5 ways to end youth homelessness
Recession woes, funding cuts and Congressional budget fights underscored a recurrent theme at the National Alliance to End Homelessness conference in Seattle last week: Doing More With Less.
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
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Best of 2012: 'Hard, scary, sad': life at a highway rest stop
Unaffordable rents, says a new national report, keep many Americans homeless. Some who are living in their cars at a rest stop off a major highway attest to the challenges.
Tacoma's McCarver Elementary helps boost kids and parents out of poverty
Despite a high population of at-risk youth, there's one thing a pilot group of students at Tacoma's McCarver Elementary don't have to worry about: Where they'll sleep at night.
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How nonprofits can thrive in challenging times
The four organizations receiving the Allen Foundation’s first annual Creative Leadership Awards reflect five basic leadership principles.
An award-winning poet learns how to let go
In 'Woodnote,' Christine Deavel's 2012 Washington State Book award-winner, words and their music help us keep alive some things that must pass away. (A Crosscut original video.)