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EYE OPENING
My Name Is Not "Those People"
This video presentation was shown at Building Changes' Benefit Luncheon on May 5, 2009. It features a powerful poem about homelessness by Julia K. Dinsmore, as read by Danny Glover, our keynote speaker at this year's luncheon. 
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One Perspective on the One Night Count
By the time Inglorious Basterds and Harry Potter had slipped into our discussion, the One Night Count felt more like a fraternizing affair than a civic one. So far, our flashlit trek through Woodland Park... -
Momentum Builds for Extending Economic Opportunities to Homeless Job Seekers
Talk to your friends, family, or even people who provide services to people experiencing homelessness, and when the topic of employment comes up, many will say to you "those people can't work. They don't have... -
Still Striving to Meet the Need: 2009 Supportive Housing Institute
American scholar William Arthur Ward said: "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." Despite financially challenging times, committed realists from across the state are diligently...
HEADS UP
Seattle Times Praises Washington Families Fund
In an editorial written by columnist, Lance Dickie, the Seattle Times encourages lawmakers to be good stewards of state funds by renewing a $6M appropriation for the Washington Families Fund.
Building Changes Releases 5-Year Outcomes on More Than 1,000 Families Served by the Washington Families Fund
Newly available data on the Washington Family Fund’s first five years of operation demonstrates how the Fund has met the needs of homeless families through housing stability, increase in income, and stability for school-age children.
New Nonprofit Capacity-Building Program Announced
Building Changes' Economic Opportunities Initiative, a new training and capacity-building program, will help nonprofit agencies statewide address broad economic recovery issues in their communities.