The City Club of San Francisco welcomed back The Center for Justice and Accountability for the second year this past month. This organization is one of the many non-profit groups that we have the pleasure of hosting here at the City Club. They are a group that works on a variety of human rights legislative and policy efforts with an emphasis on supporting policy that enhance the commitment to criminally prosecute human rights abusers.
As a venue, when clients to come back and use the Club, it is very flattering for us. To me it means that their past event was a huge success not only for the guests on that evening but also for their fundraising efforts and publicity for their group. It’s a great feeling for the entire team to have that type of compliment be paid. Like most organizations, especially non-profits in a fundraising capacity, it is ever important to maximize your resources and I am glad that we were able to create a truly wonderful event that the guests seemed to really appreciate and enjoy again this year.
The organization provided their own wine which was paired with a variety of food stations ranging from Turkey Carving to Italian prepared by Chef Michael Munoz. Guests mingled and filled up on the stations in the Café (10th floor) before being invited upstairs to the Main Dining Room (11th floor) for the Awards presentation featuring awards for Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D, Bureau Des Avocats Internationaux and Dr. Juan Romagoza. The guests were then invited back to the Café for dessert, coffee and tea. The evening had a wonderful flow and despite not including a full plated meal, the guests left full and satisfied.
I spoke with my contact at CJA following the event and we concluded that we may have preferred this set-up as it afforded guests with the opportunity to mix with a larger number of people rather than be with the same 8 people for the entire of the evening. All in all, we concluded that their guests really seemed to enjoy themselves.
It is a pleasure working with such an energetic and organized group and we hope to have them back with us again next year.
