Leadership Luncheon
Mar 08, 2010
$222,000+ for Early Learning!
A letter from Executive Director Vaughnetta J. Barton:
$222,000+ for Early Learning!
Thank
you for supporting Foundation for Early Learning's 10th Anniversary
Luncheon.
Because of you, our event was a huge success and raised over $222,000! Funds
from this event support our year-round work to get children
kindergarten-ready!
Over
500 community members joined us to hear Dr. Doreen Cato, Dr. Dimitri A.
Christakis and Charlie Guildner
address the state of early in Washington. Eric Liu moderated the discussion.
We invite you to continue
the discussion on the Early Learning Community; click here to join in the
discussion.
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Thank
you again for being a strong partner in early learning!
With
gratitude,
Vaughnetta
J. Barton,
Executive Director
Foundation
for Early Learning
Jan 14, 2010
Calling all early learning supporters!
Foundation for Early Learning is looking for a few terrific volunteers to lend a hand on the day of our 10th Anniversary Leadership Luncheon. The Luncheon is planned for Friday, March 5th at the Westin Hotel on 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Volunteers will need to be available from around 10am to mid-afternoon.
If you're interested and available, please email mary@earlylearning.org with your email address and contact information so we can get in touch with details. You can also learn more about the luncheon at http://earlylearning.org/events/leadership-luncheon.
Jan 28, 2009
Invest in Children on March 6th
The Foundation for Early Learning's 2009 Leadership Luncheon is just weeks away on March 6th. When I started at the Foundation two months ago, much of the planning was already in place – including our keynote speaker. The theme of this year’s event is invest in children and our speaker is the perfect person for such an event.
Andrea Levere is from CFED (Corporation for Enterprise Development) in Washington, D.C. and I had the opportunity to meet with her in person just recently. While her credentials and experience may sound technical, her passion and commitment for creating a world where everyone has a strong future, is incredibly inspiring and very relatable.
She is behind the idea of SEED, a multi-year national initiative to test and promote matched savings accounts and financial education for children. Her organization has developed many creative economic development opportunities that help individuals start and grow businesses, go to college, own a home, and save for their children’s and their own economic futures. It is hard to deny that a strong future for children and families is so closely tied together to economic security.
I am also looking forward to meeting the 600 friends and supporters who attend. And I’m especially excited that our 600 friends and supporters have the opportunity to RSVP online – makes the registration process much easier and time-efficient for the staff (a.k.a., me).
Visit the luncheon page at www.earlylearning.org/luncheon for more juicy details and I’ll see you on March 6th!
Jessica