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Family Resource Center Celebrated Ten Years in 2001

• Ten Years of Achievement
• Family Photo Album
• Individuals and Families Served on the FRC Campus
• Letter from the Executive Director
• Milestones: How to build a Health & Human Services Campus
• 1994 King County Partner Award
• What Executive Directors are Saying: Key Concerns for Eastside Nonprofits
• Benefits of Being on the Family Resource Center Campus
• Where We’re Headed
• Thank You! You made it happen
• Thanks for Partnering

Successful Launch of The Eastside's Human Services Campus!

Ten years ago, the founders of Family Resource Center envisioned a nonprofit agency that would serve as the Eastside's nonprofit human services hub. The agency's mission was to foster partnerships, increase access to community services and build the capacity of nonprofit agencies to serve the community.  Health and human service organizations would lease space at below-market rates and benefit from opportunities to collaborate and share resources. Most importantly, people needing services would benefit from an accessible, one-stop location where they could easily utilize the services of many health and human service agencies.

Our founders could not have realized then just how prophetic their early vision was. Today, FRC is a critical player in the Eastside nonprofit infrastructure.  A failing strip mall in downtown Redmond has been converted into a three-building facility that offers a hundred programs with "one-stop" access, active referral systems and ongoing development of strategies to tap the potential of a unique service hub.

Today, ten years after the purchase of the FRC campus, rising lease rates (among other cost increases), decreased funding for services and increasing service demand make the Eastside a difficult arena in which to provide services. (Increasing demand for human services is driven in part by a 25% increase in the Eastside population over the last ten years, the largest area of growth in the County.)

These stressors will inform Family Resource Center goals and action plans for the next decade of service.  For today, we thank the foresight of the FRC founders and rejoice in the harvest that grows from commitment, risk-taking, caring and community involvement.

"Our relationship with Family Resource Center staff has been very beneficial on many levels." 

"We could not be on the Eastside without the low cost of leasing space at the Family Resource Center."

"We are much more likely to partner with an agency on this campus."

"People find us here."

"Family Resource Center strengthens and empowers organizations."

"At FRC, we can do more with less."
--- FRCA agency leaders
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FRC Family Photo Album

Half of those tapping services on the Family Resource Center campus are children.


$1.6 million was donated in ten years to turn a former strip mall into a nonprofit service hub.

Volunteers help manage, construct, protect, and improve the campus and its programs.
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Individuals and Families Served on the FRC Campus

*Half of FRC customers are children.
*Those using more than one agency are counted at each agency.
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Letter from the Executive Director

A ten year anniversary provides a great opportunity to review early visions and progress to date. 
   A few points are made clear from Family Resource Center’s historical memos and volunteer memories.
   The brass tacks of developing a unique health and human service campus, including multiple refinances, needs analysis, standardizing of leases and other dry but necessary tasks,  have taken far more time than anyone every imagined  in 1990.
   Equally clear:  in ten short years the Center has become a major community asset.  Its 100% nonprofit campus offers 18 agencies and hundreds of programs.  The Center is a model for others working to ease access to a wide array of health and human services.
   Also manifest is the prescience of the founders. Nonprofit ownership of a central service center now means the difference between having services available or seeing skyrocketing lease rates drive them from the  Eastside. The Center plays an increasingly important role in protecting the area’s nonprofit infrastructure.
   Join us as we celebrate the first ten years of the Eastside’s human services campus and the promise of another dynamic decade of service.

Pamela Mauk
Executive Director
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Milestones:  How to build a Health & Human Services Campus

Organizations are built by people. There are no doubt as many ways to build an orgaization as there may be people involved and their ability to dream. The following are key milestones in the development of Family Resource Center. We are often asked:  How did the FRC begin? Take a front row seat for a peak.

