Children's House sees itself as a quiet but critical part of the construction of a healthy social infrastructure. Studies have shown that the experiences of a child's first five years of life will have more impact on the child and his or her society than any other time in a person's life. The money invested in creating a healthy infant-six year old will be repaid multiple times as the child moves toward and through adulthood. Conversely, money not invested in a child during this early phase may cost the emerging community member, and society, enormously in the form of a socially disruptive adulthood.

Your help in investing in your own, your community's and your state's future will produce a payback in both financial, social and emotional terms for decades. There may be no better investment than that which supports the physical and emotional health our youngest children.

Endowment Fund
The Children's House board of directors has created an endowment fund for the organization. The fund addresses three significant long term issues:

1) The need to maintain, but not increase tuition.
2) The need to compensate valued employees with a living wage.
3) The need to provide scholarships to deserving families.

The Fund will provide a permanent source of annual funding to respond to these issues by distributing to the Children’s House Operating Fund 1.25% of its current value every quarter.

Working with the Endow Orcas Campaign, Children's House has developed a Case Statement for Legacy Gifts to OICH.  This collaborative work with Endow Orcas is continuing through 2008-09.

Donations Welcome!
Cash contributions to the Endowment Fund are greatly appreciated and may be mailed directly to Children’s House. Because Children's House is structured as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your contributions are  tax-deductible. Our federal tax id is 91-0929364.

If you would like to discuss giving appreciated securities or including the Endowment Fund in your financial and estate plan, please email our Executive Director, Jana Albright, or call (360) 376-4744.

Please read our Board Resolution that establishes the Children’s House Endowment Fund and our Investment Policy Statement. These documents establish the fund, ensure that the fund principal cannot be used for operations, and guide the types of investments permitted.

Your contribution of any size is an investment in your, your descendants', and your community’s future.

Thank you.