News & Events

April 4, 2007

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Carl Young, Interim Director of Communications
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Cascadia Community College Foundation Hosts 2nd Annual Fundraising Breakfast Featuring Cheryl Scott

Bothell, WA - Cheryl Scott, Chief Operating Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the Cascadia Community College Foundation 2nd Annual Fundraising Breakfast. The breakfast will take place on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, from 7:30 to 9:00am in the North Creek Events Center on the campus of Cascadia Community College and University of Washington Bothell, 18345 Campus Way NE, Bothell. Actor and television personality Grant Goodeve will Emcee.

“The Gates Foundation is a leader in targeting resources to address global health and education issues,” said Tom Broetje, chair of the college foundation’s board of directors. “We are honored and thrilled that Cheryl Scott will speak at our breakfast.”

According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website, “Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Scott oversees the foundation's Legal, Security, Human Resources, Foundation Advocacy, Finance & Administration, Financial Analysis & Planning, Information Technology, and Impact Assessment & Improvement teams. She joined the foundation in June 2006.

Before joining the foundation, Scott served for seven years as president and CEO of the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative . . . Scott is also a clinical professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, where she teaches a graduate seminar on leading complex adaptive systems. Her family has lived in the Seattle area for four generations.”

Grant Goodeve is best known as the oldest son, David, on Eight is Enough. He has appeared in numerous shows, including Northern Exposure and One Life to Live. Goodeve currently hosts If Walls Could Talk and Homes of our Heritage on Home and Garden Television and Northwest Backroads on King 5’s Evening Magazine.

The Foundation goal for this year’s breakfast is to raise $37,000 for scholarships, faculty and staff development, and innovative college programs such as the Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Service Award.

Reservations for the breakfast may be made by calling the Foundation at 425.352.8840 or emailing foundation@cascadia.edu. Tickets are $35. Check-in on May 9th will begin at 7:00, followed by breakfast and the program from 7:30 to 9:00.

Cascadia Community College Foundation supports the Cascadia community of lifelong learners by providing scholarships, developing relationships, and connecting resources. Created in 2000, the Cascadia Community College Foundation has grown from a fledgling 4-member board of directors that raised nearly $25,000 in its first full year of operations to an energetic board of 19 directors with a budget over $135,000 this year.

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