Solid Ground Story Board

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Since 1974, Solid Ground has been driving to a community beyond poverty

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and helping people living on low incomes get where they want to go.

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Increase people’s mobility and access to their community

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Support people’s food security.

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Help people stay in their homes.

And provide shelter and housing when they are forced out.

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Over the years we’ve helped well over a million people find and keep stable homes, raise healthy families and get where they want to go!

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We’ve listened to the people who come to us.

And we’ve responded by developing new services based on what we’ve heard

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• Nutrition education to support healthy families

• Counseling to prevent homelessness and support access to housing.

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Financial skills to invest in the fu-

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Legal aid to access public benefits

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But we realized that services alone were not enough

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Many people who come to us face barriers to flourishing like institutional racism and systemic oppressions

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So we’ve taken what we’ve learned from our program participants,

—especially immigrants, refugees and people of color.

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who, after all, are the ones with expertise overcoming poverty

and use that to change unfair laws across Washington state.

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We help them raise their voices in City Hall, Olympia and elsewhere to advocate for policies that remove barriers to opportunity

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We know the data agrees with what we see every day: people of color are harder hit by poverty throughout our community

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In our thriving county, historic numbers of people are living in poverty

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and on the streets as the barriers and challenges they face grow more complex.

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Luckily Solid Ground’s experience gives us a roadmap to meet their needs.

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Since we started, we’ve responded by bringing people together to overcome crises and thrive.

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We’ve witnessed the power of individuals coming together, as volunteers, advocates and donors, to respond to any challenge.

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Now more than ever, people like you have the power to chart a course toward a vibrant future for all.

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Raise your voice,

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get onboard our growing movement, and transform our community into the bright, equitable place we know it can be.

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