Case Studies
In the early 2010s, Seattle’s burgeoning high-tech and life-sciences sectors were creating thousands of well-paying jobs. But the city was rapidly becoming unaffordable for service sector workers . . .
More >The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) had just experienced a decade of remarkable growth when the worldwide recession struck in late 2008. SAM had more than doubled the size of its downtown museum, created the…
More >The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency needed to develop solutions to reduce fine particle air pollution in Tacoma-Pierce County in ways that community members would accept. In 2009 the U.S…
More >The nationwide recession that began in 2008 and the continued weak economy struck a serious blow to most public agencies. King County Metro Transit was particularly hard hit because their revenues…
More >Public and private actions in 2006 brought Washington state’s early learning programs together, through creation of the Department of Early Learning (DEL) and the public-private partnership…
More >What do you do when a neighborhood doesn’t want your agency to move there? Casa Latina faced this challenge in 2007. Casa Latina provides educational and and employment opportunities…
More >The Turtle Mountain Reservation is home to more than 15,000 Chippewa Indians who, in spite of strong cultural assets and educational resources, suffer from high rates of poverty…
More >In the mid-2000s, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) had experienced a decade of dramatic growth. What began as a small collaboration of scientists in a garage 30 years before…
More >Farmworkers have faced a shortage of decent, affordable housing since the Depression. Thirty percent of farmworker families live in severely substandard housing, and nearly 60 percent live in…
More >The City of Tacoma owns and operates a municipal airport on the Gig Harbor Peninsula, an unincorporated area of Pierce County. For years, Tacoma and Pierce County were locked in a dispute…
More >Like every city in America, Seattle has struggled to address the needs of homeless women and children. In 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began working with Seattle to develop the…
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