Dream BIG Event - Seattle Social Entrepreneurs
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November, 6, 2105 | The NINETY, Seattle Speakers from SoundersFC, Seattle Foundation, Pikes Place Foundation and DRY soda come together to inspire visiting prospective Seattle business entrepreneurs. Erica Klinger, Director of Marketing at Seattle Foundation shares here experiences planning the foundations annual GiveBIG event that raised over $16 million in one day.
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Editor's Notes
- Caring for the Community. The hub of philanthropy in our region is Seattle Foundation. This year the Foundation will surpass $100 million in giving (THIS YEAR!), and will surpass $1 billion in giving since its inception 70 years ago.
- We are a nonprofit organizations established to meet the current and future needs of our local communities. Our job is caring.
- CFs general work within a certain county or community. Ours is Greater Seattle. Although the tech industry is booming and there is a lot of opportunity – there is still great need and inequities to be solved.
- We mainly offer philanthropic consulting to our donors, but we also hold many events and partner with businesses and government to make sure where our donors invest will make the most impact. GiveBIG is a collective giving program open to everyone.
- Jean Enerson – 45 years as a news anchor, member of our board, active philanthropist, community volunteer and past president of the YWCA of King County. To incentive donors, we gave away $5 1K golden tickets and hand delivered them to a nonprofit of a donors choice. Tony Mestres – last minute threw in 5 more platinum tickets worth $5K! See one here for Velocity dance center. – Courageous and inspiring leader. – Tagboard in the back – donated the social media board.
- Corporate and community partners. The Sounders are just one of our presenting partners – couldn’t do it without them. PSA video, Lamar Neagle, game at the end of a full week of community giving called “Impact Seattle” and CTA United in Green. Donation of video from TriFilm
- Mary’s Place Shelter – Need to get from Mark – Amazing spirit of the people that use nonprofits. You don’t have to be rich to be a philanthropist. Some of the biggest givers are the ones that have nothing.
- And the people that need help are just regular people.
- Families, and kids.
- Philanthropists are regular people like you and me – come in all different ages – men, women of all different ethnic diversities. We encourage people to share their philanthropy, but many are anonymous. Inspirational that they put other people ahead of their own benefit.
- The result. Amazing.
- Almost 20% increase in gifts. If everyone person in Greater Seattle gave just $1 – we would have another 2 Million dollars.
- Ballard Food bank – Building relationships with over 1,500 nonprofits all year long
- 48 hours with no sleep.
- PRIDE
- And that’s a lot of work making the checks. A community foundation takes care of the administrative details and behind the scenes work so philanthropist can do the fun part – care for others and see that person smile. It’s rewarding. A community is not about seeing each other every day. Its about having a common vision – that if you work together you can make the word a better place.
- Poem (anonymous) that I heard at a graduation. “If there were ever a time to dare, To make a difference, To embark on something worth doing, It is now. Not for any grand cause, necessarily — But for something that tugs at your heart, Something that’s your aspiration, Something that’s your dream.”