Lake City Holiday Project

The Lake City Holiday Project has been collecting gifts for needy children since the mid 1980s. On the latest @TMobile Your Voices, @KIRO7Seattle spoke to the organizers who have been working for months to bring holiday cheer.

This long-time project usually is bustling with loaded up holiday gifts and volunteers scrambling to get family orders together. Donors are usually happily organizing gift donations with their families and friends. Then Covid 19 arrived and those who CARE, have shifted to card gifts for those in our community in need. This is the second […]

December 1 reminder: gotta’ green tag? Got your coffee, got your beer? These are ‘1/2 off’ opportunities, along with supporting families in the NE Seattle community. Kaffeeklatch, Watershed, Hellbent Brewing, and both Cafe Javasti stores are supporting families in need this season. Thanks for the CARE to your community. We appreciate the community spirit and […]

Last year, the Lake City Holiday Project made a paradigm shift in the way we run our program in response to the public health emergency that, now a year later, continues to profoundly impact our lives. We will never forget how completely our community embraced this change and we feel immense gratitude to everyone who […]

With an inspiring display of community spirit, the residents of NE Seattle have come together in 2020 to provide needy children with a little brighter holiday season. Thank you to everyone who sponsored children or donated money to our gift card fund. Watch this space in the coming weeks as we strive to recognize everyone […]

In the decades of NE Seattle holiday support, we’ve never factored in a pandemic, thankfully. But here we are and we still have goals and an infrastructure of CARE, to support families in need during the holiday season. The pictures here provide the steps to help our neighbors and for a refresher, how we used […]

As the holiday season gets further into the rear view mirror, a few observations from the elves at the Lake City Holiday Project. With several events held and gifts distributed to clients throughout NE Seattle, its important to note the many people who share small acts of kindness for those in need.  CARE, if you […]

Each holiday season our project relies on the caring hearts of many people and organizations. ASB’s teacher Mark Dougherty is one such partner (‘thanks’ to Ms Uhlman and Ms.Wegener too) The Lake City Holiday Project contact is one of three 5th grade teachers at the school. It’s a teachable moment in care for the other. […]

Meadowbrook Community CARE has hosted or supported in some form, the Lake City Holiday Project (LCHP) since 1986. This gift support campaign faces a new challenge this holiday season. Can you help spread the word? With an annual effort that supports 600+ children every year, MC2 has added 50 more children names that hail from […]