 Mid 1980s: A study conducted by the Eastside Human Services Council (now defunct) identifies the advantages of collaboration for social service agencies (along with the inherent difficulties of that collaboration).
Late 1980s: Approximately 14 different agencies gather over several years to discuss if and how a central hub for nonprofits might be formed.
1990: Four agencies commit to launch Family Resource Center:  Friends of Youth, Multi-Service Centers of North and East King County (now Hopelink), Youth Eastside Services and Eastside Human Services Council (EHSC).
11/90:  Articles of Incorporation are filed on 11/13/90.  FRC is its own 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.
1/91: Quick real estate buys are difficult when one is garnering the approvals of four Boards of Directors. In January, a property is located:  a failing strip mall in downtown Redmond. The purchase price is $1.6 million for a three-building property.  The Cities of Bellevue and Redmond and King County make initial financial gifts.
5/91: The property purchase is complete! The four founding agencies loan $315,000 for closing costs. They also guarantee the loan (without which no purchase would be possible).
11/91: Community Health Centers of King County replaces EHSC as a founding agency and assumes its responsibilities.
11/91:  A Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce After Hours  is held t FRC. We are on our way!
12/91:  Building A renovation is complete, followed in six months by B.
10/92: An open house is held to thank  contributors who have donated $600,000 to date.  The Center is now home to ten agencies: Camp Fire Boys and Girls, Community Health Centers of King County, Eastside Legal Assistance Program, Eastside Mental Health (now Seattle Mental Health), Family Services, Friends of Youth, Habitat for Humanity, Multi-Service Centers (now Hopelink), Northwest AIDS Foundation and Youth Eastside Services.
11/92: A sole staff position, executive director, is created, to be supported by a property manager and accountant consultant.  Three years later a part-time assistant will be added.
2/93:   The mortgage is refinanced through HUD securing a no-principal,
3 and 1/2 percent interest loan for 3 years.
4/93: New Family Resource Center Association (FRCA) meetings provide a forum for working on collaborative goals.
8/93:  New criteria for leasing is stated:  FRC will develop a continuum of services directed to those who have the greatest need:  children and youth, working poor families, elderly, handicapped and ethnic minorities.
6/93:  Oh, no!  A large retail tenant breaks its lease, sending the young Center’s finances into a tailspin.  FRC moves ahead quickly on its plan to expand the numbers of nonprofit  tenants, and seeks community development block grants to renovate C
9/93:  FRC invites the community to lead: a minimum of four trustees shall be representatives of each of the four founding organizations.  Other trustees will be elected from the Eastside community at large.
1 2/94:  Building C renovations are complete!  The Eastside Community Health Center dental clinic and Eastside Mental Health (now a Seattle Mental Health clinic) open their doors soon after. In March, FRC supporters celebrate at an open house.
6/95:  FRC receives the 1994 King County Housing and Development Partner Award.  Then King County Executive Gary Locke notes: “The Family Resource Center embodies a vision of human service collaboration and co-location that is a model for others.” (see below)
1/95:   A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH) joins the campus.
12/95:  FRC receives $348,250 from the State of Washington capital budget (through Hopelink) to reduce its mortgage, thereby allowing FRC to repay its founding agencies.  The HUD mortgage loan is extended for one year.
1/96: Standardized leases, developed with FRCA  agency lawyers and board members over a year are signed by FRCA agencies.
1/96: FRC actively participates in Breaking the Boundaries projects with the City of Redmond: creating directories, resource guides, magnets and other tools to get people to services.
2/97:  Chinese Information and Service Centers joins FRC. Various moves by tenants leads to FRC campus administration gaining a central storefront office providing the community with phone line and Internet access to information and referral.  Self-service conference room scheduling assists agencies on campus.
