As of December 3, Whatcom Community Foundation through its Resilience Fund, and working with Whatcom Strong, has made 22 grants totaling $816,000 to 15 organizations working on the ground in the communities impacted by flood. The Resilience Fund is our community’s emergency bounce-back fund. It puts philanthropic (i.e. private) dollars to work providing emergency assistance, such as financial support,...
The Whatcom Community Foundation is making grants from the Resilience Fund to local organizations who are working with Whatcom Strong to provide flood relief countywide to people based on individual needs. Every dollar raised here stays here and 100% of all donations made to the Resilience Fund are being granted to local organizations in Whatcom County...
In addition to raising and distributing money from the Resilience Fund, the Whatcom Community Foundation listens to community voices and shares information, helps identify systemic gaps and needs related to relief efforts, and offers potential solutions to mobilizing support efficiently and equitably. Here is a snapshot of progress: Resilience Fund grants: Nine grants totaling $470,000...
It’s already May! Spring is definitely in the air. While there is still much work to be done on just about every front, within that work lies possibility and hope for defining a new and better normal for our community. Here’s a peek at what we know right now, the questions we’re asking, and what’s...
The family and friends of Lynn Heimsoth, the Sunnyland principal who was fatally shot, along with her therapy dog Sukha, in her home last December have established the Lynn Heimsoth Memorial Scholarship here at the Community Foundation. In memory of her drive for social justice and a strong belief in all students having the opportunity for higher education,...
What if we could ensure a market for local farmers and feed our food-insecure neighbors in one program? That’s the Farm-to-Freezer project in a nutshell, and it’s just one idea cooking in the Food Security Task Force, convened in late March by the Community Foundation at the request of Whatcom Unified Command. While the focus is...
We’re late. The racism that has played out in our local communities and across the U.S. in brazen as well as invisible ways has been at play for centuries. When your vision is “everyone who lives here thrives,” your commitment to that vision must be visible, audible and palpable. While I believe that the Community...
Extraordinary. That word – with all its positive and negative connotations – keeps popping up in conversation. In the positive column, thanks to people like you making generous gifts to the Resilience Fund, more than $550,000 is now in the hands of more than 20 nonprofit partners working hard and working creatively to address the many...
