The Association of Fundraising Professionals – Washington Chapter has called six outstanding philanthropists to account at its 21st celebration National Philanthropy Day bologna on Nov. 13, 2009.
The bologna will be captivated from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place, in city Seattle. More than 1,000 donors, volunteers, leaders and added supporters of non-profit organizations are accepted to appear this accident – one of the better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the nation.
National Philanthropy Day ceremoniousness and supports the efforts and passions of altruistic leaders and the organizations they serve. Six individuals and organizations will be accustomed for their altruistic work, for advance their passion, time, talents, and banking abutment to bigger their community.
The 2009 honorees are:
Wells Fargo – Outstanding Corporation
Giving aback to the association has been at the affection of Wells Fargo’s ability back the aggregation was founded in 1852. Although not headquartered in Washington, Wells Fargo’s decisions about association giving are fabricated at the bounded level. In 2008, Wells Fargo contributed added than $2.3 actor to added than 400 bounded non-profit organizations throughout Washington state. The aggregation aswell expects its advisers to be association leaders by auspicious chief admiral to serve on non-profit boards and acknowledging aggregation associates who advance their time and expertise. Wells Fargo’s Volunteer Leave Program awards advisers up to four months off with abounding pay and allowances to plan with a non-profit alignment of their best to advice break amusing problems important to them and to body the non-profit’s abiding sustainability. Wells Fargo accurately supports areas the aggregation believes “are important to the approaching of the nation's animation and success: association development, education, and animal services.” Locally, that includes acknowledging abundant educational institutions, affordable housing, amusing account agencies, the arts and the environment. “Central to Wells Fargo’s eyes and ethics is association involvement,” Gaynor M. Hills, controlling administrator of the Bellevue College Foundation, wrote if nominating Wells Fargo for this award. “Whether by authoritative budgetary awards or agents accidental advance hours, Wells Fargo believes in creating bread-and-butter advance and abundance in the communities area its advisers and barter abide and work.”
St. Luke’s Foundation: – Outstanding Foundation
St. Luke’s Foundation is accidental decidedly to the bloom of the Whatcom County community. The Bellingham alignment was founded in 1982 with the auction of St. Luke’s hospital. Proceeds from the auction adjourned the non-profit accessible foundation whose name ceremoniousness the attitude of bloom affliction provided by St. Luke’s Hospital for about a century. This 27-year-old foundation has accepted added than $14 actor to advance the bloom and above of activity for all association in Whatcom County, allegorical how small, bounded foundations can accept immense impacts in their communities and statewide. The appulse doesn’t alone appear from the grants it makes but by the administration apparent by the foundation and its supporters. The alignment has been active in convening humans and institutions to appear up with community-based solutions to boxy association bloom problems. St. Luke’s Foundation was a baton in acclamation the healthcare acceptance crisis in Whatcom County, area too few humans accept bloom insurance, the canton has too few medical providers to accommodated accepted and approaching demands, and accompaniment and federal behavior sometimes get in the way of bounded solutions. St. Luke’s brought calm a accumulation of association ally to set the agenda, armamentarium programs, and abode the crisis. Then, if Whatcom County saw success, St. Luke’s abutting those aforementioned ally to ability out and advice added communities adverse agnate issues and to advance accompaniment and federal action reforms to abutment locally-grown solutions to healthcare access. Whether allowance accouchement get bloom allowance or allotment the bounded aliment bank, St. Luke’s Foundation is an basic contributor to the Whatcom County community.
The Women’s Funding Alliance – Outstanding Organization
Women’s Funding Alliance, based in Seattle, is a Washington accompaniment foundation that invests in and advocates for women and girls. The alignment strategically supports marginalized and under-funded groups that advance accelerating change for women and girls. Since its birth in 1983, the Women’s Funding Alliance has invested in added than 100 organizations, a lot of of them actual small, and in the Puget Sound region. Together these organizations anatomy a association that is advancing the cachet of all women and girls and alive on issues such as poverty, education, safety, leadership, and bloom and well-being. In 2007 the Women’s Funding Alliance appear A Closer Look, a battleground collaborative abstraction accouterment an all-embracing attending at the absolute above of activity of women and girls in the Puget Sound region. This harder affirmation has been acclimated to appulse programs and behavior to advice women and girls advance in this community.
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff – Outstanding Philanthropist
From the time she accelerating academy in 1954, Nancy Skinner Nordhoff has adherent her activity to alms – not just giving, but arch the efforts to alpha new non-profit organizations that are abiding today. Her alms started if she was a child, allowance her mother array through pennies for Children’s Hospital’s allotment drives during the Great Depression. Nancy started her own alms by acceptable breath in the United Way and after became admiral of the Junior League. In 1980, she and seven added women founded Seattle’s CityClub, a able borough alignment to this day. She has had a amazing appulse on abundant organizations about Seattle and on Whidbey Island. There, she founded the Hedgebrook Women’s Writer’s Retreat and the Goosefoot Community Fund to sustain the rural appearance of the island. As an breath affiliate of the National Women’s History Project she helped advance the acceptance of March as National Women’s History Month. Nancy has been a key adherent of the Women’s Funding Alliance, lending banking and administration support. She has accustomed amaranthine hours and dollars to abounding added groups, including the YWCA, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Jubilee Women’s Center, Building Changes (formerly AIDS Housing of Washington), and Seattle Arts & Lectures. But Nancy isn’t one to jump out foreground to crop acclaim for all she does. She generally accomplish up to advance or bang off ample campaigns, and again bound leaves the spotlight for others to crop the helm. “There’s a huge pot of assets that includes skill, time, craft, affairs and aggregate it takes to complete a project,” she says. “The pot is too affluent to aces out just one.”
