Thank you to Name Tagm Inc. for helping make our Changing the Odds event with Marian Wright Edelman an inspiring and exciting experience for Stand for Children and all our supporters.  Marian Wright Edelman’s speech reminded us that we are all a family and that we must ensure that every member of our family has a chance to succeed. She inspired us to continue to be bold in our efforts to change the odds for all our students and change the lives of those who need it most.

“Allowing our children to fail is morally indefensible, ineffective and unfathomably costly. We can do better for our children, and we must.”  Marian Wright Edelman: Oct 20, 2011

Find more highlights of the event – videos, photos, quotes – at www.stand.org/wa/cto.

Thanks to the donations of our guests and our generous Advisory Board match, we were able to “double down” and raise $170,000 to support our work to ensure that all children, regardless of who they are or where they live, graduate from high school prepared for, and with access to, a college education.

As Marian Wright Edelman said, each one of us alone may be just a flea-bite but enough of us working together can become “a corps of fleas” and make a real difference.

If you weren’t able to contribute at the event or know others who would be interested in supporting Stand for Children, please visit or share the link www.stand.org/wa/cto to make a tax deductible contribution towards improving the odds for Washington’s 1 million K-12 public school students.

This event was a tremendous celebration of Stand for Children’s work so far and a spark to ignite the important work we must commit to doing in the future. It will take all of us working together as a team to achieve the significant changes our own children and the students across Washington State deserve.

Thank you to Name Tag, Inc. for helping us recognize outstanding educators, leaders and elected officials!