Kirkland City Councilmember Shelley Kloba to emcee NPI’s 2015 Spring Fundraising Gala

Tonight, with NPI’s 2015 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala now just six weeks away, we are thrilled to announce that we have a fan­tas­tic Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies lined up to run this year’s speak­ing pro­gram: Kirk­land City Coun­cilmem­ber Shel­ley Klo­ba.

Shel­ley is one of the East­side’s most prin­ci­pled and hard­work­ing elect­ed offi­cials. She was appoint­ed by her col­leagues to the Kirk­land City Coun­cil to fill a vacan­cy in March of 2013. The vot­ers sub­se­quent­ly retained her the fol­low­ing Novem­ber, and she is up for reelec­tion to the Coun­cil this year. She has a long his­to­ry of involve­ment in the PTA, vol­un­teers as an Ever­green­Health com­mu­ni­ty advi­sor, and is cur­rent­ly a trustee for the Lake Wash­ing­ton Schools Foundation.

Shel­ley is also a long­time sup­port­er of NPI; she par­tic­i­pat­ed in NPI’s very first Spring Fundrais­ing Gala in May of 2008. We’re delight­ed to have her as our Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies this year. She’ll be shar­ing a stage with U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Derek Kilmer, who we announced as our open­ing speak­er last month.

Our sev­enth gala is shap­ing up to be a great event. We hope you’ll con­sid­er join­ing us. If you haven’t yet bought your tick­et to our 2015 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala yet, we urge you to do so now using one of the but­tons below.

A house­hold tick­et admits all the mem­bers of an imme­di­ate fam­i­ly and is a good val­ue if you plan to attend with your spouse or chil­dren. (The gala is a fam­i­ly-friend­ly event, and young peo­ple of all ages are welcome!).

These are our tick­et rates:

• Indi­vid­ual ($70, admits one person)
• House­hold ($100, admits an entire family)
• Liv­ing Light­ly ($25, for stu­dents and activists on lim­it­ed incomes)

Buy a ticket to the gala

Click above to buy a tick­et using a cred­it card.

Here’s what else you can expect at our 2015 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala:

• A full din­ner buf­fet with veg­e­tar­i­an and veg­an choices
• Beer and wine selec­tions from our cash bar
• Oppor­tu­ni­ties to min­gle with fel­low activists and elect­ed leaders
• A chance to win a scrump­tious dessert for your table at our sec­ond annu­al Dessert Dash, orga­nized by our Host Committee
• A fam­i­ly-friend­ly atmosphere

If you’d like to RSVP for the gala on Face­book, you can do so here.

Stu­dents who want to vol­un­teer to help put on the event can get in the door free. If you’re inter­est­ed in vol­un­teer­ing, please get in touch with us.

In the weeks to come, we’ll be shar­ing more details about our 2015 gala, includ­ing the names of our oth­er speak­ers. We hope you’ll help us make our biggest event of the year a suc­cess by buy­ing your tick­et and com­mit­ting to attend.

See you on April 10th!