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Giving Tuesday 2024

Thank you for your Giving Tuesday Donations

Thank you for your Giving Tuesday Donations

LightHouse is overjoyed with the outcome of this year’s Giving Tuesday! After extending the donation timeline a couple of days, our campaign, Pathways to Independence, raised $70,997.30 from 81 donors!
 
We would like to thank each and every individual as well as the organizations who contributed to this important campaign. We are deeply appreciative for your generosity and commitment to LightHouse’s mission of promoting independence, community, and equity created by and with blind and low vision people. 
 

A few special shoutouts:

  • Thank you to the LightHouse leadership and Board who together matched over $15,000 in donations.
  • Congratulations to our LightHouse/EHC swag box drawing winners, Derek and Shojiro. Thank you for your generosity!
  • And, to all of the donors who contributed $1,000 and over, look out for an invitation to a VIP Picnic at camp in Spring 2025!

All of your collective gifts will help Enchanted Hills design an innovative and accessible wayfinding system at camp that will allow all campers and visitors to EHC the ability to travel our trails, stroll the pathways, and create opportunities for blind, low vision, and Deafblind people to independently explore and experience EHC, from the leaves crunching under their feet to the Braille at their fingertips. Accessibility is just an adventure away!
 
Thank you, LightHouse community! We deeply appreciate each and every one of you. Wishing you all a beautiful holiday season!

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Help LightHouse Enhance Wayfinding at Enchanted Hills Camp This Giving Tuesday

Help LightHouse Enhance Wayfinding at Enchanted Hills Camp This Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is tomorrow December 3!

This year, we’re inviting you to be a part of exciting fundraising efforts in support of LightHouse’s Pathways to Independence project. Our project goal is to raise $75,000 for wayfinding systems at Enchanted Hills Camp (EHC).
 
This essential project aims to enhance navigational accessibility across our 311-acre campgrounds through Braille signage, tactile maps, and implementation of other accessibility systems, empowering campers and visitors to travel independently, build confidence and fully participate in EHC’s immersive natural experiences.
 
Helen Schneider, Senior Project Manager at Perkins&Will, the architect and design firm that worked on the fire rebuild of camp, commented on how the rebuild process laid the groundwork for future wayfinding projects at EHC.
 
“It was really important to LightHouse that the rebuild safeguarded the camp against future wildfires, and made an environment that’s more accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. [During the rebuild process] we built a 3D model of the site so we could communicate the really diverse terrain. Anytime we were showing renderings [to the Vision Design Committee for the EHC rebuild], we would come up with a very descriptive explanation of what was shown on the screen.”
 
Jerry Kuns, a member of the Vision Design Committee who is blind said, “Working with Perkins&Will has been a wonderful experience for me. Good members of the team spent time learning a bit about how we travel. The sensitivity that was given, having people take the time to do things with us, instead of to us or for us, has been absolutely magnificent.”
 

Giving Tuesday Donation Incentives

 
We deeply appreciate every dollar amount, large or small, donated by our community on Giving Tuesday. This year, we are offering two exciting donation incentives.
 
Donate $75 or more (whether it be a one-time gift or recurring monthly gift totaling $75 or more) anytime on Giving Tuesday, and your name will be entered in a drawing for a LightHouse/EHC schwag box containing a LightHouse puffy jacket and some branded camp items.
 
Donate $1000 or more (whether it be a one-time gift or recurring monthly gift totaling $1000 or more) anytime on Giving Tuesday, and you will be invited to a special picnic at Enchanted Hills Camp in 2025.
 
Thank you for your support of Enchanted Hills Camp this Giving Tuesday.

Ready to donate now? All contributions given today will count towards Giving Tuesday. 

Donate to LightHouse for Giving Tuesday 2024.

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday is December 3!

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday is December 3!

We’re less than three weeks away from Giving Tuesday!
 
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that happens on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, so this year that’s December 3. It’s a day to encourage people and organizations to donate to charitable causes, nonprofits and foundations that are making a positive impact on the world.
 
This year, LightHouse is proud to announce that all Giving Tuesday proceeds will be going to the wayfinding systems at Enchanted Hills Camp, including tactile maps, braille signage and more. These systems will help all our campers, big and small, navigate their way safely and independently along the pathways and trails of our beloved EHC grounds. Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more info about Giving Tuesday and this very special project!
 
To learn more about Giving Tuesday, please visit: www.givingtuesday.org/.