nonprofits

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.

Marking the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, a new effort called the Black Future Co-op Fund announced this week that 40 Black-led organizations will…

This time of year, many of us have been buying pasta or cans of soup to contribute to food drives. But food banks say they could use donations that are…

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, local non-profits want to make sure needy families are on your list. Several charities are collecting toys…