Giving Tuesday: How Your Gift Strengthens Whatcom County
Today on Giving Tuesday, we’re celebrating what happens when a community chooses to show up for one another. Every year brings new challenges—and every year, the Whatcom Family YMCA steps forward with one guiding belief: everyone deserves support, connection, and opportunities to grow.
In 2025, more families turned to us for child care, more neighbors needed food deliveries, and more young people sought a place where they felt seen and safe. What moved us most was how our community responded. Volunteers, donors, partners, and staff worked side-by-side to make sure no one had to face these challenges alone.
Where Your Giving Made a Difference This Year
Strengthening families:
Our Early Learning Centers expanded access so parents could go to work and kids could begin each day in a safe, nurturing space.
Supporting youth:
More than 2,000 teens found connection and mentorship through after-school and drop-in programs designed to help them build confidence and community.
Delivering food & care:
Our food delivery routes continued bringing weekly food boxes—and meaningful conversation—to neighbors who can’t easily access a food bank, including homebound seniors.
How Your Giving Tuesday Gift Creates Change
Every contribution today creates immediate and local impact. Your generosity helps someone right here in Whatcom County feel supported, valued, and connected.
$25 provides a child with school supplies so they’re ready to learn.
$100 builds confidence and safety through swim lessons.
$200 fuels healthy snacks across all of our Before and After School Enrichment Program sites, ensuring kids have what they need each day.
$500 delivers weekly food boxes—and connection—to more than 75 households per week.
$1,000 provides scholarships and opens the door to reliable, enriching child care for working families.
$2,500 gives underserved teens daily access to mentorship, leadership opportunities, and a place they belong.
Why Give Today?
Giving Tuesday is a moment to come together as a community—to support the people and programs that help Whatcom County thrive. When you give to the Y, you invest in people. You help children grow, families stay strong, and neighbors build lives rooted in dignity, connection, and hope.
Thank you for being part of a community where everyone belongs.