Posts Tagged family
Another successful Human Race!
At 4 p.m. on Friday, June 11 we discovered that our 10K route for the Human Race was being torn up by construction. This is not the kind of news you want to find out the day before a huge event. Not only are there hundreds of race participants, but we spent months tirelessly organizing the event and getting everything in place. Read the rest of this entry »
HAVING A BLAST IN THE PAST
Posted by Susan in Blog, Hot Opportunities on May 24th, 2010
It’s the season for picnics, walks in the park, ball games in an open field with your friends—Hovander Park! Read the rest of this entry »
House 2 Home Network receives $5,000 grant!
When we arrived for our Whatcom Community Foundation site visit, I was nervous. I was there because my supervisor, Dan Hammill, along with Greg Winter of the Whatcom Homeless Service Center, had applied for a $5,000 grant for House 2 Home Network through WCF. It was my job to tell WCF how H2H works day-to-day. Read the rest of this entry »
Have your awards event and eat ice cream too!
I think that one of the best things we do every year, not counting the fundraising events like Human Race, the free CPR/First Aid classes and the matching of volunteers with partner agencies, is the Heart & Hands Awards Ice Cream Social. Read the rest of this entry »
Lessons from a Year at WVC
This is farewell and a big, giant, virtual hug to thank you.
For one year, I have been an Americorps VISTA for Whatcom Volunteer Center, and this is my last week. I can’t believe I squeezed it all into one year: Human Race, Make A Difference Day, Heart and Hands, Project Homeless Connect, thousands of emails, hundreds of phone calls, countless hours on Pandora radio, and invaluable relationships throughout the county.
For all of those experiences, I thank you all.
I have learned so much: Read the rest of this entry »
Nonprofit to Know #5: Bikers Fighting Cancer
Posted by Randi in Blog, Hot Opportunities on April 2nd, 2010
Ray and Patrick, an unlikely pair both personally battling Cancer. Ray, an 11 year old boy, told his friend Patrick (49 years old) that he wanted to belong to a biker club when he got older. Together, they designed patch with a logo crossing out the grim reaper, came up with a motto, and created a mission for Bikers Fighting Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children fight cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Project Warm-Up Warming Hearts
Posted by Randi in Blog, Hot Opportunities on March 25th, 2010
How many hours would it take you to knit or crochet more than 3,200 pieces of warm items?
3,296 scarves, hats, blankets, mittens to be exact: this is a result of piles and piles of yarn in our entranceway, monthly knitting circles all year long, people coming in and out of our office taking yarn and bringing it back in a finished project. Project Warm-Up is a program run out of our office that collects handmade items to distribute to homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, programs for parents that have a low-income, people with disabilities, and people with health issues. Read the rest of this entry »
Nonprofit to Know #4: Assistance League
That’s right, shopping can support children, domestic violence victims and senior citizens!
Have “no idea” what Assistance League is? It’s okay, Zach, Max, Steven and Brad of Western Washington University didn’t either…until one fateful day when they volunteered there to fulfill a class requirement and walked away with much more than class credit.
Assitance League is a national organization with a Bellingham branch run mostly by volunteers. Basically, they raise money, mostly through their Thrift & Gift Shop (1322 Cornwall Ave) for far-reaching programs: programs you know about, but didn’t know Assistance League was behind it all. Read the rest of this entry »
Nonprofits to Know #3: Communities In Schools
Posted by Randi in Blog, Events, Hot Opportunities on March 2nd, 2010
One in three kids in Whatcom County will fail to graduate from high school. I hope you agree with me that even one high school dropout is a real problem: one we can solve together. Read the rest of this entry »
What Volunteering Has Meant to Me
Written by: Lacey Kara, Western Washington University student
I moved to Bellingham, WA from Boston, MA at the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. Not knowing anybody or having any other “niche,” I joined our high school’s volunteer organization called “Key Club.” I felt like I would be accepted here, if anywhere, and I would have the opportunity to meet new people while volunteering at various locations around Whatcom County, and the place I now call home. Read the rest of this entry »
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