Category Archives: Community Engagement

Thai Bloom supports DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital

Thai Bloom is not only making good authentic Thai food but is very compassionate to the welfare of animals. This upcoming April 17, 2020, at the Portland Art Museum, Thai Bloom is partnering with DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital in their quest to help animals’ lovers in their time of need. DoveLewis’ exclusive “Wet Nose Soiree,” is going to be a one-of-a-kind event that features special animal guests, exciting auction packages, and elegant food and beverages. A super fun party dedicated to every animal and every person who cares for them. With animal ownership growing each year, the necessity of having an active haven for animals in need reminds us that animals also deserve and exceptional quality of life, treatment, and care, and Thai Bloom is proud to be part of such community.

Thai Bloom! & The Portland Rose Festival Foundation’ s 2019 Cocktails & Rose Dinner & Auction

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Being a part of the community is important to us. This upcoming Friday, October 11, 2019, Thai bloom is proudly supporting the Portland Rose Festival Foundation with its 2019 Cocktails & Rose Dinner & Auction at Montgomery Park.

For 112 years, the Portland Rose Festival Foundation has delivered award-winning events, and programs as its gift to the citizens of the city. Let’s continue to serve the community by providing families with programs with activities that promote the arts, education, and volunteerism.

Scleroderma Foundation OR Chapter Donation

Thai Bloom! is doing it again! On June 29th, 2019, which also happens to be World Scleroderma Day, Thai Bloom proudly sponsors the Scleroderma Foundation Chapter’s 14th annual Stepping Out to Cure Scleroderma.

What is Scleroderma? Scleroderma is an autoimmune disorder that affects an estimated 300,000 people in the United States, yet most people have never heard of it! The word “scleroderma” comes from the Greek for “hard skin,” but this disease is much more than hard skin. The effects can range from mild to disabling, or sadly, life-threatening. To raise awareness to Scleroderma, Thai Bloom is proud to sponsor Scleroderma Foundation Oregon Chapter in its 1.5-mile walk in Happy Valley on June 29th, 2019. Hopefully, one day, there is a cure for Scleroderma!

Thai Bloom Proudly supports the Oregon Music Festival

Music can soothe the soul in many ways! This 2019, Thai Bloom is taking the next step to support the Oregon Music Festival with its upcoming event set for June 22, 2019. This movement will significantly impact all Oregonians and allows Oregonians to enjoy the beauty of classical music in our beautiful city of Portland. Thai Bloom’s generous donation will help feed the multiple Grammy-nominated performers, so they can hit the Oregon concert stage and perform at their best and continue to cast an irresistible spell over many audiences with flawless technical virtuosity, and sensual elegance.

Thai Bloom! Supports Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)

This year, Thai Bloom is proud to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Man & Woman of the Year campaign for 2019

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since inception in 1949, LLS has awarded more than $1.2 billion in research funding.

Man & Woman of the Year is a philanthropic competition to support blood cancer research among a group of motivated and dedicated individuals in communities across the United States. Candidates form powerful fundraising teams and compete in honor of two local children who are blood cancer survivors.

Kickoff Celebration:
This celebration officially marks the beginning of the fundraising period.

The Mid Point Event:
At the halfway mark, candidates come together to acknowledge and celebrate the progress already made and re-energize to focus on goals ahead.

Grand Finale:
The announcement of the Man & Woman of the Year winners is a celebration of all the candidates efforts as a collective class. Surrounded by team members and friends, they enjoy food, cocktails, music and an outstanding auction.

Thai Bloom! Supports Beaverton High School’s Annual Fundraiser for Make-A-Wish Oregon

On February 9, Thai Bloom! supported the Beaverton High School’s annual fundraising event with a $1,000 “Varsity Level” donation and an additional $100 Thai Bloom gift card during the half-time game.

The ‘Jam the Dam’ event is the annual fundraising event with the goal to raise $15,000. Proceeds from the event will go to Make-A-Wish Oregon, which helps to grant life-changing wishes of children with critical illnesses living in Oregon and Clark County, Washington.

 

 

 

 

Thai Bloom! Community Involvement Update

January 28, 2019

Thai Bloom is proud to maintain an extremely active community philanthropy program, with multiple donations made every year to worthy causes in our home-base community of Beaverton and the Portland Metro Area as a whole. Recently, that community support was extended to an incredibly sensitive and equally important cause – rooting out and eliminating the terrible practice of child trafficking and sexual exploitation in Oregon.

The Beaverton Police Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) recently hosted a three-day training course for the department’s sex crimes detective team and dozens of other key Oregon individuals working on the issue. The course focused on a range of topics and programs addressing child sex trafficking cases, including issues associated with the population of exploited children specific to our region. It was very the first training of its kind here in Oregon, and drew police officers, prosecutors, and victim’s advocates from all over the state to participate and learn.
Thai Bloom donated a robust lunch for the more than 70 participants attending the event (valued at over $1,150.00), which featured a range of some of our favorite restaurant dishes, provided entirely free of charge and coordinated with the assistance of Beaverton Police Department Officer Jeremy Shaw (PIO).
“Thai Bloom and all our staff feel that we don’t just provide a warm and friendly place for great food, we also serve an active, positive role as a community gathering point that helps bring families and the community together,” said Walter Bowers, Thai Bloom co-founder and GM. “With that in mind, we felt that contributing to the effort to save vulnerable kids, and helping address an issue that is best combatted through community awareness and concern, was particularly important and appropriate.”

The donation featured a range of some of Thai Bloom’s favorite restaurant dishes, including Drunken Noodles Chicken, Spicy Chicken Basil, Yellow Curry Chicken, and Pineapple Fried Rice.

Over the past year, Thai Bloom has also donated to a total of 18 other worthy local organizations and causes, providing them support as part of our strong commitment to active community involvement and ongoing charitable contributions.

These 2018/19 donations included recent support of Beaverton High School Jam the Dam Week of Wishes event, Oregon Food Bank and Hunger-Free Oregon, the Raphael House and Portland Homeless Family Solutions, SMART, the NW Dance Project, and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Thai Bloom is proud to support these and other local non-profits and charities, and will continue a strong program of community philanthropy in 2019 and beyond.

Thai Bloom! Supports The Rivermark Community Fund

On Friday, August 24, 2018, Thai Bloom! supported the Rivermark Community Fund’s 2nd Annual Golf Tournament. The event’s fundraising goal is to clear $30,000 from the event. All net proceeds after expenses will directly benefit the Rivermark Community Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.

The Rivermark Community Fund was established in 2016. The purpose of the fund is to provide grants to local non-profit organizations, and support small businesses with access to capital and other resources that will result in improved economic vitality in our community.

At Rivermark Community Credit Union, giving back to the communities we serve has always been a driving force of who we are. In that spirit, the Rivermark Community Fund was established in 2016, as a charitable endowment through the Oregon Community Foundation to help build Oregon’s future by strengthening the economic vitality of our region by supporting nonprofits that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship to help local small businesses grow.

When a community supports small businesses, those businesses flourish and invest back into the communities that support them. They create good-paying jobs, boost the local economy, fund charitable organizations, build local partnerships —all of which make our community stronger. By investing in business-focused nonprofits that support small business growth, the Rivermark Community Fund is helping create the building blocks of a stronger, more prosperous region for generations to come.