From the Seattle Times (2002):
We asked local nonprofits to send us their wishes, and what began as a trickle turned into a torrent of requests — for diapers, wheelchairs, jackets, you name it. In the four years we've received holiday wish lists, we've never seen anything like it.
Perhaps it's the economy, but last year a few dozen groups heeded our call, while hundreds responded this year. We're printing their wishes in Northwest Life today, tomorrow and Tuesday so you, the readers, can help make those wishes come true.
Will you respond? You have in the past.
"We were thrilled last year," says Therese Platt of Providence ElderPlace, which serves the frail elderly in South Seattle. "One woman walked in with a huge assortment of art supplies — paints, paint brushes, oil pastels and canvases for our people to use in recreational therapy. They're low-income, so getting new art supplies is a real treat."