Community Corner
GiveBIG 2013: Who in Bellevue Can You Help with a Donation?
During the one-day charity event, The Seattle Foundation will augment donations made to nonprofits through the foundation's website. Is your favorite nonprofit taking part? Tell us in the comments.
Bellevue nonprofits are set to benefit during The Seattle Foundation's GiveBIG event, which will "stretch" donations made to nonprofits through the foundation's website. More than 1,400 nonprofit organizations are participating in this year's event, according to The Seattle Foundation's website. Participating groups that are based in Bellevue, or have programs in Bellevue include:
- BALLET BELLEVUE
- BACKPACKMEALS BELLEVUE
- BELLEVUE CHAMBER CHORUS
- BELLEVUE CIVIC THEATRE
- BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
- BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM
- BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY
- BELLEVUE YOUTH THEATRE FOUNDATION
- LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
- JUBILEE REACH
- EASTSIDE HERITAGE CENTER
- TATEUCHI CENTER
- KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
- DOWNTOWN ACTION TO SAVE HOUSING
- EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS
- OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
- HOPELINK
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE
- THE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE
- STONEDANCE PRODUCTIONS
- 91.3 KBCS
- WORLD IMPACT NETWORK
- HERO HOUSE
- HELPING HANDS FOR THE DISABLED
- THE SOPHIA WAY
- NAMI EASTSIDE
- THE PHFFFT COMPANY, INC.
- EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
- ATHLETES FOR KIDS
- THE DREAM POWER FOUNDATION
- KINDERING CENTER
- CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS
- BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
- FRENCH IMMERSION SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON
- EASTSIDE ACADEMY
- FOREST RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART
- WASHINGTON STEM
- SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY
- MICROSOFT ALUMNI FOUNDATION
- NDIA ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
- BELLEVUE LIFESPRING
Search for your favorite nonprofit on The Seattle Foundation's website. This is undoubtedly an incomplete list. Help your neighbors out: If your favorite nonprofit is participating in GiveBIG, make a note in our comments below this story.
"Stretching" Donations
According to The Seattle Foundation, each donation made through The Seattle Foundation's website to the any of the profiled organizations between midnight and midnight (Pacific Time) on May 15, 2013 will receive a portion of the matching funds pool (the "stretch pool"). Sponsors include Microsoft, the Bezos Family Foundation and others listed on the GiveBIG website.Donors can win too
Throughout GiveBIG, donors will be chosen at random to have an additional $1,000 given to the charity that received their donation, according to The Seattle Foundation. The selected donor will also be eligible to win a Starbucks gift card worth $100.On the Web
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