Becca Korby, executive director of Healthy Families of Clallam County, accepts a donation check from Stephen Fofanoff at the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Red Lion Hotel in July.

The $2,443.98 check represents the tips donated by customers at Jig and Lure Fish Company Restaurant during June and a matching gift from Art and Soul Hospitality LLC, which owns the restaurant.

Korby reported that the undesignated gift was the best kind of donation to the organization, which provides support services, shelters and prevention for sexual and domestic violence. She said she could turn it into 150 percent of the amount with matching grants.

Additionally, she said, “This comes at a great time. We had run out of funding for children’s therapy sessions and this gift can provide an additional 40 sessions.”

Jig and Lure Fish Company Restaurant at 826 Boat Haven Drive, Port Angeles, is a “no tip” establishment representing a growing trend in the United States by restauranteurs to provide living wages to their employees instead of the traditional minimum wage.

In a first of its kind move, the employees at the restaurant donate tips left at the restaurant to a local Clallam County charity in an effort to give back and reinvest in the local community.

Within the first three months, over $6,000 has been raised for local charities, including the Boys & Girls Club, Captain Joseph House and Healthy Families of Clallam County.

The designated charity for July was Clallam Mosaic, which provides support services for developmentally disabled children and adults in Clallam County.