Among other things, volunteering is a way to serve your community. As Merriam-Webster notes, volunteering means offering your time or service. It also means being open to different opportunities and giving your time to help others. Meet Jesse Sheldon, our newest volunteer Board member. Jesse is an experienced real estate broker, and dedicated community advocate who brings his passion for helping...
In December 2022, the Biden administration released a plan that seeks to eventually eradicate homelessness in the United States, starting with a 25% reduction in the number of people suffering from a lack of reliable access to safe housing over the next two years. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual "point-in-time count" more than one million...
Our brand new Impact Report for 2021 is now available! Within you'll find stories from client families, an infographic with our 2021 stats for families served through our transitional housing program and our Stable Home eviction prevention program, our non-reviewed financials, and a listing of our top annual donors. Our board of directors and staff want to thank you, our incredibly...
As hard as it is to say goodbye, I have accepted a new position with Northshore School Foundation and will be leaving my role as Development Director of Attain Housing May 24. I have truly enjoyed my 3 ½ years with you all. Thank you for showing me what real community looks like....
Our Stable Home eviction prevention program has rolled with the punches during the pandemic and has continued to evolve along with the rest of the post-eviction moratorium landscape. Stable Home advocate Jesse Perrell says providing information and clearing up confusion is a large part of the service provided to families who are at risk of losing their housing. “Landlords are starting...
We’ve had a few new folks join our team at Attain Housing in the last year and we’d like to tell you all about them. Our longtime bookkeeper Nita Lindsey retired in August 2021 and while we were sad to see her go, we were fortunate to find another fantastic bookkeeper in Chandana Gowda, who came on board in September 2021. Get...
Being a facilities manager for a small housing nonprofit like ours is no small task. We’ve been lucky to have some real hard workers with lots of vision and creativity fill that role for us in the past, and thankfully we’ve found another such person in Bill Smith, who joined our team in January 2022. Get to know Bill a bit,...
The Durham family made their first donation to Attain Housing in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued since then to give generously in support of our Stable Home program. We reached out to ask them what motivated them to give and to tell us a bit more about themselves. Janelle Durham gave us their...
Attain Housing will be taking a year off from the 7 Hills of Kirkland fundraiser in 2022. We’d like to give a big thanks to everyone who joined us virtually and tracked their miles in May 2020 and 2021! We are recruiting for the planning committee for a 2023 ride. If you’re interested, please email Carol@attainhousing.org or fill out the interest...
To say things have been hectic since I joined Attain at the end of May 2021 would be an understatement. We’ve been navigating waves of COVID variants and the cumulative stressful impacts the pandemic has had on our clients and staff. We’ve said goodbye to a few staff and board members and we’ve also welcomed aboard new staff and new...