Making A Difference:
Geography Department Community Partners, 2011-12
During 2011-12 , Geography majors used internships, volunteering, and research opportunities to make substantive contributions to the following organizations—or received invaluable research assistance from these organization. We are enormously proud of our faculty and students for their demonstrated commitment to public service, on such projects as refugee relief, tutoring in elementary and high schools, making critical maps used in public decision-making and health care service provision, and helping out in food banks and immigrant service organizations
Americorps
Asian Counseling And Referral Service
Atlantic Street Center
Bellevue Public Works Department
Cascade Land Conservancy
Cesar Chavez Village
Chinese Information Service Center
Church of Mary Magdalene & Mary’s Place Day Center For Homeless Women
Coalition For Refugees fromBurma
Cocoon House
CommunityAlliancefor Global Justice Edmonds Planning Dept.
Dunlop Elementary, Seattle
East African Community Services
Fare Start
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hamilton International Middle School,Seattle
Hawthorne Elementary School, Seattle
Health Sciences and Human Services High School,Seattle
Hope Eritrean Social Services
Horn of AfricaServices
Interim Community Development Association (ICDA)
King County Assessor’s Office
King County Dept. Natural Resources & Parks
King County GIS Center
King County Needle Exchange
King County Senior Services/Meals on Wheels
Lifelong AIDSAlliance
MEDRIX
Miller Park Neighborhood Association
Olympic Hills Elementary School, Seattle
People For Puget Sound
Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank
Pinehurst K-8 School, Seattle
Puget SoundRegional Council
Rainier Valley Foodbank
Rainier Vista Housing Project
Refugee Women’sAlliance
Sandpoint Elementary School, Seattle
SeaMar Community Health Clinic
Seattle Genealogical Society
Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle Tilth Association
City of Seattle Parks & Recreation Dept.
Solid Ground-Lettuce Link
Somali Community Services Coalition
Sound Transit
SpatialDev, Seattle
Thurston County Regional Planning Council
Union Gospel Mission
University District Food Bank
UW Capital Projects Office
UW Dream Project
UW Farm
UW Landscape Architecture Dept.
UW Libraries
UW Pipeline Project
UW Student Food Coop
UW Urban Planning Department
US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development
US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington Association of Churches
Washington Park Arboretum
Washington StateLegislature
Within Reach
YouthVista
