Holiday closure Monday May 28: Most county offices will be closed in observance of Memorial Day.

Contact information:

Junelle Kroontje
Employee Giving Program Administrator
206-263-9405

What does your donation do?

It changes the world!

$5 Per Pay Period

  • Provides a booklet to expectant parents of a child with Down’s Syndrome. (America’s Charities 5000)
  • Purchase and plant 120 conifer seedlings to plant in a greenbelt. (Nature Consortium 9364)
  • 26 home-delivered meals to a homebound senior who would otherwise go hungry. (Senior Services 9273)
  • 480 diapers or 7 weeks worth. (WestSide Baby 9431)
  • Interpreters to 3 patients who don't speak English. (King County Project Access 9373)
  • Feeds a harbor seal for 6 weeks. (Seattle Aquarium 9424)
  • Delivers more than 3,000 vaccines. (Mission Aviation Fellowship 1585)
  • Sponsors a sport physical for a low-income child. (Neighborcare Health 9239)
  • Journals for every student in a classroom to record their time at camp. (Islandwood 9357)
  • Purchases solar cooking materials for two extended families. (Lift Up Africa 9206)
  • Allows two children going through cancer treatment to receive complete platelet counts. (Community Health Charities of Washington 4000)
  • Provide a person with water, sanitation, and hygiene education for life. (Water 1st International 9183)
  • Buys 13 microscopic slides that enable investigators to study how drugs can make cancer cells enter programmed cell death. (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 9005)
  • One week of tutoring services for a middle school student who is struggling in school. (Atlantic Street Center 9229)
  • 81 pairs of new socks to keep kids feet warm and dry (Youth Care 9317)
  • Provides spay/neuter surgery for two adoption animals (Seattle Humane Society 9148)
  • Provides 24 children with a birthday surprise in their birthday card (Rise-n-Shine 9217)
  • Allows teens in chemical dependency programs to learn new hobbies like hiking (Ryther Child Center 9248)
  • Adapted wheelchair equipment for one client. (PROVAIL 4063)
  • Provides four adaptive riding lessons (Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center 9147)
  • Buy 480 diapers for families in need (Food Resource Network Federation 3000)
  • Maintain 36 feet of trail for bicycling, horseback riding, running or hiking. (EarthShare 2500)
  • Treats 120 songbirds with antibiotics. (PAWS 9070)
  • Provide 5 booklets of 12 $2.00 Metro bus tickets (DESC Downtown Emergency Service Center 5707)

$10 Per Pay Period

  • Provides 2 hours of time on a microscope for a researcher to learn if a new medicine will stop life-threatening infections in the lungs of patients whose immune systems are compromised. (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 9005)
  •  One Psychological Evaluation for a traumatized child. (Ryther Child Center 9248)
  • Allows a homeless youth looking for employment to obtain a Washington State ID. (Teen Feed 9162)
  • Provides a preschooler with a nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack five days a week for five months. (Childhaven 9279)
  • Helps replenish pet food supplies distributed to low-income seniors so they do not have to choose between pet care and self care. (Seattle Humane Society 9148)
  • 100 bus tickets for youth who need to get to work, shelter & services. (Friends of Youth 9262)
  • School pictures for 10 children in foster care. (Treehouse 9308)
  • Buys six complete home energy conservation kits for Washington residents. (Earthshare 2500)
  • Provides to a new mother 1 newborn layette, 1 car seat, 1 port-a-crib, & 1 box of diapers. (St. Joseph’s Baby Corner 9074)
  • Keeps a senior off the street in permanent housing for 1 month (Operation Nightwatch 9368)
  • Provides two HIV Tests (Gay City 9216)
  • Provides 240 children and adults in Cambodia with enough Vitamin A for a year, boosting their immune systems and fighting off infections. (Global Impact 3500)
  • Purchase 10 sessions of speech language pathology service to help restore a stroke survivor’s ability to communicate independently. (Community Health Charities of WA 4000)
  • Immunizes a child from birth to age 2 (HealthPoint 2779)
  • Provide accessories for a terminally ill child’s wish for a new pet, including pre-paid vet care and food (Make-a-Wish Foundation 5048)
  • Provides 12 months of medication to prevent congestive heart failure for a low-income senior (Pike Market Medical Clinic 3701)
  • Covers X-Rays and the cost of setting a broken leg of a cat (Purrfect Pals 9221)

