by Crystie Kisler | Apr 8, 2025 | Grants, News, SOLVE
PHOTO CREDIT: Jon KaplanThe following Q & A with Longhouse project founder Naiome Kreinke offers more background and insight in this revitalization project:Can you share the inspiration behind the Chemakum Longhouse Project? I used to live uptown Port Townsend and...
by JCF Staff | Sep 2, 2024 | Conversations in Community
Welcome. It’s September, and this month we’re talking about change: how it is necessary and how difficult it can be to navigate. Joining me in conversation are three nonprofit leaders from Jefferson County: Executive Director Claudia Coppola from Olympic Neighbors,...
by Tom Moore | May 6, 2024 | Conversations in Community
Welcome. It’s May, and this is the first of an ongoing series of conversations I’ll be having most every month with people in Jefferson County about what they love about living here, what they are concerned about and what they are doing about it. I am a relative...
by JCF Staff | Feb 15, 2024 | Changemakers
Giving Circles: Neighbors and Friends Giving TogetherGiving Circles are groups of neighbors, friends and/or family members who donate to a central pool ofcharitable donations and decide together where to donate the funds. In doing so, they discuss socialissues and...
by JCF Staff | Jan 15, 2024 | Changemakers
Community Boat Project: “The people I love the best jump into work head first.” There is a poem is written above the entrance to Community Board Project’s workshop. It is byfeminist, science fiction writer, and social activist Marge Piercy, called To be of...
by JCF Staff | Oct 15, 2023 | Changemakers
JCF serves as a platform for people who care about the same issues to come together to workon solving community challenges. Here are some examples from Q1 2023: Jefferson County Human Services Collaborators Quarterly MeetingPartnering with the YMCA, JCF hosts a...
