Partner Spotlight: Strong Transitions
This piece was featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report. “Stewart hosts four different programs or events to help transition our incoming fifth grade students and families to middle school: […]
Partner Spotlight: Developing Youth Outside of School
This piece was not featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report. “Hilltop Artists is a youth development program, which uses art as a means of engagement. Our programs are open […]
Partner Spotlight: Investing in Access
This piece was featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report. “Graduate Tacoma access funds have helped support the Tacoma Arts Live Cultural Arts Program since 2016, which provides arts-based expanded […]
Partner Spotlight: Planting Seeds
This piece was not featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report “Ready, Set, Read helps provide families with the tools and support they need to develop the skills and habit […]
Partner Spotlight: Playing to Learn
This piece was featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report. “Inclusive Play to Learn is the Children’s Museum of Tacoma’s free drop-in kindergarten readiness program offered at 25 sites across […]
Partner Spotlight: Safety Net
This piece was featured in the 2019 Community Impact Report. “Our Homeless Child Care Program provides families with short-term childcare subsidy, placement into high quality, licensed child care programs, and customized […]
Statewide school levy ‘fix’ has put Tacoma in a fix
Why has the Legislature’s solution to provide more uniform and equitable state education funding left 253 of the state’s 295 school districts facing devastating budget cuts this school year? A […]
Planning for a Career with Next Move
Christian Isaac is a youth program director at the YMCA. It’s a career path he didn’t know he wanted until enrolling in one of the first cohorts of the Next […]
Community Leader Spotlight: Kim Keith of Hilltop Artists
Kim Keith is the Executive Director of Hilltop Artists, a role she has held since May 2017. She is also on the leadership team for the Out of School and […]
Centering Youth in Local Government
While attending Tacoma’s first Mayoral Candidate Forum on LGBTQ+ issues in 2017, then-candidate Victoria Woodards met a sixth grader with a clear vision for her community. “Youth are not included […]