Valentine's Events & House Parties Raise Critical Funds & Awareness

By Win Chesson on 03/09/2011 @ 10:43 AM

Tags: Events, UAFA

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of gracious house party hosts, Immigration Equality and the Action Fund gained hundreds of new supporters, reached key members of Congress, and raised over $15,000. Party hosts invited their own Congressional representatives to attend, underscoring the urgent need to pass UAFA.

Some parties also screened Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert’s video clip on binational families, and received a live update with Q&A from Immigration Equality's staff.

Immigration Equality would like to extend its deepest gratitude to all of our fabulous hosts:

Brooklyn, NY: Barrak Alzaid
Los Angeles, CA: Xiaofeng "Charlie" Gu
New York, NY: Team NY Aquatics “One Hour Swim”
New York, NY: Metropolitan Tennis Group with Out of Bounds NY
San Diego, CA: Vanessa Dubois
San Francisco, CA: Aaron Chapman & Juan Carlos Duarte
Washington, DC: Timur Hicylmaz & Luke Johnson

Upcoming: Sydney, Australia! Fort Lauderdale, Florida!

If you are interested in hosting your own Immigration Equality fundraiser, please contact Win at wchesson (at) immigrationequality.org to receive a house party toolkit.