Articles tagged with: Seattle Times
In a guest Seattle Times editorial, United Way of King County CEO, Jon Fine, and Board Chair, Dan Fulton, “see a community brimming with creativity about how to make things better for those who are struggling” and call on people to resolve to do what they can to help their neighbors in need. Read the full editorial.
Vince Matulionis, our director of our ending homelessness work, recently sent this e-mail to United Way of King County staff.
By now I’m certain that most of you have probably heard about the recent shooting death of a homeless individual named John T. Williams.
If not, read the Seattle Times piece on the incident. Also a slightly different perspective on the incident from Real Change News.
In a manner of speaking it turns out that John Williams was one of our guys. …
Let the fist pumping and general merriment begin! We are proud to announce that our community raised $101.2 million for our annual fundraising campaign. This makes us the number-one United Way in the country!
$35.5 million of the total was given directly to United Way of King County and will be invested on behalf of our donors to build on the results of the past year, like providing an additional 6 million pounds of food to put on peoples tables and lifting 1,000…
…of Dolores Gancher, a homeless woman taken under the wing of Seattle Times staff members. It’s a good reminder that in solving homelessness, both individual kindness and systemic efforts play their part. By Nicole Brodeur.
Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson wrote about our Hunger Challenge yesterday in her “All You Can Eat” blog. People commenting on her post have raised many interesting points and shared their personal stories of living on less. Click here to check it out.
I was struck by this comment in particular:
“…the main reason I can pull this off is that I have the time to do it, frankly. It takes a lot of planning and determination to do this week in,…
In January, The Seattle Times ran an opinion piece from United Way of King County CEO Jon Fine and The Seattle Foundation CEO Phyllis Campbell about their partnership to launch an $8 million philanthropic initiative to address our community’s economic crisis.
