On September 8 with help from the Whatcom Community Foundation we gave away $39,000 to our local community!

1st for $10,000: Lydia Place to "educate families and fostering community through life skills programs"

    2nd for $6,000: St. Francis Foundation for their intergenerational garden project

3rd for $4,000: Summit Assistance Dogs for their new S.O.S program (Serving Our Soldiers) which will provide service dogs to wounded soldiers

4th for $2,000: Bellingham Public Library to transform their early learning and literacy space at the Library

  Our planning committee from Walton Beverage and the Whatcom Community Foundation were so inspired by all 36 applications we received that we came up with $17,000 of additional grant money to create the Local Pepsi Refresh Standout Awards designed to help fund the applications that we felt really stood out!

We gave: $1,500 to the Michael Koenen Foundation to "save local youth sports programs!"

  $1,500 to the Whatcom Volunteer Center to help start their "Pantry on Wheels Program--getting food to homebound people in need!"

  $1,500 to The Bellingham Food Bank feeding your neighbors project to help them buy 100,000 pounds of food!

  $500 to META Performing Arts to help with their "Babes in Toyland, a Christmas musical fantasy extravaganza production"

$1,000 to the Burlington Edison School District to "keep students in school—decrease truancy, drop-outs, drug dependency, gang involvement and violence”

  $2,100 to the Royal Family Kids Camp to provide support for local foster kids ages 7-11 who have a history of abuse and/or neglect in their lives to attend a week long, overnight camp

 $1,500 to the Blaine Football Booster Club to help fund the Blaine Boys and Girls Club and Middle School football teams