On behalf of the team at NPI, I’d like to extend my thanks to every­body who came to our first-ever FallFest tonight in down­town Seat­tle. We were very hap­py with how the event went, and we hope that those of you who came had a good time.

As a result of your gen­eros­i­ty, we are now in a stronger posi­tion finan­cial­ly, and that’s def­i­nite­ly a good thing. We’ll con­tin­ue to invest your dol­lars towards meet­ing long-term infra­struc­ture needs. In my remarks tonight, I men­tioned that NPI spends no mon­ey on adver­tis­ing or consultants.

There’s a rea­son for that. We are a strat­e­gy cen­ter work­ing to raise Amer­i­ca’s qual­i­ty of life… not anoth­er cam­paign. What we do is very dif­fer­ent from most of the oth­er enti­ties that are out there ask­ing for money.

We are espe­cial­ly grate­ful to those of you who have loy­al­ly sup­port­ed us for many years. With­out you, we would­n’t be here, and we could­n’t car­ry on this work.

If you weren’t able to make it to FallFest, but would still like to make a dona­tion, you can con­ve­nient­ly and secure­ly do so online at this page.

Again, thanks to all who attend­ed FallFest 2011. We plan on doing this event again in 2012 oppo­site our 2011 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, which will be held around the time of the year’s oth­er equinox!

About the author

Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, as well as the founder of NPI's sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. Andrew is also a cybersecurity expert, a veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

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One reply on “Thanks to all who attended FallFest!”

  1. I real­ly enjoyed hear­ing about this event. Keep going… we need you guys to lead the way in rein­vent­ing the pro­gres­sive movement!

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