Other Ways to Help​

When you shop at Amazon, Choose Blue Skies for Children and every purchase will go to support Blue Skies!
Just click on this link, select blue skies and when you make a purchase. Click Here
or....
Choose an item from Blue Skies' Wish List and help a child receive a new coat or pair of shoes. Click Here

Donate An Item - Blue Skies is accepting the following items at this time:

• Donate your gently used musical instruments to our Instrument Loaner Program -
  • The more instruments we have in our inventory, the more children we can help through this program each year.
  • Each donated instrument saves us $360 to $720 in instrument rental costs per year.

• Donate office supplies:
  • Ream of white copy paper 8.5 x 11 -or- 8.5 x 14
  • #10 envelopes
  • Postage stamps
  • HP Ink - #96 or #97
  • Gift cards to office max or office depot
  • Dryline whiteout
  • Post it notes
• Donate brand new socks or athletic shoes to our Shoe Give Program (sizes from youth to adult for our teens feet)
• Donate a brand new backpack to our Back-to-School Backpack Program
• Donate a warm coat, hat, gloves, scarf or blanket to our Winter Warm Up Program

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​Sponsor or Donate to an Event:

• Donate items or services to our Annual Dinner & Charity Auction 
  
• Donated an item to our annual Casino Night Raffle.
• Sponsor or attend a fundraising event!

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Support Monthly

• Sponsor-A-Child - you can make a significant difference in a child's life for just $60 per month.
• We're looking for individuals like you who will make a commitment to change the lives of our local homeless, low-income and foster children. Will you commit to send a monthly donation? A donation of $10 or more per month is a great help. 
• ​Donate a gift card to Office Max/Office Depot, Staples, or Fred Meyer.

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Fundraise

• Team up with friends, coworkers, or your church & create a 5/10/15 donation club (5 friends, 10 months, $15/month each)

• Initiate $5 Jeans Friday at work ($10 if you don’t wear jeans?)

• Put on a community event - concert, picnic, car wash, walk-a-thon, etc.

• Take up a collection at your holiday party, bunco group or bridge party, church group, etc.

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​Consign clothing at any of the following consignment stores and tell them you are donating the items to Blue Skies For Children:
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Kids Clothing:

• WeeOnes ReRuns - 2450 James Street, Bellingham 98225
  
• Phone: 733.6794

Women's Clothing:

• ​The Clothes Rack - 2426 Yew St., Bellingham 98229; 
  
• Phone: 738.7759         (acct #1151)