With the community’s support, The Moyer Foundation is able to help more children each year by supporting more causes and organizations that share in the mission of helping children in distress in so many ways.

Friends of the Children – King County

Friends of the Children – King County (FOTC-KC) works to fulfill its mission to help our most vulnerable children, living in seriously high-risk environments, develop the relationships, goals, skills, and resources necessary to thrive. FOTC-KC uses an innovative approach to mentoring which supports the most challenged children in the greater Seattle area. FOTC-KC enrolls these children in kindergarten, and mentors them through their completion of high school, for four hours a week, every week, for the full thirteen years. That equates to 208 hours a year, and more than 2500 hours over thirteen years, of individualized one-on-one mentoring for each child. Full-time, paid, professionals mentor the children, instead of volunteer, to ensure dedication and stability for each child.

Funding from the Moyer Foundation will provide the special activity fund for all 68 children in the program. The special activity fund helps children to gain new experiences and engage in new activities, outside of their one-on-one mentoring time. The outcome will be a group of children who can tap into their unknown talents, gain new experiences and grow as people.

King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

For over 30 years, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) has worked toward our vision of ending sexual violence in our community.  Today, we know that one in three girls and one in five boys will be sexually abused by the time they reach 16-years-old.  Our purpose is to alleviate, as much as possible, the trauma of sexual assault for victims and their families.  KCSARC’s mission is:
- We give voice to victims, their families and the community;
- We create change in beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about violence:
- We instill courage for people to speak out about sexual assault.

With assistance from The Moyer Foundation, this grant will provide trauma-specific therapy to children who have been victims of sexual abuse, free of charge.  It is imperative that children receive counseling and support through the process of healing from sexual abuse.  We know that children who are believed and cared for are able to heal and recover, and are spared a lifetime of shame and self-blame.  KCSARC therapists provide a safe place for healing.  Therapy enables the child to move out of the place of “victim” and into the empowered place of “survivor.” www.kcsarc.org

Assistance League® Bellingham

Assistance League® Bellingham is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization dedicated to promoting effective volunteers through education, service, leadership and financial accountability. Currently we support five philanthropic programs serving children and adults in need in our community.

Through the generosity of the Moyer Foundation, grant monies are directed to Operation School Bell®.  Our mission with the Operation School Bell program is to meet basic needs of children who live in poverty in our county, knowing full well that children cannot attend school or fully participate in the educational process without proper clothing.  We strive to combat the negative effects of poverty on the education of low-income children by providing new clothing and shoes for school.

Holiday Stockings For Homeless Children

Every December for the past 12 years, Holiday Stockings for Homeless Children volunteers work to bring a little joy to homeless kids who need it the most at a dark time in their lives. Funds from The Moyer Foundation help support the Holiday Stockings program in many ways. Helpers work to sew holiday stockings or bags while others collect donations with which to fill them. We try to make each stocking contain some special toys and gifts along with personal items most needed by children who are homeless: toothbrushes, combs, gloves and hats. Each year our charity grows. In 2007, we will be delivering stockings to over 2,400 children in 50 shelters around Puget Sound including some 400 teenagers who live on the streets of the city. We are proud to work with many dedicated volunteers who believe like we do that every child deserves some joy over the holidays.

Eastside Domestic Violence Program

Eastside Domestic Violence Program’s mission is to end domestic violence by changing individual, institutional and societal beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate it. To achieve this we work with the community to: Provide services in East and North King County to people, primarily women and children, who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse; Prevent domestic violence through advocacy, education and support. Since 1982, EDVP has provided safety, support and accessibility to more than 91,000 victims of domestic violence. 

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support the program Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence - Kids’ Club.  Prevention is key to breaking the cycle of violence.  Domestic violence knows no boundaries and occurs in families from all racial and socio-economic backgrounds. Children may be isolated from friends and family and often do not have their basic needs for food, clothing and education met due to violence in the home. These children are at higher risk for behavioral and physical health problems, alcohol/drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. Without intervention, these lessons can be carried over to the next generation.  Kid’s Club addresses the needs of at-risk children by teaching skills to resolve conflict to end the learned behavior of domestic violence and establish trusting relationships with the support of a domestic violence advocate and licensed therapist.  We are grateful for the Moyer Foundation’s support of EDVP’s life-changing and life-saving services that help keep children safe today and in future generations.  www.edvp.org

Blue Skies for Children

Blue Skies for Children's mission is “To raise hope and self-esteem by sponsoring enrichment programs and other essentials for homeless, foster and low-income children in Whatcom County. The Moyer Foundation was able to assist with funding for our Little Wishes programs.  Our Little Wishes Voucher program provides children in need with coats, shoes, clothing, school supplies, and other essentials.  Our Little Wishes Enrichment program provides sponsorship of, dance, art, taekwondo and other sports enrollment fees, as well as, uniforms, cleats and equipment, and summer camp tuition.    Little Wishes also provides musical instruments for children interested in participating in school band or orchestra, and sponsors piano and other music lessons.

Whidbey General Hospital Foundation

Whidbey General Hospital is the only public hospital and the primary health care system serving the residents of Whidbey Island.  The Whidbey General Hospital Foundation supports the hospital and community health endeavors through public awareness and the development and management of charitable resources.

