Peninsula Home Fund donors don’t quit just because the holidays are over. By Jan. 3, donations had reached $120,346.75.
Thank you for all your help.
Case workers with Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) use Peninsula Home Fund money to pay for vouchers for such needs as food, child care, clothing and other necessities to help our neighbors on the North Olympic Peninsula who have come up short.
Often the funds are combined with others to help those in need from Port Townsend to Forks, from Quilcene and Brinnon to Sequim, Joyce and La Push.
Donations to the Home Fund are neighbors helping neighbors. The money is used to give people living in Clallam and Jefferson counties “a hand up, not a handout.”
Donations are for unexpected, emergency expenses that don’t necessarily fit into a category. It can help bridge the gap between making it this month and going under for people who can then continue being or becoming productive members of society.
The donations fund needs ranging from gasoline to get to work, school or medical appointments; rent or utilities; food, clothing or other shortfalls.
The campaign for donations begins on Thanksgiving and extends through the holiday season, but many people give year-round.
All contributions are federally tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law for the year in which the check is written.
Donors can give by mailing checks to the Peninsula Home Fund along with the coupon attached to this story.
They can donate with a credit card online by clicking on the Peninsula Home Fund button on the peninsula dailynews.com homepage. (Scroll way down). Donations also can be made to the Peninsula Home Fund account at any First Fed branch.
Donors are listed in updates published in Peninsula Daily News throughout the campaign, which ends in January. Gifts can be listed anonymously, by name only, by name and amount, or in honor of or in the memory of another.
The only money ever taken from the fund is 10 percent to assist OlyCAP with administrative costs. The rest is for those in need.
How to apply
The best way to request assistance from the Peninsula Home Fund is to fill out an online inquiry.
The “Ask for General Assistance” button at www.olycap.org will take you to the request form.
If you are unable to access the internet, you may call OlyCAP offices in Port Angeles — 360-452-4726 — or Port Townsend — 360-385-2571, regardless of which county you reside in, and the front desk staff will fill it out on your behalf over the phone.
Cherish Cronmiller, OlyCAP’s executive director, oversees disbursements from the Peninsula Home Fund.
Every donation, no matter the size, makes a difference. It creates a safety net for Peninsula residents when there is nowhere else to turn.
From children’s pennies to checks for thousands of dollars, the generosity of Peninsula Daily News readers makes a positive difference.
Donor list for week ending Jan. 3, 2024.
NAME AND AMOUNT
• Carol Willis, Sequim, $102.53.
• Kenneth Malidore, $10.
• Richard Reuter, Port Angeles, $250.
• Pamela Kelley, Port Townsend, $500.
• Christina and Brad Mace, Port Townsend, $750.
• Jo Ann Fjellman, Sequim, $100.
• Kathie Karst, Port Angeles, $100.
• Sherri Lewis, Sequim, $500.
• Jan Stewart and Neil Burkhardt, Sequim, $51.52.
ANONYMOUS
• Port Angeles, $25.
• Port Angeles, $77.02, in memory of Florence Swanson.
• Port Angeles, $102.53.
• Sequim, $500.
• Port Angeles, $1,020.80.
• Port Townsend, $102.53.
• Sequim, $100.
• Port Townsend, $102.53.
• Sequim, $200.
• Sequim, $510.65.
• Port Ludlow, $153.55.
• Port Angeles, $250.
• Port Townsend, $1,020.80.
• Port Townsend, $100.
• Port Townsend, $500.
• Sequim, $200.
• Seattle, $100.
