Help Make a Difference Before Disaster Strikes Along with our partners, Whatcom Community Foundation is working to ensure that if we as a community are not responding to a disaster, we are preparing for one. Our goal? Rapid, orderly, sufficient and equitable care for neighbors in the face of our next community crisis. Are we a resilient...
The Whatcom Community Foundation Youth Philanthropy Program (YPP) has been created for students to engage in knowledge and experiential based learning opportunities that foster leadership, technical and critical thinking skills. YPP connects youth to the community through charitable giving in relation to local, environmental needs. Students will focus their time and effort on powerful impact...
Grant funding for Whatcom County small businesses impacted by last November's historic flooding is now available. Funding comes from the Whatcom Community Foundation in partnership with Western Washington University's Small Business Development Center and the Port of Bellingham and in coordination with the Whatcom Long Term Recovery Group (LTRG). Qualified businesses can apply at Whatcom Community Foundation...
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...
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...
