This year’s donation included 450 hot roasted chickens prepared by Costco in a pre-dawn order arranged by MG2 Architecture. Deli manager Rachelle Hedington said staff begin cooking at 4 a.m. so the order is ready for volunteers to pick up by 9 a.m.
The MG2 Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to Dr. Janice Kim, and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center on Oct. 23, to advance breast cancer research. The funding will support Dr. Kim’s upcoming clinical trial, which aims to improve the way physicians deliver concurrent chemotherapy and enhance outcomes for high-risk patients.
This is the tale of two groups—one that had a Bruce Lee statue, but no place to put it; another, who had been working with the City of Seattle to place a Bruce Lee statue that they didn’t yet have—and one upcoming fundraiser.
The city of Bellevue announced this week that, in honor of Black History Month in February, it will be exhibiting a public art display featuring the work of 17 Pacific Northwest-based Black artists.
The “Elevating Voices” exhibit was made possible through a partnership from the city, the Seattle architecture and design firm MG2, and the Onyx Fine Arts Collective, plus sponsors Wells Fargo, Cloudvue, and Ezell’s Famous Chicken.
In a tradition that began 15 years ago, Cordell Lui and Jerry Lee, and their group of friends, donated hot Costco roasted chickens to the ACRS food bank in the Seattle Chinatown-International District (CID) for the holiday season.
On Oct. 10, the MG2 Foundation presented a $150,000 check from the proceeds of their “Swing for the Cure” golf tournament to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The funds are earmarked for Dr. Cyrus Ghajar‘s research on metastasis, or the spread of cancer cells to different sites. For over 20 years, MG2’s “Swing for the Cure” tournament has raised over $2 million in support of breast cancer research and mammograms.
