Fall Giving Catalog
We are raising funds to update and replace aging interpretative panels at the Bay Loop Trail at Leadbetter Point, one of the most visited trails on the Refuge. Please help us continue to enhance our wonderful National Wildlife Refuge―a gem right in our own backyard!
Help maintain the beauty and health of our beaches. Donations promote cleanup events, buy supplies, and pay disposal and transportation costs. Last year 100s of volunteers helped collect 19 tons of trash on the 5th of July. Treasure our beaches for all.
What better way to go wild by replanting our landscape! Native plants will be added under the windows of the studio and the Exchange Street side of our property. Help us beautify our land and our neighborhood and make KMUN wild!
We care for wildlife in life-threatening situations. An adjacent acre is available for build raptor enclosures and songbird aviaries. Plans also include an education center for children and adults to promote empathy and conservation. Please consider donating to support our cause!
Our incubation room was built decades ago and needs rehab for rearing coho. Needs include: a new silt trap/header; lighting, pipes, and drains; freshening for trays; and shelving. Another need is new educational signage on salmon life cycles.
Duane came to us in March 2022. He was diagnosed with arthritis and needed ACL surgery; these came to over $4,000. Half were met with donations. We ask for your support to cover the remaining half, so we can continue to help other animals in our care. If Duane’s medical needs are met, additional donations will be used for other shelter animals' medical expenses.
Each Friday during the school year, we prepare nutritious weekend snacks, drinks and meals for PreK-12 students, 232 weekend food bags, an increase of 30% from the previous year. Weekly costs increased to $1,500. Help ensure our children do not go hungry!
The Swing Bed program is for patients transitioning from hospital to home, allowing them to stay on the peninsula. OBH is creating a covered area for patients to enjoy fresh air and practice occupational therapies. Your donation will provide furniture and planters in an area honoring Marilyn Gorshe.
Help us meet unforeseen expenses from renovating our building, and reductions in food from regional suppliers. In short, we need to replenish our savings to continue providing food for families in our community. Your support helps our neighbors!
All kids deserve to be celebrated; we help families make sure all kids feel Birthday Love! The simple joy provided to families through this program is profound, and it's one of the programs that we get the most positive feedback about.
We fund programs, projects and items that are not in each library’s budget. These include take-and-make art kits, magazine subscriptions, summer reading programs and more. Help our local libraries to help our local communities thrive.
We need new tech: a portable projector and TV to promote area businesses and local events; tablets for visitors with vision/mobility issues with a larger viewing screen, and help those without internet-ready phones with digital museum tours.
Help us update our equipment and technology! We need new tech devices to host future camps and the mobile learning lab: chrome books and more. This equipment lets us host robotics learning anywhere on the Peninsula. Please support this popular and important learning experience for our students!
Help us offer more scholarships for IHS students to be teachers and peer leaders in our program. We hire students as coaches and mentors for younger or more inexperienced students in our camps. This directly supports students in an all-important area of STEM education!
We provide local students with school supplies, backpacks, clothes, haircuts and more. Help us continue this vital community youth program; last year we helped more than 400 local students. We’ve made a difference since 2012: please help us continue!
Help us get a Motion Case™ to highlight an amazing collection of miniature kites by Charlie Sotich and other kite makers. Guests of all ages can explore the intricate details of each of our hundreds of tiny kites with this innovative display tool.
Our historic library was closed last July by Timberland Regional Library, due to health and safety concerns. We seek donations to help reopen this historic structure. All donations go toward needed improvements to ensure the library is safe for everyone. Please help restore our cherished library!
PPR partners with a local firm to provide propane for heating and cooking. We typically serve over 100 clients each time. Help us mitigate the effects of poverty, and keep our neighbors warm and able to cook meals for their families.
As our population ages, requests increase for ramps and low-rise stairs. Since 2021 we’ve built 48 ramps, with more requests coming in. As the only nonprofit, all-volunteer organization keeping people in their homes, we are grateful for “ramping up funds”!
About 8,000 people visit the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum each year. A number of those visitors have limited mobility or just want a place to linger and catch their breath. This will help purchase benches for key spots throughout the museum.
Last spring we renovated the field behind Chinook School with volunteers who rebuilt the infield. Next is dugouts and sideline fencing. Sports for youth build confidence, social skills, and experiences in healthy activities. Please invest in our kids!
Our ¡Adelante Juntos! Immigrant Justice Fund! helps keep families together and become US citizens. We pay legal costs and conduct English and citizenship classes. We humbly request your donations to help our deserving neighbors become U.S. citizens.
We have outgrown our space of 43 years, and plan to purchase a larger building to meet the needs of our clientele: children, homeless, poor and domestic violence victims. This new space will house both store and offices. Please help us “Buy the Building.”
We provide access to justice for underserved communities in Thurston, Mason, Grays Harbor, Lewis, and Pacific Counties and focus on civil matters, offering education, advice, and representation in underserved communities. Help us provide free legal support to ensure that justice is served.
Like many community choirs, sheet music is one of our biggest expenses. Your donations allow us to purchase quality music for our 2025 concert season. Help us keep the joy of music thriving in our community with new music for singers and audiences!
Help us be heard: Our microphone system needs to be replaced. The new devices will be used in our productions and loaned out, free of charge, to local public schools for theater and educational purposes. We invite you to help us be heard loud and clear!
The ramp that leads up to the Playhouse side door needs to be replaced. The new ramp will feature treated outdoor wood products and paint to protect it for years to come. We invite you to help us support―literally―our thriving and vibrant Peninsula Players community.
This year music teacher Rachel Lake requests practice pads, drumsticks, valve oils, guitar and violin strings and reeds. Art teacher Annie Rivers asked for a matte cutter, camera SD cards, and batteries. Help provide our arts and music kids with these tools.
Make one donation here, to be divided among all requests.
