We’ve had a lot of inquiries lately from charitable organizations that have not yet received their official non-profit status or are groups with a looser organizational structure, but who still want to accept donations online. Getting comprehensive processing as an unincorporated non-profit can be tricky, unless you set up an individual account with PayPal (which, [...]
The Procession of The Species, in full swing This weeks (or, er, this months, I suppose) NPO of the week is so incredibly specific to Olympia, so ingrained a part of the little pocket of shaggy, radical culture, so wild and yet utterly ordinary to the town that I feel I may not be able [...]
Code Pink Marches On Washington For my first non-profit of the week after quite a long hiatus, I thought I’d write about one of my favorite organizations, Code Pink. Code Pink is a national, large-scale non-profit that organizes and unites women across the world in the struggle for peace. They have a website of commendable [...]
In which I launch into my second post about exploited, abused women inside of one week’s time. Earlier this year, I watched an incredibly powerful documentary about human trafficking and underage prostitution in New York City. The film, Very Young Girls, is nominally about young sex workers, but it’s implications are vastly more far-reaching. It [...]
SafePlace Fights Against Domestic Violence This week, getting back to our NPOTW feature, we’re showcasing another organization from the Seattle/Olympia area: incredible, necessary, cannot-say-enough-good-things-about-it advocacy agency/confidential shelter for victims of domestic violence SafePlace. Safeplace has been an invaluable local resource since 1981, when two programs run by the YWCA- Rape Relief and the Women’s Shelter- [...]
Getting Down To Business at the World Hunger Relief Farm Let me begin by saying: I love Texas. Politically, the Lone Star state and I generally differ, but I’m crazy about the weird landscapes, the emu jerky (and other, similarly bizarre food they have there), the well-mannered boys, South By Southwest, and Friday Night Lights [...]
Bugs McLovin’ lounges I am one sick puppy (laryngitis, ugh) and instead of blogging, I’d really rather be bingeing on episodes of The Wire (warning: linked video is NSFW) and mango sorbet, so I’ll keep this brief. PAWS (the Progressive Animal Welfare Society) is awesome; they run a wonderful shelter in Lynnwood, about 20 minutes away [...]
La Casa Hogar is another wonderful Yakima-based NPO that does incredibly valuable and compassionate work in the community. They are a resource for recently-arrived and immigrant members of Yakima’s Hispanic population and they offer community services for the young and disenfranchised and for people of limited resources. La Casa also throws fundraising events, does educational [...]
These kids today. . . SYPP Members at the Youth Organizing Institute Well, after a return from a brief, sad hiatus (in Berkeley for a memorial service), I’m back with a new NP of the Week and, surprise, it’s based in Seattle and is of personal importance to me. Yes, I use this blog to [...]
Kick some butt and take some names with Home Alive In 1993, on her way home from a night out with friends, Seattle singer Mia Zapata (of The Gits) was sexually assaulted and strangled to death with the cords from her hooded sweatshirt. She was 27. This loss to the Seattle music and arts community [...]
