Pride Foundation

Tax developments for Washington same-sex couples

Long-time Pride Foundation supporter, Nancy Nickelson, asks a taxation question of Judi O’Kelley from Lambda Legal.

One rarely exclaims, “Yippee!” when offered a free seminar about tax code. However, with recent IRS developments impacting same-sex couples in Washington State, last week’s session co-hosted with Lambda Legal, swelled to welcome nearly 400 guests. Attendees came with pencils in hand, a strong desire to understand the IRS changes and prepared with questions about...

Call it love: our amazing phone team

Twice per year, we welcome our incredible campaign team in to the office as they reach out to friends of Pride Foundation across all five states.  Each personally committed to equal rights and having worked with Pride Foundation for many years, the team always reports how friendly and helpful our supporters are.  Through the fall cycle, more than 500 of you made a generous gift or pledge totaling over $30,000 – incredible!  Thank you donors and the caller team: Nikky, Tyler, Jay and Jill!

25th Anniversary @ SAAM – TICKETS

Join us for fine art, fabulous fare and great friends at Seattle Asian Art Museum as we celebrate 25 years of Pride Foundation and the future of LGBTQ equality!

October 5, 2010
5:30-8:30pm
Seattle Asian Art Museum
1400 East Prospect Street (Volunteer Park)
Seattle, WA 98112

$25.00 per person
Please note: this is a 21 and older event.

ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED.

TO ATTEND THE EVENT CONTACT:

Suzanne at 206.323.3318 ext. 105

To learn more about Pride Foundation’s 25th Anniversary and to share your Pride Foundation story, please visit www.iampridefoundation.org

What’s your story? Help us celebrate 25 years!

Pride Foundation’s history is a collection of stories – your stories. They are stories about challenge, isolation and struggle. And they are stories of community, resilience and triumph.

Visit our special anniversary website at IamPrideFoundation.org and share your story today!...

Thank You, Zan

Zan McColloch-Lussier, our talented, creative and savvy Director of Communications, leaves Pride Foundation this

Zan McColloch-Lussier

month to pursue a new career as a strategic communications consultant. All of us who have worked closely with Zan feel sad to see him go and also extremely excited to watch him succeed in his new adventure.

Zan has been critical to much of Pride Foundation’s success over the last nine years. Among Zan’s accomplishments:

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Tax Relief Through Giving

Flickr: alancleaver_2000

Pride Foundation’s donor-advised funds are a convenient and strategic way to give. A donor advised fund is essentially a savings account for your charitable giving, which happens to be held at Pride Foundation.  Once you make an initial gift to start your donor advised fund – and receive immediate tax benefits –you can then take your time in making...

Audrey’s Top 5 Retreat Moments

I am fresh off our annual retreat with our Board of Directors, regional leaders and staff and I am inspired. Our primary topics for the retreat were learning more about social justice philanthropy and discovering the diversity of skills people bring with them as volunteers. I could give you a top 100 reasons for why this time together is so valuable, but here is a quick top 5 list:

1)   Great reads: In preparation for the retreat I re-read

LGBT & Ally African-American Giving Circle

Update- November 12, 2009

Big thanks to the twenty-five people who attended the Giving Circle meeting last week. Future convenings are being scheduled and there is still plenty of time to get involved. Please let Audrey Haberman, executive director know if you are interested (206.323.3318).

Original Post- October 20, 2009

Pride Foundation is happy to announce an informational meeting about the Seattle African-American Giving Circle. Come...

Bold Giving Continues

When I think of the word ‘half’ I am usually thinking about ordering a sandwich, not giving away that much of my income to charitable causes. I create a charitable giving budget every year and I usually end up deciding to give away 4 to 5 percent of my income to nonprofits that I care about. I am going to have to revisit this decision, and what it means to be bold, after learning about folks who exceed my giving ration by 45 percent.

Last week Tracy Gary-from Inspired Legacies was in Seattle to keynote the spring...

“Is This Good News, Or Bummer News?”

Like many of you, I can count on my mother to cut to the chase.  Today was no exception.  Annually, philanthropy and fund development professionals anxiously wait for the release of research from Giving USA that outlines charitable donations for the prior year.  This morning, the 2008 data went live, including a story on the Today Show – which is how my mother got involved.  The total for charitable giving in the United States in 2008 was just shy of $308 billion dollars.  Mom sent email by 7:12A.M. asking: “Is that good news or bummer news?”