PSE provides $250,000 for a warmer winter

As winter temperatures drop across the Pacific Northwest, PSE is helping communities stay warm through our third annual 2025 Warm Winter campaign. PSE has distributed more than $250,000 to 85 nonprofit organizations and 12 Washington Tribes spanning 14 counties to support critical winter needs. 

The funding addresses three essential components of a warm winter: providing warm meals, warm clothing and winter necessities, and creating warm hearts through holiday joy events for families and individuals in need. 

Executive Director of Helpline House, Maria Metzler, says, "this is such a challenging time for so many in our community and all the ways people are leaning in, including PSE, are so important. Helpline House, like every food bank in our area, has seen an increase in households coming to us, many for the first time. People are feeling unsure about their employment, their pay, their benefits, and the very systems that are supposed to be there to support them. Helpline House is using our collective resources, including the amazing support from our community, PSE included, to ensure folks have access to nutritious foods and perhaps more so to know that Helpline House is a place they can come when things around them seem uncertain." 

Recipients of some of this funding in Kitsap County include: Helpline House, DocLuvTheKids, Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center and Fishline.

For a full list of recipients and to learn more, read here.