Thank you to everyone who attended our Friendship Dinner Dance. The evening was a wild success, and was well attended.

We had the honor of having
-Bob Wieckowski, California State Assembly Member from the 25th District
-Jake Brymner, a representative for newly elected US Congressman Eric Swallwell of California’s 15th District.
-Bill Quirk, Newly Elected California State Assembly Member from the 20th District
-Raj Salwan, Newly Appointed Fremont City Council Member

We would also like to thank our wonderful performers and volunteers for their tireless work! More details and pictures to follow.

Matters of Community was featured on the Front Page of Tuesday’s Argus Newspaper. Please visit the link to read more.

Argus Article

The 9th Annual Friendship Dinner Dance will be held on Saturday January 19th at the Golden Peacock Banquet Hall starting at 7pm.

Matters of Community will be participating in the 2013 charity Friendship Dinner Dance to raise funds for projects it sponsors around the world. The event will be held on January 19th, 2013 at the Golden Peacock Banquet Hall in Hayward.

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Pictures from our 2012 Friendship Dinner and Dance

Notable Attendees included

Bill Quirk, Council Member from Hayward

Anu Natarajan, Acting Mayor from Fremont

Kansen and Daisy Chu, City Council from San Jose

This year again Matters of Community is participating in the 2012 charity Friendship Dinner Dance in Fremont to raise funds for projects it sponsors around the world. The event will be held on January 21st, 2012 at the Golden Peacock Banquet Hall in Hayward.

Visit the link for the Facebook event.

This year again Matters of Community is participating in a charity Friendship Dinner Dance in Fremont to raise funds for projects it sponsors around the world. The event is held on January 29th, 2011 at the Golden Peacock Banquet Hall in Hayward.

Senior Transfers Passion For Service to UC Merced

Since a young age, Neal Bharadwaj has been driven to give back to the community. He remembers his parents taking him places to volunteer when he was a child.

“My parents instilled in me a creed to help others,” said Bharadwaj, a senior bioengineering major. “Giving back was something I learned early on.” Read the rest of this entry »

MOC to partcipate in a Friendship Dinner Dance 2009 event to help raise funds for its projects.

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In Auguest 2009, we visited the Blind Relief Center of Delhi again to donate $1000 towards the expansion of their music department.