Whatcom County Flood Relief

Whatcom County Flood Relief

Photo: KAFE/Whatcom Community Foundation


Wondering how you can help flood victims? What to make sure you’re donating to a legitimate organization? The Whatcom Community Foundation has a ‘Resilience Fund‘ set up to help! Generous local donors have created a pool of matching funds to support gifts made to the Resilience Fund for local emergency flood response and assistance. All individual donations will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $115,000.

Resilience Fund (fcsuite.com)

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