The Moyer Foundation funding will be used to purchase a new Infant Radiant Warmer for use in their obstetric unit, the Whidbey Family Birthplace.  This equipment is a portable all-inclusive support system for ill babies and newborns.  It keeps babies warm directly after birth, regulates a baby’s temperature during times of illness, and keeps young patients warm during and after medical procedures.

GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty)

GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing a strong community by empowering people and growing good food. We grow inspired, self-confident and community-minded youth through educational and employment opportunities.  We help low-income families and seniors to help themselves by building raised-bed gardens at their homes.  We work in Thurston & Mason counties in Washington State.

We’re honored to partner with the Moyer Foundation in improving the lives and futures of low-income teens here in the South Sound. The grant we received will support our Cultivating Youth Program, which engages at-risk and low-income youth in land-based and community projects that reduce the negative impacts of hunger and poverty in their lives and in our community.  Through our employment program, participating youth develop academic confidence, strong communication and leadership skills, improved nutrition and the ability to love and care for themselves.  One of the ways these youth find their innate leadership abilities is by working with our Kitchen Garden Project to build backyard and neighborhood gardens that help low-income people meet some of their own nutritional needs with dignity. 

Hopelink

Hopelink’s mission is to promote self-sufficiency for all members of our community and to help people make lasting change in their lives.

The Moyer Foundation provided grant support to our Adelle Maxwell Child Development Center. This center serves children ages four weeks to six years of age from homeless and low-income families in east King County. The Adelle Maxwell Child Development Center helps build a brighter future for these children by providing quality care and early childhood education. The goal of the Child Development Program is to support the healthy development of at-risk children by teaching them the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. We do this by creating a safe, caring learning environment that emphasizes the healthy development of each child. www.hope-link.org

Ryther Child Center

Ryther Child Center is a nationally accredited agency for children and youth who suffer from physical and sexual abuse, mental illness and chemical addiction.  Ryther has been creating safe places for children to heal and grow since 1885, through high-quality, intensive mental health and chemical dependence services in residential and out-patient settings. 

The Moyer Foundation generously contributed funds for the Positive Parental Involvement Program, which works to develop the most positive parent/child relationship possible for our residential children.  Recovery from the trauma and mental illness experienced by these children requires some level of resolution or reconciliation of the issues and relationships tied to their abuse.  Training the parents to help their children become whole is an imperative part of the recovery process.  We thank the Moyer Foundation for their support of this program. www.ryther.org

America’s Foundation for Chess

America’s Foundation for Chess offers First Move, a professionally designed, innovative education program, designed for use in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. First Move is an integrated learning curriculum that utilizes the game of chess as a learning tool—chosen for its well-researched and documented connection to the development of critical and analytical thinking skills in children. The First Move curriculum adheres to both national and state education standards, and is delivered through a teacher training and mentoring model.

There exist tremendous inequities in our school system. So for many schools, even the smallest costs are magnified and can be difficult to secure. We don’t believe that money will solve all problems, though offering a top quartile program to those students who, through no fault or choice of their own, are faced with attending schools that lack resources and have little or no alternative means of funding, can have a huge impact. Funding from the Moyer Foundation will help bridge this gap by providing scholarship funds to those underserved schools in the Puget Sound area.

Northwest Harvest

Northwest Harvest’s mission is to fight hunger in Washington in a manner that respects the dignity of those we serve. We secure about 18 million pounds of food per year, and we distribute this at no charge to 300 partner agencies statewide and to thousands of needy children and families every month. We emphasize nutritious foods such as fruits, vegetables and lean proteins, because malnutrition is especially serious for children and seniors, groups that represent over half of our clients. 

Northwest Harvest is deeply grateful to the Moyer Foundation for supporting our Three Squares program, a joint effort with local elementary schools that provides nutritious snacks and weekend meals for children at risk of hunger. 

The Salvation Army's Joyful Noise Child Care

The Salvation Army's Joyful Noise Child Care program provides high quality Early Child Care Education to low income families for children in the 16 months to 6 years age category.   Special attention is paid to developing self-esteem and self-concept to enhance the child's learning and overall well-being.  The Joyful Noise Child Care program has been serving children from disadvantaged families since 1977.

Funds from the Moyer Foundation will be used to purchase play ground equipment for the overall physical and social/emotional health of the children in the Joyful Noise Child Care program.  Many of these children come from low income and homeless families and are more likely to live in apartments with little outside play happening.  Playground equipment will help us to fill that outdoor activity gap.  Research has shown that physical activity not only enhances a child's development but is also very therapeutic to young children who have been traumatized by life's difficulties.  We are grateful to the Moyer Foundation for this funding.

Overlake Hospital Medical Center

Overlake Hospital Medical Center is a 337-bed regional medical center serving East King County since 1960. It operates award-winning centers of excellence in healthcare, excelling in the areas of cardiac care, general and specialty surgery, women’s services, cancer treatments and programs for seniors. Overlake’s mission is to provide Medical excellence every day.™ Overlake is an independent, nonprofit, non-tax supported hospital. It relies on private philanthropy to provide medical services, upgrade equipment and expand facilities.

