Marin Independent Journal - Leslie Harlib's Social Scene: A doggone great fundraiser:
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"Guide Dogs for the Blind, the nationally famous nonprofit that raises guide dogs and teaches the blind to work and live with them, knows this better than anyone. The San Rafael-based organization's 30th anniversary and benefit luncheon, held Wednesday at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, was rife with baby dogs: 8-week-old Labradors, golden retrievers and German shepherds.
Just about every one of the 930 guests who packed the hotel's Grand Ballroom took time to meet and pet a pup. There's no other event that makes otherwise perfectly lacquered and tailored men and women lose their cool to become cooing googly-eyed melty hearts in the presence of the puppies. Especially since stroking one of those downy heads and floppy ears earns you a few licks for your promise to give time and/or money to the organization.
'It takes approximately $30 million a year to run Guide Dogs,' said president and CEO Bob Phillips in a moving speech. 'A guide dog is about relationships, trust, and it's a liberating life choice.'"
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