4/97: FRC, promotes collaboration by supporting another collaboration:  FRC becomes administrative and fiscal agent for Redmond Youth Partnership, an initiative to give a voice for young people and promote a community where youth are valued and involved.
4/97:  FRC’s web site is born as a further aid to assisting people to find services and volunteer opportunities Www.familyresourcecenter.org receives 1,000 visitors each month.
4/97: Building B is largely redesigned. Brain Injury Association of Washington and Leadership Institute join FRC.
6/97: A lease rate survey is taken of comparable real estate, which underscores that  FRC’s low-cost lease structure continues to greatly benefit agencies. By 2000, there is a marked increase (25 - 55%) in Eastside lease rates (with no FRC increases).
11/97:  The mortgage loan is refinanced through Washing Health Care Facilities Authority, saving FRC $359,667 over the life of the loan, savings which are passed on to tenants in the form of lower lease rates.  Founding agencies again agree to guarantee the loan. Because FRC is a unique campus and accomplished what is normally done only by very large institutions, the WHCFA names FRC’s refinancing its “Unique Deal of the Quarter.”
1/98:   Educational brown bag lunches begin monthly on campus.
4/98: FRC holds the  first Eastside Volunteer Fair, to provide a “one-stop” venue for volunteer opportunities. More than 30 nonprofits participate.  The event, sponsored yearly by Microsoft, becomes a yearly standard for the Eastside,  receiving high marks from nonprofits and visitors alike.
5/98:  More build-outs are complete.  Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Children’s Home Society and, soon, Disability Resource Network join FRC. (Family Services and soon Eastside Legal Assistance Program, outgrow their spaces at FRC.)
11/98: The last for-profit tenant moves out, and FRC is now a 100% nonprofit campus. The speed of achieving this goal was not foreseen in 1990.
3/99:  Campus evening use is studied. Approximately 36 night meetings are held each month on campus, including use by those from on campus and off.
4/99: Monthly campus orientations  quarterly campus socials begin to build the campus community.
6/99: Free telephone service is added to FRC’s main lobby, thanks to a Department of Social and Health Services program.
9/99: A partnership with Eddie Bauer allows FRC to arrange classes at the software training facilities of Eddie Bauer University. Over the next year 106 staff from 30 organizations will  receive low-cost training, most taking more than one class.
11/99: Kirkland and King County fund plans to increase FRC campus accessibility, including adding power doors, an accessibility stall and more. The work will be completed in 2001.
11/99:   A survey on campus referrals and FRC products is taken.  Most agencies either often or not uncommonly refer clients to other on-campus agencies.  Educational programs were favored services, followed by volunteer recruitment and marketing.
11/99: FRCA Education Committee develops FRC’s first half day training on volunteer management , a 5 star hit.
2/00: City of Bellevue donates funds to increase accessibility through extensive sign redevelopment.   A Leadership Institute team working on the issue recruits “wayfinding” expert Kelly Brandon who offers his pro bono services to fully design a new sign program to assist customers.
3/00:  US Bank removes guarantees by four founding agencies, a reflection of FRC’s healthy financial organization.  We’re all grown up and on our way!
5/00: Donations to FRC of computers, monitors, software licenses and other items are distributed to FRCA agencies in a giveaway project.
5/00:  FRC and Cascadia Community College begin a partnership to present classes at FRC to meet staff needs, beginning with Conversational Spanish (in answer to growing numbers of Spanish-speaking clients).  Discussions are begun with the College on a program to train health and human services staff in managerial skills.
7/00:  FRC compiles information on ten years of partnership with the community.  Approximately 1.5 million dollars have been donated to support the mortgage reduction, build-out and renovations at FRC.
7/00: FRC takes an active role in the Eastside Human Services  Alliance’s  work in evaluating the needs of Eastside nonprofits over the next six months.. Meetings with EHSA leaders will inform FRC’s future activities.
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1994 King County Partner Award

