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Jewelry Authority at JCK Las Vegas Jewelry Show

Educational Workshop by Anne Dale

Thursday May 28, 2009

JCK Las Vegas Jewelry Show

Join jewelry authority Anne Dale and learn how this socially minded independent jeweler developed a unique market niche by creating cause related jewelry designs.

Along with being a diamond specialist, Anne Dale’s Jeweler for a Cause emerged from the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina as a collection of original jewelry designs by the Mandeville jewelry store designer.

Anne’s designs include the Facing Autism Collection™, the Self-Esteem Pendant™, the military Star of Hope Collection™, the New Orleans Louisiana Collection, the Perseverance pendant, the PAUSE pendant and continues to grow with inspired works. Each item comes with a short essay explaining the cause and inspiration behind the original Anne Dale design.

The Jeweler for a Cause Collection is available nationwide through a network of charity associations and retail jewelers while being proudly Made in the U.S.A.

Las Vegas Jewelry Show – Jeweler for a Cause

Other Jewelry Authority Panelists at this JCK workshop:
David Rocha – Jewelers for Children
Russell Simmons – Diamond Empowerment Fund

Autism Jewelry March 2009

New Orleans jeweler Anne Dale with the amazing LeAnne Cantrell of KidSense the force behind the Nation’s first public-school motor sensory yard for special needs children.

Located in Mandeville, Louisiana between Pontchartrain Elementary and Tchefuncte Middle School, the playground has many purposes.

It is a sensory integration playground designed to help children with autism, ADHD and special needs regain self-control and concentration—and play like everyone else.

The yards are designed with rubber, safety-tile surfacing, making them ADA-accessible. Numerous Braille mosaics also dot the site, large enough to accommodate a full-size “typical” classroom, along with the students from special education classes.

Through the sales of the Facing Autism pendant the Jeweler for a Cause Fund was able to make a generous donation to this worthy project.

Pay It Forward

Anne Dale featured in America’s Best Jewelers

Most of us will never forget the images of Hurricane Katrina that are burned into our memories. One such person is small business owner Anne Dale, of Anne Dale Jewelers in Mandeville, La.

Anne and her family were among the millions affected by Hurricane Katrina’s destruction. All of the members of her family were able to escape the devastation relatively unharmed. One of her sisters had to be rescued by boat; another sister had over 2-feet of water in her home, and Dale’s business was damaged by water. She also had no electricity in her home for over a month and had no water for quite some time.

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Jeweler for a Cause® – Saint Scholastica Academy

Saint Scholastica Academy (SSA), a catholic college preparatory high school in Covington, LA drawing upon its 100-year history of sisterhood, perpetuates the Benedictine tradition of prayer, work, study and community. Students will be assisting in a work project at Our Lady of Lourdes School which was devastated by Katrina in New Orleans. If you would like to donate to their mission, please contact:

Elaine Simmons at

www.ssacad.com. OR
122 South Massachusetts Street,
Covington, LA 70433

St. Scholastica Academy is owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans and is governed by the Archbishop of New Orleans. As a Catholic school, SSA is part of the educational ministry of the Church and, as such, does not have a separate legal identity. The Archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools, headed by the Superintendent of Catholic Schools, monitors the religious and academic programs of the school to ensure that they comply with Archdiocesan and State policies.