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Meet Roland Chit Yee Htwe, Employment Specialist
High Point Healthy Families
Recognizing those who make our work possible Do you have a question about Neighborhood House?
Upcoming Events
Faces in Our House
Neighborhood Housemates
IN THE HOUSE | 07.2015
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE NEWSLETTER
MAILING ADDRESS905 Spruce Street Suite 200Seattle, WA 98104
EMAIL MARK AT: [email protected]
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As a community member and social worker, I have been involved with Burmese refugees since 2011 and I’ve been able to bring those experiences and the knowl-edge gained from them to share with Neighborhood House.
The Weller Building1225 South Weller St. Suite 510Seattle, WA 98144
A: I would like to have Satya Nadella’s job (Microsoft’s CEO). His salary and bonus for 2014 was $11.6 million! That means he made $44,615.38 in a single day! Now that would be something wouldn’t it?
Then I thought I’d like to be Russell Wilson, the Seattle Seahawks football quarterback. I’d also want his good looks and charm!
But on the serious side, the job I’d really like to try is the Dalai Lama’s. What would it be like to live with no anger or hatred in your heart, only love? What would it be like to live every day with a singular purpose of bringing peace and harmony everywhere I could?
Q: If you could try one job for a day, what would it be?
August 195:30 - 8 p.m.
Neighborhood House High Point Center
5K Fun Run in the South Sound
Meron AsgedomDiana ButlerLinda CarsonMarie ChowTram ChungJessica DafniKaren DonnellyStephen Festor and Darby DuCombKevin David Duffy-GreavesMelissa EspinozaKim FabelElizabeth FikejsBenjamin FisherLiz Marcus and Angela FloresPatrick FordMolly FrizzellDick and Mary Beth GemperleGoogle
What better way to spend a hot August night then volunteering at Neighborhood House High Point Center in West Seattle?
Our annual event is an opportunity for local residents to get important health tips and information while also having fun as a whole family. Health services like free blood pres-sure checks, blood sugar screenings and chair massages will also be available.
We’re seeking volunteers to help with set up, clean up and the event itself.
Questions? Contact Paige Bonitz, Volunteer Specialist, 206-461-8430 x 2005 or [email protected].
View our 2014 Annual Report online at www.nhwa.org.
Help us save postage by subscribing to In the House through www.nhwa.org.
September 198:30 a.m.
Foster Park, Kent
When was the last time you bested your personal best? Come fall, you can try while helping two great causes: the KLC South Sudan Community Restoration Program and Neighborhood House.
Early birds who register by mid-September pay $30 and get a t-shirt to wear on this 5K that meanders the Green River Trail.
There will also be a 1 mile walk and dis-counts for groups and teams. The fun begins at S. 259th St. and 74th Ave. S. in Kent’s Foster Park.
More info at http://strides5k.weebly.com
Ask Mark
October 96:30 - 11 p.m.Palace Ballroom
Grousemont FoundationMichael HarringtonPui HoangPeter and Ann HolmesJohn HottaDiane IsonakaAlex JohnsonMarilyn KremenAdrian LaineF. LaudenschlagerElizabeth MathewsonJennifer McGetrick-SwanKent MeyerKimberly MillsJennie MorrisonKevin NuechterleinCynthia O’BrienGordan H. Orians
Hanna OryEli PattenGabriela QuintanaRock BoxRachel SchachterBen SchiendelmanSarah and David SchoenthalLee SchoentrupJeffrey L SchwartzAlex StonehillTerri SuzukiDean TimmermannDean UttechMaureen Van HollebekeJefferey VuMaria WilliamsMike WooStephen Young
We would also like to recognize all of the fresh faces who attended our 109th Anniversary Breakfast – 29% of you became new donors! Thank you for taking the time to learn about our work.
What do you like most about working here?
Where are you from, and what do you do at Neighborhood House?
What kinds of things do you do to have fun?
At Neighborhood House, I have an opportunity to meet and assist clients. When I see my clients achieve success, then I feel successful.
I grew up in Burma. I assist homeless and low income people who lack resources in training and employment and refer them to our programs to obtain what they need to become independent.
I enjoy photography, playing tennis and hiking with my family on the Eastside and all around the Puget Sound.
A warm welcome to our newest donors:
MarMark Okazaki, Executive Director, Neighborhood House
Leave the cold outside and share in our warm celebration - Caravale!
