Our services are unique in that they combine direct services with community organizing, helping Latino immigrants meet their immediate needs and become key spokespeople in the fight to build a more equitable future for all immigrants. Employment – We offer job dispatch for day laborers and domestic workers, helping workers meet their immediate financial needs. Education – In addition to teaching free English language classes for immigrant workers, we offer them job skills, health and safety, and worker rights workshops. Community Organizing – Because we believe that those most affected by racial and socioeconomic inequities are the most qualified to propose and enact solutions, we develop strong voices in the Latino community through activities such as civic engagement, immigration reform advocacy, women’s leadership groups, and day laborer and domestic worker organizing. To learn more about becoming involved at Casa Latina as a volunteer or donor, please visit our website: www.casa-latina.org. Esta información está disponible en español en la sección titulada "general information."
The Red Cross is an international humanitarian Movement dedicated to saving lives.
This unique race to the top of the Columbia Center in full combat gear and self contained breathing apparati (SCBA) is the largest individual firefighter competition in the world. The Scott Firefighter Stairclimb supports the mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, raising money through sponsorships, individual and department fundraising, and entry fees.
Besides providing food for over more than 370 partner programs, Northwest Harvest operates the Cherry Street Food Bank in downtown Seattle. Cherry Street is one of the busiest food banks in the state, providing nearly 1.5 million meals annually. We serve people of all backgrounds. These are our neighbors in need. As one of our volunteers said, “If you stand here long enough, you'll see yourself walk through that door.” Many find it difficult to seek help, so we try to make our clients as comfortable as possible, welcoming them with a smile and asking only for enough information to make sure we're meeting client need. On full-service days, clients choose items such as dry grains, canned goods and fresh produce. Protein products are distributed on the last Monday and Wednesday of each month. Sack lunches are ready for those without cooking facilities. More than 900 sack lunch packages, including freshly-made sandwiches, are regularly distributed each Monday and Wednesday. On Thursdays, Cherry Street Food Bank's Baby Day provides infant formula and jarred baby food for our youngest clients. Diapers distributed when available. The presence of a child or proof of child's age (WIC card, birth certificate, immunization record, etc.) is required to receive Baby Day items.
Lifelong is the leading community health organization that serves people with chronic illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, in Western Washington. We believe all people have a right to a roof over their head, healthy food to eat, and access to affordable healthcare. Lifelong delivers food, housing, and health services; collaborates with community organizations on the prevention and care of chronic disease; and advocates for effective HIV/AIDS policy. Simply put —we make health work. Events, like our annual Seattle AIDS Walk, Gay Bingo, and Dining Out For Life, raise both awareness and financial support for people who are ill and faced with poverty.
Wellspring Family Services is a nonprofit, multi-service agency that helps families move through trauma and reach their full potential. COMMUNITY SERVICES: Through our charitable services, we help homeless families find and keep stable housing. We offer early learning to 100 homeless children annually, focusing on their social and emotional needs as well as intellectual growth to mitigate the effects of trauma and get them ready for kindergarten. We offer counseling and domestic violence intervention. Each year we serve more than 5,000 low-income and vulnerable families and individuals in Seattle and King County, helping them break the debilitating cycles of instability, homelessness, and adversity to achieve positive, permanent change in their lives. When you donate or volunteer through Wellspring Family Services, you are benefiting our community service programs. Wellspring Family Services also runs two social enterprise agencies: Wellspring Counseling and Wellspring Employee Assistance Program. COUNSELING: Our Seattle and Eastside therapists work with individuals, couples, and families to navigate life’s challenges and explore possibilities. We offer parenting support; classes and workshops; and individual, couple, and family counseling. We also offer training and workshops for mental health counselors. EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: We help organizations harness the strength of their workforce by providing responsive EAP services that help employers and employees reach their full potential.
For over 40 years, Neighborcare Health has provided quality, affordable health care for our most vulnerable neighbors. We focus on providing care to low-income and uninsured families and individuals, seniors on fixed incomes, immigrants, and the homeless. We ask everyone to pay what they can, but no one is turned away due to inability to pay.
