No matter how much outreach a community may have in place there is always a need for more—more programs, more awareness, and more participation. It can be both easy to forget and hard to understand that hunger and need exist outside our doorstep. One might feel powerless to make a difference, or that one person cannot solve this problem. However, one person can influence change.

Lighthouse recently volunteered with the Pike Market Senior Center (PMSC) by hosting and participating in their Bingo game. Prior to the event, Lighthouse held a donation drive for Bingo prizes and gathered materials that folks need such as toiletries, clothes, and other household items. Once the materials have been gathered, volunteers walked up to PMSC and helped set up prior to the game's start.

The Goodtimes Project is a nonprofit organization that hosts Camp Goodtimes for children with pediatric cancer and siblings of children with cancer. Kids between the ages of six and seventeen are invited to spend a week making arts and crafts, kayaking, playing games, and simply enjoying the outdoors. The camp originally opened its doors over 30 years ago. But, in 2013, their partner organization pulled all support, leaving the camp with nothing. To avoid the program shutting down, volunteers rallied together and established a new nonprofit, The Goodtimes Project, and found a way to continue their good work.

PR Gives Back is a semi-annual event that brings together nonprofits from the Seattle community with various PR, marketing, and communications professionals for a two-hour workshop. On February 24, 2016, twenty local nonprofits seeking advice around topics such as branding strategies, pitching local media, social media management, newsletter distribution, event planning, internal communications, and much more attended this event. These nonprofits included schools, historical societies, health care organizations, and many in between. The program consisted of a keynote presentation and breakout consulting sessions, allowing the communications professionals to meet with nonprofit representatives and share their advice and expertise.

During the months of March and April, Lighthouse partnered with the Pike Market Food Bank to give back to the local downtown community. In order to accommodate the diverse work schedules of Lighthouse's employees, the company worked with the food bank to offer a few different time slots on multiple days. Employee volunteers had the opportunity to either work the line and pass out food, or go ask for donations from Pike Place Market vendors.