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Lawyers Helping Hungry Children’s
15th Annual Fundraising Breakfast By Arlene Joe
Lawyers Helping Hungry Children, Julian Bray Pierce County Chapter, held its 15th Annual Fundraising Breakfast on November
7, 2023 at St. Leo Parish in Tacoma.
The event raised close to $55,000 for two grantee organizations selected
this year by the LHHC Board: Red
Barn Youth Center and St. Leo Food Connection. Some 130 attendees joined the breakfast, including social workers, paraprofessionals, attorneys, and judicial officers. Many additional donations came from individuals who could not attend this event.
We wish to acknowledge and thank
the following Sponsors: Connelly Law Offices, Gordon Thomas Honeywell, Tanya Pemberton, The Brink Law Firm, Eisenhower Carlson, FAVROS Law, Jamie Walker Family Law, Comfort
Davies Smith & Crawford, Vandeberg Johnson and Gandara, Liz Ann Johnson Elder Law, Law Office of Arlene Joe, Pierce County District Court Judges and Social Worker Friends of Julian Bray.
The grantee organizations will receive 100 percent of the funds raised through the LHHC’s Board’s year-long efforts, thanks to the generosity of agencies, companies, and individuals whose donations covered all expenses of the event.
Tacoma Pierce County Bar Association for publicity
Jackie Rosenblatt & Judge Garold Johnson for table centerpieces
Katie Geissler of Tacoma Catering Company for the frittatas
Trader Joe’s, Metropolitan Market, Safeway, Stadium Thriftway, Fred Meyer, and Costco for food donations and gift cards for our breakfast menu
Hilltop Artists for the Hunger Warrior Apple Award
Despite our best efforts, hunger among children in Pierce County persists. We can stay involved with the simple act of donating food or money to worthy causes who do
the hard work of reducing food insecurity.
The Board members of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children are volunteers committed to keeping their efforts active so that agencies involved with childhood hunger can be sustained by our legal community. We applaud all those who have been involved with donating money and time throughout the years. We encourage more law firms, attorneys, judicial officers and those who care about hungry kids to join us in 2024. Come for breakfast, enjoy the great line-up of speakers, and make a donation that matters. For more information about Lawyers Helping Hungry Children, contact Scott Peters at (206) 818-6466 or scottpeters25@ hotmail.com
Todd Carlisle and the late Julian Bray enticed Arlene Joe as a core organizer of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children’s fundraisers 14 years ago. At the time, she was also serving on the board of L’Arche Tahoma Hope with Todd and other attorneys and physicians. Arlene is the pro bono attorney for Puyallup Tribal Heath’s Kwawachee Counseling
Center, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, TeamChild, and Seattle University’s Moderate Means Program.
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