Tracey Nobil is hoping shoppers will hit the Streets next weekend to help fund some local organizations worth supporting.

The event is the Streets of Brentwood’s first Community Quarterly Sale, and it’s just the first of several planned occasions designed to bring residents and the new lifestyle center together.

“Our motto is ‘Together We Are Community,’” Nobil said. “It means that, as a community, as a center, as businesses and as a city, we’re all working to better ourselves, each other and the community as a whole. In this new economy, we really need to do that.”

Beginning Friday, Feb. 27 and continuing through the weekend until March 1, shoppers can raise money simply by making a $20 purchase at one of the Streets’ stores, $40 at a restaurant or $60 at the Rave 14 Movie Theater. Purchases at any of the Streets’ 40-plus merchants will benefit the Brentwood Rotary Club and Kids Helping Kids Charity.

“We’re really excited and honored that they chose us,” said Laura Page of Kids Helping Kids. “It’s neat to see businesses that want to partner and make a difference in peoples’ lives. We think very highly of our kids, and think they are important for our future. It’s great that local businesses agree.”

Kids Helping Kids was founded by 11-year-old Tyler Page to raise money to combat child trafficking in Ghana. Having reached his original $50,000 goal last year, said Laura, Tyler’s mom, the organization has continued that effort and expanded its work to assist local children and families in need. More than 100 kids are on the volunteer list, she said, and about 20 meet monthly for a new leadership program that instills self-esteem, etiquette and manners, among other things.

The Brentwood Rotary Club, one of the East County’s most active service organizations, is a fixture at local events. Its activities include volunteering at the Brentwood CornFest, financing a holiday shopping spree for underprivileged kids, accompanying the Rotary’s high school Interact chapters on home-building trips to Louisiana and Mexico, and distributing thousands of dictionaries every year to far East County school children. The club also provides numerous scholarships to high school seniors each year, part of a total of about $40,000 in donations made last year alone.

It’s that sort of community advocacy that Nobil wants to support, in addition to helping in other areas. Other upcoming events include a March 8 Franchise Fair at which potential business people can meet organizations that can help them find their niche. In June, area chambers of commerce members will be on hand to show off their wares and services. Last year the Streets put on a dog show that raised money for animal advocacy groups, and established a program to permanently display children’s artwork baked into ceramic tiles.

Charities or community programs that would like to be future beneficiaries of the Streets of Brentwood Quarterly Community Sale can apply online between March 2 and April 30.