Adoption, Education, and Preservation: How PAWS does it all!
This quarter YP Impact is focusing on animals and our featured nonprofit is PAWS (Progressive Animal Welfare Society), a Pacific...
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Lifestyle
SOCIAL ISSUES
AJ Rushin
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min
Everyday Environmentalism
Earth, is experiencing unprecedented warming, leading to extreme weather patterns and the suffering of millions in a socially unequal way.
Ross Palmer
- Feb 14, 2020
- 4 min
Conserving the Places That Benefit Us All: An Interview with Joanna Nelson de Flores of Forterra
This quarter YP Impact is focusing on the Environment and has partnered with Forterra, a Pacific Northwest nonprofit working to conserve...
Clarissa Marzan
- Oct 9, 2019
- 8 min
But First, a Home: An Interview with Kelli Larsen, Chief Program Officer of Plymouth Housing
Plymouth Housing, a King County-based nonprofit that works to address and eliminate homelessness by developing and operating permanent housi
Clarissa Marzan
- Oct 3, 2019
- 3 min
Better Together: How nonprofits can achieve more through partnerships
Common perception often suggests that bigger means better, when in fact many nonprofits can be just as successful—if not more so—by staying
Ross Palmer
- Sep 13, 2019
- 4 min
Giving Children a Fighting Chance
Once you discover how significant the long-term effects are, of a childhood lacking in positive and essential elements and learn about all o
Ross Palmer
- Jul 18, 2019
- 2 min
Helping At-Risk Children Thrive
YP Impact has been wanting to work with charities that help at-risk children, since we started. And when we were trying to figure out...
Clarissa Marzan
- Jul 3, 2019
- 6 min
Helping Children Stay Safe, Warm, and Dry: An interview with Nancy Woodland of Westside Baby
This quarter we’re partnering with Westside Baby, a local nonprofit that provides basic needs for children. We recently chatted with the...
Ross Palmer
- May 8, 2019
- 3 min
Earning a High School Diploma: Its Impact on Students and the Economy
For the second quarter of 2019, YP Impact is focusing on helping students graduate from high school and earn their diploma. The positives...
Ross Palmer
- Apr 11, 2019
- 6 min
Friends of Youth: Helping Students Achieve
For quarter 2, YP Impact is focusing on helping students graduate. Washington State’s graduation rate currently sits at 79.3 percent,...
Kara Wenrich
- Apr 11, 2019
- 5 min
Reconnecting Youth to Help them Graduate High School
What would Seattle be like today if people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Paul Allen had not graduated high school? Would...
Clarissa Marzan
- Mar 6, 2019
- 7 min
A Vision for a More Equitable Future: An Interview with Jonathan Sposato
With the YPOS 8th anniversary party approaching this weekend, we spoke with event ambassador and United Way of King County co-chair...
Ross Palmer
- Jan 31, 2019
- 4 min
Transforming Lives: An Interview with FareStart CEO Angela Stowell
From Poverty to a Promising Future. For the first quarter of 2019, YP Impact is focusing on poverty – the issues faced, the people...
Kara Wenrich
- Jan 9, 2019
- 2 min
The Faces of Poverty in Seattle
Poverty marginalizes, poverty suffocates. Poverty is scarcity of food, shelter, clothing. Poverty is being sick and unable to afford or...
Alyssa Abe
- Dec 20, 2018
- 2 min
One Minute in the Shoes of a Homeless Person
“Go apply for a freakin’ job!” Isn’t that what everyone thinks when they see a homeless person begging on the street? For the next...
Kara Wenrich
- Dec 19, 2018
- 3 min
What if WE are the Solution to Homelessness?
A student, a co-worker, a person who graduated top of their class, a person escaping domestic violence, a person who moved to a new city...
Kara Wenrich
- Dec 6, 2018
- 4 min
Walk With, Not By… Humanizing the Homeless
At the intersection of 6th and Columbia in downtown Seattle, Edward, a physically imposing man, gruffly covered with tattoos, ballcap,...
Ahmad Corner
- Nov 9, 2018
- 4 min
Ending Homelessness: Fighting a Crisis with Lauren McGowan
Young Professionals of Seattle just launched a new division: YP Impact. The intent is to build awareness around some of the issues...
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