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Dawson Place Supply Drive and Fundraiser April 2025 Credit unions coming together for the betterment of our community. |
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BIG Dawson Place Fundraiser/Supply Drive Planned, April 2025 - How did we do? Look below...
Can you help us help abused kids and teens going through trauma in our community?
Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization providing safety, justice, and healing to victims of child physical and sexual abuse, assault, and neglect. They provide every service needed for victims and their families to receive the help they need all in one child-friendly localized place. It minimizes the number of times a traumatized child has to tell a heartbreaking story, by bringing each needed professional for a case into one building, reducing the trauma a child experiences. Without the centralize services, a family would have to drive all over the county (or even out of county) to access the different services they need to coordinate with each office effectively.
What makes Dawson Place different is that they bring all these specialists under one roof, allowing their team to devote all their efforts to helping the child, reducing time spent coordinating amongst organizations and shortening the chain of communication between each other. In the end, delivering more positive outcomes for kids at a much more rapid pace.
Each child that comes through the doors at Dawson Place is given a backpack with toiletry essentials, comfort pieces, a blanket and their choice of other toys, fidget items and their choice of other items to make them feel of value. Sometimes, this may be all the child has with them, and it can mean the world. These items are priceless and our friends at Dawson are running low on all types of things.
So, this April, SnoCope, Mountain Crest, Mill Town, Community Healthcare, Nordstrom FCU and Northwest Plus credit unions will team up to gather supplies from the Dawson Place wish lists and cash donations, for their operations and additional supplies. Because we are all better as a team!
AND YOU CAN HELP! There is a list of wanted items and an Amazon wish list available, and you can bring your items to the branch and we’ll get everything ready to go.
- Teen/Generic Wish List: click here
- Amazon Wish List: click here
- To donate financially directly to Dawson Place: click here
- Want to know more about Dawson Place and the awesome work they do? Click here
You can bring your NEW items to the branch all month long through April and we will gather them with the other credit unions and take them to Dawson Place in early May. Come back here for photos and to hear how well we did!
How did we do? FANTASTIC!
The CEOs, marketing and executive staff of all six credit unions gather with the team from Dawson Place to deliver supplies.
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SnoCope Credit Union President/CEO Steve Ellis with some of the supply donations from SnoCope members, staff and the credit union. |
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The Northwest Plus Credit Union Team did an amazing job with their outreach - gathering a huge amount of supplies and an outstanding financial donation from it's members, staff and the credit union itself. |
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MountainCrest Credit Union staff and members did an fantastic job gathering supplies off the wish list. Gathered cash donations and went shopping for more! |
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Mill Town Credit Union members gathered supplies and filled wishes from the Amazon list to add to our success. |
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It was hard for Community Healthcare Credit Union's CEO, Kristin Christy, to not fall in love with the Dawson therapy dogs. |
At the heart of the credit union philosophy is to help our communities. When the youngest and most at-risk members of our community are in need, it's our duty to help - or to help those that can offer that help. This is how the Dawson Place effort began. But, when the need is greater than anticipated, sometimes the helper, needs help. That too is what credit unions are all about.
Dawson Place is in the heart of our community, helping kids and teens who have experienced sexual and physical abuse or neglect. This one-of-a-kind child advocacy center brings all facets of justice, safety, and healing under one roof; limiting the times a victim must tell their personal story. The advocates, nurses, therapists, social workers, detectives, prosecutors, law enforcement and parent educators at Dawson Place make children feel safe, heard, cared for and comforted with a child-centered approach to move past their trauma.
The need is great, and when SnoCope realized the need was beyond what we wanted to do, the credit unions are stronger together was the outcry. Reaching out to friend credit unions: NW Plus, Mill Town, Nordstrom FCU, Mountain Crest and Community Healthcare credit unions seemed like a way to support our community and the efforts at Dawson Place. And WOW! Did we do great as a team: We were able to donate about $8,000 in supplies (two large truck loads) and $10,200 in financial support. The reach of the extra credit union branches, and dedicated members throughout all of us, made all the difference.
And when all was said and done, all the boxes delivered and checks written - a very heartwarming letter was received from Dawson's Executive Director, Lori Vanderburg - click here to read - which we'll consider inspiration for next year!
The media paid attention too and helped us spread the word - and will certainly be partners in future efforts:
- See the television interview with KOMO/Arch TV (ABC network) click here
- See the newspaper article from Snohomish Tribune, click here
As Steve Solis, from KOMO/Arc said so perfectly "That's some great teamwork there". All our continued thanks to all the other credit unions who participated...their members, CEOs, and staff, this is possible because of working together:
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