Each year, 10 Windermere offices on the Eastside join together to support local non-profits by distributing funds raised on behalf of the Windermere Foundation. The sources of these funds are twofold: Every time an Eastside Windermere agent sells a home, a portion of their commission goes to the Windermere Foundation, and throughout each year additional donations are collected from and raised by Eastside Windermere agents and employees. The Eastside Windermere Foundation is very gratified to provide $235,000 in grants toward the 2020 operations of 26 incredible non-profits. These grants will help sustain services and support for low-income and homeless families.
Take a look below to learn more about these important local organizations.
This non-profit creates lasting life changes for homeless moms and their kids. Acres of Diamonds provides a safe place to recover, rebuild, and break the cycles of addiction, poverty and abuse. Their structured living plan, on-site counseling, parenting support and life-skill training helps moms to re-establish their lives with purpose, confidence, and support.
The Windermere Foundation’s grant will help provide women and children transitional housing and support programs to rebuild lives from domestic and/or substance abuse.
Learn more: https://www.acresofdiamonds.org/
This community-based, philanthropic program make a positive difference in the lives of children and adults touched by hardship or violence. The Assistance League of the Eastside is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that puts caring and commitment into action through several impactful programs.
This grant will go to the Operation School Bell program that provides basic items of clothing to low-income students, grades K-12.
Learn more: https://www.aleastside.org/
This highly regarded organization is devoted to helping families on the Eastside. Attain Housing offers opportunities for self-sufficiency and a strong support network in addition to affordable and stable housing. Since 1989, they have helped countless families in Eastside communities move away from homelessness and toward a stable and comfortable lifestyle.
This grant will help provide affordable housing to homeless families with children as well as case management for setting financial and social goals.
Learn more: http://www.attainhousing.org/
This impactful organization provides free, easy-to-make meals each Friday for low-income children so they have food to eat over the weekend. Backpack Meals for Kids serves the nearly 200 homeless children in Bellevue. For too many children in the Bellevue Public Schools, the only meals available to them are during the week while attending school. On the weekends, they go hungry. Backpack Meals for Kids is working to fill that gap.
This grant will provide weekend meals and backpacks to Bellevue School District students who would otherwise go hungry.
Learn more: http://backpackmeals.org/
Since 1911, this incredible organization mission has been to foster stability and self-sufficiency for Bellevue’s children and their families through programs that provide food, clothing, education and emergency assistance. By addressing a child’s basic needs, Bellevue LifeSpring helps students focus on their education and break the cycle of poverty.
This grant supports the Breaktime-Mealtime Program which provides 80,000 meals to children during school breaks.
Learn more: https://www.bellevuelifespring.org/
This important organization provides training to businesses and leaders to help identify victims of human trafficking, prevent exploitation, and provide safe employment for survivors. Since their launch, BEST has provided awareness, consultation, and training to employers in a variety of sectors and as result, has seen an increase in the amount of trafficking victims able escape their exploiters and increased prevention effort.
This grant will go to help human trafficking survivors and at-risk individuals to find safe employment so they can afford housing.
Learn more: https://www.bestalliance.org
This fantastic organization runs-after school, sports and recreational programs for kids and teens. The Boys and Girls Club of Bellevue can be found throughout the city providing positive, safe places where local youth can have fun, make friends and learn. Their goal is to inspire and enable young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
This grant will support Project Learn, Boys and Girls Club of Bellevue’s after school and summer camp programs at three low-income housing Clubhouses.
Learn more: http://www.bgcbellevue.org/
This great organization inspires change in the lives of at-risk youth through alternative high school education, counseling, recovery, housing, and life skills programs. The Eastside Academy is like no other school in the state. Their unique model offers a place where youth can receive an education, recover from addiction, receive mental health counseling, build relationships with mentors, find housing, and leverage alumni services all under one roof.
This grant will help pay food expenses for homeless and poverty-level students while they attend this alternative high school.
