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Celebrating Our Connections

Benefit Gala

Friday, November 2, 2007 at 5:30 pm

To Support the Scholarship Fund
To Develop Agriculture and Forestry Leaders

About the Benefit and Award Celebration: The Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation is the premier service provider of leadership training and networking to support healthy natural resource industries and communities. The Foundation advances natural resource industries through enhanced understanding, education, and empowerment of future leaders. The Foundation is holding its third annual gala benefit and award event to heighten opinion leader awareness of the Foundation’s educational and leadership training services while celebrating the bounty of Washington and all products from our farms, fields, forests, and near-shore environments. A gala party, set in the heart of the state’s largest city, is a high profile event that draws at least 450 philanthropic and community leaders to Seattle for a delightful harvest celebration of fine dining and entertainment.

The evening will begin with a cocktail reception at Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center, at 5:30 p.m., featuring Washington grown products. The evening will continue with a delicious and uniquely served dinner prepared by Kaspar Donier and highlighting the bounty of Washington’s agricultural foods and beverages. The décor will feature the uniqueness/quality of Washington’s forestry and wood products industry along with horticulture products. Dinner will be followed by entertainment in a setting that is hospitable to networking and establishing friendships.

About the Beneficiary: The Foundation is a dynamic leadership organization that incorporated in 1977 and is celebrating over 25 years of advancing the natural resource industries in the State of Washington. The program presents a series of 14 seminars over a two year period, which is designed to broaden the knowledge base, the skills, and the motivation for leadership of its natural resource-based participants. The leadership program uses and calls upon its graduates to serve as leaders, presenters, and facilitators of these 14 seminars. Every participant is already a leader who is eager to acquire more knowledge and stronger skills. Participants will during, as well as after completing the leadership program, have an effect on and be change agents at the local, state, and national level. Graduates have gone on to serve as leaders in government, the private sector, and as elected officials.

Proceeds from the Benefit and Award Celebration will fund ongoing educational programs and provide scholarships for participants.

Attendance: Over 450 community, corporate, and philanthropic leaders and graduates.

Sponsorship & Fundraising Opportunities:
• Sponsorship packages available starting at $2000 - exposure of sponsors’ products, services, and/or individual leaders throughout venue.
• Auction items – especially needed are silent auction items starting in value at $25.00. Wine, experiences, art work highlighting the state’s natural resources, baskets, are all desired items.

Contact: Ann Goos
Phone: (206) 285-1211
e-mail: agoos@seanet.com
or
AgForestry
9211 E Mission, Suite J
Spokane, WA 99206
509-926-9113
leaders@agforestry.org

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