Join the pool party!
Did you know that our region’s families are spending upwards of 30 MONTHS on learn-to-swim wait lists? Or that it’s been 54 YEARS since the last public pool was built on the Eastside? These are just two examples of how our community’s access to public aquatics and essential swim lessons is embarrassingly underserved—and of why SPLASHFoward is inviting you to join our new Monthly Giving Donor Circle.
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Monthly Giving Levels
16 feet is the depth of an Olympic diving pool.
In addition to being used for diving, water polo, and artistic swimming, deep water pools are used by local first responders to train for open water rescues. With only one deep water pool and diving board in the City of Bellevue, there is not enough deep water access for our community.
Families spend up to 30 months on learn-to-swim wait lists
Many local families are spending 30 months on wait lists for learn-to-swim lessons. SPLASHForward works with aquatics facilities and stakeholders to increase capacity for wet and dry water education on the Eastside.
54 years since the last public pool.
It has been 54 years since the last public pool was built on the Eastside. What worked in the 1970's is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of our growing and diverse community.
Warm water therapy pools are 92 degrees.
Warm water hydrotherapy provides unique benefits to seniors, people with mobility challenges, youth and adults learning to swim, and our neurodivergent community. With SPLASHFoward’s efforts we will be doubling the warm water therapy capacity on the Eastside.
We have supported over 190 students to become lifeguards.
Our region is in short supply of lifeguards and swim instructors. SPLASHForward has helped empower over 190 students to become certified as lifeguards.
$300 is the cost of lifeguard certification.
In SPLASHForward’s High School Lifeguard Training program, we cover the cost of certification, support teens with skill development, offer incentives, and provide them with resources to find a job.
Everyone has a water story
We want to know yours!
Together we will create water stories for generations at a new public aquatic center in Bellevue.
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SPLASHForward
721 4th Ave #417
Kirkland, WA 98033
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Amplify with Matching Gifts
Check if your company supports matching gifts. They can double or even triple your support!
Most companies have an online matching gift request form. We list a few of our local companies below with links take you to the company’s giving portal. If yours does not have an online portal, request a matching gift form from your employer or spouse’s employer and send it to us.
AirBnB * The Bill and Melina Gates Foundation * Boeing * Expedia * General Electric * Google * Intel * Microsoft * Russell * VISA * Wells Fargo
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SPLASHForward
721 4th Ave #417
Kirkland, WA 98033
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More ways to support
Community Partnership with
Coldwell Banker Bain
Each time a SPLASHForward supporter, friend or relative buys or sells a home with SPLASHFoward supporter and real estate broker, Yvette Ross, she and Coldwell Banker Bain will donate an amount equal to 10 percent of her commission to SPLASHForward.
Coldwell Banker Bain established its Community Partnership program as a way for the company and its agents to give back to the organizations that are committed to the welfare of our communities. Since the program was founded, Coldwell Banker Bain agents have donated more than $1.48 million to organizations in the Puget Sound area.
For more information on our SPLASHForward community partnership, contact Lorraine Masse.
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Seed Funding
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Hire Professional Services
Allow us to continue to work with our aquatics consultant and hire fundraising and marketing professionals to bring us to the starting line.
Reach our community
Through marketing services, help us reach and bring our community's voice to the process
Identify Project Partners
Help us build our 'complete story' to take to potential partners and identify our project champions.
Through generous individuals and aquatics groups, we have raised initial funds to hire an independent nationally recognized aquatics consultant, Isaac Sports Group, to develop a deep regional aquatics analysis to inform the programmatic needs, forecast the economic impact and set the stage to build partnerships.
We need additional funds to continue our work with our aquatics consultant, hire a fundraising consultant to perform a fundraising feasibility study, and support our Aquatics Pathways and High School Lifeguard Training initiatives, and hire marketing and fundraising professionals to raise awareness and bring this project across the finish line.
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