volunteerism

The Salvation Army Northwest Division is looking for more bell ringing volunteers to meet their goal of raising $3.9 million for those in need.

Punk Rock Flea Market will host an event June 22-23 in a vacant building in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Organizers hope to show how empty spaces can serve a community.

Volunteers say the city's plan to build a $500,000 gated security fence around the parking lot shared by the volunteers and police threatens to impede their access to the building they use to serve free meals.

Cadaver dogs, ground-penetrating radar and high-tech computer mapping are all employed to help reveal suspected unmarked graves at Mool-Mool, or Fort Simcoe Historical State Park, on Yakama Nation lands.

Almost every day, people from all over the world try to find their footing after being released from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. An RV parked outside the immigration detention center and a hospitality house in south Tacoma managed by AIDNW give them a place to go.

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.

Rasir Bolton came to Gonzaga to further his basketball career. But he also found a calling away from the basketball court. Bolton has embedded himself in the community of Spokane, Washington, by helping with several charitable endeavors.

Burien, Wash. resident Irene Danysh left for a region that many people are running away from. In March, she left for Ukraine. The war there hits very close to home. Her parents were both refugees from the country.

Public-service minded Washington residents helped the state rank ninth in the nation for volunteering last year.According to a national volunteering…

Another list ranks Seattle #1. This time the data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau and the ranking has to do with moms and dads volunteering their…