The Moyer Foundation grant will help cover the cost of equipment for Overlake’s Special Care Nursery. The nursery provides medical care for the smallest and most fragile members of the Eastside community—premature and at-risk newborn babies. The nursery includes a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for babies who require more specialized equipment and intensive monitoring. www.overlakehospital.org

The Austin Foundation

The Austin Foundation’s mission is to transform lives by providing accessible, interactive opportunities for young people to experience the benefits of living a healthy and fit lifestyle. 

We are grateful for the Moyer Foundation’s support.  This grant will be used in 2007 to enhance our youth development training for our youth and interns, to empower them to be stronger health and fitness advocates in their community.  It will help support additional staffing hours to facilitate reaching out to the families of our youth participants to get them more engaged in the health and well being of their children.  We will also be able to provide additional professional development for our fitness trainers who work directly with the youth.

YMCA of the Inland Northwest Spokane Valley

The mission of the YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

The Moyer Foundation provided the YMCA's Friends and Servants program with funds to purchase a portion of the equipment needed for community service projects, meeting the community service requirement for juvenile offenders. The Friends and Servants program intervenes and invests in the lives of troubled teens in Spokane County, by mentoring teens who have committed crimes and preparing and assisting them for employment and educational or vocational opportunities.

www.volunteersolutions.org/unitedwayspokane/org/221060.html

Girl Scouts - Totem Council

Girl Scouts is a unique girl-only place where a girl finds: courage by exploring new adventures, confidence by discovering her abilities, character by shaping her values and connections through friendships with other girls and where a girl returns those gifts by making the world a better place. Girl Scouts - Totem Council serves close to 22,000 girls ages 5 - 17 in northwest Washington who are developing crucial life skills which will help them make wise choices in today's world and beyond.

The Moyer Foundation provided grant funding to support the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program which strives to enhance the relationship between girls and their moms who are incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, WA., and to help these girls develop and/or strengthen their interpersonal relationship skills, decision-making skills, and their resistance to involvement in at-risk activities. By participating in ongoing Girl Scout program with peers living in similar life circumstances, these girls greatly reduce their risk of repeating their mother's behaviors while developing strong values to enable them to make positive choices for their own future. The program continues to serve girls as their mothers move into pre-release faculties and eventually released from prison, providing continuity of support and making the transition back into the community a success for both the mother and daughter.

www.girlscoutstotem.org

Lydia Place

Lydia Place is a non-profit, community-based agency, which serves homeless women and their children. Founded in 1989, Lydia Place is a six-month transitional housing program designed to support women and their children in transition from poverty and homelessness to self-sufficiency and independence.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support The Lydia Place Children's Therapeutic Program. This vital program is under the guidance of the Family Services Coordinator and consists of two components - the parenting component specifically involves the mothers in learning parenting skills and the children's component which is designed to provide the children with the opportunity to develop trust, increase communication skills and learn about safety, self empowerment and family.

These two components, working together, help to break the cycle of violence and homelessness that have affected both the children and their mothers.

www.lydiaplace.org

University of Washington Experimental Education Unit

The summer camp at the University of Washington Experimental Education Unit (EEU) nurtures the social, communication and cognitive skills of young children diagnosed with early childhood developmental disabilities such as autism, Asperger syndrome and Down syndrome. Their parents and siblings create peer networks and learn to overcome the challenges of having a developmentally disabled family member. Teens from economically disadvantaged homes gain valuable job and life skills working as camp staff. Together, our professional staff and summer workers offer inclusive, developmentally appropriate care for children with special needs.

Funds from the Moyer Foundation will help send more disabled and economically disadvantaged youth to camp no cost to camper families. The funding covers costs for teacher and staff salaries, education supplies, community outings, lunches, travel expenses, and classroom and playground facilities.

depts.washington.edu/eeuweb

Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers

Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers provides comprehensive health care to families and individuals who have difficulty accessing care; responds with sensitivity to the needs of our culturally diverse patients; and advocates and works with others to improve the overall health status of the communities we serve.

Funding from the Moyer Foundation will support two programs within Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers: Family Team, which provides outreach to homeless women in shelters, day cares and schools, as well as Pathways Home, which helps homeless families make the transition from temporary shelter to permanent housing.

www.psnhc.org

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children in our community by building supportive relationships between children and caring adult friends and role models. Our goal is to help children reach their potential. Our hope is to have successful mentoring relationship for all children who need and want them, contributing to brighter futures, better schools, and stronger communities for all.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to help fund the School Buddies program in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. School Buddies is specifically designed to mentor children ages 6 to 12 in elementary grades that are at the highest levels of risk for academic and social failure-primarily children of single-parent, low-income families.

www.bbbs-nw.org

Olive Crest Homes & Services for Abused Children

Olive Crest is dedicated to Preventing child abuse, to Treating and Educating at-risk children, and to Preserving the family..."One Life at a Time."®

Olive Crest has provided safe, secure, and loving care for over 40,000 abused children and families since 1973. We are one of the West Coast's premier charities and accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA). Olive Crest is committed to healing young lives traumatized by abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect.

The Moyer Foundation grant will be used to expand support services in Olive Crest's Foster Family Program to help reach our goal of assisting 48 additional children this year in the Pacific Northwest Region.

