Host a Drive
or Event
Rally Your Network to Support Treehouse
Donation drives and community events hosted on behalf of Treehouse ensure that no child in foster care goes without the essentials.
Host a Holiday Donation Drive
Bring joy to youth in foster care this holiday season by hosting a donation drive in your community. Holiday donation drives are essential to Treehouse’s mission. They raise money to fund extracurricular activities, like football or music lessons, which allow youth to build confidence and community. Donation drives also ensure that our free store for youth in care, is stocked with holiday gifts and essential items. To get started, check out our step-by-step instructions below!
Questions? Contact us at 206.267.5109 or drives@treehouseforkids.org.
How to Host Your Drive
1 - Sign Up and Get Your Toolkit
When you sign up to host a donation drive, we provide a toolkit that has everything you need including:
- Your own online donation page
- Instructions, tips and tricks, helpful information
- Various ways to share about Treehouse and your drive
- A poster and a wish list
2 - Spread The Word
Rally and inspire your network by sharing why you care about youth in foster care.
- Share your online donation page and make it easy for folks to give. It’s easy, fun, and effective!
- Send an email to friends, family, and co-workers highlighting the essential needs of youth in foster care.
- Share your drive on your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and tag Treehouse.
3 - Collect Donations
Your donation drive supports youth in care with:
- Funding for activities
- New outfits, head-to-toe
- Shoes and accessories
- Holiday gifts for children & teens
- Toys, books and games
Once you’ve completed your drive, please email us or call 206.267.5109 to schedule a time to bring your unwrapped donations to Treehouse and take a tour of our free store for youth in foster care. If you’d like your donations to support youth for the holiday season, please drop-off by December 15, 2018.
Drop-off Directions:
2100 24th Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98144-4643
Simply drive around to the back of the 2100 Building, pull into the loading dock, and ring the doorbell for assistance. If The Wearhouse is closed, please use the donation barrel inside our building’s lobby.
Hosting an Event
From birthday parties to workplace parties to bake sales, you can positively impact the lives of youth in foster care by hosting an event on behalf of our kids. Need some inspiration? Here are some creative examples of how community members are making a difference.
For questions or information about events, contact us at 206.267.5159 or events@treehouseforkids.org.
Event Inspiration
Whether it is the annual office holiday party, your bar mitzvah, a lemonade stand or your family reunion, you can easily add an element of community support to any celebration in your life! Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery throws a giant company picnic at the end of each summer. The highlight of the event is a wine bottle ring toss, where staff line up for hours to participate. Through this simple carnival game, they raise awareness and funds for kids in foster care.
Are you a culinary crafter? Jill and Micaela, a mother-daughter team who love to cook, decided to try their hands at raising a little dough to help kids in foster care. They asked their friends and family to submit their favorite recipes, which they compiled into an inspirational cookbook and sold to raise money for Treehouse. It was so much fun that they are working on a second edition!
Think outside the suit! For staff in the Seattle office of Marsh USA, casual Friday is more than a fashion statement – it’s an opportunity to change lives. Marsh employees who choose to wear jeans on Fridays pay five dollars into the Denim Days fund. Each month, a local charity is selected from employee suggestions to receive the fund. Treehouse was the lucky beneficiary of a denim dividend!
Help your little one learn the gift of giving! For his 8th birthday party, Jackson had all of his friends bring gifts for kids in foster care. Then, after all of the cake was eaten, Jackson and his parents delivered all of the gifts to Treehouse. Jackson was able to see where his gifts would go and learn about how much his birthday will mean to kids in foster care. What a day!
