What you can do on this site

It is the online home of the Normandy Park Police Foundation, an independent, community-based Washington State 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports the Normandy Park Police Department and the people it serves. Here you can learn what we do, give, join Blockwatch, get your household ready for an emergency, follow our news and read our records.

The site is not watched around the clock. In an emergency, call 911.

Not to read the site, give, write to us, sign up for the newsletter or find your Blockwatch province. A free account lets you also:

• give every month or every year
• ask to join Blockwatch in your province
• save your emergency preparedness plan
• download the preparedness guide, the bylaws and the files in our documents library, and read their full text
• keep every gift, receipt and year-end statement in one place

Create a free account.

With a link we email to you, or with a password if you set one. Signing in is handled by Stytch, so we never see your password. A new account comes with no special access: the Foundation's administrators give that only to the people whose work needs it, such as editors, Blockwatch volunteers and board members.

Yes. Every page is built for phones and meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1, level AA): strong contrast, large tap targets, a visible focus ring and full keyboard use. Where a map is the way in, as in the Province Finder, there is a list too. Nothing moves on its own, and if your device asks for less motion, the site turns its transitions off. How the site is designed.

Yes. The site follows your device's light or dark setting, with colors chosen to read clearly in both. See both palettes.

Use Search, in the header and the footer. One search covers news stories, documents (by their titles and descriptions), the words on every page, each section of the preparedness guide and the bylaws, and the answers on this page, ranked together, and you can narrow it to pages, news or documents. Drafts never appear in it.

On the donate page, by card, PayPal or Venmo, with or without an account. Choose an amount and the fund your gift supports, add your name and email, and you're done. When the form offers it, you can add a little to cover the payment processing fee. To give every month or every year instead, choose that under How often; it needs a free account.

Yes. Our General Fund goes where it's needed most, including Blockwatch and Paws on Patrol. A program fund, such as Shop with a Cop, or officer appreciation, training and equipment, pays only for that program. Links on our stories and printed materials can open the form with a fund already chosen.

Yes. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and every gift gets a receipt by email as soon as it goes through. With an account, every receipt is on your account page as a PDF, with a year-end statement for each year you give.

Your card details go to Square, our card processor: you type them into Square's own form, and they never reach this website. Your bank may ask you to confirm the payment. With PayPal or Venmo, you sign in with them, in their own window or app, and we receive only their confirmation that you paid. For a monthly or yearly gift by card, Square keeps your card on file so that each payment can be made; we keep only its brand, last four digits and expiry date, and when you stop the gift we remove the card from Square. By PayPal, you approve the gift in PayPal's window and PayPal takes each payment; we never see your PayPal login or how you pay inside PayPal.

Yes. Create an account with the same email address and open the sign-in link we send you. Once your address is confirmed that way, your earlier gifts appear on your account page. We wait for that confirmation so that nobody can see your gifts by making an account with your address.

Yes, with a free account. On the donate page, choose Every month or Every year, pay by card or PayPal (not Venmo) and tick the box to agree. We take your first gift today, then the same amount on the same day each month or year until you stop it, and email a receipt each time. About a month before each yearly gift, we email you a reminder. Every payment is on your account page, with its receipt and your year-end statement.

Open it on your account page. You can change the amount or the fund, use a different card, or stop it. Stopping is immediate: no more payments are taken, and we remove your card from Square. If a payment is declined, we email you and try again a few days later; after three tries the gift pauses until you add a card. A PayPal gift can also be stopped in your PayPal account, under automatic payments, and its amount can't be changed here: stop it and start a new one.

Blockwatch is neighbors looking out for each other: watching for trouble, reporting it, and getting ready together for an emergency. Normandy Park is divided into twelve numbered Blockwatch provinces, each with its own volunteers.

The Foundation supports Blockwatch; it doesn't run it. We give volunteers guidelines and financial support, help the program grow one province at a time, and pay for it from our General Fund. The Normandy Park Police Department supports it with training and crime prevention.

Open the Province Finder and type your address, or choose your province on the map. If you use a keyboard or a screen reader, choose it from the list of twelve. Many province borders run down the middle of a street, so when your address is close to one, the Finder names the provinces nearby too. We look the address up with OpenStreetMap, keep the answer in memory for an hour so a repeat search is quick, and never save or log the address.

Sign in, then ask to join on your Blockwatch page; the Province Finder takes you there with your province chosen. Give your name and street address and, if you like, a phone number, the ways you'd like to be reached and a message to the volunteers, then tick the box to share them with that province's volunteers. Only they and the Foundation see your request.

Because volunteers share their names and contact details with their province's members. Confirming that every member really lives in the province keeps those details among neighbors. Until you're confirmed, you see your request and your messages, but not who leads the province.