Learn more: http://www.eastsideacademy.org/
This wonderful organization helps kids thrive by leveraging direct service providers to deliver basic necessities to families in need. For 50 weeks each year, volunteers and staff at Eastside Baby Corner collect community donations, purchase and distribute children’s and maternity items to families in collaboration with organizations helping families in their area.
This grant will help provide essentials like diapers and formula to economically disadvantaged children.
Learn more: http://www.babycorner.org/
This wonderful organization acts as a go-between for local farmers to distribute fresh produce to people who don’t have access to healthy food. Farms for Life is a local organization mobilized to bridge the gap between local farms, who often have surplus crops and those in need of fresh food by reimbursing the farmer for the harvesting and processing costs.
This grant will help buy fresh and surplus produce from local farms using sustainable growing practices and provides healthy produce to families in need.
Learn more: https://farms4life.org/
This amazing nonprofit teaches individuals how to play an active role in their financial well-being. Financial Beginnings provides accessible and unbiased financial education to youth and adults and educates over 40,000 individuals annually.
This grant will help fund the teaching of personal financial concepts to youth and adults of economically-vulnerable populations.
Learn more: https://www.financialbeginnings.org/
Since 1951, this inspiring organization has been helping young people in challenging circumstances get their lives back on track. Today, Friends of Youth positively impacts over 6,500 children, youth and their families each year by offering youth overnight shelters, championing development initiatives, providing in-home family support for young parents and guardians, parent education, youth and family counseling, substance abuse counseling, transitional housing for homeless youth and much more.
This grant will help fund emergency response and shelter, then long-term housing, to children (ages 7-17) experiencing trauma or abuse in East King County.
Learn more: https://www.friendsofyouth.org/
This impactful nonprofit helps more than 65,000 people yearly through programs that provide the stability, skills and knowledge needed to exit poverty. Hopelink’s services help people achieve stability through the provision of basic needs, such as shelter and food. They believe that with the stresses of homelessness or hunger removed from the situation, family members are more able to focus on the next phase of their journey out of poverty.
This grant will go to support the End Summer Hunger Program which ensures local schoolchildren in low-income families have enough to eat during summer break.
Learn more: https://www.hopelink.org/
This helpful organization’s mission is to develop affordable housing, build welcoming communities, and foster vibrant futures. Imagine Housing develops permanent affordable rental homes in East King County to provide individuals and families a place to live near their jobs, good schools, transportation, and health services.
This grant will target under-18-year-olds in their Support Services Program to provide affordable housing and life skill case management in East King County.
Learn more: https://imaginehousing.org/
For over 46 years, this caring organization has provided financial aid to local families when an emergency arises. Issaquah Community Services (ICS) helps families with aid to prevent homelessness, reimburse lost wages due to an emergency event, prevent utility shut offs and much more.
This grant will provide emergency aid in the form of utility payments to low-income families in the Issaquah School District.
Learn more: http://www.issaquahcommunityservices.org/
This important organization works with the Issaquah School District to drive resources and help all students achieve the promise of their academic potential. The Issaquah Schools Foundation’s vision is to be the unifying organization that enables the Issaquah School District to provide access to exceptional opportunities district-wide that ignite learning, improve educational outcomes and prepare all students to be confident, competent and engaged citizens. They do this by bridging the gap between funds the state provides for basic education and the dollars our schools need to prepare students for success in school and life.
This grant will support students who are homeless, at-risk, or living with a disability, for vital targeted academic intervention in math, reading, and writing.
Learn more: http://issaquahschoolsfoundation.org/
This important organization’s mission is to provide basic needs to community member and to promote self-sufficiency. The Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank is committed to providing quality food, clothing and other items as well as offering one-on-one personalized attention to help families navigate the complex maze of available resources.
This grant will help to maintain a refrigerated box truck utilized as a mobile food bank to remote Eastside communities that have difficulty accessing food bank services.
