The ION Fashion Event: Action with Compassion through Fashion, includes a fashion show and design competition featuring local designers, with money raised benefitting F-factor and Ruby Room, two organizations catering to foster children, homeless youth and disadvantaged teens across Washington State. Open to the public and the only fundraiser the two organizations host each year, ION Fashion’s name is a reference to the brainstorming session organizers had when trying to summarize, in one word, what philanthropy meant to them, with all answers sharing the same -ion suffix.