Spokane Alliance

Current Campaigns

Housing Equity and Action

HEART, the Housing Equity Action Research Team, leads our affordable housing work. HEART is a group of activated leaders from the Spokane Alliance and West Central Neighborhood working together to expand housing options in West Central and all of Spokane. Read on to learn about the team and for an update on the May 2nd Housing Assembly!

Public Dollars, Public Investment, Public Benefit

Good jobs have been a priority for the Spokane Alliance since our founding. Currently, the Jobs Team is focused on ensuring that all Public Works projects in the Spokane region create benefits for the whole community.

Mental Health x Child Care Action Team

When the pandemic began the longer-term issues facing families and the childcare industry were laid bare. Many member organizations of the Spokane Alliance represent front-line workers who were continuing to work through the early shut downs. Their lack of access to affordable childcare created crises for families and in our public services.

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COVID Community Health Monitoring Program

Sick, Safe, and Family Leave

Mental Health and Public Safety

The Spokane Alliance is everyday people taking powerful action together for the common good.

We develop the diverse voices of our community, building relationships across religious, racial, class, and neighborhood lines.

Together we build the power to make the positive changes they want to see in our community, making our shared home a better place to live and thrive.

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Oct
16

American Indian Community Center Seeks Home

Photo credit: Figtree. Photo beside Linda Lauch shows site near People's Park for the new center's home

Linda Lauch, Executive Director of the American Indian Community Center, spoke with the Figtree about the AICC's forever home project. Spokane Alliance's Truth and Transformation team is working with the AICC to help raise funds for their construction at People's Park, in Spokane.

Read the story here, at the Figtree.

Oct
16

Kerra Bower, SA member, prepares to open Raze Early Learning and Development Center

image credit: Kerra Bower

Kerra Bower's dream is to dismantle the preschool-to-prison pipeline. She discussed the opening of Raze Early Learning and Development Center with the Figtree.

"Raze will be a safe place for students to explore the beauty of our shared experiences as Americans through the Black American lens," she explained. "We seek to eradicate stereotypes that perpetuate the preschool-to-prison pipeline by centering our program on student identity and uplifting Black history contributions, both locally and nationally."

Raze will also offer wrap around services, leaning into the "it takes a village to raise a child" approach.

Read more about Kerra's work, her village, and Raze here

Sep
05

Laurel Fish, Senior Organizer for Spokane Alliance featured in Fig Tree

Laurel Fish, senior organizer with the Spokane Alliance, knows that many solutions to issues people face are not realized because people lack the social and political will and skills as individuals to enact policy changes on their own.

The Spokane Alliance gathers people in faith communities, labor unions and community organizations like nonprofits and childcare providers to share and listen to each other's stories and concerns—on healthcare, housing, homelessness, childcare and other issues. In the process, they identify common threads for working and acting together so they have an impact.

Read the full article here

Aug
22