BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Gambier X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Gambier BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:GAMT DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2753165:Event:23161 DTSTAMP:20120527T040424Z SUMMARY:Denise Louie Education Center honors K&L Gates DESCRIPTION:Denise Louie Education Center honors K&L Gates\nBenefiting at-risk, low-income children and families\n\nSEATTLE – June 14, 201 0 - Denise Louie Education Center is honoring K&L Gates for its provis ion of pro-bono legal services during the past 13 years. Services have included review of various contracts, leases, and human resources pol icies as well as legal advice on a wide range of issues.\n\nK&L Gates Partner Stephanie Wright Pickett states, “K&L Gates has provided str ategic legal guidance to the Denise Louie Education Center for many ye ars, working hand-in-hand with the organization to help it continue it s outstanding early childhood learning work that is so important to th e community. Our firm, which has a rich history of pro bono service, i s honored to be recognized by the Denise Louie Education Center.\"\n\n “We estimate that over the years, the value of these services has to taled more than $100,000. That’s a huge benefit to us and means that we can spend that much more on classroom supplies, teacher salaries, and professional development,“ says Janice Deguchi, Denise Louie Edu cation Center’s Executive Director.\n\nK&L Gates will receive their award at Denise Louie Education Center’s 2010 Dinner and Auction on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at The Showbox SoDo (1700 1st Ave S, Seat tle WA 98134) from 5:30-9:30pm. All proceeds from this event will go t o fund the early learning and family support services that Denise Loui e Education Center offers to over 300 families each year. Last year’ s event raised over $84,000 for at-risk families enrolled in the progr am. Tickets for the event will be $90 per person and attendees can pur chase them at the Denise Louie website: www.deniselouie.org. For more information, contact Frances Lin at flin@deniselouie.org or (206)792-9 771.\n\nDenise Louie Education Center has been serving Seattle’s imm igrant and refugee communities for over 30 years. Denise Louie Educati on Center is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual Early Head Start and Head Start program that provides early education and family support servic es to nearly 300 children ages 0-5 and their families. Our comprehensi ve program builds the academic, health, and social-emotional skills ch ildren need to prepare for a lifetime of successful learning. To learn more about Denise Louie Education Center, visit the organization’s website at www.deniselouie.org.\n\nK&L Gates includes lawyers practici ng out of 36 offices located in North America, Europe, Asia and the Mi ddle East, and represents numerous GLOBAL 500, FORTUNE 100, and FTSE 1 00 corporations, in addition to growth and middle market companies, en trepreneurs, capital market participants and public sector entities. T o learn more about K&L Gates, visit the firm’s website at www.klgate s.com.\n\nFor more information visit http://www.earlylearningcommunity .org/events/denise-louie-education-center DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Gambier:20100925T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Gambier:20100925T213000 CATEGORIES:fundraiser LOCATION:Showbox SoDo WEBSITE:http://www.deniselouie.org URL:http://www.deniselouie.org CONTACT:206.792.9771 ORGANIZER;CN="Frances Lin":http://www.earlylearningcommunity.org/profi le/FrancesLin ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Frances Lin":http://www.earlylearningcommunity.org/profile/FrancesLin END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR