WE ARE FAMILY, TOO": Lavender Rights Project PSA highlighting the lived experiences of Black Trans Women and Femmes as a part of the Black “family” in America.
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle’s (ULMS) Construction Trades Program supports individuals looking to get into the trade and start a new career. ULMS partners with instructors and companies to prepare you for your first job. ULMS offers assistance for tools, books, transportation, and job preparedness, skills certifications courses, and career placement assistance in construction and other fields.
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The Assembling an Assembly Guide is a resource for any institution, organisation, city administration, or policy maker interested in running a Citizens’ Assembly. It is also a useful tool for citizens and activists wishing to learn more about what a Citizens’ Assembly is and how it works, in order to strengthen their advocacy efforts.
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For those with a criminal conviction in King County that is inhibiting your employment or housing opportunities, the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle may be able to help you.
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In Y-WE Tech, young women, trans, non-binary, and gender expansive youth ages 13–19 explore ways to use technology tools for learning, career success, self-expression, social change and the history of women and femmes in technology. Program Applications now open!
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This week, the CDC recommended that everyone 6 months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Eric Chow, our communicable disease expert, explains where you can get it, how cost will be covered, and why it’s important to get the new vaccine, even if you’ve already had COVID or been vaccinated.
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A roundup of community partner news and stories of impact in the media for August 2023! Food sovereignty, community resilience, circular economy, the community stewardship of land, and more!
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Your input is critical to the overall success of the Crisis Care Center Initiative approach so you are being invited to virtual planning meetings so the CCC Implementation Team can listen to your feedback. Below are five ways to get involved now:
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The Business Community Ownership (BCO) Fund is a new investment model that addresses the rising cost of commercial rent in Seattle, which often affects neighborhoods and businesses owned by people of color, immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people. These communities continue to have less access to capital due to systemic inequities, racism, and related barriers.
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Improve your home’s heating and cooling system and save money on your energy bills with a heat pump! King County’s Energize! program is offering heat pump installations in Skyway & White Center with up to 100% cost-coverage for income-qualified households.
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The Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) is proud to launch the Zoning Reform Tracker and share information on municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States. The Zoning Reform Tracker is meant to serve as a hub for documenting zoning reform efforts in the country. It is OBI’s belief that anti-density zoning ordinances play a powerful role not only in propagating race- and class-based exclusion, but in shaping life outcomes for children in communities, and therefore in furthering patterns of negative intergenerational stratification. Restrictive zoning is a powerful mechanism for hoarding resources, with great implications for racial residential segregation, and the former will not fundamentally change without reforming or overriding zoning regulation.
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The distinct belonging framework developed by the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) includes a set of principles and practices that can root out structural inequality and exclusion of all kinds while helping us turn toward, rather than against, each other. Beyond a call for inclusion into pre-existing structures built to serve only some of us, belonging asks each of us to commit to co-creating new structures built for everyone.
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What is the Rethinking Econ101 course? It's a 10-session long online course starting in September, which will:
Guide you through the intellectual foundations of mainstream economics
Expose the myths that mainstream economics espouses
Introduce new approaches to understanding the economy
Equip you with the tools to take action at your school and join the campaign to rethink economics
Communities of Opportunity (COO) is thrilled to announce our new Director! Elsa Batres-Boni is a passionate leader for community-driven change and has extensive experience in fostering equity and systems change in her personal and professional experience.
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Did you know that there is a centralized access point for many of the human service organizations serving the Snoqualmie Valley? If you or someone you know needs support with food, transitional housing, employment, financial assistance, or services for youth or seniors, give them a call: 425-470-5921
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A roundup of community partner news and stories of impact in the media for July 2023! Queer the Land, Front & Centered, Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC), Restaurant 2 Garden, People’s Economy Lab (PEL), Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services, UTOPIA WA, and more…
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Crafting a Solidarity Statement? The Building Movement Project & SolidarityIs created a new tool w/considerations to help your org with the process! Download to: Reflect on vision & intended impact; identify audiences & core messages; build relationships & assess capacity
Get ready for our virtual Introductory Trainings in Story-based Strategy coming up this fall! There has been an impressive interest in these trainings and the Center for Story-based Strategy wants to make sure to create more spaces to build with powerful organizers, cultural creators, and movement people and keep transforming narrative power and radical imagination for liberation and justice.
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Neighbor to Neighbor supports grassroots efforts that increase engagement, power and influence of community members affected by poverty and racial disparities.
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