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Solid Ground is a Seattle-based nonprofit working to end poverty and undo racism and other oppressions that are root causes of poverty in our community.

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Lhorna Murray, her children, and Rolo the dog pose while volunteers look on.

Building community one smile at a time

A picture is worth a thousand words. Professionally shot and printed portraits of your family when you’ve maybe never had them before? A thousand stories and a million smiles. Residents at Solid Ground’s Sand Point Housing campus were grinning ear-to-ear on Saturday, December 1, when the international Help-Portrait movement set up shop in the basement of Santos Place to shoot and print portraits for campus residents for free. Help-Portrait was founded by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart in...

GiveCamp's Xuan Wang & Maxwell Rediker consult with Solid Ground Data Systems Developer, Joseph Boland, to finalize an emergency messaging system for Sand Point Housing residents.

GiveCamp brings emergency text messaging to Sand Point Housing

When Sand Point Housing resident Charleena Lyles was killed by Seattle Police in June 2017, Solid Ground had no reliable way to instantly alert all 400+ campus residents about the emergency. Recently, a volunteer crew from Seattle GiveCamp took major strides to make sure that residents can be alerted quickly and reliably if there are future emergencies on campus. GiveCamp is a nonprofit that provides pro bono software development to Seattle-area nonprofits. They host weekend-long...

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation supports children’s health & nutrition education

We’re thrilled to be 2018 recipients of a $10,000 Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation Neighborhood Grant to support Solid Ground’s Community Food Education (CFE). Each year, CFE engages more than 2,200 youth and their parents in eating healthily on a budget through nutrition and cooking classes for kids in both community organizations and Seattle Public Schools. The grant covers classroom supplies, groceries for participants to take home after each class, gift cards, and kitchen supplies to...

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Building community one smile at a time

GiveCamp brings emergency text messaging to Sand Point Housing

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation supports children’s health & nutrition education

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