FOCUS (Fashion Opportunities Connect US) is a networking organization for fashion industry professionals. The goals of the group are to: CONNECT - create a community where the fashion community can NETWORK, LEARN and GROW. PROMOTE - generate exposure opportunities for the emerging fashion market - designers, stylists, manufacturers, retailers/e-tailers, makeup/hair artists, photographers, models, marketers, educators, fashion students, and entrepreneurs. INSPIRE - expose the San Diego consumer b …

Workout and help your community! www.CharityWorkouts.org is a donation only boot camp. 100% of the money raised goes directly to at-risk youth programs in our community. $5 per person is appreciated and you can write it off your taxes! We started in January 2009 and average 20 people per workout. Note: We are joined by two other groups on Sundays. So even though the Meetup RSVP list may only show 5-7 people, we average 20 people every weekend. New: I was given the Volunteer of the Quarter …

Welcome to the Order of Eastern Star Meetup! If you are looking to cultivate lasting friendships, better yourself and your community, do something for others, and have a great time in the process, you are at the right place. We are an affiliate of the Masonic Lodge and one of largest fraternal organization in the world. We are dedicated to Charity, Truth and Loving Kindness (read our "About" section) We will be hosting a Meet and Greet open to ladies who are interested in becoming members of the …

The Secret Squirrel Society is proud to announce that we are now going to be offering pick-up co-ed Volleyball on Monday nights in Ocean Beach, starting in March 2010. Please keep checking the website as we will have exact dates and times for you posted within a few weeks. In the interim if you want to meet some of our members and keep active please check out our website, www.secretsquirrelsports.com, and join us in one of our other sporting events. We are The San Diego Secret Squirrel Socie …

If you get antsy seeing problems go unfixed and want to help out across San Diego, see new parts of the city, learn about different communities and their needs, and meet new folks over a beer or cocktail -- this is the place! I'm trying to create a volunteer group that doesn't feel stuffy or preachy -- just somewhere that brings people together to do good work, learn more about what our communities need, and grab a drink afterwards. Possible Meetups could include painting a Habitat for Humanity …

Inviting all the best of San Diego's young professional marketers, entrepreneurs, and the charity driven to be part of a great networking community while contributing to great causes: kids. This is a new chapter of an already great group. The original chapter of LFOK continues to raise tens of thousands of dollars a year for a children's hospital. The San Diego chapter will also support the local children's hospital, but will also support, fundraise, and build awareness for other children's char …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

Calling all photographers, videographers and visual artists: Do you want to use your talents for good? Do you have a passion for giving back to your community? Do you want to add really cool non-profit clients to your portfolio? And do you want to work with other like-minded professionals at the same time? Yeah? Then join The Shutter Project! We are a group of professional, semi-professional, and enthusiast photographers, videographers, graphic designers and other visual artists who volunteer o …

Want to become part of a growing movement to use fashion for charity? Fashionable Causes is a start-up non-profit organization with a mission to use fashion to bring positive change to the world.  We collaborate with models, designers, photographers, make up artists, photo retouchers, event planners, fashionistas, bloggers, and volunteers who want to pitch in and help anyway they can.  This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in your community in a fun and fashionable way. At our meetups …

If you LOVE meeting other people in the community who give back and want to do cool things like donate toys to Toys for Tots, call all the military friends you have and thank them for serving, have a bake sale to support a local charity......come up with cool ideas to help others....and have a glass of wine or a margarita doing it, then join this group!

Do you drive an electric vehicle or are you a member of car2go? Do you want to attend fun, local, San Diego events? If you answered Yes to either of these questions than please join our meetup group! Our meetup strives to develop a group that likes to drive electric vehicles, car share with car2go and/or live an eco-friendly lifestyle. Our group will inform you of many fun events around San Diego and we will create our own events that you will receive discounts or free entrance to! Join our gro …

This group is for moms of infants or toddlers who live in the Mission Hills area or Point Loma. Let's get together for fun activities in our neighborhood like play dates at the Parkr Park, story time, Zoo walks, Coffee chat, charity events and beach days, and all the other wonderful things there is to do in San Diego! We hope to make lasting friendships by keeping the group on a smaller side. Please attend a meetup within 1 month otherwise your spot will be filled with another mom waiting. Thank …

A community outreach organization. Our motto is, "service above self." The club has a focus towards minority and disenfranchised communities. Our hands on approach provides satisfaction to its members and focuses on direct connections with people in need. Through our weekly guest speaker program, the club identifies large and, more importantly to the club, small local non-profits with who it wishes to partner. If you are looking to connect with other community members who strive to make our worl …

Inviting all of our San Diego community, parents, donors, volunteers, friends, family and people who advocate or support people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Down syndrome) and other barriers to employment to meet other people just like you. We are here to provide a space for parents and supporters of adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities to advocate and fundraise to create more jobs and change the lives of adu …

Let's do some networking for a cause! Urban Nights is a group that meets regularly to network, taste wine, and have fun for a cause! Urbanhood is a non-profit in San Diego that helps domestic violence survivors gain independence. Check us out at www.urbangoods.org.

Looking to make a direct impact in your community? Lend a helping hand to a homebound senior in need! Join us at Service Saturdays each first Saturday of the month to help a San Diego senior with a home project, or at any of our upcoming fundraising events. Visionaries in Philanthropy (VIP) is a group of young professionals making an impact through service events and fundraising - to eradicate hunger among San Diego seniors. VIP supports the efforts of Meals-on-Wheels Greater San Diego, Inc., a …

San Diego Young Philanthropists meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 pm. We have a wide range of different and wonderful program speakers. After our programs we socialize and share our views about various current topics. Our members come from various backgrounds and our numbers continue to grow. If you are interested in networking and socializing while planning fundraisers to benefit various local charities, then we are the perfect group for you. For more information, call Bobbie at: (61 …

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life® is seeking volunteers in the Uptown neighborhoods – walkers, cancer survivors, caregivers, community leaders, anyone wanting to make a difference – to organize and recruit fundraising teams, garner community support, coordinate logistics, seek refreshments and prizes, plan entertainment and lend a hand. Our monthly meeting is focused on the monthly planning for Uptown’s September event, to be held at Birney Elementary School grounds. If you would like …

This is a group of actual heroes that meet twice a week to change the world. We have been meeting since 2000 to find ways to be modern day superheroes by funding retired CIA, NSA, KGB, Mi6, Delta Force (SFOD-D) and Interpol operatives to work with the FBI to stop Extreme Human Rights Abusers. If you care about human rights abuse and the United Nation's 37 Rights of Children and would like to have a direct hand in stopping badguys please join us!! We need more local heroes to join our group!

This an action league of individual volunteers who conduct humanitarian acts for the betterment of the local and global community. What makes us different? We recognize that there is a growing community of people who lead alternative lifestyles or who don't fit in with societal expectations and are often portrayed negatively and labeled misfits. We also realize that there are some of us who would like to give back to their local community while instilling a positive image to society at large (in …

Join the San Diego contingent of the USC Trojan Nation. This is a fun, inclusive group for alumni, students, family, friends and fans of the University of Southern California. Here in San Diego we already have multiple "official" groups with the USC Alumni Club, Marshall School of Business Alumni, the Trojan Club supporting the athletic department, the Trojan League, and others.  This Meetup group is meant to be a more "informal" way to meet any and all in the Trojan Nation for social, charitabl …