We check your address against the province map as soon as you send your request, so the volunteers can see whether it falls inside the province. Then a volunteer confirms it in one of three ways:

• A door card. They leave a card at your door, never in a mailbox, with an 8-character code and no names on it. Enter the code on your Blockwatch page within 30 days; you have five tries.
• In person. They meet you, or already know you.
• A neighbor vouches. A confirmed member of the province vouches for you.

Volunteers don't confirm addresses by phone or video call.

Yes. You and your province's volunteers can write to each other on your request, on your Blockwatch page. Their messages are signed "a Blockwatch volunteer for province 3" (or whichever is yours), not by name, and the emails telling you about a new message come from the Foundation, so reply on the site. The conversation closes once you're confirmed.

Your province's volunteers (their names, their positions and the ways each one has chosen to be reached) and the province's "How we keep in touch" note, which says how your neighbors stay in contact, such as a WhatsApp group or a text tree. Members don't see each other on the site.

No, on purpose. Each province keeps in touch its own way, and the site tells its confirmed members how. If a crime is happening now, or in any emergency, call 911.

A province can have a province coordinator, Blockwatch captains and block contacts. Coordinators appoint captains and block contacts in their own provinces, and the Foundation's administrators appoint coordinators. Volunteers handle requests at the Blockwatch desk, a private part of the site, and each one fills in a volunteer card choosing what members see: text, phone call, WhatsApp, Signal or email.

Tell us you'd like to lead Blockwatch, in your province or across the city. If your province has no volunteer yet, you can still ask to join: your request comes to the Foundation instead.

We clear your address, phone number, the ways to reach you, your note, any door code and the messages on your request. We keep only the province, the dates, how you were confirmed and any note a volunteer made for the record. You can withdraw a request or leave a province at any time on your Blockwatch page, and ask again later. Nothing about Blockwatch goes to our email lists.

Write to us about Blockwatch; the form opens with the subject filled in.

The emergency preparedness and Blockwatch guide is the web version of our printed guide: how Blockwatch is organized, what to watch for, securing your home, a supply kit for 7 to 14 days, what to do during an earthquake and after the shaking stops, power outages, where to get alerts, and a contact card to fill in and print. Anyone can read it; with a free account you can download it as a PDF.

Yes. Tick the guide's checklists and fill in its contact card as you go. If you're not signed in, what you tick and type stays in your browser on that device and is never sent to us. If you're signed in, it's saved to your account, so it's there on any device. "Print my contacts" prints just the card, for your kit.

Your plan puts the guide's three checklists, a household plan (meeting places, ALERT King County, alarms, insurance and more) and your contact card on one page, with your progress on your account page. A step asks for what it names: "Choose two meeting places" has room for both, and "Know your utilities" for where each shutoff is. "Print my plan" prints a paper copy for your kit, starting with an at-a-glance page of where to meet, who to call, your shutoffs and health needs, with a line to write on for anything you left empty.

Only you. It isn't shown on the public site or to the Foundation's administrators, and it's never sent to our email system or anyone else. You can clear any part of it at any time, and it's deleted with your account. If you ticked things on a device before signing in, we offer to add them to your account, list by list, and never copy them without asking, because on a shared computer they may be someone else's.

Our key initiatives: Blockwatch and crime prevention education, Shop with a Cop, Paws on Patrol, and officer appreciation. About the Foundation explains each one, and our news shows them at work.

Dog walkers who keep an eye on the neighborhood on their daily walks. After a short training from the Normandy Park Police Department, your dog earns an official badge dog tag. Meet Paws on Patrol.

On the news page, newest first, and our featured story leads the home page. A story can carry a lead photograph and a gallery below it, and tags gather stories on the same subject.

Our annual reports, Form 990 tax filings, Blockwatch flyers, meeting minutes and other documents, grouped by kind. Anyone can browse the list; opening a file takes a free account, as every PDF on the site does, and so does reading a document's full text.

Yes. The bylaws are on the site word for word, as amended and restated June 6, 2026, with a link to every article and section. The PDF, with the certificates of adoption and amendment, is there for account holders.

Enter your email in the form at the foot of any page. We email you a button to confirm (a button, because some mail filters open links on their own), and add you only once you press it. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, and with an account you choose on your account page whether you get the newsletter, our occasional special offers and invitations to events, or both.

Read the director's position description on Board positions, and send us a letter of interest from the same page. It goes straight to the board.

Use the contact form, and we'll reply by email. In an emergency, call 911; the police department's non-emergency line is in the preparedness guide.

Your gifts with their receipts and year-end statements, any monthly or yearly gift (to change or stop), your preparedness plan's progress, your Blockwatch membership or request, what any role you hold lets you do, your email choices, and your profile and photo. Go to your account.

We keep only what each feature needs, and we never sell it. Privacy, corrections and removals lists what we keep and every service we use. Visitor statistics, when they're switched on, come from Plausible, which sets no cookies and records no personal data.

Write to us with what you'd like changed or removed. We delete your account, profile, preparedness plan, Blockwatch requests and email records from this site and from our email system.

