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Willamette Week's Give!Guide is Portland's easiest path to year-end giving. G!G showcases small, medium and large organizations whose missions fall into eight categories: Animals, Civil & Human Rights, Community, Creative Expression, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services.

In fourteen years, G!G has raised over $28 million for hundreds of local nonprofits. Last year, WW readers gave nearly $4.13 million to 150 Portland organizations and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

These are nonprofits that have not participated in Give!Guide in the previous three years, and whose profiles are marked as "NEW". It takes some time to gain traction through G!G, so we hope you give these organizations extra consideration.

Nonprofits with 50%+ of their org leadership self-identified as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC) can add "BIPOC Leadership" to their Give!Guide profile.  Leadership is defined as, “the people who have the decision making power in the org who can impact strategic direction.”

If you have questions, comments, or feedback please feel free to email giveguide@wweek.com.

The mission of Willamette Week's Give!Guide is to engage young Portlanders who are 35 and under in giving back to the community and building a culture of active citizenship*. Today, readers 35 and under provide 29% of the donations.

*Give!Guide defines “citizens” as people who are engaged with the civic and political landscape of America. We don’t believe that citizens are limited to a legal status or static identity, nor their privileges confined to the act of voting. America is a nation of immigrants, and we honor and celebrate the newcomers who have helped build American society. 

In a nutshell: we want the next generation of Portlanders to get in the habit of investing in our community. If young people begin supporting nonprofits at an early age, even with small, $10 or $20 donations, they are likely to continue to give as they get older – and the amount of their support grows with their income.

Give!Guide awards nonprofits with the most individual donors 35 and under in each category with a cash prize of $1,000.

While G!G is live, you can get an up-to-the-minute count of each organization's 35-and-under donors by clicking on the Giving Stats button at the introduction of this website. The prize is generously sponsored by Tandem Property Management.

You can subscribe here for Big Give Day reminders and to stay up on all the do-good happenings in Portland!

Give!Guide's nonprofits are chosen by a community-comprised selection committee each year. All G!G nonprofits must have 501(c)3 status, and must do work that impacts the Portland area. We try to include a range of organizations in the categories of Animals, Civil & Human Rights, Community, Creative Expression, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services.

Roughly one third of selected nonprofits are brand new to Give!Guide (defined as not having participated in the previous three years), one third are second-year nonprofits (new nonprofits are guaranteed a second year), and the final third consists of veteran nonprofits who have participated in G!G for 2+ years.

All participating nonprofits are chosen by a selection committee, and applications are open between April 1 and April 30 each year. You can look at the 2019 Selection Criteria and the 2019 Nonprofit Manual here.

If you are interested in getting an organization into the Give!Guide, please sign up for email updates here and send any questions to giveguide@wweek.com. Participation is competitive, so please note that reaching out is not a guarantee of participation.

We do accept both cash and check. Please make sure to mail this completed form with your donation. Checks should be made out to "Willamette Week's Give!Guide."

All of the money you donate to a nonprofit through Give!Guide goes directly to that nonprofit, minus a 3.9% interchange fee.

Please note that most nonprofit interchange fees range between 4-9%.

You can automatically double the impact of your gift by donating to any organization who is an OCT Partner. Just donate the same amount to the Oregon Cultural Trust and take that amount off of your state taxes as a credit.

Learn more at culturaltrust.org.

If the organization you donate to is affiliated with the Oregon Cultural Trust, you can make a donation of a matching amount (up to $500 for an individual; $1,000 for a couple; and $2,500 for a company) to the Oregon Cultural Trust and receive a credit on your taxes for that same amount.

You'll be notified during the transaction process if you've donated to an OCT partner.

Any donor who makes a minimum gift of $10 through Give!Guide on one of these special days has an opportunity to be chosen at random to win an exciting incentive prize designed to make you drool.

Last year, these nine days raised $1,789,411 combined.

The minimum donation is $10.

Donations are open November 1, 2019, through midnight on December 31, 2019.

Yes. All participating organizations have 501(c) 3 status or are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3. Donors will receive an itemized email receipt for each Give!Guide contribution, however this is not a tax receipt. The organization(s) you donate to will send you an official tax deductible receipt in January after funds have been reconciled by an accounting firm.

Yes. If your company has a corporate matching program, please check with them and follow their giving procedures.

Yes! Simply check the appropriate box on the checkout page. The organizations receiving the donations will mail you a tax deductible receipt, but have agreed not to send any further mail.

Yes! Simply check the appropriate box on the checkout page.

Donations made through the Give!Guide website are tracked by organization as soon as the transaction is made. The Give!Guide website also will report which organizations are leading in specific categories, such as total donations and most donors under 35.

Every year, Give!Guide’s Skidmore Prize recognizes Portlanders 35 and under who are shaping our collective community through their work and long-term dedication to nonprofit-sector organizations that serve causes critical to the growth and vitality of Portland and its surroundings. The prize is intended to reward humble excellence, to encourage recipients to continue working in the nonprofit world and to inspire younger generations to go from “potential” to the real deal in terms of taking action and modeling what it means to be an active participant in the community we all have a stake in.  

Winners must be under the age of 36 and work full-time for a local nonprofit.  The 2019 Skidmore Prize winners will be announced in the 2019 Give!Guide Magazine (published on November 1) and will receive an award of $4,000 each and a plaque at the Give!Guide Campaign Celebration at Revolution Hall in early February of 2020.

The 2019 Skidmore Prize nomination process is open April 1 through April 30. Winners will be notified by June 28, and will be announced at the G!G Kickoff Party on November 1.

Skidmore Prize winners are chosen from a pool of individuals who are nominated by their peers and coworkers. A selection committee then chooses eight or nine finalists to interview, and selects four of the finalists as winners.