The Foster Family Program allows Olive Crest to recruit, license, and train foster families to serve abused, hard to place children who have suffered rejection after rejection from parents and the current foster care system- focusing in the area of therapeutic high-needs children. The goal of the program is to provide these children in restricted institutions with a loving foster family. Therapy is designed to work with the child and the family to progress these children to as normal a family environment as possible. Currently, 152 foster children and families are served.

www.olivecrest.org

The ALS Association

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support the Children’s Grief Camp. The project will help children and families to grieve, bond, and create a stronger family identity, and provide a foundation for dealing with grief beyond the camp experience. The camp will provide opportunities such as art and play therapy, group therapy with other children who have experienced similar loss, assist families in adjusting to their new roles and identities, provide parents with education on the normal grief experience for their children, and help parents identify protracted grief in childhood and provide referrals to qualified professionals.

Arthritis Foundation

The Arthritis Foundation is the leading provider of funding for arthritis research in the nation. The Foundation also helps people with arthritis to take control of their disease by providing programs and services to improve their quality of life. The Chapter is the only local non-profit health agency that works on behalf of over 1.6 million people in Washington and Alaska.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant for "Kids and Teens Get Arthritis Too Family Camp". The grant enables children to enjoy a weekend of camping experiences with their families, all while dealing with arthritis.

www.arthritis.org

Assistance League of Seattle

Assistance League of Seattle is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and adults by meeting community needs through collective strength of volunteers and philanthropic projects.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to assist with Operation School Bell. Operation School Bell works with elementary school children who live in poverty. The program raises self-esteem, improves school attendance, and fosters improved academic performance.

Blue Skies for Children

Blue Skies for Children's mission is to raise hope and self-esteem by providing opportunities, clothing, school supplies and other benefits to homeless, foster and low-income children in Whatcom County.

The Moyer Foundation was able to assist with funding for Little Wishes, which cover the fees of sports lessons (including uniforms and equipment) such as baseball. Along with sports, Little Wishes helps with musical instrument rental and lessons, art lessons, acting lessons, summer camp fees, and much more. They also purchase new car seats for babies and infants, new and used bikes, and computers.

www.blueskiesforchildren.org

Child Care Resources

Founded in 1990, Child Care Resources (CCR) works in partnership with families, child care providers, businesses and government to:

• Empower parents with information and referrals to find, select and retain quality child care.
• Partner with child care providers to ensure the care they provide is high quality and preparing children to thrive in school.
• Educate and advocate within the community on the importance and impact of quality early learning.
• CCR provides critically needed services to all children, but place particular emphasis on serving children with disabilities or special needs.

The Moyer Foundation funded a program for children from homeless families and children with disabilities, special health care needs and/or children displaying challenging behavior. This program gives these vulnerable children access to early learning environments that specifically address their needs and experiences.

www.childcare.org

Children's Hospital

Children's Hospital believes all children have unique needs and should grow up without illness and injury. With the support of the community and through our spirit of inquiry, we will prevent, treat and eliminate pediatric disease.

The Moyer Foundation funded Children's Hospital's Child Life program, which helps children who are suffering life threatening illness or in need of emergency care.

www.seattlechildrens.org  

Children's Response Center

The vision of Children's Response Center is for all children to have a safe and nurturing environment; a home and community free of sexual assault and other trauma and the pain and disruption these cause. The program's goal is to offer child sexual abuse victims or children experiencing other traumatic stress a comprehensive set of services.

The Moyer Foundation was the 2004 Title Sponsor for "To Heal a Child's Heart", a fundraising luncheon to benefit children served by the Children's Response Center.

www.ChildrensResponseCenter.org

Children's Therapy Center

The mission of Children's Therapy Center is to maximize the potential of children with developmental delays and disabilities by providing individualized, family-centered therapy and early education services.

The Moyer Foundation helped fund The Bridge to a Brighter Future Project. Its goal is to expand Children Therapy Center's current program to treat more children under the age of three and to keep children in the program after they turn three.

www.ctckids.org

Clothes for Kids

The mission for Clothes for Kids is to provide new and like-new clothing and shoes to low-income children in Snohomish County, free of charge. Over the past 18 years, Clothes for Kids has assisted thousands of children.

The Moyer Foundation was able to assist with the New Necessities program. This program helps when there is a shortage of clothing. Each year new clothing must be purchased and distributed. Personal items such as socks and underwear are also purchased new. In addition, they provide shoes, boots and coats when possible.

The Dougy Center

A grant provided by the Moyer Foundation will assist up to 12 children at the Dougy Center who have experienced the death of a parent.  Through their Littles Support Group, children will have the opportunity to verbalize their feelings with other kids and attentive adults. Opportunities will be provided for safe physical play, both inside and outdoors, and in the volcano room.  Children will be able to express themselves through the arts, with activities in painting, crafts, and puppet shows. Through support groups, both children and parents can address behavioral issues, as well as feelings of loss and other issues of importance to them during this time of severe distress.

