Gig Harbor Basket Brigade

05/05/2026

Like so many grassroots efforts, many of the programs and partnerships supported through the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation began around kitchen tables, in classrooms, out in the field, or with small groups of neighbors simply trying to help.

Today, as the Foundation celebrates 20 years of community impact and more than $24 million invested back into the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula community, we’re reminded that this work has always been powered by people choosing to show up for one another.

Your support today helps shape what the next 20 years of community care, connection, stewardship, and opportunity can become.

If you’d like to support local work that makes a real difference close to home, you can give here:
bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

Today felt like a good moment to share a few reminders of what community support actually looks like here at home.

In 2025, the Gig Harbor Senior Center welcomed nearly 10,000 visits through programs focused on connection, wellness, meals, movement, and community support — while also helping deliver nearly 10,000 pounds of food to low-income seniors through its partnership with Emergency Food Network.

Since 2003, the Lu Winsor Environmental Fund has invested more than $300,000 into local environmental education, habitat restoration, and stewardship efforts that help protect the shorelines, forests, and waterways that define our region.

And in 2025 alone, EnviroCorps volunteers walked 56 miles of local roadway litter patrols and removed more than 100 bags of litter from community spaces throughout our region.

These things happen because people continue choosing to care about the place they live and the people around them.

None of us can solve every challenge facing the world right now. But together, we can help create a community where seniors feel connected, students feel supported, families feel cared for, and the natural places around us are protected for future generations.

If you’d like to be part of today’s WA Gives campaign, there’s still time to help strengthen the community we all share:
bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

05/05/2026

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MissionWe work collaboratively to strengthen the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula community by connecting people, resources, and opportunities to meet evolving local needs.20 Years of Community ImpactOn May 5, 2026, the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation marks 20 years of...

05/05/2026

Proud to support the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation and the many people, programs, and partnerships helping strengthen our community. Today is GGHF’s 20th birthday and WA Gives — a great day to support local work that makes a real difference close to home.

Today, communities across Washington are coming together through WA Gives to support the places and people that matter most to them.

Here at home, that support looks like scholarships for local students, outdoor learning for children, connection and care for seniors, stewardship of the natural places we all share, and neighbors continuing to show up for one another year after year.

In uncertain times, strengthening local community may be one of the most meaningful things we can still do together.

While we may not be able to fix everything, we can still make a real difference close to home.

This is what community looks like.

If you’d like to support the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation during WA Gives today, you can give here:
bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

Thank you for caring about this community and the people who call it home.

05/04/2026

For 20 years, the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation has invested in the people, programs, and places that make this community home.
From scholarships and senior programs to environmental stewardship, nature-based education, and Basket Brigade, every dollar given stays local and helps strengthen the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula community.
As we celebrate 20 years of community impact during GiveBIG 2026, we invite you to be part of what comes next.
❤️ Give local. Impact local.
bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

Happy Monday! We’ve raised more than $1 million for local nonprofits so far during Early Giving. Let’s continue the momentum being built ahead of the main giving day that starts tomorrow.

This is our moment. to stand up for our communities. Donate to your favorite nonprofits now!

https://www.wagives.org

05/04/2026

For 20 years, the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation has invested in the people, programs, and places that make this community home.

From scholarships and senior programs to environmental stewardship, nature-based education, and Basket Brigade, every dollar given stays local and helps strengthen the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula community.

As we celebrate 20 years of community impact during GiveBIG 2026, we invite you to be part of what comes next.

❤️ Give local. Impact local.

bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

04/28/2026

For many families across our community, Basket Brigade is a reminder that they are not alone.

Each year, volunteers, donors, businesses, and community partners come together to help provide holiday meals and support for local families—neighbors helping neighbors in one of the most tangible ways possible.

As part of the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation family of programs and community initiatives, Basket Brigade reflects what this community does best: showing up for one another with care, generosity, and compassion.

As we head into WA Gives and GiveBIG, we invite you to support the work that strengthens our community and helps ensure no one is left behind.

Learn more or give here:
bit.ly/GGHFGiveBIG

And we’re off and running! Today is the start of Early Giving! It’s up to us to support the nonprofits that make communities across Washington flourish. Help these organizations build positive momentum ahead of the main giving day on May 5 by donating now and encouraging your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers to also give.

to show up for nonprofits. Whether you give a little or a lot, every gift creates BIG change!

https://www.wagives.org

11/23/2025

And just like that, it’s a wrap! 899 boxes packed, and shipped off for delivery to families across our community. 🧡🦃

A huge, heartfelt, thank you to the nearly 500 volunteers who showed up with so much energy and compassion. Whether you lifted boxes, packed stuffing and mashed potatoes, hauled turkeys, or hand delivered the Thanksgiving meals to families — you made this possible.

And to volunteer committee who spent months planning, scheduling, sorting, double checking details, and doing all the behind-the-scenes magic… We see you, and we’re so grateful. This event simply wouldn’t happen without your leadership and dedication.

899 families will sit down to a full Thanksgiving meal because of this community. That’s something we’re celebrating and we give all our thanks to you🧡🦃

11/22/2025

A little peek behind the scenes at the heart of our community.
So much generosity, laughter, and teamwork in one room.
Gig Harbor, you always show up. 🦃✨

11/18/2025

💛 A HUGE community thank-you to Amazon! 💛

This year, Amazon stepped up in an extraordinary way for the 32nd Annual Gig Harbor Thanksgiving Basket Brigade — sponsoring the event, donating 500 turkeys, and providing Amazon team vehicles for community donation site pickups.

Because of their generosity and logistics support, hundreds of local families will enjoy a full Thanksgiving meal this year.
This is what community partnership looks like — big hearts, big action, and real impact.

Thank you, Amazon, for showing up for Gig Harbor and helping us feed our neighbors with dignity, warmth, and care. 🦃💛

11/17/2025

🦃 Help close the 2025 Thanksgiving Basket Brigade's Final $5,000 Gap .... and receve a Tides Tavern Gift Card Thank-You!

As a token of appreciation for all who step up to help during this urgent time!

Between Nov. 16th and Nov. 26th
• Gifts of $500+ receive a $100 Tides Tavern Gift Card
• Gifts for $250–$499 receive a $50 Tides Gift Card

More than 30 years ago, two people started a community tradition of generosity by helping to make Thanksgiving possible for eight unsuspecting families. What began as a simple act of kindness has become one of the nation’s oldest Basket Brigades, bringing together over 400 volunteers each year to ...