Bridges to Healthcare
Bridges to Health Care
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Portland Hilton Grand Ballroom
921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon
The 3rd Annual Bridges to Health Care event was a great success. About 400 people – our highest attendance to date – helped us raise $43,000. We are so very grateful to all who supported us financially through your donations.This money will go directly to support Project Access NOW’s mission to continue to connect our low-income, uninsured neighbors to donated health care.
People enjoyed the musical sounds of Los Gallos Rumba, selected bottles from the wall of wine, or purchased raffle tickets to win a “Year of Dates,” or a week in Puerto Vallarta, including airfare, or a week’s stay in a Wallowa Lake cabin. Many of our guests visited our various slide slow presentations during the reception and got the chance to speak with some of the awesome staff from Project Access NOW and several of our our partner clinics. And, of course, many people raised their paddles high to show their support. Our thanks, again, to Providence Health & Services for starting things off with a $5,000 paddle raise – the largest of the evening.
If you attended Bridges to Health Care and have not yet taken our post-event survey, we would appreciate your feedback. The survey takes just a few minutes to complete and can be found here.
We are so grateful to the many people who helped make this year’s event possible. Special thanks to:
- Event co-chairs, Larlene Dunsmuir and Debbie Rieke and their fantastic crew of volunteers, including: Kathy Burdick, Carey Cameron, Vicki Cameron, Matt Colburn, Priya Keane, Shannon Kelley, Meg Linza, Samantha Marini, Kathi Misner, Dick Reamer, Susan Moy, Aline Ndemeye, Erik Nilsen, Janet Williams
- Emcee, Ms. Kimberlee Buckingham
- Honorary hosts, Joey and Emily Harrington
- David Brackett and Mercedes Esteves, of Los Gallos Rumba
As always, we are so grateful to our stakeholder/strategic partners. See here for a complete list. And you can find the photo gallery from the event
Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Linda Nilsen-Solares, Executive Director
