ONE OF OUR FIVE GUIDING BELIEFS
Community Partnership
This is how we live it.
Our purpose is to empower our patients to make positive changes in their lives and uplift our community by fostering confidence and well-being within and beyond our walls.
Community partnership is one of our five guiding beliefs. We live it by supporting organizations whose work directly reflects our purpose.
OUR 2026 COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County
DVS provides emergency shelter, advocacy, legal support, and long-term resources to survivors of domestic violence and their children across Snohomish County. Their work helps people rebuild their lives in moments when many feel they are powerless and defined by their circumstances. DVS helps them take back control and live the life they choose, without fear and without being defined by their darkest moments.
We chose to support DVS because the confidence and well-being we focus on in our practice cannot exist without safety first. The people they serve are working to reclaim the same things our patients come to see us for: confidence, stability, and the ability to move forward with their lives on their own terms.
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OUR 2026 COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County
So far this year, we have contributed a total of $10,000 to Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County, reaching our annual commitment.
This reflects a combined effort:
Cash donations from our practice
Patient raffles for services
Vendor contributions
In-kind donations of treatments and time
Learn more about DVS at dvs-snoco.org
How Our Patients Help Guide Where We Give
Starting in Q4 of 2026, we will identify two or more organizations whose work closely aligns with our purpose.
Our patients will vote, and the organization with more votes will receive the majority of our support for the next community partner cycle.
Your voice helps guide our community partnerships.
Why Small Businesses Should Lead
Community impact is usually imagined as something large corporations do. Foundation logos, naming rights, headline campaigns, multi-million dollar donations, and philanthropic institutions bearing their name. That work matters, and we're glad it happens, but it has created a quiet assumption that meaningful community work requires corporate scale, and that smaller businesses should wait until they're big enough to contribute in a way that counts.
We think that assumption is backward. Small businesses are the backbone of local economies, accounting for nearly half of the US economy. Together, we reach a scale no single corporation can match. And we bring something that large corporate giving programs cannot replicate: we have deeper relationships with our customers and our community. We see what's happening in real time. We know where the most meaningful needs are, and we're better positioned to find ways to help that actually fit the communities we serve.
The question is not whether small businesses can make a difference. It's whether enough of us decide to.
Source: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2025.
How We Think About Giving
We believe there are more meaningful ways to contribute to a community than writing a donation check. By bringing the community into the effort, a business can harness the energy of its customers, its vendors, other similar businesses, and the people around it. A donation is an isolated transaction. A shared support effort is a relationship that builds something stronger and more lasting than a donation could ever do alone.
TO OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY:
You don't need to be big to be a force for good. You don't even need strong profits or the ability to write checks that strain your cash flow. You can start by raising word about the awareness, spreading the organizations working to improve your community, fostering ideas, connecting people or and institutions who you believe can help each other.
TO OUR PATIENTS:
thank you for being part of our community partnership efforts. Every raffle ticket, every conversation, every time you've helped spread the word, it makes our partnership real. You're us not bystanders; you are an essential part of how we support our community.
TO OUR PATIENTS:
A business is only as strong as the partners it works with. Your contributions help our impact go further. We are grateful for partners who treat community work as part of doing business, not separate from it.
Let's build this together
If your organization shares this mission, or if you are a small business in our community interested in joining efforts, we would like to hear from you.