🎄 December Social: Holiday Cheer & Giving Back!

It's the most wonderful time of the year... to step away from your laptop and hang with your fellow Nomads! 🎄
We're wrapping up another year of making friends, building connections, and getting out of the house with our December Social at Six & Twenty Distillery!
We're especially excited to support this locally owned and operated Upstate business, known as South Carolina's oldest distillery! They'll have small bites, cocktails, and nonalcoholic options available for purchase, so there's something for everyone.
Come grab a drink, catch up with familiar faces, meet some new ones, and enjoy a little holiday cheer before the year wraps up.

## 💛 A Little Holiday Giving

In the spirit of the season, we're also giving back in a simple but meaningful way!
We'll be collecting donations for Fostering Great Ideas (https://fgi4kids.org/), a local nonprofit supporting children in foster care across the Upstate.
Two easy ways to brighten a child's season:
🎒 Luggage Drive
Many children in foster care move between homes carrying their belongings in garbage bags. Bring gently used or inexpensive new luggage, duffel bags, or backpacks to help give them a more dignified way to carry their belongings.
🎁 Sib-Link Gift Cards
Fostering Great Ideas helps siblings who have been placed in different foster homes spend time together, often over a meal. Restaurant gift cards (especially fast-food or regional chains with locations throughout the Upstate) help make those visits possible. Small cards in $5-$10 increments are ideal.

## ✨ What to Expect

• Drop in anytime between 6–8 PM
• Small bites, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase
• Relaxed, friendly vibes and plenty of time to mix and mingle
• Name tags to make meeting new people a little easier
• No presentations, no pitches, and definitely no awkward networking!

Whether it's your first event or your fifteenth, you're always welcome here.
Bring a donation if you're able, but either way, come enjoy some holiday cheer, support a local business, and close out the year with your fellow Nomads!
Let's make our last social of the year a good one! 🎄💛