{"id":2371,"date":"2021-11-24T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/?page_id=2371"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:00:15","slug":"donate-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/donate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Your donation to our Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound* <\/em>will help us continue to fund mini-grants<\/span><\/strong><\/span> for K\u201312 Thurston County public school employees and scholarships<\/span><\/strong><\/span> for Thurston County high school seniors planning careers in education. Donations can be designated to the spendable<\/span> portion of our fund, which can be used immediately, or to the principal<\/span> for long-term investment.
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*Note: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Federal Tax ID #94-3121390, and donations are tax-deductible within the limits of the law.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

WAYS TO DONATE<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2665<\/span>  Give a gift by sending a check payable to the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound.  Be sure to write TCSRA<\/strong><\/span> on the memo line. You may also indicate spendable<\/span> or principal<\/span> on the memo line.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound<\/span><\/strong>
212 Union AVE SE Suite 102<\/span><\/strong>
Olympia, WA 98501<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2665<\/span> Give a gift online\u2014with a credit\/debit card or by authorizing a bank account withdrawal\u2014at the Community Foundation\u2019s website.<\/span> Click on \u201cGive Today\u201d in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. Then scroll down the page to select \u201cThurston County School Retirees\u2019 Association (TCSRA)\u201d and click on “Donate Now.” Another option is to use the second link below to go directly to the donation form for our fund. In the box for additional notes, you can indicate spendable<\/span> or principal<\/span>.
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Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to go to the website of<\/span>
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to go directly to the donation form at<\/span>
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2665 <\/span>Designate all or part of your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) to go directly from your IRA to our Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound. This option\u2014called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)\u2014would keep those funds from increasing your taxable income for that year. We recommend consulting with your financial and tax advisors before making this type of donation and contacting your financial institution to discuss your giving intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2665<\/span> Name the TCSRA Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound as beneficiary of all or a percentage of your IRA.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2665<\/span> Leave a future gift to the TCSRA Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound by writing a new will or by revising your current one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A BIT OF HISTORY<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Third grade teachers from Prairie Elementary in Yelm show their mini<\/strong><\/em>-grant check.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Held and managed by the Community Fund of South Puget Sound, our Endowment Fund was established in 1997 with an initial investment of $6,648.75. Approved unanimously by the TCSRA membership at a luncheon meeting, the fund was to be used \u201cto benefit Thurston County schools, teachers, and students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucille Messer<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That first year, 1997, the interest on the investment allowed us to give $100 mini-grants to 3 of the 15 applicants. Over the years, the investment has grown with the help of donations and fund-raisers at luncheons. A generous bequest from the estate of Lucille Messer<\/strong> in 2008\u00a0 increased the amount of money in the spendable portion of the endowment and the number of grants we have been able to award.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This high school senior is excited about having received a TCSRA scholarship.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rainier 2nd grade students wrote thank-you notes for the books purchased with our mini-grant.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This mini-grant purchase is used for “Maker Space,” a before-school activity in the Washington Middle School library.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your donation to our Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound* will help us continue to fund mini-grants for K\u201312 Thurston County public school employees and scholarships […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2371","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}