OF ALL THE the gifts you’ll give this year, this one could mean the most.
Donate to the Peninsula Daily News’ Peninsula Home Fund, and your gift is transformed into services that change the lives of your North Olympic Peninsula neighbors in need.
Our latest stories on how this unique nonprofit program operates, and who benefits from our readers’ generosity:
■ Peninsula Home Fund turns lives around with new eyeglasses — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20141202/NEWS/312029985
■ Peninsula Home Fund donors’ generosity lightens a family’s future — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20141127/NEWS/311279997
■ ‘A hand up, not a handout’: This season’s Peninsula Home Fund campaign debuts — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20141125/NEWS/311259994
■ ’We’re in this together’: Message to Peninsula Home Fund donors from OlyCAP’s executive director — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20141124/NEWS/311249981
Peninsula’s safety net
Home Fund donations are used for hot meals for seniors in Jefferson and Clallam counties, meeting rent, energy and transportation needs, warm winter coats for kids, eyeglasses, home repairs for the low-income, needed prescription drugs, dental work, safe and drug-free temporary housing . . . the list goes on.
From Port Townsend to Forks, from Quilcene and Brinnon to Sequim and LaPush, the Home Fund — now in its 26th year — is a “hand up, not a handout” for children, teens, families and the elderly to get through an emergency situation.
No deductions
So far this year, the Home Fund has helped more than 3,600 individuals and families in Jefferson and Clallam counties.
No money is deducted by the Peninsula Daily News for administration fees or any other overhead.
Every penny goes to OlyCAP — nonprofit Olympic Community Action Programs — the No. 1 emergency-care agency on the Peninsula.
Assistance is also limited to one time in a 12-month period. The average amount of help this year has been $69.16 per person or family.
All instances of help are designed to get an individual or family through a crisis — and back on the path to self-sufficiency
Home Fund case managers often work with each individual or family to develop a plan to become financially stable — and avoid a recurrence of the emergency that prompted aid from the fund.
As needed, Peninsula Home Fund contributions are often used in conjunction with money from churches, service clubs and other donors, enabling OlyCAP to stretch the value of the contribution.
The goal again: “a hand up, not a handout.”
To donate online by credit card, please click on https://secure.peninsuladailynews.com/homefund/.
