Spokane Alliance

IT'S HOT OUT THERE! At the request of our friends at CoolSpokane and Experience Matters, we are sharing the urgent need for cooling pop-up locations and volunteers.

Come see one of the two showings of "The Immigration Resident" July 3rd and July 8th in Spokane to support our friends at Latinos en Spokane and Fuse Washington.

These stories of resilience against an unjust immigration system, navigating a global pandemic, and overcoming systemic barriers to justice deserve to be heard!

Thank you, Warren Seyler, for offering a historical tour for Spokane Alliance members this past Saturday!

Thank you Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, A Charitable Foundation for your belief in our work! Spokane Alliance United 501(c)3 was a recipient of a recent grant to support the leadership development of everyday people in our community! Together, we are making Spokane a stronger, more equitable city.

Grant Awards Announcement, New Sponsee & PRIDE!   View as Webpage   GRANT AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT OVER $300,000 IN AWARDS TO 41 NONPROFITS Our sincere gratitude to all nonprofits who applied this spring. Regardless of receiving a grant from us, we recog

What a wonderful BBQ yesterday to celebrate 22 years of organizing for the common good!

Over 300 Spokane Alliance members have contributed to our strength this past year--you've attended trainings, made decisions at Delegate Assemblies, identified and developed issues through research action teams, made contributions, showed our power at the recent housing action, and so much more.

Thank you, St. David's Episcopal Church for hosting and the planning team for making it happen!

What a night! Start to finish, Spokane Alliance leaders shared powerful, compelling testimony with Mayor Lisa Brown and members of over 30 organizations about the need to put local housing levy funds to work!

***Mayor Brown Commits to ‘HEART Fund’ for Affordable Housing in Spokane***

What a fantastic night! Over 225 people showed up to affirm our work over the last five years to create and defend our local affordable housing levy. Mayor Brown committed to releasing these funds by May 15th to started building the new affordable homes that Spokane desperately needs!

Spokane's Affordable Housing Crisis: Challenges and Solutions At a Housing Assembly in Spokane, community leaders urged Mayor Lisa Brown to commit to using the city's 1590 affordable housing levy funds transparently and equitably as originally intended. After years of the funds being diverted, the HEART team successfully advocated to protect the $11 million fo...

What a night!

Spokane's Affordable Housing Crisis: Challenges and Solutions At a Housing Assembly in Spokane, community leaders urged Mayor Lisa Brown to commit to using the city's 1590 affordable housing levy funds transparently and equitably as originally intended. After years of the funds being diverted, the HEART team successfully advocated to protect the $11 million fo...

Happy International Workers' Day! Our friends at Latinos en Spokane are hosting today's May Day March and Spokane Alliance and SLIHC will be sharing about our local housing levy funds that can be used to build desperately needed affordable homes!

Less than a week until the Housing Assembly with Mayor Lisa Brown. RSVP to join us on May 2nd!

https://www.spokanealliance.org/housing_assembly

Congratulations to SEIU Healthcare 1199NW! Members at Deaconess and Valley ratified a historic union contract with MultiCare Health System. Their contract includes wages that recruit and retain staff, protect the important elements of their healthcare plan, and help ensure safe hospital staffing.

Read more at https://www.thestand.org/2024/04/spokane-hospital-workers-vote-to-ratify-new-contract/?link_id=1&can_id=ace6aa2a9535788ab82f482eff908edd&source=email-big-raises-in-spokane-pattys-priority-call-988-for-support&email_referrer=email_2270309&email_subject=big-raises-in-spokane-pattys-priority-call-988-for-support and https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/apr/04/new-multicare-deaconess-and-valley-hospital-contra/

Spokane hospital workers vote to ratify new contract Amid countdown to ULP strike, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW reaches agreement with MultiCare Deaconess and Valley hospitals that addresses short-staffing issues, recruitment and retention.   The following is from SEIU Healthcare 1199NW: SPOKANE (April 5, 2024) — More than 1,400 healthcare workers at Dea...

One month until the Housing Assembly!

Join us on May 2nd for our action with Mayor Lisa Brown and other Spokane City leaders! RSVP at https://www.spokanealliance.org/housing_assembly and invite your community to act with us for affordable housing!

Thank you Salish School of Spokane for your presentation last night as faith, labor and civic leaders from the Spokane Alliance work to understand the ongoing impacts of colonization, build right relationship with indigenous communities, and identify collective action for the common good. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn about your critical work on language revitalization that ultimately supports stronger, healthier communities!

