Mountains to Sound

Leading and inspiring action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Permission to Start Dreaming

Helping veterans and first responders throughout the PNW access, effective, long-term solutions to transform PTSD into Post Traumatic Growth.

Pasado’s Safe Haven

Fighting to end animal cruelty and create a more compassionate world.

For Hunger – Nourish Pierce County

History

For more than forty years Nourish (formerly FISH Food Banks) has provided a lifeline of support to its clients. In the early 1970s, a group of Pierce County churches came together to form what would evolve into seven brick-and-mortar locations, as well as nineteen additional sites served by 2 ground-breaking mobile units, two of only a few of its kind in the country. Nourish reaches more people successfully due to its size, the largest network of food banks in Pierce County.

Mission

To provide nutritious food and support services to people in need with compassion, dignity and respect.

Vision

Creating pathways from scarcity to security.

For The LGBTQ Community – Rainbow Center

Through education, advocacy, and celebration, Rainbow Center expands resources and safe space for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, two-spirit, and allied (LGBTQ2SA) community.

For more than 20 years, Rainbow Center has served as a resource hub for the LGBTQ2SA community in South Puget Sound. Rainbow Center has daily open hours, where resources including a lending library, computer and Wi-Fi access, advocacy services, and educational materials are available to community members. Each year we provide direct services to 1,000 individuals, greet almost 4,000 visits at Rainbow Center, and touch the lives of thousands more through events and partnerships.

For Youth Development – Greentrike, through the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

Greentrike is a nonprofit that advocates for and models equitable access to playful experiences for children, youth, and families — because play is essential for learning, joy, and a thriving community.

What is Greentrike?

The work of the Children’s Museum of Tacoma has evolved and grown over the last decade.  We are an education and advocacy organization that has become more than a museum. We changed our name in the fall of 2019 to reflect this organizational growth, and are now called Greentrike, the nonprofit organization that supports existing programming and advocacy for children and youth in Pierce County, Washington.

Greentrike continues to honor children and youth and champion play with the same staff, mission, and board.  Donations to Greentrike support outreach programming, multiple preschool locations, virtual programming, and two museums.