Solid Ground

Collage of cooking instructors teaching virtual classes

Reimagining cooking together

Our Community Food Education team creates community in their cooking and nutrition classes – virtually!

Black woman gazes hopefully off over a body of water. To her right is a blue text box with black and white text that reads: “I could dance right now! This program has helped me have a better life, not just go from one place of poverty to another. I now have a chance to have better, to be better, to do better.” ~LaTanya Cheatam, JHRRH participant

Personal advocacy makes powerful change

LaTanya's story shows how resilience and brilliance – combined with compassionate support and collaborative advocacy – can lead to legislative change that helps many.

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Golden Hour graphic in bronze, orange and yellow, with white lettering, and the words CELEBRATING COMMUNITY BRILLIANCE AND RESILENCE in navy blue lettering.

Your light shines so brightly!

We're all aglow! Thanks to all who joined us for our Golden Hour 2021 event. You can still view stories of our community's resilience and brilliance via the recorded livestream from Town Hall Seattle.

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Side-by-side images of two different Black Lives Matter/Justice for George Floyd protests, people wearing masks, holding signs

Leaning into community approaches to public safety

Solid Ground is actively working to understand our role in the ongoing movement for racial justice and Black liberation – and how we can use our privilege to further the demands for racial equity.

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Community Report 2019

Healing, wellness, and race and social justice are critical ingredients in our anti-poverty recipe for change for more than 76,000 neighbors in 2019.

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Solid Ground believes poverty is solvable.

Our approach combines direct services with community-based advocacy. We support individuals and work to undo racism and other oppressions that create barriers – so everyone can achieve their full potential.

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Art Club collaboration nurtures young leaders

An already-powerful partnership shined even more brightly out of the pandemic darkness: Art Club at Solid Ground’s Sand Point Housing. Produced by Davida Ingram, Public Engagement Programs Manager at The Seattle Public Library, Art Club features a powerhouse team of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) teaching artists who nurture strength and confidence with an incredible group of young residents via multi-media arts and deep dialogue. “Art Club has shared an important child’s-eye...

Seeking justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women

“When the community doesn’t know about it, we can’t respond to it. How do you respond to violence you don’t even know exists? How do you respond to violence you don’t track?” ~Annita Lucchesi, Executive Director, Sovereign Bodies Institute At Solid Ground, we believe all oppression is linked; we cannot work toward justice for some groups while ignoring others. While events of the past year have focused light on the racist violence targeting Black people...

Protecting our youth

America is a gun, declares Brian Bilston’s viral poem – and increasingly, it targets America’s youth, primarily BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) youth. Our nation is facing yet another moment of truth. The guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is but a brief respite in a system designed to let the police kill with total impunity. Horrific killings of Ma’Khia Bryant, 15 years old, Adam...