! Ricken spun lots of great sunny songs for us! And, Mel came as one – “House of the Rising Sun”! Such creativity abounds!

Midnight at the Party Plaza

Our color theme for Common Ground was Midnight, so everyone came as the night sky! It was lovely to be surrounded by so many stars!

Seeing in Second LIfe

Ethelred, Ozma, and I myself spoke at the Nonprofit Commons Friday Meeting to encourage different orgs to sponsor Common Ground each week. It is a great setting for groups to share their mission and what real world impact they have outside of Second Life.
Then we had an amazing guest, the first blind avatar in SL! The folks from Virtual Ability were there to explain the tech to assist the blind in Second Life with a seeing eye dog. It was inspiring and thrilling!

Golden at Common Ground

With a Gold color theme, Common Ground @ NPC Plush was sponsored by Virtual Ability. Ricken Flow shared their mission ito enable people with a wide range of disabilities to enter into virtual worlds like Second Life®, and provide them with a supporting environment once there. He provided wheelchairs and dances for the “wheelies”. It was a great night full of angels, supporters, and snow!

Yellow – You are my sunshine!

Super bright sunshine shone at Common Ground @ Plush NPC! Mel and Par stole the show with their outfits of mustard and a banana! Common Ground continues to be a place to connect with others and learn more about what nonprofits are doing in Second Life.

After the party, I thought I would take some shots of my new gown I made that afternoon.