The Project Room is a multidisciplinary art center that provides a platform for the exchange of ideas within the intersection of different artistic disciplines. The Project Room aims to be inclusive in all of its endeavors, featuring different points of view and areas of expertise in all areas of creativity and community that can carry meaning for anyone. In addition to the arts, programs will touch on history, geography, industry, and other areas that intersect with the specific topic of focus. During 2011/2012, The Project Room will ask the question, "Why Do We Make Things?" Critical discourse is an essential element of The Project Room. With this in mind, The Project Room publishes The Project Room Off Paper, an online journal that follows the themes presented in The Project Room through thoughtful writing and other relevant online content. Off Paper continues the conversation that is taking place in TPR for audiences everywhere.
Forgotten Dogs is a foster home based rescue organization located in Washington State. Who We Rescue Over and over, dogs are abandoned at shelters only to live out their lives in a kennel, being passed by time and time again until their time finally runs out. Through no fault of their own, these dogs aren’t adopted because they have something “wrong” with them: the “wrong” color, the “wrong” look, the “wrong” age, and most commonly, the “wrong” breed. These are the dogs we save. Even worse is when a dog isn’t even taken to the shelter. Some are abandoned outside of town. Some exist on the end of a chain or are otherwise neglected or abused. These are the dogs we save. Sometimes it’s the dog’s owner who is down on their luck and can no longer afford to care for their dog, but want to ensure he or she goes to a loving, forever home. These are the dogs we save. These dogs can be any breed, but we primarily focus on Pit Bulls and other bully breeds. They are the ones most likely to die in shelters, and the ones who need an advocate to ensure they don’t end up in the wrong hands. We save the dogs that need help the most, the dogs whose time has run out, the dogs who have lost all hope—the forgotten dogs. Our Commitment Once a dog enters Forgotten Dogs Rescue, we’re committed to it for life. Our dogs live in private foster homes where they receive love and attention and learn to be wonderful members of the family. They receive all necessary medical care, no matter the cost. If they come to us with behavioral issues, we invest in training. No matter what, we are committed to do whatever is necessary to make them adoptable and find them amazing forever homes. And if at any point an adoption doesn’t work out, we will always welcome the dog back into our program. We make a promise to all of our dogs that they will never again be forgotten. Sad Beginnings, Happy Endings Although most of our dogs have sad beginnings, they all have happy endings! We strive to place our dogs in the best possible homes for them, taking into account the needs and requirements of both the dog and the adopter.
Contributions to GreaterGood.org, a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, are deductible in the U.S. for computing income and estate taxes. All donors will receive a receipt of their donations in the mail or via e-mail for tax purposes. To learn more, visit http://www.greatergood.org.
The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) is a nonprofit organization working to support the Road Map Project. This Facebook page is maintained by CCER.
The Seattle Indian Health Board operates primary medical and dental clinics, nutrition/WIC and mental health services, and chemical dependency treatment. Special programs for children and youth, veterans, domestic violence suvivors, pregnant women, and elders are also offered. Most services can be located in our medical facility at 611 12th Ave. So, Seattle, 98144.
