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Fundraising Workshop: Keeping Your Donors
Fundraising Workshop: How to Keep your Donors January 17, 2019 1-5 PM $10 per person; sign up online or call 360-376-6423 to register You may have just survived a GiveOrcas campaign or your year-end appeal--or both! Now that the big push is over, are you seeing people...
Year end
Most importantly, we made it to 2019! It felt for a while like Orcas might just submerge, with the King tide and the heavy rain, but we managed to remain rock steady. 2018 was a banner year for philanthropy at OICF. We received $2,214,480 in donations from 877...
GiveOrcas 2018
Thanks to your donation during the 2018 GiveOrcas Holiday Catalog, over $47,000 was distributed to 18 great programs serving the Orcas community (see a complete list of grants below). With your support, Orcas grows more resilient. Thank you for your investment in this...
Happy (almost) New Year
As a community, we got great things done in 2018. We passed the Hospital Taxing District and elected a stellar board of commissioners who have worked diligently to develop a long term sustainable plan for island medical services. We fed hundreds of families weekly...
Here Comes the SUN!
Happy Solstice! It is wonderful that the winds have died down and the sun has returned. Today is the final day of the GiveOrcas Holiday Catalog. We have had 356 donors contribute $47,000 in total so far- fantastic support for the many programs serving this community....
Lovely Legacy
OICF received word of a legacy gift from Fred Whitridge that will be added to the Community Endowment. Fred was one of the founding members of OICF and a great believer in the power of collective philanthropy. He delighted in encouraging everyone to give and give...
Ho,ho,ho….here we go!
The big reveal happened! Colleen Smith is the 2018 Flat Ambassador for the GiveOrcas Holiday Catalog. If you see her about town, stop and take a selfie for a chance to win $500 for the organization of your choice (you can read more about it here). When you give to any...
Who’s Flat Now?
The Give Orcas Holiday Catalog launches this Monday. There are 18 catalog items supporting a wide variety of community programs. Here is a link to a sneak preview of this year’s catalog- www.giveorcas.org. As always, Kate has several games to keep it fun and...
Happy Thanksgiving
Last week I mentioned the North Valley Community Foundation and the donations they are providing help to those impacted by the Camp Fire. It turns out that they are using the software Chris Sutton developed for OICF. They have been receiving donations from around the...
Grateful
Recently, OPAL Community Land Trust invited OICF and the Community Resource Center to meet with the San Juan County Emergency Management team to begin discussing our roles in a natural disaster. Watching the fires unfold in California has brought the topic to life in...