Easter Seals of Washington

Easter Seals of Washington was formed in 1947 and has been providing quality programming and service to people with disabilities for over 56 years. ESW has several major programs including camping and respite services and child development centers.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to ESW for a summer camp session serving children aged 7 to 17 at Easter Seals Camp Stand By Me - providing camp for children with special needs associated with severe disabilities.

www.wa.easterseals.com

Eastside Baby Corner

Eastside Baby Corner partners with over 150 service care providers including community programs, food banks, public health nurses, social workers and schools. Over 6,000 families are served by East side Baby Corner each year.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to enhance the collection and redistribution of baby items in East King County. EBC collects all items used by children from birth to age twelve and distributes them to service providers who work with families in need. A parent who has access to critical items like diapers, formula, and infant food is more likely to practice positive parenting and provide a more stable and nurturing atmosphere.

www.babycorner.org

Epilepsy Foundation

Epilepsy Foundation's mission is to ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences.

The Moyer Foundation was able to assist with Camp Discovery, the only summer camp in Washington that exclusively helps children with epilepsy and their siblings. The program offers epileptic children the opportunity to partake in "camp activities and do things all other kids do in a safe, supervised environment."

www.epilepsy.org

Family Services

Family Services provides a wide spectrum of social services to meet the needs of King County residents, focusing on three areas: family stabilization - homelessness, community violence prevention, and mental health counseling.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant for Baby Boutique, offering homeless families with such items as diapers, jackets, bedding, pants, shoes, and strollers. The Baby Boutique offers homeless parents the opportunity to select items for their children in an inviting, empowering atmosphere and helping families build their own networks in the community and become more self-sufficient.

www.family-services.org

First Avenue Service Center

The First Avenue Service Center provides day shelter for homeless families, men and women in Seattle. The family center stabilizes homeless families with children who are in crisis and assists them in accessing services to enable them to become self-sufficient over time. The Center provides survival services including meals, showers, laundry service, clothing, haircuts, companionship, and emergency shelter

The Moyer Foundation approved a grant to support the Family Assistance Program, which helps a family acquire items needed for their new home. Oftentimes, the best solution for a child and his/her parent is to return to their hometowns where there is a support system. The program provides children and their parents stability and security in their lives.

www.fasconline.org

Food Lifeline

Food Lifeline is dedicated to distributing food for hungry people, advocating for change on their behalf, and educating the community to end hunger in Western Washington. The organization is committed to giving children the nutrition they need in order to grow into healthy and productive adults.

The Moyer Foundation supported Food Lifeline's capacity-building project entitled "The Future is Now", expanding the ability to meet the growing need for food.

www.foodlifeline.org

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), home of two Nobel Prize laureates, is an independent, nonprofit research institution dedicated to the development and advancement of biomedical research

The Moyer Foundation created The Gregory Fund at FHCRC, contributing over $200,000 to the fund in its first year (2003).

www.fhcrc.org

Fremont Public Association

The Fremont Public Association (FPA) is dedicated to fight poverty in Seattle's communities. FPA helps low-income families become more stable, healthy and successful; enabling their children to break the cycle of poverty.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support the Food Security for Children program. This program works with families with young children to ensure they have access to nutritious food and important information.

www.fremontpublic.org

Gilda's Club

Gilda's Club Seattle is a cancer support community. Gilda's Club provides assistance to any person touched by cancer through networking groups, educational lectures on a variety of cancer-related topics including social and emotional support. The club is concerned with enhancing overall wellness, stability and quality of life by providing comfort, support and community to people touched by cancer.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support Noogieland, a program of social and emotional support for children ages 5-18 who have been touched by cancer. Noogieland is for children with a cancer diagnosis or for children with a family member with cancer.

www.gildasclubseattle.org

Good Samaritan Foundation

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support a fourteen- week group therapy series that serves small groups of children and their parents. The CTU intervention model involves a multidisciplinary team that includes an occupational therapist, a speech pathologist and a pediatric psychologist. The groups tap into the power of the children and are child versus behavior directed. The goal is to take the child from negative aversion to a positive experience and to the meet the child’s nutritional requirement orally instead of a by tube.

Harborview Medical Center

Harborview Medical Center is a world-class trauma, patient care, teaching, and research center that provides exemplary patient care to all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to Harborview's Pediatric Burn Center to provide special cribs that are used to treat infants and very young burn patients.

www.uwmedicine.org/Facilities/Harborview/

The Healing Center

Through a grant provided by the Moyer Foundation, a teen program will provide support groups and individual mentoring to bereaved teens between the ages of 11 and 18. Social activities will be organized for teens within the groups. In addition, packets of informative materials will be distributed to middle and high schools in the Seattle area. Information will be included for parents, teachers, counselors and administrators. This information will be provided to increase the network of information for providers to utilize the Healing Center as a resource. Information will also be included about other programs in the Seattle area, including Camp Erin. The adolescent program will support teens as they move through their grief.

Helping Hand House

Helping Hand house is dedicated to preventing and ending family homelessness in Pierce County. A grant from the Moyer Foundation will help support the Learn and Grow project. It will provide educational games, learning programs, summer camp fees, disposable cameras and photo albums, individual tutoring, parenting classes with follow-up, and counseling for distressed children. Its goal is to focus on the most vulnerable children and assist them as they regain their educational, emotional, social, and physical health.