“The Family Resource Center embodies a vision of human service collaboration and co-location that is a model for others.  In 1991, before the Family Resource Center opened its doors, Eastside families needing services potentially had to travel to four or five different human service agencies, scattered from Bothell to Renton.  The Family Resource Center is a model for other agencies and other areas of King County where residents face many of the same barriers that families on the Eastside faced in 1991.”
King County Executive Gary Locke in 1995
 

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1994 King County Housing and Community Development Partner award is presented to the Center. FRC Board member from founding agency Hopelink and former Redmond Mayor Doreen Marchione; King County Councilmember Kent Pullen; King County Executive (now Governor) Gary Locke; Family Resource Center President (now President Emeritus) from founding agency Friends of Youth, Howard Fink; FRC Board member (now retired) from founding agency Community Health Centers of King County, Jayne Leet; Executive Director Pamela Mauk; long-time FRC and CHCKC Board member Teresa Olson; Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives.  Missing from the picture is a representative from the fourth FRC founding agency Youth Eastside Services.
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What Executive Directors Are Saying: Key Concerns for Eastside Nonprofits

Recently FRCA Directors were interviewed about their concerns.  A few comments:

• There are many more homeless now, many of them working people. The financial needs of clients are much greater now.
• Increase in energy costs is very worrisome for us.  The cost is a big part of the budget.
• There is a large bias against mental health treatment.  Many can have their problems controlled by medication, but the funding sources are limited.
• The need for services are growing.  The Eastside is not keeping up with the need for affordable housing. We’re losing ground.
• The housing affordability issue is much more acute today than in the past.
• 95% of our funding comes from government sources.  If these become constricted, we lose.
• We can’t compete financially for jobs. Staff recruitment and retention is an issue.
• If there is a slow down in the economy, it may hurt donations. Even more important, those first to go in a layoff will be those recently off welfare and in the workforce.
• We are back fighting the same battles we had with the legislature ten years ago.  We thought they learned then: if you cut funds for prevention, overall costs rise dramatically.
• Dollars are increasingly going to South King County, which threatens the Eastside infrastructure.
• There is a constant funding crisis in mental health.  The year is started and we have not been told what the reimbursement rates will be.  Funding is short-term:  one to three years. It’s very hard to get stability, and multiple funding streams makes planning difficult.
• While there are all these funding difficulties, the client base is adding up.  Too many people are needing services and funding is being cut

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Benefits of being on the
Family Resource Center Campus
(Comments by leaders of FRC Association agencies)

The overlap of clients is very helpful. •  Being next to those with compatible missions is much appreciated. •  It’s helpful for marketing. People find us here. •  Having all so close increases collaboration. I am much more likely to partner with an agency on this campus.•We save money here. Having less overhead costs helps with fundraising.• There are so many networking opportunities here.•  Family Resource Center localizes resources for the community. •  We are closer to the people we serve. • The number one benefit is that it strengthens and empowers organizations. •  We could not be on the Eastside without the low cost of leasing space at the Family Resource Center.
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Where We’re Headed

Read over the list of Eastside nonprofit concerns.  How would you assist?

Family Resource Center has been reviewing how it might reduce the overhead costs of the 18 agencies of the FRC campus and protect health and human services on the Eastside.

The Board of Directors is evaluating raising $1.6 million in order to nearly halve most of the lease rates of campus agencies and put those dollars to work instead meeting growing human services demands.  Stay tuned as we march into our second decade of service still working to foster partnerships, increase access to services and build the capacity of agencies to serve the community
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Thank You!
You made it happen!

Business & Foundation Donors
Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation
Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation
ASI
Bank of America
Behavioral Sciences Institute
The E.K. and Lillian F. Bishop Foundation
The Boeing Company
Costco
Data I/O Corporation
Davis Wright Tremaine
Dupar Foundation
Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound
First Interstate Bank
Great Western Bank
Infospace Foundation
J. Dental Supply Co.
Kempf & Company
Knoll Foundation
D.V. & Ida McEachern Charitable Trust
Medina Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Nintendo of America
Nordstrom
Olympian Precast, Inc.
PACCAR Foundation
Puget Sound Energy
QFC
Redmond Medical Clinic
Redmond National Bank
Safeco Corporation
The Seattle Foundation
Skinner Foundation
United Way of King County
U.S. Bank
Verizon
The Watershed Company
Washington Dental Services Foundation
Wharton Foundation

