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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Save the Date: NPI’s 2013 Spring Fundraising Gala will be Friday, April 5th, 2013

It may seem hard to believe, but spring is just around the cor­ner here in the Pacif­ic North­west. Offi­cial­ly, we are more than halfway through the win­ter sea­son (the ver­nal equinox is on March 20th this year) and unof­fi­cial­ly, we are just over three weeks away from the begin­ning of mete­o­ro­log­i­cal spring (March 1st).

So it seems like a good time to announce that our 2013 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala will be held two months from today, on Fri­day, April 5th at the Mer­cer Island Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter, which has served as the home of the event for three years run­ning and has been a great venue for us.

The gala is the biggest event that we put on every year, and it is by far the best oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet the NPI team in per­son and learn about our work. Long­time sup­port­ers know we go to great lengths to make this event fun and infor­ma­tive. Our goal is for all of our guests to be able to spend a mem­o­rable evening with fam­i­ly, friends, and fel­low activists, and sup­port a good cause at the same time.

As in the past, we will have a speak­ing pro­gram, bar with beer and wine avail­able for pur­chase, and a thought­ful­ly-pre­pared buf­fet with lots of choices.

Start­ing next week, we’ll be unveil­ing more details about the event and intro­duc­ing our first speak­er here on the NPI Advocate.

How­ev­er, we’re mak­ing tick­ets avail­able right now at a spe­cial ear­ly-bird rate; you can buy an indi­vid­ual or house­hold tick­et by click­ing one of the but­tons below. Tick­et prices will be going up when addi­tion­al details are made pub­lic, so if you’d like to save a few bucks and com­mit to attend­ing, now is the time to act.

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2013 Gala Tick­et (Indi­vid­ual)

Ear­ly-Bird: $50.00 $60

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2013 Gala Tick­et (House­hold)

Ear­ly-Bird: $75.00 $90

At this year’s gala, we’ll be cel­e­brat­ing NPI’s ten-year anniver­sary in style. We have some sur­pris­es planned, and we hope you’ll be there to com­mem­o­rate the occa­sion with us. Ten years is a long time for a grass­roots orga­ni­za­tion to have endured. We’ve accom­plished a lot with only a lit­tle this past decade, and we hope you’ll help keep us going for anoth­er decade.

Supporters at NPI's 2012 Spring Fundraising Gala on Mercer Island (Photo by Lincoln Potter/Samaya LLC)

Sup­port­ers at NPI’s 2012 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island (Pho­to by Lin­coln Potter/Samaya LLC)

If you have nev­er been to our gala before, you may be won­der­ing what the event is like. Pic­ture a live­ly, upbeat room filled with peo­ple who share your val­ues and con­cerns, the sound of jazz tunes in the back­ground, a buf­fet filled with fresh food from one of the East­side’s best restau­rants, and speak­ers like Maria Cantwell, Adam Smith, Jay Inslee, Bob Fer­gu­son, Major Gen­er­al Paul Eaton (Ret)., Ron Sims, Chip Hanauer, Hans Dun­shee, and John de Graaf. That’s what our event is like.

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.

We look for­ward to see­ing you on April 5th!

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