Hutch School

The Hutch School is a uniquely supportive learning environment for school-age patients and family members who relocate temporarily to Seattle while undergoing treatment at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

Each year, The Moyer Foundation produces a calendar entitled, "What Cancer Cannot Do". Through sales of this calendar at all QFC stores and other outlets, The Moyer Foundation donates $50,000 annually to the Hutch School.

www.hutchschool.org

Jumping Mouse

Jumping Mouse Children's Center is a mental health agency that serves children who have experienced neglect and physical, emotional and psychological abuse. JMCC is a small organization that serves the large rural area of the Olympic Peninsula.

It is difficult to sustain the needs of a large community on a small budget. The Moyer Foundation was able to fund the cost of care for eight children and their families who have experienced abuse and trauma.

www.jumpingmouse.org/

Kindering Center

Kindering Center provides individualized, family-centered services for children who are disabled, medically fragile, or vulnerable because of abuse or neglect - to develop maximum potential, hope, and community understanding.

Funding from the Moyer Foundation assisted The Eastside Feeding Team, which addresses feeding disorders in young children. The Team provides individual and groups therapies along with nutrition consultations. The Eastside Feeding Team is the first organization to provide "feeding groups" in the Seattle area.

www.kindering.org

LifeCenter Northwest

The LifeCenter Northwest Donor Network works to raise awareness of organ tissue donation and facilitates donations in Washington, Alaska, Montana and Northern Idaho. LifeCenter is the largest organ procurement organization in the US.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to LifeCenter Northwest in 2000, to support organ donation awareness. The first Jamie Moyer Invitational Bowling Tournament in 2000 raised $45,000 for LifeCenter Northwest. The event was a huge success in raising public awareness about organ tissue donation options.
Karen and Jamie Moyer continue to actively support LifeCenter's promotional efforts.

www.lcnw.org

Little Bit Therapy

Little Bit offers two core programs – Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding – both utilizing the unique qualities of the horse to effect positive change in bodies, health, and spirit of children and adults with disabilities. The Early Intervention Program is for children between the ages of 2 and ½ and 7 and provides an intervention during the critical early years of development which is essential to helping these young children reach developmental milestones.

A grant provided by the Moyer Foundation will support a full-time, on-site therapist for the Hippotherapy Program. This position will give Little Bit the ability to serve up to 25 additional riders per week, and would remove 40 children from the waiting list of over 150 children. It will also allow Little Bit to conduct at least 40 additional intake assessments annually.

www.littlebit.org

Magnolia Moms

The Magnolia Moms was founded to provide assistance to mothers and children in need. Programs central to the organizations mission include the crib corner, which collects and distributes baby and children’s items to disadvantaged mothers and their babies, Easter baskets filled with toys and necessities for local children in need, and back to school backpacks, a new program which provides homeless children with backpacks filled with school supplies, snacks and a new outfit.

Through a grant provided by the Moyer Foundation, the Back to School Backpacks program will provide backpacks to local charities and shelters assisting homeless children and refugees. It will provide items such as new clothing, toys, books, videos, or school supplies to give these children a sense of pride and hope as they begin the new school year.

Make-A-Wish

Make-A-Wish Foundation grants wishes to children with life threatening illness. The local chapter grants approximately 250 wishes per year to children throughout the Northwest. It serves the largest geographic territory of 77 chapters in the United States.

The Moyer Foundation provided a matching grant entitled Wish Maker Match to encourage other donors to support Make a Wish and to enable Make a Wish to provide more wishes to children in need.

www.nwwishes.org

Muscular Dystrophy

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant in support of MDA's Summer Camp for children and young adults (ages 6-21) who have limited mobility or use wheelchairs. It is a place where youngsters with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular disorders can experience the pleasures that an active life has to offer and learn skills they can enjoy year-round.

www.mdausa.org

National Organization for Chronically Ill Kids

NOCK’s objective is to help families get prescribed assistive technology devices that their children need. The Kids Count Program serves economically disadvantaged families who neither qualify for Medicaid nor possess the private health insurance to purchase equipment for their children. Many recipients are in severe distress, not because of the special needs of their children but because their finances have been depleted by medical expenses that they are unable to meet.

Supported by a grant from The Moyer Foundation, The Kids Count Program will strive to assist 100 children through two programs: Wheelchairs for Kids and Expressions. Wheelchairs for Kids provides customized wheelchairs with seating systems specifically designed to provide vital support to areas where the child’s body is failing. Expressions provides speech-generating devices to children who cannot talk. Through the assistance of these programs, NOCK strives to give chronically ill kids hope for the future through their newfound mobility and/or communication capabilities.

New Futures

New Futures works with families living in areas of King County where poverty and crime rates are highest. Basic needs such as clothing, housewares, and baby items are distributed from their clothing bank in South King County. Other needs, such as food and children’s programs are provided in a comprehensive family center.

A grant provided by the Moyer Foundation will support more organized and accessible clothing banks for families in the White Center, Burien, and SeaTac areas, creating a more welcoming and safe environment. It will also establish a new clothing bank and family center at a local elementary school, where poverty stricken children will have access to clothing, school supplies and after school services, to help them become more confident and successful.

Northwest Burn Foundation

The Northwest Burn Foundation's mission is to prevent burns and improve the quality of life for burn survivors through programs, education and research.