$15 Per Pay Period

  • Sponsors one student through 8-week Earn-a-Bike program and support their free year-round programming and activities. (Bike Works 9208)
  • Provides enough halibut to feed an orphaned harbor seal pup for a week. (PAWS 9070)
  • Enables volunteer veterinarians in the Remote Area Veterinary Services clinic to spay or neuter one dog or cat. (America’s Charities 5000)
  • Vaccinates 22 Afghani children against the 6 major childhood diseases. (Global Impact 3500)
  • Provides 7 cases of formula (Downtown Food Bank 3703)
  • Feeds a horse for a month or helps provide them with the veterinary care needed when they first arrive. (Serenity Equine Rescue & Rehabilitations 9426)
  • Assistance for three families with their heat bill and one family with their rent. (Auburn Food Bank 9242)
  • Feeds an orphaned black bear cub for more than a month. (PAWS 9070)
  • Pays fees for one college student for 6 months (United Negro College Fund 9076)

$25 Per Pay Period

  • Sends one child who has been affected by HIV/AIDS to summer camp. (Rise-n-Shine 9217)
  • Spay and neuter surgery for two litters of kittens and their moms. (Purrfect Pals 9221)
  • Lodging for a wish family while on their magical theme park vacation (Make-a-Wish-Foundation of Alaska & Washington 9003)
  • College textbooks for one year. (United Negro College Fund 9076)
  • Classroom lending library. (Denise Louie Education Center 9334)
  • Bus transportation for two classrooms to visit the museum. (Museum of History and Industry MOHAI 9419)
  • Enables a hypertensive kidney patient to purchase a blood pressure cuff. (Community Health Charities of Washington 4000)
  • Provides one child one week of after school tutoring. (City Year Seattle/King County 9064)
  • Sponsor one corps member--including food, health insurance and local transportation–for a young leader from Albania, Kenya, or Nepal to Seattle to learn and serve in Washington’s parks and natural areas. (Earthshare 2500)
  • Sponsors sports physical for 6 low-income children so they can play on a school sports team (Neighborcare Health 9239)
  • Provides 8 hours of individual drug, alcohol, and mental health counseling. (Therapeutic Health Services 9237)

$50 Per Pay Period

  • Helps build a medical center to provide services to 22,000 people living in Kaliluna, Kenya. (Lift Up Africa 9206)
  • Provides Anti-retroviral medication for an HIV+ child. (Friends of Orphans 9203)
  • Feeds 120 homeless youth during one night of Teen Feed. (Teen Feed - formerly University Street Ministry 9162)
  • Healthy breakfast to 36 students in Guatemala for a year. (Avivara 9396)
  • Buys 4,000 plugs of Lyngby's Sedge for salt marsh restoration - one of the most productive northwest plants that also provides crucial habitat for Chinook salmon. (EarthShare 2500)
  • Provides 662 meals per month. (Northwest Harvest 9013)
  • Childcare for two children (for 3 months) while their parents are in substance abuse treatment. (Center for Human Services 9345)
  • Provide assistive technology equipment for people with disabilities to maximize independence in communication. (Provail 4063)
  • Complete new outfit, from shoes to coats, for 12 children in foster care. (Treehouse 9308)
  • Delivers seven complete classroom kits to children in Myanmar whose schools were destroyed. (Global Impact 3500)

$100 Per Pay Period

  • Provides emergency survival kits with food, water, blankets, temporary shelter and cooking utensils for 26 families in China. (Global Impact 3500)
  • One tutor for one full year of the after-school program. (New Futures 9272)
  • 5 months of speech therapy for a child with a speech-language challenge. (Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center 9267)
  • 25 hours of vocational training. (Sound Mental Health 9383)
  • 12 "move-out kits" of household supplies for shelter or transitional housing residents who are moving into their own apartment. (Compass Housing Alliance 9276)
  • Vaccinates 2,600 people against meningitis, measles, polio and other deadly epidemics in Sudan. (Global Impact 3500)
  • Pays for a Wednesday’s Child cameo, so that prime time viewers can find out about a waiting foster child or sibling group. (Northwest Adoption Exchange 9159)
  • Allows 8 middle school students to complete one community service project. (City Year Seattle/King County 9064)
  • Feeds all of the shelter cats at MEOW Cat Rescue for two weeks (MEOW Cat Rescue & Adoption 9193).
  • Provides 16 families with a one-week stay near a hospital while a child is treated for a critical illness. (Ronald McDonald House, America’s Charities 5041)