Government Donors 
City of Bellevue
City of Kirkland
City of Redmond
King County
Mideast King County Community Network
State of Washington
Washington Health Care Facilities Authority

Pro Bono Expertise
Linda Atkins
Maude Anderson
Charles Coolidge
Wendy Eickmeyer
Frank Erwin, PE
Fishdance Media/Shaun LaChute
Gottleib, Fisher & Andrews
Kelly Brandon Design
Robert Thorpe
Robert Earl Smith
Laverne Woods,
Marlynn Littauer
Rhys Farren

Individual Donors
Gerald Apperson, Nancy Ashley, Linda Atkins, Mary Bagley, Rich Baker, Kenneth Bangsund, Laura Lea Barksdale, Ronald Blackburn, Gordon Bluechel, Faye Brown, Jessie Brynan, Jeanne Carlson, Richard Cole Fred & Carolyn Cowan, Corey De Jong, Marilyn Dunstan, Howard & Deborah Finck, Bill & Mickey Finnegan, Kurt & Marie Geisel, John Gerber, Mary Lee & Richard Gowell, Pat Hamman, Michael Jones, Dan Krah, Jane Kuechle, Cheryl Kuhn, Ruth LeCocq, Scott LaChute, Susan J. Lerner, Brigitte Manns, Doreen Marchione, Elizabeth Marx, Pamela Mauk, Philip Mathews, Kim McDermott, Sam McQuade, Neil & Nancy McReynold, Robert & Michaele Muse, Terri Olson, Irene Pasternack & Ed Mills,
Warren & Betty Platt, David Pomeroy, Dave Ramsay, Ron & Jacquelyn Rauch, Roland Rice, Kent & Cheryl Sherburne, Diane Shiner, Thomas Skaanland, Patti Skelton, John Spangenberg, Sheila Strode, Ron Uno & Terri Kertson, Tom Trompeter, John (Pat) Vache, Bob Vaughn, Cliff Warner, Bill & Nancy Way, Sarah Wing

Past Board of Directors
Jim Arnold, Linda Atkins, Laura Lee Barksdale, Peter Berliner, Scott Biethan, Larry Bohall, Jeanne Carlson, Burt Chamberlin, Margaret Doman, Larry Fraley, John Gerber, Betty Gilkenson, Bill Gladden, Judd Kirk, Sandy Kropp, Jane Kuechle, Jayne Leet, Lorin Love, Sonja Martin, Teresa Olson, George Polley, Richard Ranta, Len Schaadt, Marv Scott, Lynn Terpstra, Dale Traylor, Cliff Warner, Rick Weber

Current Board of Directors
John Spangenberg, President, John (Pat) Vache, Vice President,
Elizabeth Marx, Secretary, Rich Baker, Treasurer, J. Howard Finck, President Emeritus, W. J. (Bill) Finnegan, Pat Hamman, Dan Krah, Scott LaChute, Doreen Marchione, Dave Ramsay, Patti Skelton, Tom Trompeter

