‘BBQ Bash’ attracts funders with live music, cash giveaway

Marion Matters in Marion, Ohio, holds just one fund-raiser per year, so when they throw their annual Marion Matters BBQ Bash, they go all out. Chief among the draws at the event is a chance to win $10,000 in a cash drawing!

Other attractions include delicious food and live music, making the tax-deductible ticket price well worth it. This year the event is being held August 5 at The Palace Theater May Pavilion in Marion.

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Philip DeVol2020-06-26T14:57:20-05:00July 17th, 2017|Community|

About the Author: Philip DeVol

Phil DeVol is an international consultant who has been working with aha! Process since 1997. He used aha! Process concepts to make institutional changes at the addiction treatment center where he was the executive director for 19 years. During this time he also co-wrote Bridges Out of Poverty with Ruby Payne and Terie Dreussi-Smith. His book Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-by-World is being used to engage people in poverty in the work of building communities where everyone can live well. It worked so well that DeVol used it as a basis for a prison reentry model called Getting Ahead while Getting Out. He works with community leaders to help them move quickly from an attraction to application of Bridges concepts. Getting Ahead and Bridges are being used in hundreds of communities in the U.S., as well as a number of sites in Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. His books have been translated into Spanish, Slovak, and Czech.