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Guild Funding & Beneficiaries

San Juan Islands Makers Guild Program Funding, 2019-current

 

COMMUNITY MATCHING   The largest start-up investment being made to date in developing and delivering the Makers Guild programs is coming from VOLUNTEERS. Calculating the amount of donated time and effort our volunteers have provided, more than 8,000 hours of un-paid, volunteer time has been invested between all of the Guild’s volunteers, 2019-2024. At an average of $40 an hour, that is a $320,000 in-kind investment. These efforts include project development and administration, photography, travel, materials and supplies.

 

GRANT and CONTRACT FUNDING   The second circle of funding is GRANT and CONTRACT funding. 100% of grant funding is invested directly into community services including team time, materials, venue rentals, advertising and supplies. Contract funds are likewise tied to specific line item deliverables.

To date, the Guild’s fiscal sponsor has received the following funding that has assisted the Makers Guild in completing its tasks:

  • USDA Rural Business Development Grant 2020, $40,000 for asset mapping, needs assessment, market study; in-kind matching $ 29,622.25
  • San Juan County LTAC 2022, $25,000 for Guild and partner organization tourism promotion, events and materials on three islands; in kind-matching of $25,578.54.
  • San Juan Islands Conservation District 2022, $14,945 for LTAC tourism promotion services, events and materials for Farm and Food events, cash and in-kind matching $6,800.
  • WA State Dept of Commerce 2022, $50,000. Pandemic funds for program costs
  • San Juan County LTAC for Guild and partner organization tourism promotion 2023, $35,000 for events and materials on three islands; in-kind matching of $15,000
  • San Juan Islands Conservation District 2023, $16,000 for LTAC tourism promotion services featuring Food Heroes
  • Community Accelerator, Paul Allen Foundation 2024 $17,500 general operating
  • Washington State Parks Folk and Traditional Arts 2024, $6,000
  • San Juan County LTAC 2024 for Guild cultural events and marketing, $30,000 for events serving makers on three islands; in kind matching $15,000
  • San Juan Islands Conservation District 2024, $10,000 for LTAC tourism promotion services including the Island Grown in the San Juans film production.
  • Family Tides Farm for Fall Festival Makers stipends, $3,500
  • San Juan County LTAC 2025 for Guild cultural events and marketing, $30,000 for events serving makers on three islands

Total Grants and Contracts to date: $273, 445

 

100% of grants, contracts and matching is invested in community benefit programs.

Program & Funding Beneficiaries

Small Business Level Two Beneficiaries: 
 
Cadre #1 – Incubator & marketing services
 
San Juan Island Distillery
Printshop Northwest printed textiles
Ula Botanic bodycare
Chicaoji sauces
Madrone Cellars wines and ciders
Zacharya Leck public art sculpture
Orcas Island Distillery
Arbordoun Farm and Bodycare
Aurora Farm
Pelindaba Lavender Farm
Blacktail Bass and Beef
Swamp Sticks Baskets
Blooming Mind Media
Orcas Video
Treehouse Digital Services
San Juan Islands Innovation Center
Imagine Music and Arts Festival
The Kitchen
 
 
 
Cadre# 2 – Marketing services
 
Orcas Artists Studio Tour
Satya Curcio Photography
True Grace Photography
Mama Bird Farm
Sweet Earth Farm
Paula West Pottery
Nixon Art Glass
Girl Meets Dirt value added foods
San Juan Island Sea Salt
Heather Arps textiles
West Beach Farm
Sheila Metcalf weaver
Sunnyfield Farm goat cheese
Barn Owl Bakery heritage island grown bread
Bruce Richardson sculptor
Midnight’s Farm
Watmough Bay Farm
Taproot community kitchen
Lopez Artists Guild
Ayame and Yuriko Bullock Studio
S&S Homestead
Sweet Earth Farm
Warm Valley Farm
Swamp Sticks Baskets
Warm Valley Orchard
 
 
 
Level One Beneficiaries – Organizations
(have participated in exhibits, events, fairs, research studies,
sponsorships, funding, collaborations or marketing services)
 

Alchemy Arts Center

Bullocks Permaculture Homestead

Cider Festival / Orcas Senior Center

Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Family Tides Farm

Fidelis Circle

Friends of the San Juans

Funhouse Commons

Island Stewards

Kaleidoscope

Lopez Community Land Trust

Lopez Grange

Lopez History Museum

Lopez Island Artist Guild and Studio Tours

Lopez Locavores

Northwest Agriculture Business Service

Northwest Innovation Resource Center

Odd Fellows Hall

OPAL Community Land Trust

OPALCO

Orcas Center Visual Arts Committee

Orcas Community Food Cooperative

Orcas Community Participatory Agriculture

Orcas Exchange

Orcas Island Artist Studio Tour

Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce

Orcas Island Community Foundation

Orcas Island Garden Club

Orcas Island Lit Fest

Orcas Island Yacht Club

Orcas Library

Orcas Lions Club

Orcas Senior Center

San Juan County Arts Council

San Juan County Community Development

San Juan County Food System Team

San Juan County Land Bank

San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce

San Juan Island Grange

San Juan Island Home Trust

San Juan Island Studio Tour

San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild

San Juan Islands Conservation District

San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau

SeaDoc

SJC Master Gardeners

Source-paper and Leaping Fool

The Fellowshop

Transition Lopez

Transition San Juan

Washington State Parks

Washington State Parks Folk and Traditional Arts

West Sound Community Club

Western Washington University, Salish Sea Institute Fellows

WSU Extension

Level One Beneficiaries – Small Businesses, Artists and Authors
(have participated in exhibits, events, fairs, research studies,
sponsorships, collaborations or marketing services)
 
