9th Annual Light of Hope Breakfast
Tue, Apr 08
|West Des Moines
Join us at our signature fundraiser this spring and change a child's story!


Time & Location
Apr 08, 2025, 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
West Des Moines, 520 Market St, West Des Moines, IA 50266, USA
About the event
This breakfast fundraiser has been a time-honored tradition for Friends of Iowa CASA and ICFCRB. It serves as an opportunity to update community and business leaders on the current state of child welfare advocacy in our local community and statewide, what Friends's upcoming priorities are for the next fiscal and calendar years, and finally serves as a fundraiser to help Friends meet these priorities.
The 2025 keynote speaker is Andrew Bridge. Mr. Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, he attended Wesleyan University, then graduated from Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. He has represented children in need of assistance, led the Alliance for Children’s Rights, and co-founded National Adoption Day and New Village Girls Academy for pregnant and parenting teens.
Mr. Bridge's memoir, Hope’s Boy, was a New York Times Bestseller and honored as a…

Tickets
- Sale ends: Apr 08, 6:00 AM
General Admission
$0.00
Total
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