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Blog: Impact Stories
Sharing how JCF makes a difference in Jefferson County.
Giving Back to the Earth
Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day, an opportunity to consider our relationship to the planet that sustains us and to find ways to love the land where we live. There is plenty we can each do to celebrate life on earth, to practice sustainability and to contribute to...
Parks and Rec Center Fund Reaches Goal
The Future of Recreation, a group of local community members, established the Support Parks & Rec Fund at Jefferson Community Foundation to raise the $85,000 needed to keep the doors open. Jefferson Community Foundation’s role in supporting this effort was to provide the technology and processing systems they needed to move quickly. Read More….
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JCIRA mission is to help those in the immigrant community who are at risk, materially, psychologically, and existentially. JCIRA offers a wide range of services in support of immigrants in need.
Community Funds 101: Top 5 Ways to fund a DAF
In honor of our friends at the Wooden Boat Festival (and all those awesome boats!), here a quick update on the “nautical vehicle” that lifts the giving tide around here in Jefferson County – our Donor Advised funds!
4 Planned Giving Strategies for Leaving a Legacy in Jefferson County.
Tina Podlodowski is a board member of the Jefferson Community Foundation. Each month, Tina will be sharing some of the different ways a that a Community Foundation works to build resilience and bring together the financial resources of individuals, families, and...
Community Foundations 101: DAFs (Donor Advised Funds)
Tina Podlodowski was a board member of the Jefferson Community Foundation in 2025. Tina will be sharing some of the different ways a that a Community Foundation works to build resilience and bring together the financial resources of individuals, families, and...
The Longhouse For the People Project gets funds to begin building!
The Longhouse For The People is an Indigenous-led project of cultural revitalization and land sovereignty on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. Envisioned and led by Naiome Dawn Kreinke, a Chemakum matriarch with Quinault tribal enrollment, the project is rooted on 12 acres of land in Quilcene acquired in the summer of 2022 to fulfill a lifetime dream of restoring traditional longhouses to this land and to her lineage.
Photo credit: Jon Kaplan
Facing Change, Compassionately
Welcome. It’s September, and this month we’re talking about change: how it is necessary and how difficult it can be to navigate.
Joining me in conversation are three nonprofit leaders from Jefferson County: Executive Director Claudia Coppola from Olympic Neighbors, Director Brent Bellamy from Community Boat Project, and Board President Cynthia Osterman from The Benji Project.
Housing Solutions Network
Welcome. It’s May, and this is the first of an ongoing series of conversations I’ll be having most every month with people in Jefferson County about what they love about living here, what they are concerned about and what they are doing about it. I am a relative...
Vintage Gratitude Giving Circle
Giving Circles: Neighbors and Friends Giving TogetherGiving Circles are groups of neighbors, friends and/or family members who donate to a central pool ofcharitable donations and decide together where to donate the funds. In doing so, they discuss socialissues and...
Change Makers Are Our Heroes
Community Boat Project: "The people I love the best jump into work head first." There is a poem is written above the entrance to Community Board Project’s workshop. It is byfeminist, science fiction writer, and social activist Marge Piercy, called To be of use. The...
Changemakers solve regional issues by working together.
JCF serves as a platform for people who care about the same issues to come together to workon solving community challenges. Here are some examples from Q1 2023: Jefferson County Human Services Collaborators Quarterly MeetingPartnering with the YMCA, JCF hosts a...
Permanently Affordable Workforce Housing
The year started with a small group of housing advocates who came to JCF for help. They hadidentified a 17-acre parcel of land in Port Hadlock that seemed ideal for building affordableworkforce housing. They knew that fast action was needed to vet the opportunity and...