Reducing the harms associated with unjust cannabis laws while recognizing and protecting patient and adult compassionate use. Our primary goals with The Viper's Club are to help educate and promote the inclusion of adults, especially the patients right to cultivate or designate a patient/adult provider and small, locally owned and operated businesses in the emerging cannabis market, especially for medical/therapeutic/preventative uses. The right of patients and their health care professional to be free from government intrusion and oversight in their health care decisions that involve cannabis is equally important. Whatever the need or desire, it is crucial that all adults have full human and civil rights protections to produce, breed and/or give away the fruits of their labour like every other plant; to have easy, low income, affordable access to buy and sell in an open market without fear of arrest, asset forfeiture, criminal prosecution or discrimination. One of the fundamental issues that cannabis enthusiasts have dealt with is the lack of education on the history, benefits and perceived harms of cannabis use among adults. In spite of claims to the contrary, cannabis has been used and documented as a medicinal herb for thousands of years. Its industrial use goes back further. The impacts on art and culture have been significant. Documenting and archiving this information for the general public is critical. The science is there for those who look. Most aren't even aware of the role of cannabinoids in human health, and the role cannabis can play in the human endocannabinoid system. New research into the phenomena known as the "Entourage Effect" and how the many strains affect people differently are virtually unknown. We look forward to sponsoring or engaging in this emerging science in the years to come to add to the archiving of medical information. All adults, but especially all patients deserve access to the wide variety of cannabis plants & breeders worldwide, not just the end products. This will ensure the continued existence and genetic diversity that exists today and allow the patient the right to find the strain-to-condition match that best suits their needs and gives them a more superior, effective relief or cure of their disease or condition. With the number of strains reaching into the tens of thousands worldwide, large corporations and monopolies will never be able to provide that level of diversity. These are the issues that policy makers and the public will need to be educated about. It will continue to be a major focus of the group. Secondary to the issue of cannabis, is teaching more citizens to be able to use the government process. Most are intimidated with the process of meeting their legislators, speaking at public hearings and reading legislative bills. Our group started the first "Cannabis Patient Lobby Days" events in our State Capitol, starting in the 2013 Legislative session. Our combined events have resulted in well over a thousand people attending and becoming active citizens fully participating in the process. These are now annual events with many other groups now participating. Another important avenue of information and education is providing education on the public records and disclosure laws. Good government demands citizens to better inform themselves about the decisions being made in our names and with our tax dollars. The medical use of cannabis has become more normalized, and at a higher consumption than ever in known history. We have a solid understanding of the need for common sense laws, the value of unbiased science in policy decisions and being a loud voice for real consumer based protections, especially as it is related to the medical/therapeutic uses of cannabis. Current Board of Directors ****************************** Chris Bornstedt Gina Garcia (officer) Kirk Ludden (officer) John Novak (officer) Hugh Newmark Marc Remenar Brian Stone (officer) Stephanie Viskovich
We're a nonprofit organization that collects and publishes oral histories, holds seminars and events on Korean American history and identity, and engages in other heritage activities.
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CRB approaches this by intentionally reaching across ethnic, religious, and language barriers to provide services and focuses on a community-based system of training to enhance basic life skills, and crisis resolution skills.
The Tzu Chi Collegiate Association at Seattle (Seattle & UW Tzu Ching) is the service-based collegiate organization that carries out the missions of the Tzu Chi Foundation. The Tzu Ching club provides an opportunity for volunteer work within the local area that is rewarding, meaningful, and manageable during one's busy college life. Events include homeless people shelter food and hygiene products distribution, spending time with the elderly at convalescent homes, night market food fair, Tzu Ching book club, assisting in Tzu Chi's cultural programs, and many more! By providing and caring for our school and community, we seek to cultivate ourselves to become better individuals. After all, "Tzu Ching" is Chinese for "compassionate youth," and we believe that anyone can bring out the kindness and compassion in their heart. Students of any race and religion are all welcome to join our Tzu Ching family here at Seattle & UW!
Densho is a Japanese term meaning "to pass on to the next generation," or to leave a legacy. The legacy we offer is an American story of how fear and hate forced the U.S.government to incarcerate 120,000 innocent people because of their ancestry. Tom Ikeda is the executive director of Densho, a nonprofit that uses digital technology to share the stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. We share our resources to expand awareness of the country's diverse history, to stimulate critical thinking, and to help ensure that democratic principles are upheld now and in the future.
Our successful blueprint for care at ICHS came from decades of listening to what our patients need and want. We continue to listen. Our Patient Advisory Council is made up of active patients who provide unique perspectives and valuable feedback about the standard of care they receive. We're currently accepting new members to this council to help us provide a better health care experience for our patients. For more information about the Patient Advisory Council, or to learn how to get involved, email the Quality Improvement Coordinator at [email protected]