This event launched the 2019 IUPUI United Way Campaign, which includes campus and school/unit events and concludes with the IUPUI United Way Silent Auction and Fall Dessert Showcase on October 30, 2019.
The luncheon acts as a kickoff fundraiser, where "celebrity servers" work to earn tips from their colleagues to be added to the total amount IUPUI raises for United Way of Central Indiana. This year, attendees also participated in a poverty simulation to really understand how some members of the central Indiana community have to live.