The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Funds from 4% Friday will be utilized to support Communities in Schools’ Basic Needs Resource Closets at 5 schools in the Mount Vernon School District.

The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County is to enable all young people to reach their full potential, as productive, caring, responsible citizens. The Boys & Girls Club provides youth ages 6-18 with a safe, fun, and positive space to thrive in.

Funds from 4% Friday will go directly towards scholarships for members to attend the club.

The Salish Sea Deaf School (SSDS) uses innovative teaching practices to provide academic excellence, utilizing an ASL/English bilingual approach to bring opportunities to enhance language competency, student curiosity, and a positive self-identity.

Funds from 4% Friday will be used to develop a gardening program for the students and their families that would include building raised beds, learning organic growing practices at school and in the local area, farm visits, and growing harvesting, cooking, and preserving produce.

Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) builds partnerships that educate and engage the community in habitat restoration and watershed stewardship activities in order to increase salmon populations and ensure a healthy community for all of us.

SFEG will use funds from 4% Friday to offer its Junior Stream Steward program to 500 local students. This year long program gets middle school students out of the classroom and learning about how they can ensure healthy watersheds for our future.

Page Ahead provides new books and develops reading activities that empower at-risk children. They are the leading provider of children’s books and literacy services in Washington State.

Funds from 4% Friday will support Page Ahead’s Book Up Summer, in which K-2 students at majority low-income schools receive 12 brand-new books of their choosing at the end of the school year for three years in a row for summer reading, minimizing or eliminating the “summer learning slide”.

The Little Mountain Elementary School seeks to connect students and families to healthy lifestyle and nutritional choices by developing and maintaining a school garden on campus.

Little Mountain will use 4% Friday funds to purchase a garden shed to store their tools for easy student access and to build a kiosk and outdoor classroom on campus near their garden.