The Spokane Alliance stands with frontline workers at Multicare Deaconess and Valley Hospitals in fighting for a fair union contract that preserves access to quality health insurance. Join worker leaders next Friday 2/23 in learning more! SEIU Healthcare 1199NW

Thank you, Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, for awarding us a grant to continue our work to bring the Wrestling With the Truth of Colonization training to Spokane! We are so grateful you chose to support the Spokane Alliance and our work to understand colonization and how to build right relationships and take action with Indigenous individuals and communities.

Learn more about the Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund at https://www.smith-barbieri.com/ and about Wrestling with the Truth of Colonization at https://www.spokanealliance.org/wrestling_with_the_truth.

REGISTRATION OPEN! Are you angry about what's happening in your community? Want to learn how to build power? Curious about community organizing?

On March 2nd and 9th, we are hosting a training on the Foundations of Community Organizing for Spokane Alliance members to explore the philosophy and practices of broad-based community organizing.

Information and registration here:

Foundations of Community Organizing - Training Building power for the common good in Spokane, WA.

Last week, over 60 leaders from Spokane Alliance institutions gathered for a Power Assembly to discuss who we are, where we are going, and how we will get there. We built relationships, recognized the people and money that have been organized, and clarified our values. The people who gathered voiced their support for a Racial Equity Values Statement, the formation of a Racial Equity Team, and changes to our membership agreement to formalize our values of diversity, equity and inclusion.

In addition, we made plans to build our power by deepening core team within our member institutions--a core team is a diverse, cross-section of leaders in an institution who build power to act together. They're our tool to strengthen institutions from within and bring pressures to the broader organization for action.

Thank you, Warren Seyler, for talking with Spokane Alliance leaders, about the history and future of the Spokane Tribe!

We are at City Council tonight to preserve housing levy funds for affordable housing and ask the council to meet with us in January to make sure these funds are used as intended.

Thought provoking coverage on the resurgence of the Social Gospel.

“Great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation,” added Fain, who often carries his grandmother’s Bible. “It wasn’t logic that caused Moses to raise his staff on the bank of the Red Sea. It wasn’t common sense that caused Paul to abandon the law and embrace grace. And it wasn’t a confident committee that prayed in a small room in Jerusalem for Peter’s release from prison. It was a fearful, desperate, band of believers that were backed into a corner.”

Analysis: This Christian movement is making a comeback and changing American politics | CNN The UAW’s recent deal with the Big Three automakers wasn’t just a victory for labor. It also marked the revival of an overlooked Christian movement that’s changing our politics.

Thank you, Avista Foundation, for supporting our vision to develop strong leaders, vibrant institutions, and thriving communities!

Spokane Alliance United recently received a grant from the Avista Foundation to support our work to develop leaders among people with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity. Read more on the Avista Foundation at https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/10/04/2754869/0/en/Avista-Foundation-Announces-Third-Quarter-Grants.html

What a great morning doing an institutional briefing at Salem Lutheran Church!

The Delegate Assembly is one of the decision-making bodies of the Spokane Alliance, and includes representatives all of our member institutions. We gathered tonight to hear updates from our research action teams including Housing Equity, Jobs, and Truth & Transformation, and commit to bringing opportunities for action back to our members.

Join Spokane Alliance member institutions Health Equity Circle at the University of Washington, WSNA, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, Fuse Washington for the Spokane premiere of American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System on Thursday, June 22, 2023, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.

Did you know? The US spends more on health care than any other nation and yet we have the worst outcomes and access. 4 out of 5 Washingtonians worry about being able to afford health care and 1 in 4 are forced to skip their medications, cut pills in half, or leave their prescriptions at the counter because they can’t afford them. Come find out how we got here!

Free Screening of American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System We need to fix our health care system. Join us for a free documentary screening on how we got here and what we can do about it.

Come support Parkview Early Learning Center and Northeast Youth & Family Services at the Annual Spring Market!

The Housing Equity Action Research Team collecting information on housing insecurity and vacant properties at Neighbor Days!

It’s been a busy winter for the Spokane Alliance! Below is a link to our recap of all the great work we have accomplished together in the past few months.

In this newsletter, you will hear about Friends of Alliance, the current work of our teams, the important policies we are moving forward and meet our newest members.
https://www.spokanealliance.org/march_2023_newsletter

March 2023 Newsletter Building power for the common good in Spokane, WA.

Spokane Alliance updated their address.