Learn more: https://www.issaquahfoodbank.org/
This incredible organization embraces children of diverse abilities and their families by providing the finest education and therapies to nurture hope, courage and the skills to soar. Kindering provides early intervention services to infants and children who have special needs or are at-risk, and to their families as well. The non-profit offers a full range of services to support the entire family, including parent education courses, specialized support groups for parents and siblings, specialized programming for foster parents, and a true sense of community for those facing the unexpected journey of raising a child with special needs.
This grant will help to provide developmental support, screening, and early intervention therapies to the very young children of homeless families.
Learn more: https://kindering.org/
Since 1982, this amazing organization has partnered with more than 145,000 domestic violence survivors on their courageous journeys towards safety, stability, and healing. LifeWire is on a mission to end domestic violence and create a world where every person lives in a safe environment free from oppression with the opportunity to thrive. By offering one-on-one advocacy and support, they work each day to ensure the safety and enduring independence of every survivor who walks through their doors.
This grant will support the Hotel-Motel Voucher Program, which provides emergency short-term stays in hotels and motels for victim of domestic violence.
Learn more: https://www.lifewire.org/
With the help of countless volunteers and donors, this non-profit has grown into a powerful force for good in our local community. Mamma’s Hands was founded to provide hope and support to those in crisis. Their mission is to help those in crisis regain their self-respect, and to provide them the support and direction they need to become productive members of society. Their vision: Hope in Every Individual.
This grant will help support three Houses of Hope that house mothers and children from abuse and homelessness to help them develop plans to bring change to their lives.
Learn more: http://www.mammashands.org/
This wonderful community-driven program provides healthy food for hungry kids to take home over the weekend and school breaks. Through charitable donations and volunteer support, Pantry Packs is able to feed more than 800 Lake Washington School District children who are identified by counselors as being “food insecure” and often come to school hungry on Mondays.
This grant will go towards providing weekend, child-friendly food packs to children of qualified low-income families.
Learn more: https://www.lwsf.org/pantrypacks.html
This Issaquah based non-profit was created to provide support and services to at risk youth with an emphasis on foster children and their families. Royal Family Kids’ Camp’s vision is to make a difference in the lives of children who have suffered abandonment, abuse and neglect, and to give them hope for their future. Their goal is to help foster children in King County, ages 7 – 15, attend a summer camp filled with life changing experiences and love that focuses on meeting the special needs of abused and neglected children.
This grant will help support their summer camp and help build positive experiences for abused, neglected and abandoned foster children.
Learn more: http://royalfamilykids.org/
This fantastic nonprofit provides formal attire to teens from low-income families across the state, enabling them to participate in high school milestone events. Ruby Room F-Factor utilizes fashion as a tool to build self-confidence and promote inclusion among foster children, homeless youth and teens in financial need.
This grant will help to provide formal wear at no cost to teens in financial need so they may participate in landmark life events.
Learn more: https://www.f-factor.org/
This organization provides life-changing services to those experiencing homelessness by working within our communities to provide emergency shelter, social services, and connections to permanent housing. Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services is made up of community members who have a passion for helping our homeless population connect with the care and services they need.
This grant will help provide a safe overnight environment for homeless men and women and for families struggling with homelessness.
Learn more: http://www.svshelterservices.org/
This impactful organization is dedicated to closing the achievement gap between youth in foster care and their peers forever. Treehouse provides students in foster care with academic and other essential support that all kids need to succeed.
This grant will help to support the Little Wishes Program which allows foster care youth to participate in extracurricular arts, athletics, and other educational experiences.
Learn more: https://www.treehouseforkids.org/
This dedicated organization is the leading behavioral health services provider for children and youth, up to age 22, and their families in East King County. Youth Eastside Services (YES) provides evidence-based mental health counseling, substance use and co-occurring disorders counseling and treatment, early childhood behavioral health services, psychiatric services, and education and prevention programs.
This grant will support YES Lifeline, which provides free mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment to low-income youth and families.
Learn more: https://www.youtheastsideservices.org/
