ALL Foundation of Washington

The ALL Foundation of Washington strives to promote history, community and preservation through supporting the programs, collections and missions of the Washington State Library, State Archives, the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, and Legacy Washington. Additionally, The ALL Foundation, an organization within the Washington Secretary of State's Office, serves as the fiduciary for funds raised specifically to support these programs and collections. 

Washington State Library

The Washington State Library is focusing on its Washington Center for the Book program, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book, for the GiveBig 2025 Washington campaign.  The Washington Center for the Book promotes literacy and a love of books, reading, and libraries. We celebrate Washington’s robust literary heritage and help spotlight the contribution of reading and libraries in strengthening communities and in fostering civic engagement. Donations to the Washington State Library through GiveBig will help support projects like the Washington State Book Awards, the Washington State Zine Contest, the Washington Author Project, and programming related to our collaboration with the PALABRA archive, and more.  

Legacy Washington

Legacy Washington documents extraordinary stories in Washington history.  Through exhibits, innovative storytelling, books and lesson plans, Legacy Washington documents the contributions of former statewide elected officials, members of Congress and the judiciary—as well as other influential Washingtonians from all walks of life. 

For GiveBig 2025, Legacy Washington asks your support for its latest oral history project: A compelling collection of stories to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival here of Southeast Asian refugees. A major new book and exhibit will highlight the hardships and hopes of the Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian refugees who fled their homelands in 1975 when the last Americans left Saigon. The project will feature intimate profiles of the exiles, state officials and volunteers who helped them find homes and jobs, and the diaspora generations born and raised in Washington.

Washington State Archives

Washington State Archives is charged with preserving and making available the important legal and historical public records of state and local government. The Archives is committed to increasing online access to our collections through an ongoing program to digitize our holdings. Washington State Archives’ Digital Archives (DA) hosts the searchable digitized records. The DA is a public website that preserves more than 230 million records. Researchers of all ages and experience levels, including students across Washington, have performed more than 4.5 million searches on the DA over the last year.  

Donations to the Archives during GiveBIG 2025 will go toward digitizing more records for the DA, especially collections that support middle- and high-school students participating in Washington History Day.