The Moyer Foundation was able to help support the annual summer camp. The camp helps children overcome many challenges they face such as being "teased relentlessly and ostracized." The camp is offered at no charge (including transportation) to burn survivors (ages 7-17) from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska.

www.nwburn.org

Northwest Reach

Northwest Reach is dedicated to extending compassionate care to those affected by HIV/ AIDS and all life threatening illnesses. Northwest Reach has focused on helping children affected with HIV/AIDS, leading up to their annual camp. The camp is free of charge and allows children to "be themselves" without fear of being ostracized.

Aided by a grant provided by The Moyer Foundation, the 2004 Northwest Reach Camp was a success. Children with HIV/AIDS were able to come to the camp for rest, respite, education, and camping activities.

OPERATION: Sack Lunch

OPERATION: Sack Lunch's mission is to provide dignity, care and compassion through action with the example that each person can make a difference. To ultimately bring about the realization that we are all a part of this world and with extended effort put an end to homelessness, hunger, and hatred.

The Moyer Foundation helped OPERATION: Sack Lunch by providing a very nutritional breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack for more than 70 First Place School students throughout the year. These meals were served 5 days per week for 10 months.

www.opsacklunch.org

Pacific Northwest Ballet

PNB is one of the nations most respected ballet companies. Pacific Northwest Ballet School was established in 1974 and is heralded as one of the top three ballet training institutions in the country, serving over 1,600 children and adults annually.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to "The DanceChance" program, designed to identify low income children and train them in classical ballet. DanceChance provides a structured, enriching experience for young children, many of whom have not had much access to arts education in their schools.

www.pnb.org

Prime Time

The mission of Prime Time is to provide an outdoor recreational facility for seriously/terminally ill or disabled children and their families in a wilderness setting; emphasizing love, understanding and compassion that will come from within the family.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to assist with summer camperships. This program offers a choice of recreational opportunities that encourages family participation that may not normally be available to them.

Providence Hospice of Snohomish County: Camp Erin - Snohomish County

Camp Erin is a weekend camp designed to help children and teenagers who have experienced the death of a loved one.

Working with The Moyer Foundation, Providence Hospice of Snohomish County created Camp Erin. The Moyer Foundation provided a grant in the amount of $100,000 to launch the first ever Camp Erin and to provide the Hospice with a Camp Erin Endowment, to ensure its long term health. Named in memory of 17-year-old Erin Metcalf, a cancer patient who became close to Karen and Jamie Moyer, Camp Erin is offered each year at no cost to the children of Snohomish County.

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As 17-year-old Erin Metcalf received care from hospice in 2000, she inspired Jamie and Karen with her life, faith and, ultimately, acceptance of death. Soon after Erin's passing, Jamie wrote her initials on the pitcher's mound and dedicated a game to her.

Erin's mother Michele Metcalf remembers: "Throughout Erin's illness, Karen and Jamie seemed to have a sixth sense, and would call at the most critical times during Erin's treatment. Each time they contacted us, we would see an immediate improvement in Erin's outlook and attitude. We do believe they contributed in a very direct way to Erin's length of life. She was given three to four months, but lived nearly two and a half years."

In 2001 The Moyer Foundation established Camp Erin with the first camp held in the summer of 2002. Camp Erin is designed to gently teach coping skills and help build self-esteem and trust, while providing a relaxed, safe, supporting setting for children to share their grief. Pediatric grief specialists help lead discussions on issues relating to anger, guilt, and letting go. Through interactions with other children and adults, campers experience the universality of death and loss and learn they are not alone in their grief.

http://www.providence.org/everett/hospice_and_home_care

Providence Hospice of Seattle: Camp Erin - King County

In 2004, working with The Moyer Foundation, Providence Hospice of Seattle created the second Camp Erin. The Moyer Foundation provided a grant in the amount of $125,000 to launch Camp Erin - King County, funding the camp's first year start up costs and to provide the Hospice with a Camp Erin Endowment, to ensure its long term health. Camp Erin - King County is offered each year at no cost to grieving children of King County.

http://www.providence.org/Long_Term_Care/Hospice_of_Seattle

Rainier Scholars

Rainier Scholars is an academic and leadership development program for inner city youth. The program is designed to build academic, social and psychological support systems from second grade through college. These students have many and varied barriers to overcome to become academically successful, including socio-economic challenges, family issues, language barriers, peer pressure and daily crisis management. Rainier Scholars is dedicated to helping the children manage and overcome these barriers.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to support Rainier Scholar's annual retreat. The students and staff meet to review their accomplishments over the past year and create goals and objectives for the upcoming year as a group and as individuals. Students come from over 20 different schools and programs, which makes this retreat a critical component in establishing lasting relationships.

www.rainierscholars.org

Rise N' Shine

Rise N' Shine provides emotional support and advocacy for children and teens affected by HIV and AIDS. Programs are specifically designed for children who have been orphaned by the disease, those who are infected themselves plus children and teens who have a parent or sibling with the disease.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant to Rise N' Shine to assist with their Summer Camp. During this week long camp, children spend quiet time preparing memorials and paying tribute to their loved ones' courageous lives with AIDS.

www.risenshine.org

Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities provides a home for seriously ill children being treated at Children's Hospital. From its beginnings in a 2 bedroom house serving 25 families each year, the RMH in Seattle has grown to a 22 room facility that can accommodate an annual average of 180 families who travel to Seattle.

