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Any AmountYOUR DONATION CONNECTS PEOPLE WHO CARE TO CAUSES THAT MATTER!
Crystal Ball allows the Community Foundation staff to focus on nonprofits, endowments, and the betterment of the Northwest Mississippi region. The sponsorships, auction, and donations provide the Foundation with operating funds. The best example of this is the success of the last Crystal Ball that allowed the Community Foundation staff to focus on the needs of children and those affected by the pandemic by granting over $900,000 through FEED Northwest Mississippi. Over time, Crystal Ball has helped us operate in order to grant over $27 million to benefit over 800 nonprofits and charitable causes since 2002.
Click here to view our 2022 Annual Report
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Real Delta Experience
$250Real Delta Tours and Travelers Hotel are your ticket to an authentic Delta experience. Live music; soul food; handmade art; and the best in Delta nightlife are just the beginning. Get an all-access pass to the birthplace of American music; see first-hand the embers that ignited the Civil Rights movement; and leave the tour with an authentic; unflinching view of the Real Mississippi Delta.
- A tour of the REAL MS Delta begins in Clarksdale MS. This is for 4 people for 6 hours. included in this is a tour guide; interactive videos; snacks; wine and beer.
- Accommodations include two rooms, one night at Travelers Hotel, a 20-room boutique hotel in downtown Clarksdale. Soak up the culture and quirkiness of the Mississippi Delta in this beautiful historic space.
Available through mutually agreed upon date. Excludes festival weekends. Expiration: January 21, 2024
Click here to view more pictures and information about The Real Delta Tours
Click here to view more pictures and information about the Travelers Hotel
Donated by The Real Delta Tours and Travelers Hotel.
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Coral Reef Condo
$3,350Enjoy a 1 week stay at Panama City Beach for 6! Welcome the summer season with a week's stay at this Gulf View, beach front, Coral Reef condo. Warm gulf breezes, powder white sands and sunny days will be the standard state of affairs for the winning bidder. This 2-bedroom, 2 bath unit sleeps six in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Subject to availability in 2023.
Must be used by December 31, 2023.
http://www.coralreefcondos.com/
Donated by: Wayne and Donna Godwin
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Napa Valley Wine Experience
$3,000Experience a Wine and Food Pairing at the Louis M. Martini Winery
You and your guests will visit the newly restored Louis M. Martini Winery in Saint Helena, California, and enjoy the Heritage Lounge Tasting. This seated experience features our renowned Monte Rosso Collection with culinary pairings from Chef Jeffery Russell to enlighten your palate.
Louis M. Martini Winery is a cornerstone of Napa Valley, offering an internationally acclaimed portfolio of Cabernet Sauvignon. Since 1933, the Martini family has played a role in establishing Napa Valley as one of the world's premier wine regions, with each successive generation helping to set new standards in the vineyard and cellar.
Enjoy a complimentary two-night stay at The Ink House (The Ink House (inkhousenapavalley.com) where you can indulge in an array of delicious treats, wines and our sumptuous European breakfast. Have "Open Access" so you can enjoy a fully stocked chef's kitchen at your leisure. Signature Ink House experiences include aperitifs and digestifs with the Jean-Charles Boisset & Gina Gallo-Boisset family, educational wine tastings with our winemakers, and private tours of our Napa destinations.
The Ink House is located on St. Helena Highway in the Napa Valley just a few minutes south of historic Main Street
Experience two nights and three days of wine lovers' paradise at the Louis M. Martini Winery and The Ink House
Includes Tasting for 4
Certificate Expires January 21, 2024.
This tasting date must be mutually agreeable and scheduled in advance.
Click here to see more information about Louis M. Martini Winery https://www.louismartini.com/
Donated by: E & J Gallo Winery
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Royal Studios Tour with Boo!
$300Music Fanatics Lifetime Opportunity: Tour of Royal Studios with "Boo" Mitchell in Memphis
Priceless!
