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Friendfactor: The New York Launch

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Start Date and Time: 05/03/2011 07:00 PM

End Date and Time: 05/03/2011 08:30 PM

Location: Lavo New York, 39 East 58th Street New York, NY 10022

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Friendfactor Accelerator**

Funds from tickets purchased through this site help eliminate discrimination against your gay friends by changing laws now.

Friendfactor is pioneering a new model of online organizing that will bring new supporters to the gay* rights movement. The online platform has the power to reach millions of friends.

Through public education and advocacy tools, Friendfactor cultivates new "champions of freedom," people who, when asked to support their gay* and transgender friends, will do so. Gay* friends matter more than gay* issues for most people, but many friends don't know what's at stake or how to help, and most gay* and transgender Americans don't know how to ask. Friendfactor seeks to fill that gap and shift the gay* rights dialogue away from ideology and toward a more personal and inclusive concept: friends helping friends.

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Friendfactor: The New York Launch

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The Host Committee Co-Chairs
Ken Mehlman, David Mixner, Susan Reed, Josh Blumenfeld, Greg Zaffiro
and
Chelsea Clinton
cordially invite you to a reception for

Friendfactor: The New York Launch

Friendfactor combines the power of technology and friends?straight and gay*?
to achieve full legal freedoms for gay and transgender Americans, faster.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Time: VIP and Host Committee Reception 6-7pm, Main Event 7-8:30pm
Location: Lavo New York, 39 East 58th Street, New York, New York
Tickets: $300 Main Event, $1000 VIP and Host Committee Reception

Host Committee (in formation)

Lead Sponsors:
Andrew Tobias, Charles Myers, David Schlapbach, Juan Pablo Moncayo,
Ken Banta & Tony Powe, Martin Shkreli

Sponsors:
Adam Brenner, Adam Freed, Chris & Elizabeth Rile, Scott Widmeyer & Alan Yount

Hosts:
Alan van Capelle & Matthew E. Morninstar, Barry & Lisa Bornstein, Beth Minardi, Bill Smith, Charles O'Byrne, Dan Howard, Eric Mann & Jeff Spicer, Faith Gay, Jane Wu, Julia Sherbakov, Keola Whittaker, Kevin Maple, Mario Palumbo, Mitchell Drazin & Philippe Brugere-Trelat, Rhett Morris, Richard Socarides, Ryan Lawson, Ryan Pedlow & Jonathan Ducrest, Sal Giambanco & Tom Perrault, Timothy Chow, Todd Waterbury, William Lyons

www.Friendfactor.org

* Friendfactor sometimes uses "gay" instead of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans). We?re beginning with what's familiar to most Americans to reach as many people as possible.
**Friendfactor is a joint project of Friendfactor Accelerator, a 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to advocacy and legal change, and Friendfactor Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that changes hearts, minds, and public opinion through public education. Friendfactor Accelerator is not eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions. Friendfactor Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, can receive tax-deductible contributions.

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