White Center

In White Center, a key priority driven by residents and grassroots organizations is anchoring multi-cultural businesses and partnerships in the community to prevent displacement. Paramount to this work is increasing community leadership, with an emphasis on engaging young people. The partnership is also moving to make real the community’s vision for a hub that includes affordable housing and be a place where people can connect, learn and live as a strong vibrant neighborhood; where people can get involved and connect to each other.

The partnership is also addressesing the employment needs of local White Center residents, particularly people of color, and immigrants, by providing customized, culturally relevant career navigation services designed to put residents on a path to livable-wage employment. The partnership will deepen their understanding of employment needs, barriers to employment, and employment services gaps in White Center, and identify solutions and opportunities for addressing these needs.

FEEST aims to build upon their Healthy Food Roundtable (HFRT) Project by developing and strengthening the base and analysis of community organizing for food justice and healthy equity, bringing along community members who we reached last year, and deepening and widening the base of youth and residents skilled in mobilizing for health equity.

The White Center partnership includes: White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA), FEEST, White Center Food Bank, YWCA, Southwest Youth and Family Services.

Watch the White Center partnership video here (or below):

The White Center story