2022 Year in Review
Multi-generational panel discussion at Chef Kristi Brown’s Mother’s Day event, Bitches Love Brunch, at The 101. Photo by Susan Fried.
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This year, we outdid ourselves.
It’s a joy to touch so many lives and support so many organizations with the work we love to do. Kudos to all our clients who demonstrated unrelenting courage, heart, creativity, and resourcefulness producing their events this year. And, let’s celebrate our superstars, everyone who played a role onTeam Synchronicity 2022, the people who made all this magic happen! Meera, Rocio, Sasha, Shaun Wha, Lexi (formerly dev), Jake, Leela, Jules, Melissa and Lovely and Alex. Never-ending gratitude to you all.
Read on for a recap of this year’s events … divided into loose categories to make it more fun to read.
MESSAGES & MEANING. These clients served up panels, interviews, and deep conversations inside their events. Treasures, inspiration and nourishment for the heart and mind … we absolutely love to be a part of it.
Changemakers Remixed with Economic Opportunity Institute
End of Year Celebration with Progress Alliance
Eastside Legal Assistance Program’s Annual Breakfast for Justice
QLaw Association’s All Rise
350 Seattle’s Intertwined
Bitches Love Brunch with Chef Kristi Brown and That Brown Girl Cooks! (pictured above)
Some brought that ENERGY. In many cases, 2022 was the year that our clients met up in-person again, inventing new events or re-launching a beloved annual event format. These parties were beautiful to the core.
Spark! A fundraiser for Coyote, at Washington Hall. Photo by Jess Schwab.
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Bikecitement with Bike Works
GenPride’s Pillars of Pride
Destination Delridge with Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
Gamechangers with Zeno
Faith Action Network’s Annual Dinner
Rooted with International Community Health Services
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest’s For the Four
Goodwill Olympics and Rainier Region, Centennial Party
Attain Housing’s Home Is Where The Heart Is Luncheon
Spark! with Coyote (pictured above)
Some events are all about the LEARNING - we love our conference clients! These groups were ready to dig deep on their topics, and design virtual and hybrid spaces where attendees could gather, learn and organize.
AFP Advancement NW virtual conference session in Remo.co.
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Community Action Partnership Region X
Washington Recovery Alliance
Behavioral Health Institute
AFP Advancement Northwest (pictured above)
Some kept the fundraising FULLY VIRTUAL. Many of our fundraising clients engaged their event guests remotely, in dynamic livestream events. If we had to guess, our live-streaming event methods (honed to a fine edge during lockdown days!) will be in demand for years to come.
Collective Impulse virtual fundraising event was broadcast live from the galleries at Henry Art Gallery. Photo by Alex Martin.
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Launch Forward: Igniting Brilliance with Launch
Open Arms’ Labor of Love
Power of Community with Yoga Behind Bars
YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish Annual Inspire Luncheon
An Evening for Healing & Hope with Terrewode Women's Fund
Building Changes’ Promote Progress
Garfield Golden Grads Annual Luncheon
Clarion West’s After Dark
Sip, Savor & Share with Look, Listen & Learn TV
Sing It Forward with Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE*
Mission Cure’s Moments of Hope*
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project’s Virtual Celebration*
Collective Impulse with Henry Art Gallery* (pictured above)
*Collaborations with the superstars at Ian Lindsay Live
And, we had one very special spin-off from this category; the PEPS Benefit in 2022 became a “party in your inbox”, a virtual fundraising campaign featuring a series of short videos for the community to enjoy.
Some used their OUTDOOR VOICES. This category of events was bigger this year than we’ve ever seen it. It was so fun helping our clients take it to the streets … the parks … the farms … all the outdoor spaces!
Love the Land event with Washington Farmland Trust, at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture. Photo by Rylea Foehl.
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Feast in the Street with Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
Taking B(l)ack Pride Festival
Ballard Bites & Brews with Ballard Food Bank
Pratt Fine Art Center’s Open House
Walk for Rice with Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Rivkin Center’s SummeRun
Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center’s Spring Events
Shunpike’s GOLDEN HOUR
Cedar Deep Picnic with Hedgebrook
Love the Land with Washington Farmland Trust (pictured above)
And some went BIG. Whether it was pure elegance, big guest counts, ambitious creative visions, VIPs in the house, technical complexity (hello, hybrids, you keep us jumpin’!), or just vivacious vibes … these were the events that felt Big this year.
Literary Lions Gala with King County Library System Foundation, at Hyatt Regency Bellevue. Photo by Vivian Hsu.
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Tuxes & Trains with Transportation Choices Coalition
Dress Down Hunger with Food Lifeline
Seed the Change Dinner with Landesa
50th Anniversary Gala with El Centro de la Raza
NAAM‘s Unity Dinner: Elevate
West Seattle Food Bank, Instruments of Change
Epiphany School Auction ‘Under the Big Top’
Cornish Toward 2030 Campaign Gala
Asian Counseling and Referral Service’s 50th Anniversary Gala
Literary Lions Gala with King County Library System Foundation (pictured above)
And… one was simply IN A CATEGORY OF ITS OWN. Our friends at City Year Seattle/King County served up a massive participatory service project - building over 5,000 backpacks for students - inside their family-friendly Ripples of Hope fundraising event!
City Year’s Ripples of Hope at Lumen Field. Photo by Alex Martin.
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Well, hey there! If you’re still reading, thanks for staying with us through to the end of this article, and through to the end of this exhausting and exhilarating year. At Synchronicity, we’ll remember 2022 for the experimentation, the re-combining of new with old methods, the sense of possibility, the boldness, and the way we stretched and learned and grew.
Onward to the future.
New Year’s Blessings all around.
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