Community Programs Overview

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep with a mosquito.
- Anita Roddick

Between 1998-2007 the number of nonprofit organizations in Southwest Washington increased by over thirty percent.  New as well as established nonprofits are seeking board members, volunteers, and donations. During that same decade, the population of Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania Counties grew by about twenty-two percent.  This represents many people looking to make these communities their home, seeking ways to make a difference alongside the tens of thousands who already volunteer, donate and participate. 

Supporting Everyone’s Giving

The Giving Circle is a form of shared giving and social investment in our community.  Circle Members constitute a network of social investors who learn about needs, align their values with their giving, and achieve a greater impact in their collective gift. 
Nonprofit Network Member profiles online and future community resources on these pages offer people information on how to connect with local groups doing good work.

Connecting & Supporting Leadership of Nonprofits

Community organizations rely on boards as one source of leadership, vision, and hard work helping to move them forward.  We offer board workshops and a board match event to assist both community members and nonprofit groups in identifying a good match.  We seek both collective and individual impact for all involved. 

Nothing, in my opinion, is more deserving of our attention than the intellectual and moral associations of America. The political and industrial associations of that country strike us forcibly; but the others elude our observation, or if we discover them, we understand them imperfectly because we have hardly ever seen anything of the kind. It must be acknowledged, however, that they are as necessary to the American people as the former, and perhaps more so. In democratic countries the science of association is the mother of science; the progress of all the rest depends upon the progress it has made.
Among the laws that rule human societies there is one which seems to be more precise and clear than all others. If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased. Alexis de Tocqueville