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The 2025 Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Event: Building Relationships to advance the common good

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2025 Leadership Legacy Event: Strengthening Relationships to Advance the Common Good
This year we kicked off our 35th anniversary, recognized PorchLight as this year’s Leadership Legacy Award recipient and brought together leaders who are committed to advancing the common good! You can view the celebration!
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​Program:
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​Emcee: Joe Hailey, CEL Steward
Client/Partner: Velma Veloria, Chair, King County International Airport Community Coalition and former WA State Legislature
Recipient: PorchLight, Troy Christensen, Executive Director, PorchLight
​Close: Alice Fong, CEO, Center for Ethical Leadership
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2025 Leadership Legacy Award Recipient

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​This year's theme is Strengthening Relationships to Advance the Common Good. This award celebrates leaders whose vision, commitment and unceasing efforts are significantly advancing social, environmental, and economic justice.



​Thank you, PorchLight for being intentional to strengthen relationships and work with stakeholders such as people experiencing homelessness, the City, residents, police, businesses, schools, colleges, and Councilmembers, in order to build a permanent men's shelter in Bellevue. The time and intentionality they put into listening to all perspectives and making decisions with community is a practice CEL uplifts and we are humbled to recognize PorchLight as this year's Leadership Legacy Award recipient. Congratulations!

Congratulations to the whole PorchLight team for joining a list of Leadership Legacy Award recipients who have aligned their hearts to serve the good of all. Join us at the beautiful University of Washington Arboretum - Wisteria Hall Terrace! 


THANK YOU LEADERSHIP LEGACY EVENT SPONSORS 
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Visionary Leader Presenting Partner Sponsors
Dale & Becky Nienow

Gracious Space Leader Sponsors
VT Radio Universal

Values-based Leader Sponsors
PorchLight

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Values-based Leader Sponsors
City of Bellevue



Legacy Event support the following CEL programs:​
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Values-Based Leadership Stewards Program

What does it mean to share the rock? The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action.
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Restorative, Inclusive School Environment Initiative (RISE)

The Restorative, Inclusive School Environments (RISE) Initiative seeks to build youth-adult partnerships and community-based collective leadership to create and foster the necessary conditions for all students to succeed.
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Stewards Circle

Coming Soon!
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