It’s time to vote for the local nonprofits that will receive our Lend a Hand register round-ups in 2023.

There are 32 nonprofits to consider this year, and 13 of those have never received Lend a Hand donations. Please select 11 organizations for our monthly register round-ups. (We reserve December for a giving tree and round-ups for the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living.)

Please review the applications linked below before completing the Lend a Hand selection survey. By request, we have arranged the list into two groups: nonprofits that received Lend a Hand donations in the past and those that have not. You can also see how many times an organization has benefitted in parentheses. To view prior years’ donation amounts, click here.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE.

Our survey will remain open through December 24th. Please contact Amber Quesenberry, General Manager gm@coopmarket.org or Ana Molina, Marketing Manager @marketing@coopmarket.org, if you have any questions.

The following applicants have never received Lend a Hand funds:

• Tanana Valley Watershed Association
• Kitty Hensley House Museum
• Golden Retriever Rescue of Fairbanks
• Fairbanks Concert Association
• Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
• Downtown Association’s Emergency Service Patrol
• Santa’s Senior Center
• Morning Star Ranch
• Presbyterian Hospitality House
• Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre
• Fairbanks Arts Association
• Interior Alaska Land Trust
• Breast Cancer Detection Center

These applicants received Lend a Hand round-ups in prior years (# times in parentheses):

• Resource Center for Parents & Children (1)
• Calypso Farm and Ecology Center (4)
• Friends of Creamer’s Field (8)
• Green Star of Interior Alaska (2)
• Alaska Songbird Institute (1)
• Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund (4)
• Fairbanks Community Food Bank (7)
• North Star Imagination Library (1)
• Bread Line Inc.(10)
• Fairbanks Resource Agency (2)
• Georgeson Botanical Garden Friends (2)
• Fairbanks Children’s Museum (1)
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska (1)
• NAMI Fairbanks (2)
• Meals on Wheels – North Star Council on Aging (4)
• Interior Alaska Cancer Association (1)
• The Folk School (3)
• Guys Read, Gals Read Inc (1)
• Fairbanks Youth Advocates (5)

Our Lend-a-Hand register round-up is undoubtedly one of our most popular programs. Since October 2013, our shoppers have rounded up at the register and donated an astounding $32,540 in spare change to support local organizations doing good in our community.

We have 21 applications for our 2017 Lend-a-Hand program. We invite our Owners to select 11 of them for our monthly round-ups. (December is reserved for collecting necessities for the shelter residents at the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living.)

• Alaska Songbird Institute
• American Lung Association in Alaska*
• Boys & Girls Club of Fairbanks
• Breadline/Stone Soup Cafe
• Calypso Farm & Ecology Center
• Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund
• Fairbanks Children’s Museum*
• Fairbanks Folk Festival*
• Fairbanks Montessori School*
• Fairbanks Youth Advocates
• Friends of Creamer’s Field
• Georgeson Botanical Garden Society
• Green Star of Interior Alaska
• Inspiring Girl Expeditions*
• John Trigg Ester Library*
• Literacy Council of Alaska
• North Star Imagination Library
• Northern Alaska Environmental Center
• Presbyterian Hospitality House*
• The Folk School*
• Thrivalaska*

Asterisks indicate organizations that have not received Lend-a-Hand support in previous years.

If you would like to see previous Lend-a-Hand organizations and totals, click here.

Small change really does add up to create big changes!

By rounding up at the register and donating the difference, our shoppers have contributed more than $18,970 to local nonprofit organizations since the Lend-a-Hand program started in October 2013. We are proud to say that 100% of our customer’s round-ups go to support the designated charities.

In fact, Lend-a-Hand is so popular with our customers that we’ve decided to do it every month in 2016, rather than six times a year as originally planned.

We have 15 applications this year, and we invite our Owners to select 11 of them for our monthly round-ups. (December is reserved for collecting necessities for the shelter residents at the Interior Alaska Center for Nonviolent Living.)

Here are the 15 organizations being considered for the 2016 program. Click the name of the nonprofit to visit its website or Facebook page. The links beside the listing lead to its application materials. (Please note: Some of these are large .pdf files and will take time to load.)

Organizations with an asterisk received Lend-a-Hand donations in 2015.

• Alaska Songbird Institute – Letter, Application, Organization, Banding Station
• Boys & Girls Club of the Tanana Valley* – Letter and Application
• Bread Line Inc./Stone Soup Cafe* – Application Packet
• Breast Cancer Detection Center – Application Packet
• Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund – Application Packet
• Fairbanks Youth Advocates* – Letter and Application
• Friends of Alaska CASA – Application Packet
• Friends of Creamer’s Field* – Application Packet
• Georgeson Botanical Garden Society – Application Packet
• Green Star of Interior Alaska – Application Packet
• Literacy Council of Alaska* – Letter and Application
• Noble Paws – Letter and Application
• Northern Alaska Environmental Center* – Letter and Application
• North Star Imagination Library – Letter and Application
• United Way of the Tanana Valley – Letter and Application

Owners: Please complete this survey to make your choices.