Community Contest


Leadership Eastside Alumni's Serve our Community Contest

LEADERSHIP EASTSIDE'S ALUMNI PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE TWO WINNERS OF THEIR “SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY CONTEST”

 

1)    FRIENDS OF YOUTH (Redmond)

The organization’s mission - Friends of Youth delivers a broad range of services to youth and their families to improve their emotional stability and self-sufficiency. Services include: case management, mental health counseling, transitional living facilities, foster homes, and emergency shelter for youth ages 8-24. Friends of Youth will be celebrating its 60th birthday this year!

 

100 – word description on how the organization would utilize the LE volunteers

The Youth Haven Bellevue shelter serves homeless and runaway girls (7-17), providing immediate safety and meeting their basic needs (food, medical, clothing, etc.). Volunteers will create an additional bedroom by renovating and moving the current staff office to a front room, install baseboards and new blinds in the new staff office, remove the wall paper and paint in the new staff bathroom, paint the hallway and living area, increase the facility’s curb appeal by removing existing bushes and replanting with aesthetically pleasing plants, stripping and re-staining the front deck and power washing the driveway.

 

2)    HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER (Woodinville)

The organization’s mission Homeward Pet Adoption Center is a no-kill, non-profit animal shelter serving the Greater Seattle area. Our mission is to give homeless animals a second chance through our rescue, shelter, and adoption programs.

 

100 – word description on how the organization would utilize the LE volunteers

Our annual fundraiser is a fairly large auction event to be held at the Seattle Waterfront Marriott on February 26, 2011.  It takes many volunteers to help us with everything from set up to tear down and we typically have a hard time recruiting mature, intelligent individuals to help us with the more difficult tasks.  The LE volunteers could be utilized within our check out process, ensuring all auction items have been appropriately entered into our database and that all winning participants receive the appropriate receipts as well as items won prior to their departure from the event.

Contest Summary

To help nonprofit organizations whose budgets and staff are stretched to the max, Leadership Eastside recently announced an innovative new contest. The prize: ninety hours of donated expertise and labor from the Eastside's premier community leadership program.

The winning nonprofit will receive the help of more than 30 graduates or friends of Leadership Eastside in the inaugural "Serve Our Community" contest. The concentrated effort from experienced professionals is expected to help the selected organization better fulfill its mission by tackling a project that might otherwise not be done for lack of staffing.

Leadership Eastside will choose a nonprofit based on how significant a difference the completed project would make on the community.

Past recipients:

2011: Friends of Youth 

2011: Homeward Pet Adoption Center

2010: Hopelink

Eligibility and Rules

  • Verifiable 501(c)(3) status. It is open to organizations with a business location and only to legal residents of the United States, who are 18 years or older at the time of entry.
  • Physical address and services delivered in the East side Community: Bellevue, Bothell, Carnation, Clyde Hill, Duvall, Fall City, Hunts Point, Issaquah, Juanita, Kenmore, Kirkland, Maple , alley, Medina, Mercer Island, Newcastle, North Bend,, Preston, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, Woodinville, Yarrow Point
  • Cannot be a home-based organization.
  • Must complete the simple entry form including up to a 100-word description of how the organization would use the donated labor of Leadership Eastside members to benefit the non-profit's mission to benefit our community.
  • Entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2010. The winning organization's name and volunteer project may be used in published LE materials, but all other contestant information will be used solely by LE. No contestant information will be sold, shared or given away. LE has the right to decline any entry for any reason.

Prize

A single work session of 3 Hours of labor by volunteers from the LE Alumni membership. The date of this work session to be mutually agreed upon by the LE Alumni Committee and the winning organization.

Winner Selection
The LE Alumni Committee will choose a winner by November, 2011. The winner will be notified either in-person or by email, phone and/or mail.

If you would like to learn more about Leadership Eastside's Alumni
please contact us at: alumni@leadershipeastside.com.