Every year, AP Equipment Financing encourages its team members to nominate their favorite charity for a charitable donation. AP wants to give back to organizations that their employees hold near and dear to their hearts, whether it is a local organization, or national. AP employees picked 16 charities to donate to. The charities AP selected include:

• Seattle Children's Hospital
  • Mission: “We provide hope, care and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.”
• Meals on Wheels Bend
  • Mission: “Meals on Wheels program is designed to meet the nutritional and social needs of isolated older adults.”
• BrightSide Animal Center
  • Mission: “BrightSide is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.”
• The Giving Plate
  • Mission: “The Giving Plate distributes over 10,000 food boxes a year to families in Central Oregon, each containing a week’s worth of food.”
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  • Mission: “Each day, we fight to find cures for blood cancers and help every patient access the care they need to survive and thrive.”
• World Resources Institute
  • Mission: “WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.”
• Spike's K9 Fund
  • Mission: “Protecting our nation’s working dogs. Spike’s K9 Fund, with your support, provides custom-fit ballistic vests, protective equipment, medical cost assistance, and access to top-of-the-line training programs and equipment.”
• Humane Society of Central Oregon
  • Mission: "Strengthening the human-animal bond by advocating and compassionately caring for animals."
• Central Oregon LandWatch
  • Mission: "We defend and plan for Central Oregon’s livable future.”
• MOUNTAINSTAR - Family Relief Nursery
  • Mission: "MountainStar Family Relief Nursery's mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect through community support and therapeutic services that help vulnerable children and families succeed.”
• The Bunker Project
  • Mission: "The Bunker Project provides stable housing to student veterans through the completion of a degree or certificate program, and then supports them in their transition from student to professional.”
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
  • Mission: " Save Lives and Bring Hope to Those Affected by Suicide.”
• Fresh Approach
  • Mission: "We’re bringing locally-grown produce, nutrition education, and gardening skills to Bay Area communities so everyone can enjoy access to healthy food.”
• Bethlehem Inn
  • Mission: "Transforming Lives Together Through Shelter, Help and Hope”
• Habitat for Humanity of St. Francois County
  • Mission: " Habitat for Humanity of St. Francois County, Inc. (HFHSFC) is a non-profit, ecumenical, Christian-based house building organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing within St. Francois County.”
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • Mission: “Improving lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications.”