Give!Guide Update
Friends, Because of you, Westwind made $7,458.00 during our participation in the 2016 Willamette Week’s Give Guide! Your generosity will benefit communities across Oregon and allow us to give the gift to camp to many lucky youth and families during the upcoming 2017 summer season. Pictured is Matt Gross, SHINE Site Supervisor, posing with three…
Happy New Year from Westwind
End of Year Success for Camperships! Westwind warmly wishes everyone a Happy New Year and a big thank you for supporting Westwind’s Year End appeal for Camperships. We surpassed both our year-end fundraising targets ($5,000 through the Give!Guide and $20,000 total) with over 100 donations totalling $25,022 (with $6,408 coming through the Give!Guide). From these funds and…
My Joy and Home is By the Ocean
It’s New Years Eve and we here at Westwind are excited to welcome in 2017. While there are a lot of new things on the horizon for Westwind, a new deck, new solar panel, new partnerships and so much more, we are continuing to celebrate the 80 years of joy that we have been bringing…
Taking a piece Westwind home
Westwind is fortunate to have international staff each summer that enhance our program, bringing global perspective to our community and adding a depth that most of use don’t have in our every day lives. Bernadette “Beats” Corpuz came to Westwind last summer from Australia and took on Westwind head on. Westwind. Joy. …
Westwind, a place of diversity, global learning and great influence!
Kate “Peep” Romanggi shares how Westwind has influenced her journey as a camper and staff to reach out to a great community and share that joy through teaching. “I know I am not alone in saying this- Westwind has changed my life. Who knew a camp full of wildlife and miles of forestland, tucked between…
Westwind, exploration and pure joy
Campers, staff and alumni have been asked to share how Westwind has brought them joy and encouraged them to share that joy in the world. The following is from Keiler “Pippin” Beers: Westwind forever changed the trajectory of my life. For more than three summers, I was able to wake up every day in a…
Westwind, the most incredible journey of my life
Campers, staff and alumni have been asked to share how Westwind has brought them joy and encouraged them to share that joy in the world. The following is from Amanda “Fiji” Johnston. “Westwind has taught me that joy is worth the risk. When I first came to camp at the age of 9, I…
Merry Winter Holidays from Westwind!
We wish all of you a Merry Winter Holiday season . . . and thank you to Duncan Berry for sharing these amazing drone photos of Westwind from the air. [huge_it_gallery id=”14″]
Kicking Off Winter with Westwind Give!Guide Finale
Winter is here! Westwind is wrapping up its final few weeks participating in Willamette Week’s Give Guide! To date, Westwind has raised $3,800 and with your help, we can meet our $5,000 fundraising goal by December 31, 2016. When you give today through Give!Guide . . . Give through the Westwind Give!Guide Portal and you…
Tillicum Estuary Arts & Science Building
Over the past few years Westwind has been renovating Tillicum (the barn near the Salmon River estuary) into a multipurpose, covered outdoor program space. We have been extraordinarily fortunate that donors and grantors have seen the value of these changes. Recently, Pacific Power Blue Sky Community Project awarded Westwind $100,000 to install solar panels atop Tillicum. Last month The Oregon…