David Peterson, leader of Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, and Brian Potter of the Amospheric Interactions Research Team, of the US Forest Service, will give Northwest Science Writers and guests updates on how they study fires and the technology they use at the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. You can send questions – in advance – to our Facebook page. Yasmeen Sands, information officer for the service, will use your questions to customize the event for this audience.
Are you a nonprofit staff member who finds your board frustrating, useless or inscrutable? Come to this workshop and learn how to create a productive and mutually supportive working relationship between nonprofit staff and board members.
Please join us for the 4th Annual Vance Building Open House featuring food, drink and worthy causes to chase away those post-holiday blues!
Participants include:
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Climate Solutions
Community Attributes International
Environment Washington
Equal Rights Washington
Fuse Washington
Groundwire
GuentherMedia
HARRISON architects
Housing Development Consortium
Ingersoll Gender Center
Milepost Consulting
Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development
Olympic Park Institute, a campus of NatureBridge
Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
I know it's the time of year where the nonprofit donation requests start rolling in, but this really is an event where you get what you pay for AND it goes to a good cause: helping ECOSS expand our impressive roster of programs that help support the environment and the community.
Join us Oct. 21 the Sound Alliance fundraiser, "Celebrating Leaders, Advancing the Common Good." The keynote speaker will be Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Founding Director of the Union for Reform Judaism's Just Congregations. He received his training as a community organizer from the Industrial Areas Foundation, and has led efforts to engage thousands of members of congregations to join together in successful campaigns for health care access, affordable housing, public education, nursing care workers' rights and a living wage.
Location
Highline Community College, Student Union Building, Mt. Townsend Room
