nonprofits

In the post-Dobbs era, educators search for ways to better serve students raising children. A school on the Washington-Idaho border offers one approach.

The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a local jazz nonprofit focused on performance and mentorship, has a new temporary home and expanded event schedule in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood.

Pandemic-era cuts to Metro Parks Tacoma programs decreased already limited access to adaptive recreation in Tacoma and Pierce County. Rainier Adaptive Sports launched soon after to foster more accessible play options.

The second floor of Seattle's King Street Station is now Station Space. The new creative hub will house five different nonprofits focused on youth and the arts, including Totem Star which works with young recording musicians.

At age 50, Centrum has become a $4 million-a-year operation with 14 fulltime staff. In a typical year, it brings in 300 temporary faculty, more than 2,000 participants and thousands more visitors to a former military fort in Port Townsend.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has recently struggled with staffing changes and financial turmoil. These shifts at the Ashland theater company have led many to wonder: how did OSF get here?

As pandemic-related government aid programs end and inflation rises, nonprofits of all kinds are looking everywhere and trying everything to get volunteers. It’s reached the point where the lack of volunteers strains the safety net that nonprofits provide to many of society’s most vulnerable.

Since 2013, more than 1 million charities received donations from AmazonSmile, which sent a small portion of a customer's purchase on Amazon to a nonprofit of their choice. Amazon announced last week that the program will end on Feb. 20.

Seattle cultural institution El Centro de la Raza is marking 50 years. Founded after a peaceful occupation of a Beacon Hill elementary school, El Centro has dozens of programs, expanded to Federal Way and now owns a roller rink – part of its vision for a new community campus.

For years California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on incarcerated men and women to fight wildfires. They are trained to perform grueling work while earning just a few dollars, sometimes as little as $2 a day. Now a nonprofit group is helping incarcerated people who have been trained as firefighters secure careers in the profession once they leave prison.