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Shop to Make a Difference at U Village

By Seattle Mag March 5, 2013

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U Village and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are teaming up March 15-17 for Shop to Make a Difference, where your shopping dollars go towards supporting a great cause.

Buy a Cure Card for $25 now and save 20 percent that weekend at participating shops and restaurants (full list here), which include Williams-Sonoma, Margaret O’Leary, Peek…, Anthropologie, Boom Noodle and The Confectionary. There’ll be free valet parking and Ravenna Gardens will be carrying neon orange Little Shirley  vases by Material Good in support of Obliteride, an upcoming bike event in support of the Hutch.

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