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September 1, 2015
10:00am to 11:30am
PDT Seattle + Webinar
Legal help can often mean the difference between shelter and homelessness, illness and health, and loss or opportunity. Yet everyday millions of Americans cannot access the legal assistance they need when facing life-changing situations such as domestic violence, unlawful evictions, or the loss of veterans’, health or disability benefits. Please join Philanthropy Northwest and leaders from the Montana Justice Foundation, The California Endowment, and the Public Welfare Foundation for a conversation exploring the role civil legal aid can play to complement your existing funding portfolio.
August 2015 |
We are excited to announce that we have added another position to the Momentum Fellowship program. We are now hiring for a Program Fellow-Midwest Region at Marguerite Casey Foundation. The 18-month position, based in Seattle, will involve working closely and collaboratively with grantees in Chicago and some surrounding southern states.
July 2015 |
Jondou Chen, Ann Ishimaru and Joe Lott, University of Washington | Research consistently finds that strong parent–family–school relations is critical to student success. Traditional parent involvement efforts assume that schools are neutral places that treat everyone equally, but that ignores cultural context, and leads to a focus on changing the parents in order to match a preconceived notion of what a good parent should be. For parents who are struggling to make ends meet, who did not have positive experiences in school when they were students, or who are new Americans unfamiliar with how the system works, traditional efforts to engage them in their children's education may instead highlight barriers between the culture of the community and the culture of the school.
July 2015 |
Kristen Holway, Senior Manager, Learning Practice | Knowing that nearly half of all low-income Montanans experience at least one civil legal problem each year that goes unaddressed, the Montana Access to Justice Commission, with support from Philanthropy Northwest member Montana Justice Foundation, conducted a study to better understand the gaps and barriers to civil legal aid access. Their findings have implications for funders across all states and all sectors — and have us asking ourselves whether there is a need for broader conversation.
July 2015 |
A coalition of 17 companies, including Philanthropy Northwest members Alaska Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Starbucks, have pledged to train and hire 100,000 16- to 24-year-old Americans who face systemic barriers to jobs and education.
June 2015 |
Kris Hermanns, Pride Foundation | Last week’s historic ruling by the Supreme Court finally affirms the decades-long fight for marriage equality. My heart is filled with joy knowing that all couples nationwide will now enjoy the same right to marry under the law. Yet while the ruling represents a critical step forward for LGBTQ people and their families, our quest for full equality is far from complete.
June 2015 |
Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS Count Data Book is an annual publication that assesses child well-being nationally and across the 50 states, as well as in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Using an index of 16 indicators, the report ranks states on overall child well-being and in economic well-being, education, health and family/community. The related Kids Count Data Center makes this information interactive, with the option of searching by state and data topic, comparing indicators and viewing them as maps and charts.