Volunteers
Sam Alexander, Teresa Andrade, Judy Andrews, Genessa Andrie, Joan Aston, Cecile Atienza,
Margaret Bailey, Bill Baldwin, Amanda Briggs, Kirk Buchanen,
Terry Murdick, Janet Cathcart,
Jim Cowles, Dan Coyle, Sandy Cozetto, Angela Cruz, Dave Curtis, Bill Cypher, Lorrie Dale, Jim Daligon, Susan Darrington, Tom Davis, Tom Deebach, Rose DeGraaf, Linda Deveraux,
Melissa Doble, Mary Ann Dunbar, Todd Dyment, Linda Edwards, Laura Emil, Esther Engstrom, Deborah Finck, Irene Fisher, Shelley Flores, Evie Florian, Scott Fredrickson, Mark Fukeda, Chris Fuller, Thelma Gascoyne, Claude Gironde, Kevin Goodrich, Dan Gottlieb, Fred Gray, Jennifer Graham, Chuck Hagedorn, Jean Hamlin, Pat Hamman, Cindy Hansen, Roger Harbin, Jan Hartstein Judy Herrmann, Irene Pat Hester, Shereeza Housain, Linda Hussey, Jutta Huxhage, Jim Iverson, Sherrill Jacobson, Todd Jensen, Judith Jewell, Melinda Ketcheside, Alan Kiest, Leslie Killpatrick, Lauren Kirby, Betsy Klebanoff-Hills, Alice Kurle, Shaun LaChute, Todd Langton, Pat Lanning, Patrick Lee, Elaine Lugo, Jennifer Lulow, Ron MacAuley, Kevin Mackey, Patrice Magill, Kristin Manske, Alan Mathews, Joyce Major, Carrie McDaniel, Cory Mechem, Mandy Mills, Shana Miller, Todd Minten, Curt Minzghor, Pia Modrak, Paul Murakami, Robert & Michaele Muse, Leslie Neimi, Shelley Noble, Paul Nowak, Jerred Nuttall, Robert Nyhus, Amanda O'Connor, Jane Olivier, Lisa Owens, Jack Packard, Ken Pacquer, Leah Papernick, Jane Pedwell, Marie Plunkett, Rick Pusateri, Dave Ramsay, Michael Rayburn, Karen Riel, Emily Robinson, Maureen Said, Helen Schaa, Don Scott, Joseph Sepair, Tina Shafer, Anne Scheu, Jami Shogren, Lori Shuffelen, Mary Shustov, Kathy Snowden, Jane Sogge, Kelly Spencer, Barbara Spitzer, Susan Sundsten, Suzanne Suther, Aggie Sweeney, Ramona Tamsley, George Thomas, Denise Thurston, Michael Tomaino, Mike Trabue, Danica Trittel, Mitch Trochman, Dave Tuchek, Randy Uecker, Tammy Urquhart, Nick Valison, Bob Vaughn, Rita Wall, Dave Wilson, Leslie Wirick, Jessica Wood, Melissa Zylstra, Alisa Zwanziger.

Founding Partners
1990 Founding Executive Directors' Coalition
Friends of Youth
Howard Finck, President
Hopelink
Larry Fraley, Executive Director
Youth Eastside Services
Peter Berliner, Executive Director
Eastside Human Services Council (now defunct)
Rick Weber, Executive Director
Partnering in 1991 (ultimately, replacing EHSC which closed in 1992):
Community Health Centers of King County
Jayne Leet, Executive Director

Project Partners
Cascadia Community College
City of Redmond/Breaking the Boundaries
Community Development
Corporation (NDC)
Community Information Line/Crisis Clinic
Eastside Human Services Alliance
Eddie Bauer, Inc
Executive Directors Coalition
Fremont Public Association
Friends of Youth
Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce/Derby Days
Hopelink
It's About Time for Kids
Leave A Legacy
Jewish Family Services
Microsoft
Olympian Precast, Inc.
Redmond Parks & Recreation
Redmond Youth Partnership
The Overlake School
United Way of King County
US Bank
Washington Health Care Facilities Authority

Staff & Consultants
Pamela Mauk,
Executive Director
Carmine Anderson,
Project Coordinator
Anne Allen,
Property Manager
Larry Lium,
Capital Campaign Coordinator
Jay Lippman,
Web Master

