Shop your heart out with heart because it’s the 13^th annual Care Card week and more than 80 stores at Scottsdale Fashion Square are offering 20% discounts if you purchase a $50 Care Card with proceeds benefitting UMOM.

Attend the complimentary runway fashion shows featuring five participating Care Card retailers: Guess by Marciano, Anthropologie, Ted Baker London and Rebecca Taylor. The Agency AZ models will strut the runway for shoppers who can see the fashion on the runway and shop it in the stores. The fashion show is sponsored by W Scottsdale.

Need a Care Card? Purchase at the fashion shows or in participating stores. For a complete list of participating retailers: www.fashionsquare.com.

WHEN:         Care Card: Now – October 28, 2012

Fashion Shows: 2-5 pm, Saturday, October 27, 2012

      2 pm – Guess by Marciano

      3 pm – Anthropologie

      4 pm – Ted Baker London

      5 pm – Rebecca Taylor

WHERE:      Neiman Marcus/Dillard’s Court at Scottsdale Fashion Square!

Brillare Hairdressing Academy is offering “Pink Hair for Hope” – a streak of pink in the form of a hair extension to raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

For a $10 donation, clients can choose from one of five shades of pink hair extension. It only takes a few minutes to apply the extension and clients can come back any time and Brillare will remove the extension at no charge.  There are two locations:  the Scottsdale Quarter and Ahwatukee (I-10 and Chandler Blvd.)  Brillare has raised more than $1,500 so far.

Brillare Hairdressing Academy’s Phoenix and Scottsdale locations are teaming up with the “Pink Hair For Hope” campaign to offer clients a lock of SHE by SO.CAP.USA’s signature pink hair extension added to their own locks for a $10 donation. 100% of the net proceeds go to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Go pink now through October 31st at both Brillare Hairdressing Academy locations. Learn more here at BrillareAcademy.com.

Do you have an idea that might fail? Something so absurd and smart that you need a taxidermy animal to help present it? Ever organize and entire community of drag queens to sing a Blake Shelton song? Want to heal your complicated relationship with Arizona? Then a GOOD ‘N PLENTY grant could be for you! We’re opening it up to ANY and ALL Creatives (chefs, knitters, stilt walkers, painters, comedians, cat hair ball jewelry makers… you get the idea) 

Your crazy idea just may get a little funding from the grant-Gods, in conjunction with SMoCA, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, a Scottsdale museum.

Depending on attendance at the event, a GOOD ‘N PLENTY grant is about $400-$800. The best projects are those that will remain unfinished, in process or otherwise unquantifiable. So think BIG and let this small grant help you along the way! Also, consider your audience, please. Projects are more likely to get votes from the community if they can see what the heck you are proposing. If your project is selected to be presented at the GOOD ‘N PLENTY event, make sure it is clear, concise, fun, engaging and atypical!

SUBMISSION TIMELINE

July 1, 2012: Submissions Open

July 30, 2012: Submissions Close at 12:00pm Arizona Time

August 10, 2012: GOOD ‘N PLENTY Event from 7-9:00pm at SMoCA Lounge (inside Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)

*Note: Applications sent after July 30, 2012 at 12:00pm Arizona time will NOT be reviewed.

For full submission guidelines and more information, click HERE>>>

The Lady GODIVA Program launched this spring honoring Lauren Bush Lauren as the first National Lady GODIVA. The program is an international philanthropic endeavor that celebrates inspirational women locally and nationally. If you’re looking for a unique and sustainable mothers day gift, check out these bags.

For Mother’s Day GODIVA has partnered with Lauren Bush Lauren (remember Ms. Bush married Ralph Lauren’s son) and FEED to create the FEED 10 tote bag. Each bag retails for $25.00 and will provide 10 meals to primary school students through the World Food Programme school meals program in cocoa-sourcing regions on the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The FEED 10 bags were designed by Liberian artisan women who used their traditional batik print fabrics to make the exclusive GODIVA FEED 10 bags.

Each bag is hand made and offered in a variety of patterns, so no two bags are exactly alike. The Lady GODIVA Program FEED 10 bags are now available nationwide in GODIVA stores and online at www.GODIVA.com.

The FEED 10 bag is the perfect Mother’s Day gift as it benefits both women and children in Africa, with a stylish gift for your mom.