Philanthropy made fun: you’re going shopping anyway, why not use a little retail therapy as a way to help provide medical therapy to cancer sufferers by spending a little dough at the Shop to Make a Difference event this Friday through Sunday at University Village Shopping Center [site]. Buy a $20 20/20 card onsite and get a 20 percent discount at participating stores and restaurants at UVillage with all proceeds from the card sale going to Seattle’s own World Class Cancer Research Facility, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. [site]

You can also support the Hutch on Sunday, May 20, by attending their Premier Chefs Dinner. Northwest wines, hors d’oeuvres and six-course dinner prepared by the Northwest’s premier chefs are served at the Grand Hyatt, visit the [site] for details.