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Pottery Northwest empowers individuals to explore their potential for creativity and personal growth regardless of economic means, age, identity, culture, or ability. Your donation powers our mission, helping us deliver high-quality educational experiences that inspire, build community, and foster creativity.
Ways to Give
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Become a monthly sustaining member of pottery northwest. Your commitment to our studio is critical to keeping the wheels spinning, kilns firing, and glaze station full!
A Sustaining Membership is an unrestricted monthly gift that provides Pottery Northwest with a dependable base of revenue used to sustain our studio, programs, and exceptional instructors and artists. As a monthly sustainer your contribution is ongoing, and is always active until you say otherwise, giving you complete control. You also get access to private gallery preview receptions and a discount on any purchases from our store!
Most importantly, sustainers have the satisfaction of knowing they are always actively doing their part to keep Pottery Northwest thriving.
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You can double — or even triple — the impact of your donation to Pottery Northwest with a matching gift from your employer. Employer matching gifts are a simple way to maximize your donation to PotteryNW.
Matching your donation is easy! Go here and type your employer’s name in the box to find out if your company will match your donation. Information about your employer’s program will be provided.
If specific instructions are not available, contact your human resources or business office for more information.
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Planning Giving is an opportunity for you and your family to tailor your donation and preserve Pottery Northwests mission into the future, ensure access to the ceramics community and arts education for generations to come. Planned gifts can provide you with important reductions in estate and income taxes, while maintaining or even increasing income from the donated assets.
There are many ways you can structure a planned gift, including a bequest of appreciated securities, life insurance or a retirement account, or the establishment of a charitable remainder trust, charitable lead trust or charitable gift annuity. Examples include:
Remember PNW in your will or living trust
Designate PNW as a beneficiary of your IRA, 401(k), bank or investment account, or other asset.
Make your gift with appreciated securities. Current tax law provides certain tax benefits for gifts of appreciate securities.
Make a gift of life insurance
Let us know of your gift by reaching out to our Development Team at Development@PotteryNorthwest.org!
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Are you 70.5 or older with a traditional IRA? If so, you’re eligible to make a tax-free donation directly from your IRA to Pottery Northwest, regardless of whether or not you itemize on your return. Donating to Pottery Northwest directly from your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is both convenient and a tax-wise way to support the organization you love.
The SECURE Act increases the age individuals must begin taking Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from their retirement savings from 70½ to 72
You may still make a gift from your IRA if you are 70½ years of age on the date of the gift
Funds must be transferred directly to Pottery Northwest or other charity from your IRA
If you are 70½ years of age or older (but under 72), any QCDs, though excluded from taxable income, may be included in calculating your future Required Minimum Distributions
Please always consult your financial advisor to determine how donating through your retirement fund applies to your specific situation.
To process your donation please, please contact your financial advisor or the company that services your IRA. Please notify us directly when you donate from your IRA – including the amount and financial institution name. Financial institutions send us checks without the donor’s name, so it’s important you let us know so we can thank you!
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Thank you for your interest in making a gift of stock to Pottery Northwest!
To make a gift of stock, please share the information listed below with your brokerage company. Remind your broker to include your name, contact information, and any special instructions for use of the gift with your transfer.
DTC: Pershing LLC
DTCC Participant number: 0443
FFC: 890-051238-5; Pottery NW HT4-203674
Pottery Northwest Tax ID: 91-0815956
If you are planning to send stock, please let us know!
Contact: Development Director Kel Dylla at kel@potterynorthwest.org.
Why Give?
Pottery Northwest is a community-centered ceramics institution in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. We believe that making and appreciating art is essential to the nourishment of the human spirit.
Increase Access + Equity
Your donation helps Pottery Northwest fulfill our commitment to ensure that anyone can experience the creative self-expression, thoughtful education, and friendship that our community offers, regardless of their ability to pay. All of our classes and events are offered with a sliding scale model. We also have a robust scholarship program to cover tuition for our classes and camps that creates access for over 150 students per year. We are committed to racial equity and economic justice, and are working to identify and eliminate racial and socio-economic barriers to our programs.
Inspire Artistic Innovation
Pottery Northwest has fostered the creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established ceramics artists since its founding. Our Instructors, Apprentices, and Staff enrich our community in many different ways, sharing their knowledge and expertise through classes, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and hands-on instruction. Donations to Pottery Northwest support our local arts leaders in both strengthening our programs and having space and resources to be able to build their own body of work and skill.
Foster Connection
Participation in the Arts is a powerful way of encouraging dialogue about our society, building social inclusion, and improving overall quality of life. Pottery Northwest is striving to be a home where cultures, identities, and creative perspectives intersect and flourish. Your support sustains the spaces where this is made possible—our community studio, our public gallery, our major events, and our partner programs that reach beyond Pioneer Square.