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Cooking Up Support With Eat For Equity
Posted on Mar 19 2018
Eat for Equity invited people to their Welcome Table to “try amazing new foods in the context of the refugee/immigration stories. You will meet new friends and learn more about the vibrant communities that are in our state…all the while supporting an amazing cause!!” Their volunteer chefs cooked up a feast for 200 friends and supporters on March 3 at the Paikka Event Center, raising nearly $3,000 to support ILCM’s work.
Eat for Equity organizes volunteers to prepare and serve food at events benefiting nonprofits throughout the year. For this event, Paikka donated its space, and Lake Monster Brewery and Fair State Co-op donated beer. Each chef introduced their contribution to the evening’s meal, and ILCM’s John Keller spoke briefly about immigration issues and the work of ILCM. Guests also enjoyed free paintings and hands on printmaking by the Living Proof Collective, Taylor Baldry, and Cori Lin.
While part of the goal is fundraising, another part is accessibility. Eat For Equity’s events come with some pay-what-you-can tickets as well as opportunities to volunteer as a way of paying your way.
SAVE THE DATE: Eat for Equity’s Welcome Table offered a great opportunity to celebrate and support ILCM at the same time. The next opportunity comes on June 1, with a fundraising gala at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center in downtown Minneapolis. Save the date! Details will follow in April.
The amazing food at the Welcome Table on March 3 included:
- a Ugandan street food called Rolexes to start the meal,
- greens with oyster sauce and taro cake,
- a Bulgarian feast, with Stefaniloaf, a cucumber herb salad, and a potato, mushroom, and leek tart,
- and for dessert: flan de queso!