GiveBIG for Our Next 25 Years
$37,309 Raised
- 115 Donors
- 117 Donations
75% complete
$50,000 Goal
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Thank you! Through the power of storytelling, donating, volunteering, and showing up, this community raised over $37,000 during GiveBIG 2025! Though this is a bit short of our $50,000 goal, dollars from offline gifts are still being tallied and fundraising efforts will continue through the end of our fiscal year on June 30th.
These crucial funds will help The Healing Center reach more families struggling with grief’s pain and isolation, and strengthen our services so we can provide another quarter-century of compassionate, community-centered care.
We love hearing what a difference The Healing Center makes, and it’s all possible thanks to supportive donors and advocates like you!
“Without The Healing Center’s help, I would never have been strong enough to survive.”
“The Center changed my life during a time when nothing felt okay, letting me be a kid and work through something I didn’t even understand at that age. It is truly a miraculous place.”
“I can’t imagine what my life would have been like if it wasn’t for The Healing Center. The people I met there helped turn the hardest moments of my life into opportunities for learning and growth.”
As a donor-funded organization, it’s your support that ensures we’re there for people on their darkest days. Thank you for helping us bring meaning and community to more grieving families in 2025 and beyond.
In deepest gratitude,
Sonja Whitaker, MS, LMFT
Center Director
P.S. If you didn’t get a chance to give yet and you’d like to help us reach $50,000, you can donate here! Every little bit makes a difference. Thank you!
For 25 years, The Healing Center has supported Washington’s grieving families. Thanks to donations from community members like you, we’re able to provide free services to everyone from toddlers and teens, to grieving spouses and partners, seniors, survivors of suicide and more.
In our unique groups, people connect with peers experiencing similar loss and together build a community where pain and isolation are transformed into compassion and meaning. No one is turned away due to an inability to pay, and there’s no limit to how many meetings clients can attend.
Thanks to donors like you, we help hundreds of families a year navigate the darkest times of their lives. Your generous gifts are used to hire therapists, reach and educate communities, and run our lifesaving programs.
Will you make a gift today to ensure we're here for the next 25 years, and the thousands of families who need us? Together, we can bring meaning and community to more people facing grief's pain and isolation.
"I used to think I was the only one who lost a mommy or daddy, but now I know I'm not alone." “I’m grateful that the Center’s services are free. Sudden grief makes basic life incredibly difficult - it’s challenging enough to just pay existing bills, take a shower, or make yourself eat. Paying for a service would have been impossible, and that barrier would exclude so many.” "Without the Center, I'd feel a lot more trapped in my grief than I do now." "The whole world was telling me that I didn’t fit in. But at The Healing Center, I didn’t feel different, and for the first time I had friends that were like me, who had experienced the same types of loss.” “What a relief to be in the company of other parents navigating the experience of recent loss.” |
Drop by to celebrate this community, GiveBIG, and all our fundraising advocates on May 6th between 5pm and 9pm at the Ridge Pizza locations in Phinney Ridge and Ravenna!
Data on number of deaths in Washington state is from the Washington State Department of Health.
Data on children experiencing the death of a parent or sibling is from Judi's House.