San Juan Island Community Foundation’s County Fair Match!

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The San Juan Island Community Foundation invites all fairgoers to its on-line Giving Center with a 50% match on all donations made during the four day event.

Ten critical community projects will be featured at the Foundation’s main hall Fair booth in conjunction with local non-profits:

• Friday Harbor Food Bank
• Islands Museum of Arts – Arts in our Schools
• The Women’s Fund
• The SJC Arts Council
• Island Stage Left – “Great Professional Theatre for All”
• The San Juan Career Training Program
• The Whale Museum – Soundwatch
• The SJICF General Scholarship Fund
• St. David’s Kindergarten Readiness and Enrichment program
• The Healthy Community Fund – Grants for Critical Needs

Each on-line (www.sjicf.org) gift will be matched at the rate of fifty cents on the dollar up to a preset cap per project.  The booth will offer computer based giving stations for your use.  Non-profit representatives will be on hand to answer your questions on each project.

On the last day of the Fair a drawing from all Fair donors will allow the winner to designate an additional $500 to be awarded to one of the ten featured projects

The San Juan Island Community Foundation serves as a non-profit philanthropic umbrella organization helping donors, non-profits and public organizations to achieve their goals through direct grants, organizational assistance and philanthropic resource management.  For further information about the Community Foundation, call 378-1001, write to PO Box 1352, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 or, visit the office is located at 640 Mullis St. Suite 104.