14th Annual Banquet (2015)

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Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015

Time: 6:30PM to 9:30PM
Program will begin promptly at 7PM!

Place: Jing Fong Restaurant
20 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10013


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Individual Ticket

Non-Member: $150
Complimentary AAARI 2016 Membership

Member: $100 | Senior (65+): $85 | Student: $50

 

Table of Ten

Diamond – $5,000

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Ruby – $3,000 Free Half Page Advertisement
Pearl – $2,000

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Jade – $1,500

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Banquet RSVP / Ad Form
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Order Online Via Credit Card

Ad Deadline: Friday, November 20, 2015
RSVP Deadline: Friday, December 4, 2015

2015 Gala Honorees
 

Leadership Award

Nydia M. Velázquez
Congressmember

  CUNY Distinguished Asian American
Special Joint Alumni Award
Mrs. Deborah Chan & Mr. Nelson Louis
CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship Lauren Chai
Undergraduate Student, Baruch College/CUNY
Chynn-CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest Winners & Honorable Mention
2015 Gala Emcee Ernabel Demillo
Host & Producer, Asian American Life

AAARI’s Annual Gala is attended by 450+ Asian and non-Asian academic, business, civic and community leaders, faculty, staff and students. As of Fall 2014, the Asian American representation in CUNY is over 58,000, with more than 5,100 faculty and staff, 4,200 graduate students and 48,700 undergraduates of Asian heritage. There are tens of thousands of Asian American CUNY alumni working and living throughout New York and the country. AAARI engages the Asian American community within CUNY, New York City and beyond.

Benefits of Supporting the AAARI Annual Gala

  1. Exposure to 450+ attendees at the Gala – printed program acknowledgements distributed to attendees who represent not just themselves but many other organizations. Additional programs will also be distributed at upcoming AAARI events throughout the Spring semester.

 

  1. Table sponsors are listed on AAARI’s website which reaches thousands of faculty, staff and students within CUNY, and academic, business, civic and community leaders and organizations outside of CUNY.

 

  1. The Gala receives extensive coverage in the Asian American ethnic press.

2015 Annual Banquet

Banquet Program

Biographies

Silent Auction / Raffle


Diamond
City University of New York
Law Office of Deborah Chan
The Ong Family Foundation
Wen-Parker Logistics

Jade
Asian Americans for Equality
Chinese-American Planning Council
CMP
Central Queens Academy Board of Trustees
CUNY Citizenship Now
Holy Name Medical Center
UTC Associates

CUNY
Baruch College
Borough of Manhattan CC
Brooklyn College
College of Staten Island
Kingsborough CC
LaGuardia CC
Medgar Evers College
NYC College of Technology
Queensborough CC

Member
Acceleration Group
Betty Lee Sung
Carol Huang
Korean American Family Service Center
Pearl Tam

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Bridging Cultures 101
Con Edison
CUNY Research Foundation
First American International Bank
Lehman College
Mannings Pharmacy
Municipal Credit Union
NY Community Bank
Weissman Center for International Business

Sponsor/Donor
American Museum of Natural History
American Symphony Orchestra
Antony Wong
Asia Society
Betty Lee Sung
Bloomingdale’s
Blue Man Group
Bridging Cultures 101
Broadway Comedy Club
Brooklyn Cyclones
Carnegie Hall
Corky Lee
Gotham Comedy Club
Heartland Brewery
Ito En
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Arts
Joyce Moy
Kathy’s Design Ltd
Kramer Portraits
Lia Schorr Skin Care
Loretta Chin
Museum of Chinese in America
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Myriad Restaurant Group
New Museum
New York City Fire Museum
NY Giants
NY Islanders
NY Jets
NY Red Bulls
NY Transit Museum
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
Pilo Arts Salon
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Tanger Outlets
Tia’s Place
Shake Shack
Skyscraper Museum
South Street Seaport Museum
Staten Island Museum
Susan Kim
The New Victory Theater
US Open