Charitable giving has been a part of Tom Bihn since the beginning. When Tom Bihn was a one-man shop in Santa Cruz, California, Tom himself sewed bags for auction donations to local schools. In recent years, we've been proud to raise over $20,000 for the Seattle Veterans Center and $1,700 for Adopt-A-Minefield, in addition to being yearly sponsors of local arts festivals. We volunteer several hours a week at local non-profits (if you get our answering service during the lunch hour - sorry, that's where we are!) We feel we're very lucky in life to be able to do what we love: these are our ways of saying thank you. We hope to do even more in 2009. Below is a partial list of the schools and non-profits to which we've recently donated time, money, or bags. If you would like to request a donation for your not-for-profit auction, please email us at feedback@tombihn.com. We can't donate to every auction that asks, but we do donate to many, and it's worth a try.

Adopt-A-Minefield Seattle Veterans Center United Negro College Fund Electronic Frontier Foundation Washington Wilderness Coalition Dress For Success Camp Fire USA Spruce Street School Fauntleroy Children's Center O'Dea High School University of Washington Buisness School/Challenge For Charity Highline Medical Center Foundation Children's Hospital Foundation WWU/Huxley on the Peninsula Bruins for Animals! The Humane Society of the United States Port Angeles High School Senior Class Party The Perkins School PTO PUSH Magazine Northwest Children's Fund PONCHO Auction KUOW (Seattle NPR) Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts Relay For Life Forest Ridge School Lakewood Cooperative Preschool American Heart Association Village Theatre Central Oregon Community College Foundation International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

KAMU TV/FM PBS/NPR St. Marys School Denver Veg Fest Green Lake Rowing Crew St. Francis of Assisi School The Bear Creek School B.F. Day Elementary Blanchett High School Department of Ecology Combined Fund Drive Nathan Hale High School Foundation MacCORE, Kansas City's Macintosh Computer Owner's Resource Exchange Auction Human Rights Campaign Queen of Angels School KUNI/KHKE Public Radio UNICEF Seattle Midwifery School Auction Northwest Public Radio Bellevue Rotary Auction Olympic Peninsula Humane Society University of Washington Public Interest Law Association Olympic Park Associates Seattle Men's/Women's Chorus Sacajawea Elementary School North Olympic Land Trust WildEarth Guardians Xerxes Society Holla for a Dolla Westside School Jewish Day School Right To Hike TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors)