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Week in Photos--December 7, 2013
‘Tis the season for, among many other things, being altruistic.
Heartland Family Service’s Joanna Lindberg picks a box off Borsheims’ Giving Tree. Heartland Family Service offers education, counseling and support to individuals and families on a sliding-fee scale. The nonprofit has 17 locations.
‘Tis the season for, among many other things, being altruistic.
Over the weekend, Borsheims in Omaha, Neb. held its annual Weekend of Giving, this year benefitting Heartland Family Service.
During the Weekend of Giving, customers pay $10 to pick one of Borsheims’ gift boxes, which are nestled in a Christmas tree in the store. Each box contains a surprise and Borsheims chooses a child-focused charity to which it donates the $10. In addition, Borsheims’ gives a percentage of its total sales from the Weekend of Giving to charity.
Borsheims said its customers purchased a record number of boxes this year. The retailer also is selling a $25 heart pendant from now through the end of the year, with $5 from each sale going to Heartland Family Service.
Click through this slideshow to see photos from Borsheims Weekend of Giving, as well as images of Roberto Coin and Oprah and the opening of a special diamond facility in India.
Heartland Family Service’s Joanna Lindberg picks a box off Borsheims’ Giving Tree. Heartland Family Service offers education, counseling and support to individuals and families on a sliding-fee scale. The nonprofit has 17 locations.
Hung from the branches with care, Borsheims boxes on the Giving Tree all contain a surprise, from jewelry to serving platters to gift cards.
Heartland Family Service and Borsheims executives pose by the Giving Tree: Donna Dostal, vice president for development at Heartland Family Service, left; John Jeanetta, CEO of Heartland Family Service; and incoming Borsheims President and CEO Karen Goracke.
The Hollywood Reporter held its “Women in Entertainment: Power 100” breakfast Thursday in Los Angeles. This year, Roberto Coin designed the event’s Sherry Lansing Award, which went to Oprah Winfrey. Coin created a sterling silver and 18-karat gold plated statue topped by a diamond detail that is a replica of Coin’s 100-facet Cento diamond.
On Dec. 6, officials gathered at the Bharat Diamond Bourse in India to inaugurate the Diamond Detection and Resource Center. A project of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Gemmological Institute of India, the center was created to help distinguish lab-grown diamonds from natural.
The chief guest of honor at the event was Varda Shine, the outgoing head of global sightholder sales for De Beers who will leave the company at the end of January. The guest of honor was Paul Rowley, Shine’s successor who is currently the senior vice president of midstream operations for global sightholder sales.
Also present at the inauguration was GJEPC Chairman Vipul Shah. The diamond center will provide detection services for any parcels submitted and offer resources for creating awareness about synthetic diamonds and synthetic diamond testing methods.
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