Come celebrate in the Palace Ballroom while sampling the culture and cuisine of an exotic locale.
Caravale is our most eclectic fundraiser, and we invite you to come and relax, gather with friends old and new, eat fabulous food, and enjoy dancing, too.
The soiree wouldn’t be complete with-out our signature cocktail or a glass of wine, to pair with stirring conversations.
To reserve your spot, contact Emily Brickner, 206-461-8430 x 2050 or [email protected].
Is giving back part of your routine? Start today by incorporat-ing philanthropy into your monthly budget. Become part of our Sustainers Club by giving $20 or more a month! It is an afford-able way to invest in helping others and significantly further our work.
Your consistent, monthly donations will help us do things like provide snacks in our afterschool programs and pay for other program needs not covered by grants. Sustainers Club mem-bers receive unlimited joy and satisfaction from helping our community.
In 2014, Neighborhood House startedoperating a new program, ShelterDiversion. This program prevents people from entering the shelter system by help-ing stabilize their existing situations.
Shelter Diversion helps people like An-toinette, who had been homeless for six months, find secure housing. Antoinette grew up with a stable family life and de-sired the same for her children, but when she lost her housing voucher because she owed back rent, her world unraveled.
Working part time, owing several months of back rent and having poor credit made it hard for Antoinette to find a home for her family. For six months she stayed in her car while her kids moved between homes of her family and friends. With favors wearing thin and options for her children becoming fewer and fewer, Antoinette needed help.
Join the Sustainers Club
Client snapshot: Elsa
Spotlight on...Shelter Diversion
Take Part
Donor Corner Defining Moments
IN THE HOUSE | NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE NEWSLETTER
To join the club: Contact Emily Brickner at [email protected], or 206-461-8430; fill out the donation envelope provided, or donate online at www.nhwa.org with a recurring monthly gift.
With staff and resources at our Birch Creek Career Center, Elsa found housing and a job.
In 2005, Elsa was pregnant, home-less and living in a shelter with two of her four children. A recent di-vorce had left her without a stable home and with very few resources.
Eventually, she secured a spot in transitional housing, but the road to becoming self-sufficient was still long and riddled with obsta-cles.
Elsa was determined to make positive changes in her life, which included returning to school.
By using our computer lab to do homework, Elsa graduated with a degree in business management.
At her graduation ceremony, Elsa met Marla Brown, the career cen-ter coordinator at Neighborhood House’s office in Kent.
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Marla helped her develop a re-sume, practice interviewing, and became her advocate.
Recently, Elsa secured a full-time job and now supports her family.
“Neighborhood house provides all the tools one needs to find suc-cess,” she says. “However, the path is not easy, but the eventual tri-umph is exhilarating,” she adds.
CoHo Team of Windermere Agents, Comcast, King County Housing Authority, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Starbucks Coffee Company, Umpqua Bank, Vigor Industrial, Vulcan Inc., and Washington Dental Service Foundation.
Neighborhood House helped Antoinette negotiate an arrangement with her family to ensure that she and her children had a safe place to stay. To guarantee her long-term stability, we paid her back rent so she could receive her housing voucher again, making rent more affordable, and connected her to resources so she could rebuild her credit.
Eventually, Antoinette was able to save enough to move into her own unit with her children, and gained the confidence and fi-nancial savvy to assume rent responsibilities on her own.
Antoinette’s predicament is not unusual. So many times we’ve seen clients move to Se-attle without a safety net, or have their plans to stay with friends and family fall through. Since the program started, we have been able to help 322 people avoid shelters and work towards housing stability.
Many thanks to our 109th Anniversary Breakfast sponsors:
Meet the Trumbowers
In 2014, first-time homeowners Olym-pia and Adam Trumbower celebrated a year in their High Point home in West Seattle with a gift to Neighbor-hood House. They value their diverse community and seeing programs just blocks away at Neighborhood House’s High Point Center.
“We are very intentional with how we give,” says Olympia. “We give to just a few organizations where we know our giving will have a higher impact.”
Each time they give, they amplify their gift by a match through Olympia’s employer, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation generously matches gifts at a rate of three dollars for every one dollar donated.
Thank you Adam and Olympia for be-ing great neighbors!
Knowing their donations help their neighbors inspires the Trumbowers. “We love seeing the local reach first-hand,” says Olympia.
