With your support, we’re growing our capacity to nurture the conditions for transformation in service to the world’s greatest challenges.

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Update: As of June 7, 2019, the first $200,000 in new gifts or pledges will be doubled by a community member who wants to see us move forward with our Whidbey Institute 2020 capacity-building campaign! 

 

“I will never really leave this place. The Whidbey Institute will always be a home for me, as it is for so many across the globe. I look forward to witnessing the continual evolution and growth of this place that I love—that we all love. It could not possibly be in more loving or capable hands.”

—DAN MAHLE, former staff member

 

To give online, click the button below. To give by check, mail to PO Box 57, Clinton, WA 98236. To make a pledge or discuss your donation options, email Holly. Remember, all new gifts and pledges will be matched.

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 Whidbey Institute 2020 • Donate Monthly • Donate Items & Services • Leave a Legacy

As a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit, the Whidbey Institute depends upon the support of those we serve. Your tax-deductible gift in any amount helps us tend and nurture the special spaces, life-changing programs, and transformative experiences that have defined our organization for over four decades.

Federal Tax ID # 31-1518700

I’ve come to understand that this place exists for all of us—for everyone who senses the urgency and the responsibility of this time. To accelerate a cultural shift, which we must do soon, many more people must be able to find places like this to be the homes for their souls and their work.” 

—Kate Snider, Board President

 

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Whidbey Institute 2020

Whidbey Institute 2020 is a four year, $4.5 million capacity building initiative and a vision of a sustainable future.

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We launched the Whidbey Institute 2020 capacity-building initiative in 2017, with the goal of raising $4.5 million in four years. Together, we’re evolving our Heartand facilities to better serve leaders and learners of all ages and backgrounds; to permanently protect 106 acres of public-access forests and wetlands; and to develop a Storyhouse Campus that honors the passion and potential of youth.

Learn what we’ve achieved and what’s coming next.

Become a Monthly Donor

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When you give monthly, you help support the hardworking team that keeps our doors open—plus, you build the kind of sustainability that allows us to better care for our land, facilities, and programs.

Make an In-Kind Donation

We gratefully accept new equipment, supplies, and technology that can help us better steward the land, support our programs, and work more efficiently.

If you are interested in making an in-kind contribution of material gifts or skilled help, please take a look at our wish list to see what we need, or contact us to learn more.

Our Wish List

Here are some suggestions for items we could use right away. Please email to learn more or to coordinate donations.

  • Video lighting and sound gear
  • Digital projector
  • Garden supplies, including:
    • extra large decorative pots
    • paving stones
    • hedge trimmers
    • Stihl weed wacker and/or chainsaw
    • digging forks
    • garden clippers and pruners
    • horihoris
    • large and small harvest baskets
    • hoses
    • 1” thick rebar
    • shelving units for greenhouse
  • Gift cards for local or online stores, restaurants, or service providers (for volunteer recognition)

We also participate in AmazonSmile, so when you shop using AmazonSmile with Whidbey Institute as your benefitting organization, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases. Click here to learn more.

Consider a Bequest Gift

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You can make a bequest to the Whidbey Institute by including language in your will or living trust leaving a portion of your estate, or by designating the Whidbey Institute as a beneficiary of your retirement account or life insurance policy.

Some of the advantages of creating a bequest include:

  • A bequest costs nothing now, yet gives you the satisfaction of knowing you have provided for the Whidbey Institute in the future
  • You retain control of and use of your assets during your lifetime
  • You may modify your bequest if your circumstances change
  • Gifts to the Whidbey Institute from your estate are exempt from federal estate taxes
  • If you let the Whidbey Institute know of your plans, we will be able to thank you now and recognize you as a member of our Nurse Log circle of donors.

For more information about establishing your bequest gift to the Whidbey Institute, or to let us know of your planned gift, please contact [email protected]