Making business

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The 11th Annual Birch Golf Classic

Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Bellingham Golf & Country Club
Registration Opens in February!

Thank You to the 2025 Premier Sponsors
Mills Electric
Partner Industrial
CellMark

Get your Team Donations in Today, Team Fundraising Ends
Wednesday, August 27th at 2pm Sharp! 
100% of Funds Raised go to Key Works & Whatcom / Skagit Detox
Click Here to Donate to a Team 

Combining Business, Community and Golf...

Seahawks Standouts, Birch Golf Classic Trailblazers – Jordan Babineaux, Lofa Tatupu, Sean Locklear

The Birch Golf Classic was created in 2015 with the goal of:

  • Highlighting that Businesses are a primary foundation of the Pacific Northwest Region
  • Recognizing Regional Community Trailblazers 
  • Raising funds for organizations connecting our most vulnerable to better pathways

Community Trailblazers are nominated and the Board selects the recipient organizations who are supported for 3 consecutive years. 

Team McKinstry with Trailblazer Lofa Tatupu, Birch Golf Classic

The Golf Classic is in its 2nd year of supporting:

  • Key Recovery & Life Skills Center to help increase their capacity to support people through rehabilitation and learning life and work skills.
  • Whatcom / Skagit Detox in the Birch Golf Classic's ask that the funds go toward delivering people from Detox to rehabilitation facilities.
  • Last year $327,853 was raised and donated to these hardworking organizations. 

How to Get Involved

Sign-up a Team by clicking here

Sign-up or inquire about Sponsorship by clicking here

Donate to Team Fundraising by clicking here

Nominate a Trailblazer by clicking here

Recipient Organizations

Please learn more about Key Recovery and Life Skills Center and Whatcom / Skagit Detox via Pioneer Human Services. These are the BGC recipient organizations selected for 2024, 2025 and 2026 as we work together to assist in enhancing patrons of their programs connecting to next steps for better pathways. 

Engedi Refuge, Northwest Youth Services, Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking (B.E.S.T), Real Escape from the Sex Trade (R.E.S.T) and The Whatcom Dream are some of the previous organizations BGC has supported. We value their ongoing work and look forwarding to them meeting and spending time with our new recipient organizations. 

Team USI Insurance Services with Trailblazer Dr. Dakotah Lane, Birch Golf Classic

Team Fundraising

The Team Fundraising is one of the biggest fundraising pieces of the BGC. 100% of funds that the teams raise go to Key Recovery and Whatcom / Skagit Detox.

Teams are motivated to use any and all tactics (i.e. getting their friends, vendors, strangers on the street to click on their Team Name to donate immediately - it's as easy as that!) to raise funds because when official team fundraising ends Teams select their Trailblazer / Prize combinations in order of Team funds raised. 

Highlights on the Birch Golf Classic

The goal of the Birch Golf Classic is to highlight Community Trailblazers and shine a light on and earn money for organizations who help transition people off the streets and onto better pathways.

To-date $2.4 million dollars has been donated to recipient organizations and now in 2024, celebrating Birch Golf Classic's 10th year, please join in supporting Key Recovery and Life Skills Center and Pioneer Human Services Whatcom / Skagit Detox.

2024 Trailblazers / Prizes, 2024 Sponsors , 2024 Teams, 2024 Champions, 2024 Photos

Thank You for all your support!