Following Supreme Court announcement temporarily blocking citizenship question, philanthropy, King County and City of Seattle invest to address fears and ensure full and accurate count While the Supreme Court’s ruling today delays a decision on the inclusion of a citizenship question in United States Census 2020, two coalitions involving foundations and local government are announcing […]
Casa Latina leads coalition to pass first-of-a-kind law in the country Guest post By Amanda Mancenido, Communities of Opportunity Note: Started in 2014 as a partnership between King County and the Seattle Foundation, Communities of Opportunity (COO) has grown to more than 150 organizations partnering to create greater racial, economic and health equity that enables […]
Event with Neighborcare Health shows how Medication Assisted Treatment is saving lives By Cedric Davis, Senior Philanthropic Advisor Seattle Foundation and Neighborcare Health hosted an education session, Responding to the Opioid Crisis, to share how Medication Assisted Treatment, combined with wrap-around care, is saving lives and changing outcomes for those suffering from opioid use disorder. […]
Philanthropists Janet Levinger & Will Poole share how they give as a family to power change in education This article was first published in Seattle Foundation’s Heart & Science magazine, Volume 4. The pair met at a house party when they were students at Brown University. She was an English major raised in Sioux City, […]
View the 20 questions created by Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush created the “Do You Know?” scale in 2001 to ask children questions about their family in order to test the hypothesis that children who know more about their families are more resilient and can handle […]
Paula Boggs translated her love of music into a fund benefiting KEXP radio. Not many can boast a background as wildly varied as that of Paula Boggs. Having attended high school in Germany and Italy, she studied at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-founded the women’s cross-country and track-and-field programs and began training as a […]
A group of socially engaged investors try something new to answer Seattle’s affordable housing challenge When the newly renovated Parker Apartments opened in Queen Anne in May 2015, you could almost hear the communal sigh of relief. Fifty families would be able to afford the rent for a comfortable apartment located in an accessible and […]
Joy is when Seattle’s possibilities are shared by all. It is families in homes they love, connected to vibrant communities, with the opportunity for fulfilling lives.
Today, Seattle Foundation launches the Journey to Joy campaign, with an aim to bring this vision to life. We invite you to join a movement that creates lasting change for generations to come.
