The Impact Fund hosts its Annual Reception with honorees including the renowned Anna Deavere Smith

Berkeley, CA— The Impact Fund will be hosting its Fourteenth Anniversary Reception on May 17, 2007 from 5:30pm-7:30pm at The Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

Honorees will include:

Anna Deavere Smith, the renowned actress, playwright, teacher and author, for her portrayal of racial tension and its effect on society. Her one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, received two Tony nominations. She is also well known for her role on The West Wing as the Secretary of State.

The Fox and Robertson Law Firm of Denver, Colorado, for their passion and dedication for disability civil rights. The ground-breaking work of Tim Fox and Amy Robertson is most recently reflected in a nation-wide settlement against KMart, the biggest disability access case to date.

THE IMPACT FUND is the nation's only foundation providing broad support for complex public interest litigation. Founded in 1992, our mission is to support impact litigation in the areas of civil rights, environmental justice, and poverty law. Over the past fourteen years, we have granted over $4.2 million in litigation grants to attorneys and community groups throughout the nation. The Impact Fund also provides innovative technical support, training, and expertise on issues that arise in large-scale impact litigation, such as class actions. The Impact Fund's Equal Justice Litigation Program provides strategic leadership in civil rights class action litigation, and is lead counsel in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the largest civil rights class action ever certified. For more information, see our website at www.impactfund.org.

Sponsorships are available from $350 to $10,000. Regular tickets are $125 per person, and nonprofits are $35 per person.