If you are in the giving mood, here are some nonprofits with a direct connection to Capitol Hill. Each is on our list for small donations. If you have favorites, please consider adding a comment.
Capitol Hill Arts Center(after we posted this, Slog helpfully pointed out that the organization is for-profit — something that j can now confirm after unsuccesfully trying to add CHAC to his donation matching program at work. Slog’s suggested replacement? Northwest Film Forum)- Capitol Hill Community Resource Center
- Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program
- Friends Of The Cedar River Watershed
The water you drink comes from the resevoir in Volunteer Park which comes from the Cedar River. - Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project
- Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
- Seattle Parks Foundation
- Transportation Choices Coalition
And a few more from the area:
- Capitol Hill Cooperative Preschool
- Church at the Center
- Community Lunch On Capitol Hill
- Dance on Capitol Hill
- Friends of the Conservatory (FOC) Volunteer Park
- Lambert House
- St. Joseph’s Elementary School
Still looking for more to help? Here’s a selection of WA state focused nonprofits to consider:
- American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation
- Cascade Land Conservancy
- El Centro De La Raza
- NW Energy Coalition
- Pike Market Senior Center and Downtown Foodbank
- Planned Parenthood Of Western Washington
- Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
- Washington Trails Association
- Washington Wildlife Federation
Note that Capitol Hill Seattle blog didn’t make the list. Please donate a snarky comment instead.
–j
Don’t forget about Mountains to Sound Greenway! I volunteered last weekend, we had a group of 25 people plant 308 trees near North Bend. I highly recommend it.
Capitol Hill Housing http://www.chhip.org is an incredible organization. They used to be a PDA (Public Development Association) so couldn’t fundraise the same as other housing groups, but now they can! Give give give!
They own, among other buildings, the Pantages at Denny and Harvard and the new building next door to the Egyptian. They’ve also rehabbed lots of great, classic brick apartment buildings in Capitol Hill.
Pride Foundation. http://www.pridefoundation.org Not only do they assist throughout the entire PNW (including Alaska and Montana), but fund projects and orgs in Seattle. The Miller Comm. Center fountain received some funding from the Foundation, as well as a grant given to the Lambert House kids to create the bench for the P-Patch on Thomas St.
Oops. Sorry about the bad info about CHAC. The Slog sets us straight here.
Dance on Capitol Hill (in the Other list) went away several years ago – there is still a dance studio in their 15th Ave space, but it’s not DCH. I have no idea if the current studio is a non-profit or not.
A great Cap Hill dance studio that is a non-profit is Velocity Dance Center.
I will second Lambert House and Pride Foundation. Very different organizations so it just depends on what you are looking for.