We support charitable giving partners that are creating an abundance of resources and opportunities so that everyone in our communities can flourish. We encourage you to read more about the organizations we support and consider joining in.
Local Organizations
We direct the majority of our giving to organizations operating within our home counties.
Mary’s Place
Mary’s Place ensures that no child sleeps outside by centering equity and opportunity for women and families.
Since 1999, Mary’s Place has helped thousands of women and families move out of homelessness into more stable situations. Across five emergency family shelters in King County, we keep families together, inside, and safe when they have no place else to go, providing resources, housing and employment services, community, and hope.
We support Mary’s Place because they are addressing some of the most-pressing and visible needs in King County by providing shelter and wrap-around services for women and families.
National and International Organizations
The Conservation Alliance
The Conservation Alliance is a coalition of more than 270 like-minded businesses who pool resources to fund and advocate for the protection of North America’s wild places. Since 1989, the Alliance has helped protect 73 million acres of wildlands and 3,580 river miles, remove or halt 37 dams, purchase 21 climbing areas, and designate five marine reserves. To date, they’ve awarded more than $27,370,000 in grants to 274 organizations and they’re just getting started.
We support the Conservation Alliance because the protection of wild spaces is important to our environment, industry, and personal well-being.
WIND - School Building Project
In 2011, WIND partnered with the Christian school Colegio Horeb. The school was founded in 2007 by a local woman, Tabita Juana Toma de la Cruz, who understands the culture and complexity surrounding education in her community. Today 420+ students receiving a high-quality education at Colegio Horeb.
But the school has run out of physical space. They rent four buildings around the community as temporary classrooms which makes logistics difficult for teachers and staff. The classrooms are often unusable because of heavy rains.
WIND has helped the school acquire three acres of property on a hill above Cotzal to construct a school campus to accommodate 700 students. A site plan has been developed for the property. The campus will provide over 33,000 sq. feet of educational space.
The first building has been officially opened and begins use in January of 2023. The site development plan includes 5 more buildings that will house an additional 20 classrooms.
Mercantile Commerce directs its giving to WIND to the school building project to create an enduring investment in sustainable education.
Nathan Grimm, Founder of Mercantile Commerce, also serves on the board of WIND.
