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Darcy Burner to emcee NPI’s 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala on Saturday, April 7th

Meet our 2018 Spring Gala Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies: Dar­cy Burn­er. Dar­cy has a long his­to­ry of involve­ment in pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics as both a can­di­date and a strate­gist. She has run for Con­gress and the state Leg­is­la­ture and played an instru­men­tal role in get­ting pro­gres­sive mem­bers of Con­gress more organized. 

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Major General Paul Eaton (Ret.) to accept Lynn Allen Award at NPI’s 2018 Spring Gala

At our April 7th, 2018 Spring Gala, NPI will present Lynn Allen Awards to two deserv­ing indi­vid­u­als to rec­og­nize indis­pens­able con­tri­bu­tions to pro­gres­sive caus­es. We are delight­ed to announce that our first hon­oree this year is Major Gen­er­al Paul Eaton (Retired), the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the VetVoice Foundation. 

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NPI presents Joni Earl and Paul Lawrence with the very first Lynn Allen Awards

This evening, at our ninth Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island, we debuted a new event tra­di­tion: the Lynn Allen Awards. Named for our late sis­ter Lynn Allen, a found­ing board­mem­ber of NPI, these awards rec­og­nize peo­ple who have made indis­pens­able con­tri­bu­tions to pro­gres­sive caus­es for a decade or more. We lost Lynn to ovar­i­an cancer […]

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King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci to open NPI’s 2017 Spring Fundraising Gala

Today, we are very hap­py to announce that King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Clau­dia Bal­duc­ci will be the open­ing speak­er at our 2017 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, which will take place April 29th at the Mer­cer Island Com­mu­ni­ty & Event Cen­ter. A for­mer Belle­vue City Coun­cilmem­ber, Clau­dia joined the King Coun­ty Coun­cil last year fol­low­ing her over­whelm­ing 2015 […]

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Joni Earl, Paul Lawrence to be honored with Lynn Allen Awards at NPI’s 2017 Spring Gala

As pro­gres­sives, we believe in cham­pi­oning polit­i­cal progress for all peo­ple — it’s why we call our­selves pro­gres­sives. We believe that our soci­ety’s laws should be based on nur­tu­rant val­ues like empa­thy and mutu­al respon­si­bil­i­ty. As com­mit­ted pro­gres­sive activists, we work every day to advo­cate for poli­cies based on these val­ues. It’s not easy being […]

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Want to save on tickets to NPI’s 2017 spring gala? Act now to get the early-bird rate

Read­ers, we are just forty-eight days away from our 2017 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island (Sat­ur­day, April 29th at 6 PM), and we’re look­ing for­ward to shar­ing details of our speak­ing pro­gram with you. Before we announce who our speak­ers are, though, I want you to know that you still have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to buy a tick­et to the gala at […]

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State Representative Lillian Ortiz-Self to speak at NPI’s 2016 Spring Fundraising Gala

With the sea­son of renew­al less than a week away, and NPI’s 2016 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala not far behind, it’s now time for us to announce who the final speak­er at this year’s gala will be. Pre­vi­ous­ly, we had the plea­sure of reveal­ing that U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Adam Smith would be our keynote speak­er and Tina […]

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NPI to honor Representative Jim McDermott at 2016 Spring Fundraising Gala on April 1st

Three weeks from tomor­row evening, on Fri­day, April 1st, 2016, NPI will be hold­ing its eighth Spring Fundrais­ing Gala at the Mer­cer Island Com­mu­ni­ty & Event Cen­ter. As in years past, we’ve been work­ing hard to put togeth­er a strong speak­ing pro­gram for the event. We’ve pre­vi­ous­ly announced that our keynote speak­er for this year […]

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Secretary of State hopeful Tina Podlodowski to emcee NPI’s 2016 Spring Fundraising Gala

Tonight, with NPI’s 2016 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala just four weeks away, we are thrilled to announce that we have a won­der­ful Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies lined up to run this year’s speak­ing pro­gram: Tina Pod­lodows­ki, for­mer Seat­tle City Coun­cilmem­ber and cur­rent can­di­date for Sec­re­tary of State. Tina has a long his­to­ry of pub­lic ser­vice in Seat­tle and […]

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Tickets to NPI’s 2016 Spring Fundraising Gala (Friday, April 1st) are now on sale!

As of this Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 22nd, we will be three weeks into 2016, and just ten weeks away from our eighth Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, sched­uled to take place on Fri­day, April 1st, 2016 (April Fools’ Day). With the big night rapid­ly draw­ing near, we’re pleased to announce that ear­­ly-bird tick­et sales for this year’s gala […]