Thursday, October 17, 2024
Black Tie Optional
Cocktails 5:30 ⇼ Dinner & Program 7:00
The Omni Galleria
4 Riverway Dr
Houston, TX 77056
We are grateful for your decision to partner with us for our One Gala on October 17th! The funds that you help us raise that night will enable us to continue going to where women are being trafficked, offering love, connection, and a way out. And when she decides to get out, we can provide her with 24/7 care, for up to two years in our Safe Home. Every service that we provide is at NO COST to the Survivor.
Your support and the support of those you invite is a crucial component of the survivor’s healing & freedom as our Gala is Elijah Rising’s primary fundraising event!
This service that you are performing is helping provide hope, a way out, and a path to healing for the women that Elijah Rising serves! Thank you for your support!
⇼Assigning tickets
If you have yet to assign tickets to your guests, please access the email that you received upon purchase and input their names and email addresses there. They will then receive their ticket.
⇼Please send a reminder to your guests the day of via text or email.
⇼Dietary Restrictions
If any guest requires a GF, Veg, or Dairy Free meal, they can indicate that once you assign them a ticket. If you are made aware of dietary restrictions, please email tom@elijahrising.org so we can take the necessary precautions.
⇼Arrival
Please arrive to the Gala by 5:30 PM if possible so that you may welcome your guests as they arrive.
⇼During the Gala:
⇼ To help everyone feel at ease, please provide introductions.
⇼ Consider sharing your Elijah Rising “story:” how you heard of us, why you support us, how you are involved or might want to be…
⇼ Invite your guests to ask any questions about what they are seeing and hearing. Please feel free to call over an Elijah Rising staff member if you are stumped by a guest’s question or concern.
⇼ There will be a silent auction that goes live the week before the event and closes during the gala, before the program begins. We will then have a live auction and paddle raise during the program.
⇼ There will be a fundraising appeal. Instructions will come from the Speaker, but please remind guests as necessary that they will place their small envelopes in the giving baskets. Please make it available in the center of your table or pass it around. When guests have finished making their gift, please ensure that they place it in the giving basket.
⇼ Elijah Rising volunteers will visit your table to collect the giving basket as the “giving time” comes to a close.