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This week we kicked off Give!Guide’s Skidmore Prize nomination period! We’re accepting nominations (link in bio) until 11:59 pm March 24. Do you know an extraordinary nonprofit professional (35&U) who deserves recognition for their contributions to the community? Now’s your chance to let us know. ✨ Eligible nominees must be 35 or younger and employed full time at a nonprofit in Multnomah, Clackamas, or Washington county. Beyond that, we’re looking for exceptional young people with passion, purpose, and a commitment to making Portland (and beyond) a better place for everyone. Fine print: You can’t nominate yourself but your friends, coworkers, volunteers, board members, family can - pretty much anyone in your universe looking to brag about you. 🥰 If you know someone who fits the bill, just click the link in our bio to submit your nomination. The more the merrier, so please spread the word! Image: Khalil Callier, case manager at Outside In and 2025 winner of the Skidmore Prize

First and foremost: THANK YOU. 🫂 After 61 donation-filled days, @willametteweek ’s annual end-of-year effort to raise awareness and funds for local nonprofits came to a hard stop at 11:59 pm last night. The vault closed with $9,259,154 raised for 277 local nonprofits that serve Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties. This is the most raised in Give!Guide’s 22-year history and beats our audacious $9 million goal. It’s an especially nice way to put a cap on what was otherwise a dicey, turbulent year. As Give!Guide donors, you bucked a national trend marked by declining charitable donations from everyday givers. Not here! 17,584 of you stepped up to give. Some of you gave big. Most of you gave $10 here or there as you could spare it. That matters: Your gifts added up. You’ve helped fund these nonprofits’ mission-driven work during the year ahead. That means more good work in areas from hunger relief and housing to health care, the arts, and climate action. We’ll share a deeper look at Give!Guide’s final numbers in the days ahead, but one thing is already clear: WW’s G!G works because of you. 💙

Hey buds, we’re officially at the end of the road of this year’s Give!Guide campaign. The vault closes at midnight, and hundreds of local organizations are counting on today’s support from you, your friends, your family, and community members to reach their Give!Guide goals. 🫂 We’re not crying, you are! (Okay, maybe we’re all crying a little.) It’s been a rollercoaster ride that started with the Give!Guide headquarters setting its most tremendous goal yet: $9 million. This year exemplified exactly how far a lot of optimism and a little whimsical delusion can go in a tricky fundraising climate. Which—unless you’ve been under a rock for the last 13 months—is exactly what 2025 brought. If you have been under a rock, please crawl out and make your donations now while it still counts! ☺️ Whether you donate big or small, it counts. Every donation helps secure critical funding for the 277 nonprofits in the Portland metro area careening into the new year. They’re here for you year round, and you need to be here for them NOW. Don’t wait. The end is near. Head on over to giveguide.org to give, give, give. Help us reach this year's goal before the clock strikes 11:59 pm!

Heads up: just two more giving days left before Give!Guide 2025 is in the books! Which means today is our final Big Give Day, sponsored by the @orculturaltrust . We’re closing in on our goal of $9M — will you pitch in and help us get there? Every donation of $10 or more today has a chance to win this complete getaway package for two to Southern Oregon! • Two vouchers to see performances at the @osfashland • A tour of OSF’s production facility in Talent • Gift Certificate for one night’s stay at the historic @ashlandspringshotel • A $100 gift card to @thenoblefoxashland in Ashland Get thee to the link in our bio (anon!) and start donating for a chance to win. Remember: Every donation is a chance to win and there’s no limit, so spread the love (and the dollars)!

Friends! Only two Big Give Days left for this year’s campaign, and today’s is a whopper. @splendid_cycles is back for Big E-Bike Day! Donate $10 or more today and you’ll be entered to win a 2025 Tern HSD S00 e-bike from Splendid Cycles. You’ll be smiling all the way home with this e-bike: • Class 1 Bosch Performance Line motor with Bosch Smart System provides up to 75 Nm of torque. 545WH battery, which means it’s up to the task whether you need it for your work or school commute or just to zip around town. • Features Enviolo CVT shifting and Gates Belt technology so it's easy to shift and low maintenance! • Compatible with a full line of Tern accessories and a 396 lb weight capacity so you can set the bike up to carry passengers, small dogs, or cargo. • This model is (virtually) one-size-fits-all so our winner can pick up their bike and go! • TheTern HSD S00 currently retails for $5949. Throw it into high gear and click that link in our bio to start donating now. Every donation is a chance to win and there’s no limit!

This Big Give Day is for all the cool people, which means it’s for everyone. It slaps, it’s awesome, it’s groovy. It’s Big Cool Day, brought to you by some of Portland’s slayingest destinations. Every donation of $10 or today has multiple chances to win. You’ll find the full scoop/deets/411 on our website (link in bio) but here’s the lowdown: All donors have two chances to win a prize package featuring hundreds of dollars in gift cards from @atlastattoo , @midtownbeergardenpdx , and @musicmillennium . Are you 35 or under? You have two EXTRA chances to win the same package, plus one last chance to win a $100 gift card to Midtown Beer Garden. This Big Give Day — it’s lit, you might say. Swagger on over to the link in our bio to start donating. Every $10 donation is entered to win and there’s no limit. Stay cool, everybody! 😎

It’s Big Books Day! Bookworms, time to set aside your latest page-turner (don’t worry, you’ll have your nose back in a book in no time) and make sure you’re in the running for your favorite thing: more books! Every donation of $10 or more today has a chance to win a $500 gift card to @powellsbooks . Are you 35 or under? Powell’s has donated a second $500 gift card just for our younger donors, so you have TWO chances to win today. Powell’s gift cards can be redeemed at any of their retail locations, including the famous flagship store at NW 10th and Burnside, or online at . Book it on over to the link in our bio to get started — every donation is a chance to win and there’s no limit!