In-Kind Donors
Abracadabra Catering
Paul Alderson
Carmine Anderson
Balloons Flowers & Decor
Barbara Brachtl
Behavioral Sciences Institute
Bella Bottega Cinemas
Max Bigby
Brain Injury Association of Washington
Camp Fire USA
Catalina Homes
City of Redmond
Classic Nursery
ConnectOS
Costco
De Jong's
Fairfax Hospital
Frankie's
Fremont Public Association
Friends of Youth
Beryl Goodchild
Interpoint
Keeney's Office Products
Kinko's of Redmond
Shaun & Scott LaChute
Delores Lehr
Brad & Susan Lehrer
Pamela Mauk
MIS Computer Systems, Inc
Microsoft Corporation
One-Stop Program, Washington State Employment Security
QFC - Redmond
Bob Rench
SDRC
Dana Taylor (in memory of Olive Walker)
Tenhulzen Remodeling
George Thomas
Tully's Coffee - Bella Bottega
Waste Management
Wetherholt & Associates

Former Staff & Consultants
Charles Coolidge, Deborah Fisher, Leslie Wright, Shaun LaChute, Linda Knox, Jeanne Sutherland, Ron Uno, Bob Steinberg, Hopelink accounting staff, including Sally Bailey & Pat Nyerges.

Family Resource Center Association
A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH)
Brain Injury Association of Washington
Camp Fire USA
Children's Home Society
Chinese Information & Service Center
Community Information Line (Crisis Clinic)
DisAbility Resource Network (D-Net)
Eastside Community Health Center
Friends of Youth
Habitat for Humanity of East King County
Healthy Start
Hopelink
Leadership Institute
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
Mideast King County Community Network
Redmond Youth Partnership
Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Seattle Mental Health Northwest Counseling Institute
Youth Eastside Services
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Thanks for Partnering!

Family Resource Center works with other Eastside nonprofit organizations in order to foster partnerships and increase access to community services.
 
Family Resource Center increases access by building awareness of available services and the means to obtain service.  We foster awareness by inviting participation by the community in the life of health and human service organizations. By partnering with others, FRC also builds the internal capacities of nonprofits to meet the growing needs of the Eastside community.

FRC programs include the yearly Eastside Volunteer Fair, held every April to provide a "one-stop" opportunity to find a volunteer role within three dozen organizations. Periodic special events, such as a Derby Days Family Festival, provide means to spread the word about available resources. Training programs for nonprofit staff provide a low-cost, Eastside-accessible means to develop staff. Giveaway programs, sponsorship of emerging collaborations and referral projects are designed to make effective use of a campus rich in services, staff, volunteers and expertise.

Just some of the nonprofit health and human service organizations participating in FRC projects include the following:

American Cancer Society
A Regional Coalition for Housing
Bellevue Boys and Girls Club
Brain Injury Association
of Washington
Bridge Ministries for Disability Concerns
Camp Fire USA
Catholic Community Services
Chicken Soup Brigade
Children's Home Society of WA
Children & Family Services
Children's Response Center
Chinese Information &
Service Center
Redmond City Chaplain
City of Kirkland
Community Health Centers
of King County
DisAbility Resource Network
Eastside Adult Day
Eastside Community Health Center
Eastside Healthy Start
Eastside Literacy Council
Emergency Feeding Program
Emerald Heights
Evergreen Healthcare
Fairfax Hospital
Friends of Youth
Girl Scouts Totem Council
Habitat for Humanity of EKC
Hopelink
Jewish Family Services
Kindering Center
King County Park System
Lake Washington School District
Lake Washington Technical College
Leadership Institute
Learning Disabilities Association
of Washington
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
(formerly NW Aids Foundation)
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
Mentor Health Northwest
(now Seattle Mental Health)
Mercer Island Youth &
Family Services
Mideast King County
Community Network
Multi-Ethnic Service Center
Neighborhood School House
PEPS
Redmond Library
Redmond Youth Partnership
Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
Ryther Child Center
Starlight Children's Foundation
Seattle Police Department
Senior Services-Volunteer
Transportation Program
SKIFORALL Foundation
United Way of King County
Youth Eastside Services
YWCA Family Village
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