Dynamic Partners invites the community to an “Evening at the Derby” on March 24, 2012 at Emerald Downs.
The fundraising event is the organization’s 24th annual dinner auction benefiting Children’s Therapy Center & Dynamic Partners by raising money for children with special needs and their families.
“Our annual event is fun evening for our guests; it’s why they come back year after year,” says Jon Botten, CEO of Dynamic Partners. “They also come back for the satisfaction of knowing they are helping children with special needs reach their full potential.”
This year, the event will be held at Emerald Downs race track in Auburn, so guests are encouraged to dress “derby-style” for an entertaining evening that includes a sponsor cocktail party, dinner, dessert dash and a brief program emceed by John Hinds, general manager of Kent Station. The main focus of the event will be a two-part silent auction and a live auction.
Dynamic Partners is a consortium of organizations collaborating to help children with special needs and their family through the provision of pediatric physical, occupational, and speech language therapy, early intervention, specialized education, custom orthotics and compression garments and parent training. The children served are ages birth to eighteen living in South King and Pierce counties and have a wide variety of disabling conditions including autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, strokes and other developmental delays.
Dynamic Partners includes Children’s Therapy Center, South King Early Intervention Program, Dynamic Orthotic Systems, SPIO Compression Garments and Dynamic Labs.
Donations for the auction are already being collected. Among the items procured so far are tickets to Disneyland, a chauffeured limo tour of Woodinville wineries and a vacation to Africa for a photo safari.
Tickets for the event are $65 each and include dinner and an event-themed cocktail. They can be purchased online on the Dynamic Partners’ website. The goal for this year’s auction is $250,000, proceeds for the event will go toward the capital campaign for Dynamic Partners’ new Burien facility to open sometime this year.
The facility was purchased in 2010 to expand Dynamic Partners’ services including Children’s Therapy Center and to reduce the waiting list for clients.
Many local businesses are supporting this event, including Kent Station, SPIO, Live Oak Audio Visual, Haeger Orthodontics and Cox Financial LLC, Hatchbooks Footwear, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and Sprague Israel Giles.
Additional sponsors and auction item donors are still being sought. To become a sponsor or to donate, visit www.dynamicfamilies.org/.
For more information, contact Lois Maier, Events Manager at 253-854-5660 or lois@dynamicpartners.org.
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