WA State Poet Laureat, Rena Priest

13 Moons

Abigail Prout

Allysa

Anna Campbell

Bad Bee fine jewelry

Barn Owl Pottery

Boat House Cider

Brook Meinhardt

Bruce Halabisky

Burke Mulvaney

Caldera Glass

Caller Amy

Candis Susol

Carol A Anderson

Carolyn Cruso

Cascadia Homestead Builders

Cathy Vierthaler

Chai and Yarn

Chandelle Anderson Ceramics

Charlie MacPherson

Chuck Silva Jewelry

Cisco Woodworking

Clint McCune

Darvill’s Bookstore

David Densmore painter

Davis Limbach

Deborah Sparks

Debra Lee Babcock

Delmy’s Café

Derek Eisel, Music

Earth Ball

Earthlingz Music

Earthrise

Edee Kulper

Elise Cope Jewelry

Elizabeth Herbert

Emmes Furniture

Emmett Pearsons

Fabled Flora

Farm to Ferry Cafe

Farm to Ferry café

Felt + Clay Gallery

Feral Mary

Fisher Dickens

Flower Moon

Forest Ceramics

Friday Harbor Atelier

George Post

Glenn Hendrick

Greene Atelier

Griffin Bay Adventures

Guiseppi Spadafora

Hailey Shannon

Hannah Boehm

Hannah Mason

Hepheastus woodworking

Ibis Element jewelry

Indigo Jewelry

Inese Westcott, painter

Inspired Earth Tea

Iris Graville

Irthlingz, Sharon Abrea and Michale Hurwicz

Island Bound Books

Island Fibers yarn and weaving

Island Knitwear

Island Thyme bodycare

Islands Sounder

Jamie Arnold, Tulalip

Janet Gadallah

Jeffry Steele

Jill Bliss

Jill McCabe Johnson

Jodi Spitalli

Joel Gamble, Music

John Bellows

John Fletcher woodworking

John Raymond Barry painter

Joshua Alber

Josie Dow

Joy Hughes

Julia Mira

Karyn Lindquist

Kate Wood

Katey Rissi

Keith Chatham jewelry

Kiel Sloper

Kim Middleton

Land Sea Gomasio

Larry Paluzzi photography

Laura Yeats Woodworking

Limbaugh Marimba

Linda Ransley

Lisa Mira

Little Farm on Olga Road

Lopez Locavores

Lopez Soap and Body Care

Lucky Ewe Farm

Maria Michaelson

Maria Nutt

Maria Root

Mary Jane Elgin ceramics

Matia Indigo Jones

Matt O’Brien

Menacho Indigo Textiles

Mermaid Botanicals

Michelle Hamon

Minnow Creek

Monaghan Consulting

Morning Star Farm

Nathan Donnelly

Nic Coldren

Northstar Farm

Olga Rising café

Orcas Farm

Orcas Food Coop

Orcas Island Market

Orcas Mom

Orcas Wildflower

Orcas Winery

Pat Boehm

Petal and Clay ceramics

Peter C Fisher Photography

Peter Oleson

Queen Bee Baking

Quinn Baliey

Rafe Pearlman

Rafe Pearlman, Music

Rainshadow Solar

Ravenswood Art

Rebecca Cohen

Reishi Strauss

Rick Waldron woodworking

Robert Dash Photography

Rock Roots Art

Rosie Cayou James

Rubie Eclipse Floral

Sabu

San Juan Island Journal

San Juan Vineyard

Schultz Papercraft

Sea Starling Jewelry

Shannon Belthor Sculpture

Shannon Borg

Sharon Abreau, Music

Sheila Metcalf

SMRU

Stanley and Kip Greenthal

Steven Hill Painter

Stephanie Clair

Studio 45 glass

Studio Wylde

Sweet Craft Bakeshop

Sweet Pea Cookie Company

Swift Meadow Farm Quilts

Taja Wicks

Tangled Tides

Tara Craig

The Barnacle

The Bubblery

The Orcasonian

Victoria Parker Tea and Herbs

Vincent Jacques

Vortex Café

Warm Valley Farm

Warm Valley Orchard yarns and weaving

Whidbey Island Candles

Wicked Otter knives

Wind Water Rock

Woodsia printed textiles

Zackarya Leck

Zoe Osenbach

 
 
partial list
 
 
 
Photography by Edee Kulper and Satya Curcio