Host a Drive or Event
Holiday Drives
Hosting a drive is a great way to rally your friends and family to make sure youth in foster care have everything they need to have a bright winter season. The first step of hosting a winter drive is to get inspired! Take a look at our Winter Drives Toolkit for information on getting your drive started.
Rally Your Network to Support Treehouse
The young people we support consistently need hygiene supplies, clothing and food. Donation drives are one way we help meet their immediate needs. They not only provides much-needed items, but are also one of the best ways to raise awareness of Treehouse, the foster care system and the barriers youth face.
Drives and events hosted on behalf of Treehouse ensure that no one in foster care goes without the essentials, keeping our free store stocked with items that help youth feel confident, empowered and have ownership over what they wear.
Your business, organization, school, church or community group can make a big difference by partnering with us to host a drive and spreading the word.
If you would like more information and updates on ways to engage with Treehouse, email [email protected] . If hosting a drive isn’t for you this year, you can still make a difference by donating or shopping our online wish list .
3 Ways to Host a Donation Drive
1 - Host a Fundraising Page
It only takes 5 minutes to set up a peer-to-peer fundraising page.
- Use this link to start your online donation page
- Share your link via email, social media or face-to-face using a QR code
- Our Treehouse Toolkit contains instructions, tips and tricks and templates to help you promote your drive
Contact us at [email protected] .
2 - Collect Supplies
Rally and inspire your network by collecting supplies and essentials.
- Host anything from a one-day to month-long event to collect winter gear, toys and other essentials
- A list of our most needed supplies can be found in the Treehouse Toolkit
- Use this link to sign up for your drive drop off time
Contact us at [email protected] to get started
3 - Shop our Online Wish List
If hosting a drive isn’t an option for you, one way to ensure youth in foster care have the essentials they need is to shop our The Treehouse Store’s Wish List. This list is updated seasonally and features the most needed items.
A few hints for best use of the wish list:
- You must be signed in to an Amazon account.
- Empty your Amazon cart before shopping for Treehouse youth – this will make the default shipping location Treehouse. If there are items that are not from Treehouse’s Charity List in your shopping cart, you’ll have to select shipping locations for each item from the shipping option page during checkout.
- If you want a tax receipt for the items you purchase from our Charity List, fill out our in-kind receipt , which will generate an email receipt for tax purposes
Host an Event
From birthday parties to bake sales, you can positively impact the lives of youth in foster care by hosting an event on behalf of youth. Need some inspiration? Find some creative examples of how community members are making a difference below.
For questions or information about events, contact us at [email protected] . Set up your custom donation page for your event here .
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 youth 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 ones learn the gift of giving! For his 8th birthday party, Jackson had all his friends bring gifts for youth in foster care. Then, after the cake was eaten, Jackson and his parents delivered the gifts to Treehouse. Jackson was able to see where his gifts would go and the difference his birthday will make. What a day!
