Ro's first fundraiser

Ro's first fundraiser was a success! The group had decided to do a fundraiser hosted by ClubJam with live music, a comedian and great prizes for raffle. Ro had run around for months before the event asking businesses for donations of their services and merchandise. She was successful. She was able to get many great prizes. Over $800.00 worth of merchandise and services were donated!
Not only had Suzy designed our logo, she made Ro and I business cards of them and she made a huge poster that hung at the front of the club. We want people to know our name. We want our name and logo to be a symbol of fun fundraising events. This event was called Community FUNraiser.
This beautiful cake was donated from The Bakery. Not only was it beautiful and had Equality Utah written on it...it was YUMMY!! Thank you to The Bakery!

We had a great turnout. The club owner said it was the best turnout any fundraiser had at that club. He was surprised at the number of people we brought in. That was a great compliment from him.
We had many of our friends show up to volunteer and to support. Thanks to Kim and Jess for the food setup & the use of their food handler's permit! Steph and Lu fought the cold to tend to the canned food donations! We're glad they were able to join us to party later on. Joni and Sean (picture to the left) kicked it at the front door. They were our donation duo. Sean got sucked in last minute, but I don't think he minded. He got to spend the night next to a beautiful lady!

Our friends Adria and Nat (picture below) were there all night long. Adria is the reason we have such great pictures. She took that camera and got a shot of everyone! Nat is the reason we sold so many raffle tickets! She was rocking the raffle tickets!




As you can see, we did have a great turnout and a great time! Despite my nasty cold and biladeral ear infections, I even held up the night! Thank you to our group and the many volunteers there to help. Between suggested donation at the door and raffle tickets, we made $772.00 to be equally donated between Equality Utah and The Utah Pride Center.




Great job group for pulling off an amazing event.

Community In-Roads Alliance

Post passing of Proposition 8 in California, which
bans same-sex marriage, many groups have been
popping up around the nation. Some of the local
groups are geared towards activism and service.
Rhonda had a great idea to form a group that
would focus primarily on fundraising. Most of
the local GLBT groups that are fighting for equal
rights are non-profit and are in need of
some extra cash.

I am so proud of Rhonda for envisioning and pursuing such a great organization. She brought
together a great group of people with the common goal of involving the whole community.
A group that will build a bridge both inside our community as well as a bridge from outside in. She has been a great leader with inspiration for all.

Our straight ally and sister Suzy graciously lent her creative self to create both our logo as well as flyers for our most recent events.

Thank you to the whole group for the hard work, creativity and inspiration they bring to the group. Hopefully, Community In-Roads Alliance will be able to build the bridge to include everyone!