Pictures from recent community benefits and charity events.
Celebration of Hope chair Marie Gunn with Congressman Dave Reichert.
View Slideshow »Pancreatic cancer survivor Melanie Worthley with her husband, Brad Worthley.
View Slideshow »KING 5’s Meg Coyle with her husband, Mike King.
View Slideshow »Virginia Mason oncologist Dr. Vincent Picozzi spoke at the event and performed “They Can’t Take that Away From Me.”
View Slideshow »Twenty-five survivors attended the Celebration of Hope this year; 13 attended in 2009.
View Slideshow »Live auction chair Ann Mix with auctioneer John Curley
View Slideshow »The Seventh Annual Food as Art at Bell Harbor celebrated the talent and diversity of Seattle’s Black culinary community. Pictured here is Makini Howell of Plum Bistro.
View Slideshow »Food as Art chair Lynda Greene.
View Slideshow »The event was a fundraiser for the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas. Here, forum founder Stephanie Ellis bids on an auction item.
View Slideshow »David Nelson of Tavern Law.
View Slideshow »Dr. John and Callie Vassall.
View Slideshow »The 2010 Walk MS event at Husky Stadium joined seven other cities in Washington and together raised $1.8 million to support programs and services for people with MS and national research efforts.
View Slideshow »The 2010 Walk MS event at Husky Stadium.
View Slideshow »The 2010 Walk MS event at Husky Stadium.
View Slideshow »The 2010 Walk MS.
View Slideshow »Northwest Kidney Center’s Breakfast of Hope fundraiser on May 12 raised a record $375,230. Pictured here are John Piano of Transplant Connect and Joyce Jackson, CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers in Seattle.
View Slideshow »From left to right: kidney patient Martha Fitelson, Piano, Jackson, and KING-TV reporter Jesse Jones.
View Slideshow »Sleep Country USA’s Pajama Bowl, an annual fundraiser for area foster children, raised over $90,000. Pictured here are Julie Ann Sullivan, Annie Salveson, Marcia Calhoun, Gail Specht, Julie Walker DuChene Hanenkrat.
View Slideshow »Nonprofit youth writing center 826 Seattle held its second annual People Eating and Giving at Tom Douglas’s Palace Ballroom. In attendance was Dave Eggers (right) and Tom Robbins.
View Slideshow »The event raised $119,000.
Find more party pics HERE.
Pictures from Celebration of Hope, Food as Art at Bell Harbor, the MS Walk, Breakfast of Hope, Sleep Country USA’s Pajama Bowl, and 826 Seattle’s People Eating and Giving.
Published: June 2010
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Wonderful to see so many Seattleites out supporting charitable causes!
Where are the pics of the Nordstrom Designer Preview benefitting SAM? Seems like when a Seattle icon like Nordstrom throws a charity event for a much-loved Seattle institution like SAM there’d be pictures!