A rather unconventional fundraiser recently raised at least $3,300 for LaConexion. The “non-event” fundraiser didn’t require donors to dress up or make idle chit-chat. All they had to do was drop off a check.
The collected amount will be matched by an anonymous donor.
Organizers Ginny and Scott Stewart, Sandy Rowland, Diane Vogtsberger, Janet Parks and Dianne Klein sat under a tent in the Stewarts’ front yard and collected funds from donors. Some drove by, some walked, and some rode bikes to drop off their donations.
Scott Stewart, wearing a “tuxedo” shirt and carrying a silver platter, greeted donors and gave them cookies donated by Grounds for Thought, and coupons from Qdoba.
After the fundraiser, organizers had a Qdoba dinner with LaConexion members.
The money collected will be put toward emergency funds for LaConexion, potentially for local residents picked up by ICE. Previously, fundraising to help local residents in ICE detention had to be raised quickly when they were apprehended.
“Now we know we have this fund for that. We won’t have to do this fundraising quickly,” Ginny Stewart said.
