DnL Weatherization & Construction in Raymond tells two or three small-job customers that there’s no charge, as long as they donate to a good cause.

‘This is the only option I have to get help for my kids … and one day when I’m able to I plan to pay it forward,’ she says.

W. Earle Eskilson was among the first of hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers who have made the fund work for the past 69 years.