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."
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 Seattle International District Rotary Club (SIDR) is an incredibly diverse club that is committed to service projects - both local and abroad - and has a lot of fun doing a lot of good. SIDR is a part of Rotary International, one of the largest and oldest service organizations in the world with over 33,000 clubs and more than 1.2 million members worldwide.
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!
We are a non-profit agency serving Asian Pacific Islander Youth and all Youth of Color, ages 10-20, in the greater Seattle area. Our goal is to help youth deal with substance abuse/dependency issues and to provide youth with healthy alternatives to substance use. We provide services that meet the cultural needs and expectations of the community we serve. Re-opened in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation in 2012, the C/ID Youth lounge is a safe space for youth to hang out, and a location for WAPI's programs. Check this page for hours of operation, volunteer opportunities, and updates.
CAGJ has three programs: Food Justice Project, AGRA Watch and Trade Justice - please see each program’s webpage for more information! CAGJ is led by a Steering Committee that meets every other month, and we have 1.25 staff.
AGRA Watch is a grassroots, Seattle-based campaign of Community Alliance for Global Justice that challenges the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s (BMGF) problematic agricultural development programs in Africa, including the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). In contrast, AGRA Watch supports African-initiated programs rooted in agroecological and indigenous farming practices, social equity, and food sovereignty – the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture systems. African communities, farmers, consumers, and civil society organizations already have locally-adapted solutions to the problems they face. AGRA Watch works in solidarity with these groups to resist undemocratic, unaccountable projects pushed from the outside and to build food systems based on sustainability, community and health. AGRA Watch is a program of the Community Alliance for Global Justice, a grass-roots non-profit organization dedicated to local and global justice.
Seattle CISPES is a grassroots organization working for social justice and human rights in El Salvador and the U.S. Seattle CISPES es una organización de base que lucha por la justicia social y para los derechos humanos en El Salvador y en los Estados Unidos.
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.
Puget Sound Community School is a small, independent, middle and high school, centrally located in Seattle's International District. At PSCS, our first focus is not limited to an academic program; our focus is on the full range of human development. We provide a safe, loving, nurturing environment where the curriculum is responsibility and the goal for our graduates is maturity. We surround students with talented people of high character who help them find out what they’re passionate about, and then help them DO something with that passion. We believe that people become empowered by being free to pursue the knowledge they want to possess, by learning how to ask significant questions, and by structuring their time and activities as they best see fit. In this way, PSCS promotes the development of critical and creative thinking in students and helps them strengthen their sense of authority over what they study. Students work each year with an advisor to identify their short- and long-term goals, and to plan for what they want to accomplish and how. Classes and activities are offered in response to direct student requests, or because a staff member or community volunteer has identified a significant topic they want to share. Students also participate in regular community service projects and field trips, and most complete multiple independent study projects during their time at PSCS. All of the traditional academic subjects are covered through this approach, which also helps students understand and work with their own internal rhythm and speed.
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]
華藏學苑修學以淨土五經一論為依據，以淨業三福、彌陀因地愿行及普賢十愿為中心課題，以一句佛號啟動四攝六度萬行，以彌陀淨土為歸宿，尊淨空法師為導師。
The Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation (ACLF) is a community-based, nonprofit organization that trains and supports the leadership and civic engagement of Asian Pacific Islanders with a commitment to social justice, community empowerment and public service. ACLF has graduated more than 150 selected participants from its esteemed Community Leaders Program (CLP) – and many have successfully moved on to influential leadership positions in their fields and communities with the skills and a commitment to social justice values.
BACKGROUND EBC is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to developing, promoting, and improving the long-term growth, sustainability, and success of immigrant and minority-owned small businesses in the State of Washington. Established in 2014, EBC works to increase the access of ethnic-owned small businesses to marketing, financial, and advocacy services and resources, and provide them with a greater voice, profile, and representation in the region. IMPACT Galvanized by the lack of representation and understanding of the common needs and interests of immigrant and minority-owned small businesses, EBC strives to advocate policies, regulations, and programs that contribute to the vibrancy and vitality of entrepreneurship in the ethnic communities. LEADERSHIP Initiated and led by entrepreneur-restaurateur Taylor Hoang and several established ethnic business owners, EBC has generated considerable support from community, government, and business leaders in the city. Together with the strategic partners, EBC will be introducing services, resources, and programs to connect, educate, and inform key audiences about immigrant and minority-owned small businesses. DIGITIAL MAGAZINE ethnicseattle.com is EBC’s digital platform dedicated to raising the visibility, profile, and distinctiveness of the ethnic retail, services, and restaurants through authentic, fresh, and engaging content.
Nikkei Manor is a not-for-profit assisted living community which embraces the very best of Japanese Culture and values-respect, trust, and kimochi (compassion). It is a caring and supportive community where residents maintain the highest level of independence and quality of life possible.
21P provides engaging, youth-focused social justice leadership development programs and campaigns that advance progressive issues in our society.
Since 1974, it has been the mission of the International Examiner to serve the Asian Pacific American communities by providing accurate, in-depth, timely, and sensitive coverage of local, regional, national, and international issues which affect us.
As the Hokubei Hochi Foundation is a newly established nonprofit 501c3 organization, we are in the start-up phase of several exciting projects. We are seeking financial sponsors as well as individuals who wish to assist us with the following projects and programs. We will also be sponsoring civic, educational, and cultural programs and events at the North American Post’s Nagomi Tea House in Seattle’s International District. 私たち北米報知財団は新しく設立された501(c)(3)規定の非営利団体であり、これから様々なプロジェクトを開催していく予定です。また、シアトルのインターナショナルディストリクトにある「なごみティーハウス」にて行われる市民、教育、文化、に関するイベントプログラムのスポンサーとしても活動しています。そこで、私たちのこれからの活動にご援助いただけるスポンサーの方々をお待ちしております。 ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOW! The Foundation announces its inaugural Student Intern Program for students interested in communications and news-writing. One intern will be selected and will travel to Japan on October 1-10, 2012. To apply: http://hokubeihochifoundation.wufoo.com/forms/z7x3x5/. Deadline is Monday, May, 28, 2012. In addition、A major project is the digital archiving of nearly 100 years of the North American Post newspaper to preserve the rich history and culture of Seattle's Nikkei community. コミュニケーション活動やニュース記事に興味を持つ学生の為に初めて学生インターンプログラムを実施する、と発表させて頂きました。1人のインターン制が選抜され、2012年の10月1日～10日にかけて日本視察旅行に派遣される予定です。 また、大きなプロジェクトの一つとして、北米報知新聞のおよそ100周年を記念致しまして、シアトルの日系人コミュニティの豊かな歴史を保存する為に新聞電子保管化プロジェクトを推進しております。