The Moyer Foundation provided a $50,000 challenge grant to "challenge" other donors to sustain and strengthen a critical funding initiative for long-term viability. Through this grant, The Moyer Foundation pledged to match dollar for dollar any gift of $1,000 (up to $50,000) or more to help RMHC build and strengthen its major gifts program.

www.rmhcseattle.org

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance offers many services and benefits including:

• Provide premier, patient-focused cancer care
• Support the conduct of cancer clinical research and education
• Enhance access to improved cancer interventions
• Advance the standard of cancer care, regionally and beyond

The Moyer Foundation funded Children's Hospital's Child Life program, which helps children who are suffering life threatening illness or in need of emergency care.

www.seattlecca.org

September 11th Bereavement Camps

The Moyer Foundation and Kumon North America raised $130,000 to fund five bereavement camps in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Minneapolis. The camps were among those established this summer for boys and girls who lost a parent in the September 11 attacks and to honor heroes of United Flight 93. The Foundation's efforts covered camp costs for more than 500 children affected by the 9/11 tragedy.

Karen and Jamie Moyer joined Kumon representatives at SAFECO Field on Saturday, April 27, 2002 to present a check to Joe Torre, manager of the visiting New York Yankees, for him to carry back to the East Coast. Also present was Deena Burnett, widow of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett. The money was partly used to establish a bereavement camp in Minneapolis, Tom's hometown, and an endowment fund in his memory.

Skagit Preschool and Resource Center (SPARC)

SPARC provides education and therapy for children with disabilities and special needs from birth to age six. Three main programs are provided:

• Birth to Three serves the youngest children with a variety of services including physical, occupational speech and cognitive problems, and in many cases multiple disabling conditions.
• The Preschool program provides more intensive services with the goal of preparing children to enter school.
• The Parent to Parent mentor program helps the entire family so that their children can succeed to the highest level possible in school and in their community. SPARC currently serves children with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, hearing and sight loss, speech difficulties, inability to use fine and gross motor skills, and the inability to walk.

Through a grant funded by the Moyer Foundation, SPARC will purchase supplies for early childhood education for children with disabilities. The supplies will help about 200 children and will include information presented in graphic form for children with hearing impairment, specific, graphic instructions for classroom devices used for children with autism, and art therapy for children with severe emotional needs.

SKIFORALL Foundation

The SKIFORALL Foundation is the Pacific Northwest’s largest organization offering year-round instruction and opportunities in outdoor recreation for children and adults with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities. The agency currently assists more than 1800 adults and children.

Through the support of the Moyer Foundation, Adaptive Cycling for Children will add four more adaptive cycles that will be will be used in communities throughout our region to deliver adaptive activities to 800 children, 150 of which are not currently being served.

Starlight Children's Foundation

Starlight Children's Foundation is an organization dedicated to providing an escape from the pain and suffering seriously ill children and their families endure each day. Starlight's in hospital and community programs are designed to restore laughter and smiles to families coping with illness.

The Moyer Foundation supported the Hospital Happenings and Kids Activity Network programs in Washington State. These programs enable ill children to be connected to the outside world through theme parties and visits from local entertainers. Funding also provided support networks that build lifelong friendships.

www.slsb.org

Sunshine Physically Challenged Foundation

The Sunshine Physically challenged Foundation serves the needs of physically and mentally challenged children in the Washington and Greater Portland area by offering two barrier free and cost free camps held during the summer. They also supply food baskets to food banks, shelters and low income families as well as annual Santa visits to 500 terminally ill children during the holidays.

Through a grant provided by the Moyer Foundation, an additional day will be added to the camp for non-ambulatory campers. Campers are encouraged to participate in a variety of activities including archery, science club, a mentor program, live reptile program, Sonics wheelchair basketball, horseback riding, arts and crafts, and swimming and pool activities. The program serves 150 campers.

Treehouse

Treehouse has been committed to making a difference in the lives of foster children in King County for the past 17 years. Their hope is to provide these children with a real childhood, free of the effects of past abuse, neglect, and poverty. They have implemented six programs, including a free clothing store, summer camp, extracurricular support for sports, music and dance, tutoring, educational advocacy, and coaching-to-college. The Little Wishes Program/Summer Camp is a program aimed at making dreams for foster children a reality.

Through a grant from the Moyer Foundation,  Treehouse will help to fulfill 50 Little Wishes at an average cost of $121 per wish, and send 15 foster kids to camp over the next year at an average cost of $276 per child.

Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery

Located in Spokane, Washington, The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery provides a safe haven for children who are at risk to abuse and neglect due to family situations such as poverty, substance abuse, homelessness and domestic violence.

The Moyer Foundation provided a grant that funded the "Loving Care" program. "Loving Care" provides 24-hour child care for children living in crisis situations.

www.vanessabehan.org

YMCA of Tacoma

The Tacoma YMCA provides children of all ages with programs that enhance physical, mental and social development and well being.

The Moyer Foundation helped fund Friends & Servants a program that works with youth to complete their court and probation requirements while instilling a positive work ethic, developing self-esteem as a result of their work, while building a meaningful and trusting relationships with troubled teens.

www.tacomaymca.org