Private Tour at the famous Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, where UPTOWN FUNK, Song of the Decade, was recorded? Hang with "Boo" Mitchell who was the first person Bruno Mars thanked at the Grammy awards show. Established in 1956, it is one of the oldest, continuously operated music recording studios in the world. Hear stories about "Boo's" father, Willie Mitchell, who shaped the careers of Al Green, Chuck Berry, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, My Morning Jacket, Robert Cray, De La Soul, Otis Rush, Keith Richards, Solomon Burke, The Bo-Keys, Bobby Blue Bland, Ann Peebles, Ike & Tina Turner, Tom Jones, Anthony Hamilton, Rod Stewart, Paul Rodgers, Cody Chesnutt, Sam Moore and the Barnyard and Soul Men soundtracks. An opportunity that is exclusively available through the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi thanks to "Boo".
Dates: Mutually agreeable dates based on recording sessions.
Expires 1/21/2023
Click here to see more pictures and history of Royal Studios
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Morgan's Escape Beach House
$3,300Warm up with a week of fun in the sun in Fort Morgan; Alabama. This lovely home sleeps 8-10 guests with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. You can walk 200 yards to the beautiful private beach of Morgantown. Or just sit on the swing on the 38-foot long front porch and listen to the ocean waves while enjoying fantastic Gulf views. Or enjoy the pool located right next to the house. Or walk along the beach and collect shells. This vacation is for one week (Saturday to Saturday) at a mutually agreeable time during 2023. Click Here to view more details and pictures.
Donated by: Charles and Cindy Gordon
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Zoom! Whitening
$380Zoom! Whitening
This in-office treatment, Zoom! Whitening, uses an advanced bleaching technique that allows you to brighten your smile in as little as an hour!
To learn more about teeth whitening at Desoto Family Dental Care Click Here
https://www.desotofamilydentalcare.com/teeth-whitening/
Must be 18 Years Old or Older for this Treatment
Donated by: Crystal Ball 2021 Sponsor, DeSoto Family Dental Care
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Quail Hunt in Tallahatchie
$875Quail Hunt in Tallahatchie County
Let Trout Valley Quail Preserve provide the habitat to cultivate your best memories of days afield. Spend a half day upland hunting in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Work with a friendly and knowledgeable guide behind a pair of professionally trained bird dogs. Each hunter has 12 birds released the day of the hunt but may kill and keep as many as they can hit. Birds are cleaned and freezer packaged after the hunt. This package is good for two hunters for a half-day hunt and (1) night stay at the Trout Quail Cottage.
Not included: License, gun (can be rented, if needed), shells, upland hunting attire, guide tip.
Good for the 2023 quail preserve season (October - April). Expires December 31, 2023.
Click Here for more information, visit Quail Hunting Mississippi (troutvalleyquail.com)
Click the Show Video Button Below to see what you can expect.
Donated by: Cal Trout, Trout Valley Quail Preserve
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Kudzu Theater Season Tickets
$1052 season passes to the 2023 season for Kudzu Playhouse in Hernando, Mississippi. Shows include Into the Wood from March 3-12, CATS from July 21-30, Finding Nemo during the Fall and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer During the Winter.
Visit Kudzu's Website for more information
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NWCC Performing Arts Tickets
$1,000Enjoy an evening out at the newly opened Northwest Mississippi Community College's Center for the Performing Arts with two tickets to five incredible performances.
Shows include: Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters, Donny Edwards: An Elite Tribute to Elvis, North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Presents: Guys and Dolls in Concert, RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES, The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Present: The Pirates of Penzance.
For more information on their upcoming season and these shows, click here.
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Hickory Grove Wood Company
$1,800Ben Woodard, a Louisiana native and current resident of Carrollton, MS, has been perfecting his craft since 2017. What started as a hobby and grew to a passion, is now a flourishing business with customers across the southern region.
His work features a blend of multiple furniture styles, taking the best characteristics of each to make unique and timeless, heirloom quality furniture. Favoring southern hardwoods, he leans on the clean and sleek designs seen in mid-century modern furniture, combined with the simplistic nature of the shakers and with the time-tested joinery of craftsman style pieces.
This is a Live Edge Walnut Console Table. It is made of solid Black Walnut harvested in Missouri. The stretcher, legs and feet are joined with mortise and tenon joints. It is finished with a hard wax oil giving the piece superior protection while maintaining a natural wood feel to the touch.
To view his complete portfolio of work, visit his website here
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Principal for a Day
$100Leflore Legacy Academy Principal for a day - A unique experience that includes shadowing Tamala Boyd Shaw Head of school. Making morning announcements, school tour, lunch with leadership team and scholars, and more
To learn more about Leflore Legacy academy, click here