Experience Project helps charities with TwitCause and lands a spot in the San Francisco Chronicle!

Got a tweet to spare? It could help the charity of your choice.

A week ago, a record number of status updates on Twitter and Facebook using the phrase “#BeatCancer” helped raise $70,000 for four non-profit cancer organizations.

Meanwhile, sales of a virtual crop for the popular Facebook game FarmVille raised nearly a half-million real dollars to feed poor children in Haiti. And a group called TwitCause used tweets to promote organic foods and a walk to benefit diabetes research.

These are just a few of many recent examples of how social networks have quickly become a powerful yet inexpensive tool to raise money and awareness for charities, even at a time when the economy has reduced overall donations to nonprofit groups. Read More.

TV Personality Sam the Cooking Guy sliced and diced alongside four local San Diego cooks during the Fresh Express Undressed Salad Contest, held at Von’s Shopping Center in Carmel Valley. Four contestants and fans watched as they prepared and sampled salads using the fresh seasonal greens.  The goal was to use  ingredients designed to highlight the most flavorful qualities of the salad.

Watch the video here:

They came for the bugs.

The creepy-crawly kind, the exotic kind, the ones neatly pinned and displayed under glass in wooden cases.

And the ones that were cooked. You know, a little olive oil, some seasonings, a few minutes in a skillet and . . . lunch!

Hundreds of families crowded into Quail Botanical Gardens yesterday for the 12th annual Insect & Garden Festival.

Zenzi’s role in securing celebrity participation and media opportunities for Keep A Breast, most recently a live breast casting on the hit TV show “The Bachelor,” have resulted in unprecedented awareness and exposure for our favorite Oceanside nonprofit. Keep A Breast is expanding its list of celebrity and corporate partners, which include Warped Tour, Emergen-C, Spencer’s, Roxy, pro surfer Lisa Anderson, musician Tom Delonge, artist Shephard Fairey and many others. We encourage you to support Keep A Breast’s important message and mission by visiting their website at www.keep-a-breast.org.