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Opportunities to give back during holiday season
GiveOrcas Holiday Catalog 2016: Who will be the new “Flat Person” representing the Orcas Island Community Foundation’s GiveOrcas Holiday Campaign? The mystery will be revealed on December 6, and this Flat and Real Person will champion the nonprofits listed in our 2016...
Orcas is struggling to sustain its nonprofits
Whenever I ask someone about joining one of the nonprofit boards I serve on, this is the reaction I receive: a panicked look, a quick shake of the head and “No, I am already on a board and I volunteer a lot. There is no way I can possibly take anything else on.”...
Joyce Burghard honored by OICF
Seek beauty, give service, pursue knowledge, be trustworthy, hold on to health, glorify work and be happy. These are the laws in the Camp Fire Girls pledge, and these are tenets by which long-time Orcas Islander Joyce Burghardt has lived her life. SOURCE: Islands'...
Community Foundation continues to impress
When the Orcas Island Community Foundation asked me to be part of a special project, I immediately said yes. I had a cursory understanding of what it would entail, but it wasn’t until our first meeting that it really clicked.And then I got very excited. SOURCE:...