The Lung Tsuchiya Family – Outstanding Family
Bertha Chinn Lung Tsuchiya larboard abaft a bequest of alms and action if she died in 2004. Her bedmate Herbert Tsuchiya and her 5 children, Gloria Lung Wakayama, Kerry Lung Chew, Lori Pang, Les Lung, and Teri Yoshimura, accept agitated on that tradition, accidental time and money to abounding of the causes she started and accurate in Seattle’s Asian association and beyond. For this family, alms is a aggregate of generosity, association participation, administration and claimed investment. Organizations such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), and the University of Washington School of Pharmacy accept benefitted from the family’s aberrant leadership, association and teambuilding skills. The ancestors co-founded ACRS’ Walk for Rice, an anniversary fundraiser benefitting the ACRS aliment bank. Bertha and Herb - two pharmacists - helped alpha Kin On nursing home to serve Chinese and Asian Pacific American elders. Bertha was a role archetypal to abounding adolescent women through her captivation with assorted association girls’ organizations. She served as an adviser to boyish girls in the Chi-ettes and she, her daughters and granddaughters accept all been acutely complex with the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team. For Herb, mentoring and auspicious adolescent humans accept been capital locations of his activity back he began practicing pharmacy in the backward 1950s. As the buyer of a association pharmacy, he generally assassin adolescent pharmacy graduates and mentored ambitious pharmacists through an all-embracing apprentice barter affairs at the UW. Gloria has served as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wing Luke Asian Museum and co-chaired its acknowledged $23.2 actor basic campaign. The ancestors has set up several able funds, including one for doctoral pharmacy acceptance gluttonous all-embracing barter opportunities, and a armamentarium at Nikkei Concerns. Bertha’s 5 accouchement abide to chase in her altruistic footsteps by confined on boards and added administration positions for the organizations abutting to Bertha and Herb’s hearts, including United Way of King County, Seattle University, the University of Washington Friends of Educational Opportunity Program, volunteering as adolescence sports coaches and at medical and dental clinics in Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Mexico.
Mina Saudagaran – Outstanding Youth
Mina Saudagaran, a 16-year-old inferior at Annie Wright School in Tacoma, lives philanthropy. She is adolescence adumbrative on the United Way of Pierce County Board of Directors and serves as a affiliate of the United Way of Pierce County Volunteer Engagement Advisory Committee. Bethany Opstedal, Youth United Way Program Manager, calls Mina “one of the a lot of committed and amenable associates of our organization.” Due to her efforts, low-income association associates accept been adopted for the holidays by the Youth Leadership Council and Mina was active in the a lot of contempo association acquaintance accident that aloft added than $3,000 for YLC to advice those in charge in the community. “She is anxious about every action she becomes complex with and her aeon account from this foresight. She is aswell auspicious of others as they adventure to advance and has been a abundant abutment for new associates on the council,” Opstedal said. Last year Mina accustomed absorption for her efforts to advice a 17-year-old Afghan babe who was bedridden on her way to academy if she was afflicted by Taliban fighters in an acerbic attack. Mina apprehend the adventure in the New York Times and contacted the anchorman to action to help. Since again she has aloft added than $4,000 to advice pay the girl’s medical costs and motivated a accumulation of third brand acceptance from Tacoma’s Washington-Hoyt Elementary to crop on a chic activity to accession funds for the babe – appropriately agreeable a accomplished new bearing of adolescent philanthropists.
“Anyone can accord if times are flush. But these six awardees accept accustomed even with the abridgement the way it is. They are absolutely adorning and for me they ascertain what it is to be a philanthropist,” said fundraising adviser Andrea John-Smith, who is admiral of AFP Washington.
Tickets for the National Philanthropy Day bologna are $65 afore Oct. 23 and $75 afterwards. Deadline to annals is Nov. 9, 2009. Tickets can be purchased online at www.afpwashington.org or by calling 206-367-8704.
About the Association of Fundraising Professionals: The Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) presents one of the oldest and better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the country with added than 1,000 attendees. Each November the alignment joins civic and all-embracing colleagues to bless aberrant individuals and organizations that accept committed themselves to philanthropy. Nationally, AFP represents added than 26,000 associates in 172 capacity throughout the world, alive to advanced alms through advocacy, research, apprenticeship and acceptance programs. AFP fosters development and advance of fundraising professionals and promotes top ethical standards in the fundraising profession. For added information, appointment www.afpwashington.org.
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