The Quarterly Tea

VOL. 6 Issue 11 * FALL 2025

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Published by Amber Holcomb

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Robin Toth, PNW SGMP Chapter President

Hello PNW Chapter Members!

Welcome to the 2025 - 2026 fiscal year. This year, we have transitioned to a Satellite Chapter by majority vote of our membership. What does this mean? As a Satellite Chapter, we must have a minimum of four meetings within the fiscal year, and three of the four meetings must be educational. The board will still meet every month, but the chapter members will be meeting less frequently. What do we hope to gain from this change? Attendance! We need you to support your chapter by attending meetings. The year started out strong with twenty-one attendees at the September meeting “Current Challenges for the Government Meeting Professional”. Let’s keep up the momentum! Meetings are posted on our website https://www.pnwsgmp.com/
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, December 11, 2025, for the Holiday Silent Auction and luncheon combined with a food drive benefiting the Thurston County Food Bank. Solicitation notices will be coming out soon for donations. We encourage you to attend this wonderful event, bring a friend or colleague and network. The Thurston County Food Bank will also be speaking to the group and giving an overview of who they are and how they support our community.
Our board values transparency, if you have an idea or would like a specific topic discussed at a chapter meeting, please email me or one of our board members.
Thank you and we look forward to a great year.
Warm Regards,
Robin Toth, CGMP

Upcoming Events

Holiday Silent Auction and Presentation

from the Thurston County Food Bank

December 11, 2025
Topic: Holiday Silent Auction Lunch & Thurston County Food Bank presentation. Location: Great Wolf Lodge
January 8, 2026
Topic TBD
Location: WA School Principals Association
March 12, 2026
Topic TBD
Location: WA School Principals Association
May 14, 2026
Topic: "Our Year in Review" Jeopardy!
Location: WA School Principals Association

NMeet your

2025 - 2026

Board of Directors

President: Robin Toth, CGMP
Immediate Past President: Becki Ellison, CGMP
Retired Planner: Jan Thor
Director Supplier: Amber Holcomb, CGMP
Director Supplier: Brynn Johnson
Director Planner: Kim Marquette
Director Supplier: Riccardo Marossa, CGMP, HMCC

Speaker: John Ficker, Executive Director

Thurston County Food Bank

This annual event is our Chapter’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Your donations and bids will raise funds for the Chapter’s operations budget and educational programming. Supporting this activity benefits our members! You are encouraged to invite friends and family members to attend and participate in this fun and festive special event.

The PNW Chapter of SGMP is delighted to support the Thurston County Food Bank, a non-profit organization which prioritizes total health; physical, household, mental and emotional. They are committed to reducing barriers to accessing community resources so that individuals and families can stay out of crisis, remain
housed or seek housing and improve health.

Charity Presentation

For more than 50 years the Thurston County Food Bank has remained focused on improving the quality of life and the stability of our community by expanding services of food, non-food and wraparound resources to meet the growing needs in our community. Led by a volunteer Board of Directors, a skeletal staff and hundreds of volunteers, they are able to keep the administrative overhead low to ensure that your donation is used to purchase food and support needed programs. The Thurston County Food Bank views this as a huge responsibility and endeavor to earn and keep your trust as a donor and supporter.
Schedule:
11:30am: Registration and Networking/ Silent Auction
Noon -12:40pm: Program and Lunch
11:30 - 1:00pm: Silent Auction
$ 20.00 Planners/Planners guests to include lunch
$ 30.00 Suppliers/ Supplier guests to include lunch
**Hybrid option is not available for this event.