If you give $50 or more to any of the nonprofits listed in the Give!Guide, you’ll get an email containing an electronic coupon. Print it out to receive the benefits listed below.

Donate through Give!Guide here.

Sure, 'tis better to give than to receive. But getting something in return for your Give!Guide generosity sure shouldn't hurt. With that in mind, this year we're offering all manner of rewards, matched to the amounts given.

The bigger picture goes like this: If you give $50 - $99.99 to any of the nonprofits included in this Guide, you'll get a postcard containing a batch of coupons. Gifts of $100 - $499 result in a separate postcard with better goodies.

Next, if you're 35 or under and give the $10 minimum, you're automatically entered in a drawing for all manner of goodies including a check from Willamette Week for $500.

At $500, there's home delivery of a nice, recyclable New Seasons grocery bag containing a bottle of A to Z Wineworks finest, a 12-ounce bag of freshly roasted Stumptown coffee beans, tea from Smith Tea, and a 22-ounce Widmer beer. A $1,000 donation ups the wine component — to Rex Hill Reserve Pinot Noir and adds some fancy Moonstruck chocolate. At $2,500 or more the wine and chocolate get better, and you get one of Willamette Week's owners — Publisher Richard Meeker or Editor Mark Zusman — at your door with a further enhanced shopping bag.

Finally, there are incentives for the nonprofits, too. Whichever one attracts the greatest number of contributions from donors under the age of 36 will get a $1,000 check from Willamette Week, along with bragging rights. The same holds for the nonprofit that raises the most money through this years Give!Guide. (Only one prize per nonprofit.)

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