Thanks to WA State Comm. Assoc. Institute & Comm. Outreach Committee!
Every winter people all over Seattle and King County live without the benefit of warm clothing, blankets and other items most of us take for granted. Fortunately, there are community partners who help the less fortunate this time of year. We want to offer a special heartfelt thanks and give a round of applause to…
Read MoreBank of America Awards SVdP $25,000 Grant!
We want to take this opportunity to personally thank Bank of America for a grant award $25,000 to St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle|King County. We are very grateful for your long-term support for our organization. As you will recall, the plan for our grant with you has several components including helping those who…
Read MoreOp-ed: Who are Seattle's 47 percent?
(This Op-ed piece ran in the Seattle Times newspaper and website editorial section Tuesday, September 25, 2012. We are running this article on the St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle|King county website with the permission of Sam Sperry, guest columnist who wrote this article for the Seattle Times. Mr. Sperry is a St. Vincent de…
Read MoreI Understand the Value of Giving to Others
By Alchemy Malcom (Editor’s note: Alchemy Malcom is a high school student. During the summer of 2012 she volunteered two days a week at the St. Vincent de Paul South Seattle Food Bank. We asked her to give us some feedback about her experience. She was kind enough to write the essay that follows. We…
Read MoreSVdP Raffle Winners Announced
Winners of the 2012 Hope in Hard Times Raffle are Steve Duex, X-Box 360 with Kinect, George Smeby, Kauai Hawaii trip, and Jacqueline Hayward, 2012 Cheverolet Malibu 1LS Sedan. Congratulations to all of you!
Read MoreChange Lives with Your thrift Store Donations
St. Vincent de Paul Helps You Be a Change Agent A bag of clothing, a table and chair set, and an old blender may yield over $100 in sales for one of our thrift stores. And all those donations come from people like you, caring community benefactors, who are making a huge difference for those…
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