Nonprofit Spotlight Archive

  • Team Rubicon Model

    Nonprofit Spotlight: Team Rubicon

    Weber Shandwick Seattle recently teamed up with Team Rubicon, a veteran service organization, to raise awareness and support of Veteran Emergency Response Teams. Team Rubicon address two crises, inadequate veteran reintegration and inadequate disaster response, by repurposing veterans’ specialized skills, such as teamwork, leadership, risk...

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    Nonprofit Spotlight: Team in Training

    The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) of America designed a unique avenue where fitness and advocacy meet. Driven by the desire to defeat cancer, LLS’ Team in Training (TNT) program serves as an opportunity to make a difference while getting in shape. Trainees pledge to...

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    Nonprofit Spotlight: Camp Korey

    As part of our nonprofit spotlight series, our social impact team recently had the privilege of chatting with Justin Huguet, marketing & communication coordinator for Camp Korey. Camp Korey is a non-profit focused on children with serious and debilitating illnesses that operates year round, offering...

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    Nonprofit Spotlight: Online Giving Goes Viral With Everyone Gives

    On Feb. 22, Seattle based Real Estate Giant Colliers International launched a non-profit—Everyone Gives, which led to local (Seattle Times) and national media (CNN) attention. The goal of Everyone Gives is to harness the power of social media by prompting giving to go viral. Rather...

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    Nonprofit Campaign Spotlight: Shot@Life

    It’s great to see non-profit organizations continuing to leverage social media to increase awareness and support for their efforts. One recent standout example is the UN Foundation’s recently-launched Shot@Life campaign. Check out the video below for a taste of what they’re about. Shot@Life is a...

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  • TeamUp

    Seattle Nonprofit Spotlight: Team Up for Nonprofits

    Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan Hodgson (@ryanintheus), executive director of a fantastic Seattle nonprofit called Team Up for Nonprofits. I’ve known Ryan for the past year via a series of Twitter and email exchanges but it was great to...

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    Steel that Heals

    A man lay unmoving on the Nairobi roadside, as a small crowd of people gathered round him. I assumed he was the victim of a road traffic accident, hit as he tried to dodge traffic on the six-lane thoroughfare, so crowded with cars, matatus, and...

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    One Day. Immeasurable Impact.

    Last Friday, United Way hosted the Community Resource Exchange (CRE), an event held at Qwest Events Center that connects King County’s homeless with immediate access to vital services—in one place, in a single day. The CRE provides everything from free haircuts, and hot meals to housing...

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  • Global Health Bringing it Home - African Healthcare

    Global Health: Bringing it Home

    I met Judith in 1998, in Siaya, Kenya. She spoke quietly of the baby girl she had lost to malaria which had infected her child’s brain. Judith later turned her tragedy into resolve to save other mothers and children from a similar fate. She trained to become a community health worker and...

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    Entrepreneurs Grapple with Social Values through Business

    I recently attended the Bottoms to Billion Bottom Line Conference at Seattle Pacific University, where business and thought leaders discussed the role of business in ending global poverty. Executives from Adidas, Costco, and Microsoft mingled with non-profits like PATH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...

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