Most Needed Items

Ways to Help SnowCap this Season

Host a food drive with your business, service club or church! This is a time when food donations are low.
  • Collect returnable bottles and cans for SnowCap.
  • Donate your gently used clothing and encourage others to do the same.
  • Make a one time or monthly recurring gift online (click here).
  • Consider including SnowCap in your estate plan. 

Want to be the first to know about events, urgent needs and opportunities at SnowCap?

Opt-in to receive occasional text message, just click the Text Message Opt-in button. 

You can unsubscribe any time, click here for more details. 

​Keep SnowCap Strong

Please let your friends and family know how they can help!

Make a financial gift - Your one-time or monthly gift will be put to work ensuring that SnowCap has the resources to meet the extraordinary needs our community faces. Click here to make a donation. Sending a check? Please send it to our mailing address PO Box 160, Fairview, OR 97024.

Make Your Gift Go Even Further - 2021 is a GREAT Time to Give

  • Under the CARES Act, you may deduct gifts of cash to charities like SnowCap to offset as much as 100% of your income! This increase is available for the 2021 tax year. Ordinarily, the income tax charitable deduction for cash gifts is limited to 60% of your income. Talk with your tax professional for more information.
  • Check with your employer to see if they match donations. We are happy to send necessary verification or information!
  • Prefer to make a gift of stock? Or directly from your IRA? Contact louise@snowcap.org or call 503-405-4294 to make arrangements.
  • Consider including SnowCap in your estate planning.
  • Donate your car to benefit SnowCap! Call our partners at Speed’s Towing at 503-234-5555.
  • Make an ongoing monthly, semi-monthly or quarterly gift from your checking account or credit/debit card. Visit www.snowcap.org or call 503-405-4293 to get started.
Mailing address -  PO Box 160, Fairview, OR 97024.

'I will help when I can. I have been there. Bless you for all you do"
- recent donor

  • Baby Formula
  • Hearty canned soup / Chili / Stews
  • Gallon zip top bags
  • Canned fruits & vegetables
  • Canned tuna
  • Children pants in kids sizes 6x-14
  • New socks (all sizes)
  • New underwear (all sizes)
  • Genlty used shoes, labeled with size on the toe with tape (this helps so much!)
  • Cans & bottles with deposit - rinsed please!
  • School supplies 

​​Click here for our Amazon Wish List 

Back to School Wish List


  • Subject dividers
  • Three-ring zipper pouches
  • Colored pencils & markers
  • Multi-color highlighter
  • Water color sets
  • Pocket folders
  • Pink pearl erasers
  • Rulers
  • Pointed & blunt scissors
  • Glue sticks & white school glue
  • Paper (college & wide rule)
  • Composition notebooks (college & wide rule)
August 5th, 2022 - Last day to bring back-to-school donations 

Click here to send a contribution that will be used to bulk-purchase needed items for students. You don't have to leave the house!

​​Click here for our Amazon Wish List 
July 2022 Most Needed Items
File Size: 870 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

​Items are gratefully accepted at
17788 SE Pine ST address
​Monday-Friday 9AM-3PM.

Holiday Hero Sponsors:
​Planning a  food drive or need a barrel to collect donations? Click on Request a Barrel  or Contact: nayely@snowcap.org

Donation Hours:

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m

We are open to receive donations at the Pine Street entrance from Monday through Friday.   

SnowCap is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, so your gifts are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.


If you prefer to give cash,  your dollar can go further when SnowCap buys food with it.  Just $5 can purchase up to 100 pounds of food!

Easy Ways to Donate

Shop online at smile.amazon.com or locally using your linked Fred Meyer rewards card!

Donate Your Vehicle

Please contact our partners at Speed's Towing at (503) 234-5555 and let them know you would like to donate your car to SnowCap.

Mailing Address:

SnowCap Community Charities
PO Box 160
Fairview, OR 97024

Food Donations

Please bring your donations to our donation door located at 17788 SE Pine St., Portland, OR 97233.
​Monday-Friday 9am-3pm. 
Picture
TIN: 23-7121915
Items We Accept
  • vehicles (please call Speed's Towing at 503-234-5555)
  • commercially packaged food (canned, boxed, fresh, frozen and dried)
  • baby food & formula
  • pet food
  • new socks (all sizes) 
  • blankets
  • ​personal care and hygiene products
  • new toys
  • books and bibles
  • school supplies
  • diapers (infant, toddler, and adult)
Items We Do Not Accept
  • large furniture and home decor
  • large appliances
  • used pillows or mattresses
  • electronics
  • car seats
  • used toys​

Inexpensive Ways You Can Support SnowCap

  • Donate your bottle redemption cash!  Visit any Bottle Drop location or simply bring your bottles and cans to our donation center and we'll do the rest!
  • Donate your vehicle (working or otherwise!) Please call Speed's Towing at (503) 234-5555.
  • Get your car serviced at Gresham Ford (tell them you're there for the SnowCap donation program)
  • Donate the extra produce from your garden (you know you’ll have extra squash again this year!)
  • Start a conversation about SnowCap with friends who aren’t familiar with us
  • Volunteer your time
  • Like us on Facebook
  • Link your Fred Meyer Rewards Card and support SnowCap where you shop
  • Choose SnowCap and shop with Amazon Smile!

Back to School

August 5th, 2022 - Last day to bring back-to-school donations:

  • Subject dividers
  • Three-ring zipper pouches
  • Colored pencils & markers
  • Multi-color highlighter
  • Water color sets
  • Pocket folders
  • Pink pearl erasers
  • Rulers
  • Pointed & blunt scissors
  • Glue sticks & white school glue
  • Paper (college & wide rule)
  • Composition notebooks (college & wide rule)

​​Click here for our Amazon Wish List 
April 2022 Printable Most Needed Items
File Size: 643 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Donor Privacy

SnowCap will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.
 
This policy applies to all information received by SnowCap, both online and off line, on any platform (this refers to the website or any mobile applications that may be developed), as well as any electronic, written or oral communications.
 
To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.