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Welcome to the first day of the 2025 Holiday GiveOrcas Campaign

As we head into the 2025 GiveOrcas Holiday Campaign, we want to thank you for helping make weekly hands-on art instruction possible for more than 200 K–8 students this year. Your ongoing support has filled A*OK classrooms with painted paper collages, mixed-media creatures, pattern studies, and joyful creativity.

This year, A*OK is requesting $2,820 to fund our Annual Student Art Exhibit and purchase a flat-file to safely store student work. The campaign runs December 2–11, or 10 days of Giving. Find the GiveOrcas Catalog here: https://oicf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant

 
Fun days include 
  • Opening Party Day (Dec 2) Odd Fellows Hall from 4-6pm
  • Unique Donor Day (Dec 4), celebrating donors of $10 or more
  • Holiday Tree Lighting (Dec 6) 4:00 to 7:00 pm, downtown Eastsound
  • Funday Monday (Dec 8), bonus for weekend donors
  • Ben Franklin Day (Dec 10), for donors who generously give $100 or more
  • Final Day of the Campaign (Dec 11)
New for the GiveOrcas Holiday campaign, a Holiday Party at the Odd Fellows Hall today, Tuesday, Dec 2 from 4-6pm. We hope to see you there and we can thank you in person for championing young artists and helping A*OK continue offering meaningful art experiences to youth on Orcas Island for over a decade.

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