Pay It Forward Community Giving Program a Huge Success

The Pay it Forward program was unveiled in February 2008 as an employee-giving program which was sponsored by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. This program involved the random distribution of $250 VISA Gift Cards to 220 people who were to use them to make a donation to the charitable cause of their choice. The main goal of this program was to allow employees to experience philanthropy in their own communities.

Forty-four Envirocon employees were selected to receive the Pay it Forward Gift Cards and were asked to share their stories of giving on the Washington Foundation website www.dpwfoundation.org. The program was a resounding success with donations to a wide variety of very worthy causes. The following are a list of organizations that benefited from this significant community-giving program:

Disabled American Veterans	Women’s World Banking
Watson’s Children’s Shelter – Missoula, MT	Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California
Glacier Ice Rink “Think Rink” Campaign – Missoula, MT	Western Montana Humane Society - Montana
The V Foundation for Cancer Research	Seed International
OUR Center – Longmont, CO	Compassionate Friends – Missoula, MT
Heritage Center – Jefferson County, MT	Hospice of Missoula – Missoula, MT
United Way – Food Bank – Longview, WA	Camp Mak-A-Dream Gold Creek, MT
AniMeals & Montana Military Appreciation Project - Montana	Jefferson County Food Bank – Jefferson County, MT
Darby Elementary School & Middle School – Darby, MT	Silver Wood Good Samaritan Center  - Silverton, ID
Cougar Kingdom Playground  - Clinton, MT	Missoula Strikers Soccer Association – Missoula, MT
Native American Youth & Family Center – Portland, OR	Little Copperhead Wrestling Club –Jefferson County, MT
Ronald McDonald House – Denver, CO	The First Great Tee of Greater Sacramento – Sacramento, CA
Heifer International	Missoula Food Bank – Missoula, MT
New Song Fellowship Youth Group – Westminster, CO	Young Musicians Club – Butte NT
The Home of Refuges Orphanage – Venezuela & Honduras	ASPCA & the Fund for Animals
Hospice Fund – Greenville, SC

"Giving employees the opportunity to support charitable causes important to them is important to us. We are happy to be able to share with our employees the joy that comes with giving."

Dennis and Phyllis Washington