Things are heating up here at the Give!Guide headquarters. We’re doing our stretching, and prepping for what we like to call “The Final Push”. Basically, it’s the sprint toward the end of the year’s campaign; and this year, we’re reaching for our biggest goal yet: $9 million for 277 nonprofits in the Portland metro area. Those of you that have been here before know that we like to end each Give!Guide campaign year with a line up of positively fantastic Big Give Days. If you’re new, then you’re in for a treat, starting tomorrow with Big Books Day. Donate $10 or more, and get entered to win a $500 gift card to @powellsbooks . Donors 35 and under have a second opportunity to win. 📚 Come back on 12/28 for Big Cool Day, brought to you by some of Portland’s slayingest destinations. Every donation of $10 has multiple chances to win! Following right behind Big Cool Day is Big E-Bike Day. 🚲 Once again, a donation of ONLY $10 (we won’t stop you from donating more, though 😉) will toss your hat in the running to win a 2025 Tern HSD S00 e-bike from @splendid_cycles . FINALLY, come back on 12/31, make your donation of $10 or more, and roll the dice for a chance to win this complete Shakespeare-forward getaway package for two to Southern Oregon! Huzzah, and happy giving! 🥳

Well, it's that time of year again. The end of the year brings the holidays, and also the end of the current year's Give!Guide campaign. We're ready to kick things into gear with a slew of Big Give Days, starting Saturday and ending on 12/30, and hope you are too! 🥳 But before we do, we wanted to share with you another category spotlight. Today's spotlight is shining on the Creative Expression category. Nonprofits in this category create moments creative refuge when the going gets tough. 🎨 "Creative expression is an incredibly powerful tool to imagine better futures and work toward them together — which is why it’s so dangerous when this presidential administration attacks communities' access to it," shares Meg Schenk on behalf of the Creative Expression category. "It can be easy to feel powerless right now. But if there’s one action you take today, I hope it’s donating to an organization below. We need them so every Portlander knows that spark of recognition and belonging. So we can all be a part of something bigger." Head to the link in our bio to check out the nonprofits in this year's Creative Expression category, and donate while you're there. 💙

We're barreling toward the end of this year's Give!Guide campaign, and we have a lot to look forward to. That includes introducing you to the remaining winners of this year's Skidmore Prize; meet Frances Andonopoulos, founder and director of @sincerestudiopdx . Their journey to founding Sincere Studio was not exactly a straight line. They had lost their job and were receiving unemployment benefits; ironically, this allowed them to transform their long-held hobby into a valuable community service. “Oregon has this program where if you’re on unemployment, you can apply to start your own business and still keep your unemployment benefits," explained Andonopoulos. “So I was like, let me just try, because I honestly don’t know if I’m ever going to have an opportunity like this.” Sincere Studio is Portland’s first nonprofit community sewing center. Effectively, it's a community sewing space where people from all economic backgrounds could learn to sew. A nonprofit that could serve as both a creative and educational haven, offering classes, hosting meetups, and providing a hub for skill sharing that would foster and strengthen community across economic lines. Andonopoulos expected that in the first year they’d be lucky to build a small group of eager students. But instead of a slow build, Sincere Studio has been steadily growing since its inception, creating a safe and welcoming space where people of all genders, races, ages, and abilities can learn the basics of sewing — just as intended. Read Andonopoulos' full Skidmore Prize profile at the link in our bio! ✍: @briannapaulinemarie 📸: @kenziebruce_photo

Who wants free groceries? That’s right, literally everyone. Donate $10 or more today for a chance to win a $500 gift card from our longtime partners and friends at @newseasonsmarket . Are you 35 or under? You have five additional chances to win a $100 gift card! Every donation is a chance to win and there’s no limit — click the link in our bio and start filling up that cart. 🛒

People all across the nation are experiencing increased food insecurity; the Portland metro area is no exception. More and more often, we are seeing community members struggle to figure out where their—and their family's—next meal is going to come from. And when people experience hunger, it affects their health and stability. "Food is not something people should have to earn. It is a basic need, and access to nourishment should be shared freely with compassion and dignity," shares Daisha Wilby from @sunshinedivision , on behalf od the nonprofits in this year's Hunger category. "Thankfully, this is home to an incredible network of organizations that refuse to let their neighbors go hungry...advocates and educators are on the front lines to remove barriers, address root causes, and create lasting change. They share resources, collaborate on outreach, and respond quickly as demand grows, ensuring that every effort strengthens the next...This community and your support make that possible every day." That's why a donation to any of the 24 nonprofits participating in this year's Give!Guide Hunger category is so vital! Head to giveguide.org to donate now, and know that you're helping put food in hungry bellies throughout our community. 🍽💙