![]() Dress for Success is “much more than a new outfit.” The nonprofit helps lift women out of poverty by providing professional attire that leads to the security of a job. Seattle might dismiss fashion, but when it comes to interviewing for jobs and thriving in the workplace, clothing can make all the difference. Creative Justice aims to address them by giving youth who face nonviolent charges the chance to participate in an art program to decrease or eliminate time spent in detention-restorative, not retributive, justice. By 2020 that number dropped to 10, thanks to efforts by community organizers to eliminate youth detention, but disparities remain. But did you know just how staggering the problem is among youth? In 2015, 35 Black youth were in secure detention in King County each day, per county data. How to help: volunteer, donateīy now we’re all well aware of how the criminal justice system disproportionately targets people of color. ![]() With six different ecology, agriculture, and art programs aimed to restore land in the community, Common Acre keeps Indigenous knowledge of nature at the forefront and builds camaraderie. How to help: donate Common Acreįood does much more than sustain us-it connects us to the land and to each other. This pair of writing centers provides free after-school tutoring, in writing and other subjects, along with creative writing instruction, forefronting the idea that learning needn’t be dull. How to help: volunteer, donate Bureau of Fearless Ideas If you sign up for their email list, you’ll get updates every two weeks with different action alerts and other ways to contribute-something especially important during the recent Afghan refugee crisis. That was thanks to MAPS-AMEN (Muslim Association of Puget Sound American Muslim Empowerment Network). You’ve probably seen this sign posted in restaurant windows or in Governor Jay Inslee’s Twitter feed.
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