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Partnering with Downtown Emergency Service Center

DESC (the Downtown Emergency Service Center) serves Seattle's most vulnerable population that is experiencing houselessness by providing housing, behavioral and physical health services, and crisis response. Specifically, DESC focuses on the chronically houseless population that is experiencing mental health and physical health challenges, as well as substance use disorders. Their goal is to help clients achieve their highest potential for independence, self-determination, and personal responsibility.

Partnering with Compass Housing Alliance

Partnering with YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish

Founded in 1894, YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish has been breaking down barriers to equity for nearly 130 years. YWCA is the region’s oldest and largest organization focused on the needs of women, providing services and advocacy to support stable homes and economic advancement, reduce violence and improve health, and promote racial equity and social justice. With programs that serve 7,000 people each year, YWCA is on a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, stand up for social justice, help families, and strengthen communities. Through direct services and advocacy, YWCA helps women and families move from surviving to thriving.

Partnering with West Seattle Mutual Aid Party

West Seattle Mutual Aid Party is a self-organized network dedicated to developing relationships with vulnerable neighbors, currently focused in and around the Delridge corridor in West Seattle. They approach their work with the mindset and intention of engaging in mutual aid rather than charity, meaning that they recognize they are neither “saving” nor “serving” anybody but instead are simply acting in solidarity with others. West Seattle Mutual Aid Party is connected with other mutual aid groups and projects to develop an infrastructure that thus far includes a weekly propane swap for the encampment along with food, medical, hygiene, and harm reduction supplies. They are working to build trust with more community members thus allowing them to expand their reach and impact.

Partnering with WestSide Baby

WestSide Baby helps local families and children get the basics they need for a stable environment from clothes and diapers to strollers and toys. They provide 45 diapers per month per child, free of charge, to as many clients as possible who need them. Their volunteers bundle the diapers and prepare them for distribution.

Partnering with White Center Heights Elementary School Family Services Center

Partnering with Transform Burien

As a 501(c)3 organization and community resource center in Burien, Transform is a Christ-centered outreach ministry of churches intentionally serving neighbors in need by providing basic necessities, access to community resources, and a place of friendship, encouragement, hope, and love. Transform welcomes all people to their facility without requiring identification, registration, or other limiting factors. Alongside their clothing and food bank, they offer a range of free services including hot meals, showers, haircuts, laundry and medical and dental services through the King County Mobile Health Clinic and Dental van. Items provided by Ridwell are distributed directly to anyone that comes through their doors in need of essential resources.

Partnering with Northwest Hospitality

Northwest Hospitality empowers positive community engagement with our vulnerable neighbors and their pets through mutual aid and simple programs while educating changemakers that housing is cheaper than homelessness.

Partnering with Northwest Center

Northwest Center (NWC) was founded in 1965 by Seattle parents who refused to give up when their kids with disabilities were rejected from schools. Northwest Center (NWC) is one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive organizations serving the community with disability inclusion programs and services that advance equal opportunities for people of all abilities. Today, Northwest Center provides Early Supports and inclusive Early Learning for children from birth to school age, where kids of all abilities share classrooms, playgrounds, and high expectations; and Employment Services where candidates with disabilities find employment as meaningful to them as it is beneficial to their employer. Northwest Center is living proof: when people of all abilities learn and work together, everyone benefits.

Partnering with Thurgood Marshall Elementary School

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, part of Seattle Public Schools, is located in the Central District of Seattle. It serves around 500 students and is recognized as a Title I school, receiving federal funding to support educational programs, particularly aimed at improving academic outcomes for low-income students. The school gained national recognition when it was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2023. Thurgood Marshall is known for its strong focus on closing opportunity gaps and fostering a sense of belonging among all students, promoting resilience, empathy, and lifelong learning. Items donated by Ridwell members will help support students and educational activities.