Our Newest Fund: The Martha and Mya After-school Fund

PCF is pleased to announce this new fund is open and ready to accept donations:
https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?funit_id=1060

The Martha and Mya After-school Fund was established to help maintain funding for an important after-school program.

Why Martha and Mya?

Martha Murfin was one of the founders of the Coastal Alliance For Youth, which became our local Boys and Girls Club. She understood the absolute necessity of creating a program to ensure that the kids of our community had a safe place to go after school. In those first days, she said that funding should be easy. 

       "We just need 200 people in this community to give $1000 per year, and our kids will be taken care of after school," was her motto.

Mya is one of the kids who has grown up being able to spend time after school at the Club. When Mya learned of the closing she said 

        "Mom, money doesn't grow on trees but sometimes it grows on roses." 

She had taped her summer clam raking earnings ($152) to a rose she has been preserving since her 11th birthday and asked her mom to bring it to Club. She said, 

        "I know this won't solve the problem but every little bit helps, right?"

These two amazing ladies show the spirit that our community needs to fund a sustainable after school program. We are much stronger and safer if our kids have a safe place to go after school. While the current board is committed to making sure that they do the work to reopen the Club, our community needs to show that we can and will support an after-school program for our kids.

Funding Details

A group of community members opened this fund through South Pacific County Community Foundation to ensure ongoing support of an after school program. 

It costs approximately $200,000 to run an after school program on an annual basis. In donating to this fund, money will only be released once there is at least $100,000 in the fund and an additional $100,000 secured in grants and other funds to operate. If we do not reach that goal, money will be returned to donors. 

Annual donation levels are as follows:

     Martha's Legacy      $10,000 and above

     Corporate Sponsor  $5,000-$9,999

     Business Sponsor    $2000

     Platinum Sponsor    $1000

     Gold Sponsor           $500

     Mya's Club               $152-$500

Annual donations are encouraged. You may make monthly recurring donations. 

The foundation accepts donations from donors who wish to be anonymous. 

Please consider becoming an enduring donor, someone who donates every month, year after year. 

https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?funit_id=1060

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members" Coretta Scott King

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It’s Spring—and time to think about Summer Programs and Gardens

In spring, planning summer programs for school children is underway.This year we have a proposal to fund an additional week of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) education for the Boys and Girls Club. 

Also in spring, our taste buds start remembering what really fresh, ripe food tastes like:  fragrant, sweet tomatoes, crunchy lettuces, tiny new potatoes, and crisp parsley that radiates green flavor, to list a few garden foods that are just not the same in winter. 

I’m ready for a BLT right now, with garden-ripe tomatoes!

See all the proposals in the grant catalog: 
 https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant.

Boys & Girls Club of the Long Beach Peninsula asks for support to expand their Summer STEAM Program. This organization offers four weeks of summer activities; this proposed fifth week is filled with training in STEAM [science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics] curriculum activities that both entertain and teach participating students important science concepts, tied to the school curriculum. Arts are not left out—this includes several art classes during the week. 

Donations go to help purchase equipment, supplies, food, and travel expenses to several local sites. Help make this summer the best ever for our local school children. 

Ocean Park Community Garden is a new nonprofit that supports a community garden in Ocean Park. The interest in plots for growing food and flowers was so big this spring that the organizers outgrew their first location before anything was planted. 

So, just a few weeks ago they moved, quickly, to a new location which has already been cleared, tilled and had some initial soil amendments added. Water is being laid in for irrigation, and plots set out. 

Donations will go to buying tools, fencing (lots of hungry deer in this community, a fence is important), hoses, storage space for tools, and other materials and equipment. There may be a pumpkin patch for the school too. The new location is north of the post office and south of Sheldon Field. 

Help OPCG get new roots in the ground with your donation.

All the grants are at https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant. Make donations on this webpage for each grant you wish to support.  

Not happy using online services? Send a check instead. Write a note on the memo line of the check for the grant it is to go to, or if to more than one grant, include a note to tell us how much goes to each one. 

Make the check out to SPCCF. Mail to ‘SPCCF, PO Box 91, Nahcotta WA 98637.’ 

Your community and its many active nonprofit organizations thank you!