The Foundation's own editors, in the site's admin. They write news stories with a lead photograph and a gallery, schedule a story for later or date it in the past, choose the featured story on the home page, and preview anything before it goes out. They also keep the documents library, the words on our pages, our key initiatives and the board. Everything starts as a draft, and nothing appears on the public site until someone allowed to publish it does.

Each person gets only the access their work needs. Administrators run the site; editors, contributors and reporters write and add photographs, and only those allowed to publish put them on the public site, change them once they are there, or set the order they appear in; Blockwatch volunteers work only in their own provinces; grant volunteers see only the grants they help with; and only board members open the board room. The board also keeps our filing deadlines and our grants. A key beside every admin page's title explains which of your roles opens it and what you may do there, and every change is recorded in an activity log.

Contact messages and letters of interest arrive in the Foundation's inbox, where the people who answer them can leave notes for each other and mark what they've replied to. If you ask us to delete your message, we do.

Only the administrators who run the site and the Foundation's Treasurer. They can read gifts, download receipts and export the records for the Foundation's books, and the Treasurer ticks each Square or PayPal payout's gifts into a deposit sheet to split it by fund in the books. The administrators also manage the funds and stop a monthly or yearly gift when its donor asks. No one can change a gift's amount on the site. Your giving totals are also kept in our own email system, as the privacy page explains.

At the Blockwatch desk. Volunteers see requests from their own provinces with the address check, write to the people asking, issue door cards, and confirm or decline. They keep their province's "How we keep in touch" note, and coordinators appoint fellow volunteers. A request waiting more than two weeks is marked so it isn't forgotten.

A private part of the admin where the board keeps its own records: each meeting with its agenda, minutes and treasurer's report, and other board papers, as PDF, Word or Excel files. Only people who hold a board office can open it; the site's administrators can't, unless they hold an office too. Every director can read everything, as our bylaws provide, and approved minutes can't be replaced until they are marked a draft again. The files are never public.

In Filings and dates, a private part of the admin. The board keeps the Foundation's deadlines and renewals, such as the IRS Form 990, the Washington charity registration and annual report, our business license, insurance and the domain name, each with the date it is next due: worked out from a rule (so many months after our fiscal year ends, or the same month every year) or entered by hand. Recording a filing, or an extension, moves the date on, and a copy of what was filed can be kept with it. It also lists the accountant, bank, registered agent and other services behind them (never a password) and key facts such as our state registration numbers. Anything due within 60 days, or overdue, shows on the admin dashboard and in the board room. Board members keep it; the site's administrators can only look. Nothing there is public.

In a private part of the admin. The board keeps a short record of each grant we are considering, have applied for or have been granted: its name, where it stands (applied, in review, granted, closed and so on), who applied, its dates, the amounts and notes. The application, award letter and agreement are kept with the board's own papers in the board room and linked from the grant. Any board member adds a grant, and each grant has an owner: the board member who applies for it and runs it. Changes anyone else makes to it, or papers they link, wait for the owner's approval; a board member takes a grant with no owner, the owner hands it over, and an officer can reassign it. Once a grant is granted, a global administrator sets the terms the money is tracked by: the funder's rules, the budget line by line, the countable goals we promised and the reports the funder asks for. Board members read every grant, and a volunteer sees only their own grants and entries. Nothing there is public.

Before we apply, the board scouts. A scouting list holds every funder program we might apply to, starting with the ones the board's FY2027 fundraising plan researched, and the ones it set aside with the reason, so they aren't researched again. Each program has its award, how often it opens and its dates, a calendar of the year ahead, and a score out of 100 for how good a bet it is, from six questions: are we eligible, does it fund what we do, does it favor our area, does the award suit our costs, could we apply now, and how competitive is it. Draft scores were written with AI from the plan, for the board to check and change. A readiness list tracks what applications ask us to have, such as the IRS letter and program outcome figures, and the board keeps each program's yearly counts (children at Shop with a Cop, households reached by Blockwatch, walkers enrolled in Paws on Patrol, and more) for applications, reports and the annual report.

Once a grant is awarded, board members and the volunteers named on it record what they spend, with a photo of each receipt, and the volunteer hours and donated goods that make up our match. The Treasurer reviews every entry before it counts, from one list across all our grants. The grant's page compares what was spent with the budget, line by line, and warns about a cost from before the agreement was signed or after the money had to be spent, a budget that doesn't add up, and an award over $1,000 that still needs the board's approval, as our bylaws require.

When it's time to be paid, the Treasurer asks the funder to reimburse the approved expenses inside the agreement's dates, records the money as it arrives, and marks each report sent, keeping a copy. The site prepares the progress and expense report for any date, ready to print. Each morning it emails the Treasurer and the grant's lead about what is coming up: an application deadline, a report not yet sent, or the date the money must be spent by while some is left, 30 days before, 7 days before, and once if it passes. It does the same 30 and 7 days before a scouted program's window or deadline closes.