Pari Livermore
What Love Feels Like
Matchmaker, television host, author and charity fundraiser Pari Livermore wants you to know what love feels like. Pari is often called the Robin Hood of Matchmaking. In lieu of a fee, Pari asks her well-healed clients to donate to contribute to her favorite nonprofit causes.
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About Pari
Pari Livermore became an active volunteer for children’s cancer while continuing an exciting career with Trans World Airlines, which spanned 26 years. Initially serving as a flight attendant, flight attendant supervisor and finally a Director of Customer Services. She took full advantage of TWA’s generous education reimbursement program and would go to school during the week and work on the weekends. She often took educational leaves of absence. As a result, she received an undergraduate degree from New York University and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. On one of her educational leaves, Pari also took time to create the Red and White Ball honoring the most eligible bachelors in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Since her teen years, Pari enjoyed matchmaking and giving her friends the gift of each other. Over a 20 year period, the Red & White Ball was a resounding success and Pari would have a chance to make dozens of matches in one evening. It was a matchmaker’s dream.
Pari has enjoyed raising funds through her matchmaking efforts for nonprofit organizations which has resulted in over 300 marriages.
Pari’s success won her a seat on the Board for The American Cancer Society. In 1988, thru her work on the board, she met her future husband, Putnam Livermore. They had on instant attraction to one another and after a few months, Pari told Put of her pledge to God to serve others. Put decided to help make her dreams come true and they were married in 1989. Working together, they began a quest which would have impressed Dale Carnegie.
On their Honeymoon, Pari and Put decided to develop a water project on the Livermore Ranch which still operates today. Pari helped Put with fundraising efforts and events for his environmental causes. Put helped Pari develop the Point of Light Celebration for the Top 25 Volunteers in San Francisco for such causes as the Boy and Girls Club and the Child Abuse Prevention Society, and others. Together they started The Mentor’s Lunch for Women Honoring Inspirational Women for the Vallejo Stairway Garden at the summit of Russian Hill and The Fall Fair honoring the most fascinating single women in San Francisco for such nonprofits as The Family Service Agency and The Family Caregiver Alliance, The California State Park Foundation and LITA.
Put encouraged Pari to pursue a 9 year television career hosting “Everybody’s Angels,” a cable television show about people who volunteered for nonprofit organizations. And Pari and Put celebrated the success of her book, “How to Marry a Fabulous Man” published by Meredith Books.
But they both agreed the most exhilarating experience they shared together was the Livermore Scholarship Program for the Minnie Cannon Elementary School in Middletown, California, and underserved community near the Livermore Ranch in the California Wine Country.
In 2019, the University of California, Berkeley hosted a party in her honor for her work with the Cal Crew Scholarships, the Cal Alumni Association Scholarships and Pari has been given the honor of partnering with UC Berkeley on the Berkeley Minnie Cannon School Scholarship Program.
In 2019, Pari also received awards for her generosity from both the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Society at Cal and the Minnie Cannon Elementary School.