Our Mission

The Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition builds community capacity to successfully address critical issues and enhance quality of life.

SEEDarts efforts to revive the Columbia City Theate

SEEDArts, Southeast Seattle’s largest non-profit arts organization, has announced plans to revive the Columbia City Cinema.

Community effort to reopen the Columbia City Cinema surges forward

SEEDArts has announced a new prospective project: to renovate and reopen the Columbia Cit y Cinema. The original cinema closed  in May 2011 — since then [...]

Family Oppurtunity

SPS seeks community volunteers for Special Education Advisory & Advocacy Council (SEAAC) Seattle Public Schools is seeking unpaid volunteers from our ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse communities to serve on the Special Education Advisory & Advocacy Council (SEAAC), for a term of one year. The purpose of this committee is to advise Seattle Public [...]

Next RAVE Community dinner! Jan 20th

Community Dinner at Rainier Community Center is the third Friday of every month, so January 20th, February 17th, and March 16th. Rainier Valley Eats is starting an after school cooking program and Good Food Box program at Rainier Beach High School. The first cooking class there will be Thursday January 19, from 2:45 [...]

Rainier Beach Community Center Construction Underway but…..

On January 11, 2012 the Rainier Beach Community Center Advisory Council met to discuss programming and other issues regarding the Rainier Beach Community Center. Advisory Council member Vic Roberson and Justina Guyott were in attendance along with Seattle Parks and Recreation staff, four SE Seattle FreedomNet Citizen Journalist reporters.

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Free Thanksgiving Meals!

Free Thanksgiving Meal for Families on the Free and Reduced Lunch Program

Local NBA stars Brandon Roy, Jamal Crawford, Will Conroy, Isaiah Thomas and Spencer Hawes team up with Councilmember Bruce Harrell and Mayor Mike McGinn to give away 2,000 Thanksgiving dinners to families on the free and reduced lunch program.

 

The [...]

Congrats to Rena Mateja Walker Burr!

Congrats to south shore k-8 school student Rena Mateja Walker Burr for raising money for homeless kids. Instead of gifts for her sixth birthday, Rena Mateja requested donations to help homeless children. Those gifts brought her total to $506. She had gotten help from family and friends , neighbors. Asking for whatever they [...]

Urban Impact a Rainier Beach faith based non-profit receives $5.9 million for its affordable housing development Impact Family Village

Urban Impact and Mercy Housing Northwest will receive up to $5.9 million for Impact Family Village, 61 units of permanent housing for families in Rainier Beach. The units will offer a mix of affordability levels – from families earning minimum wage to those earning about $40,000 a year (family of three at 50% [...]

Southeast Geographical Region Advisory Council Community Night, Nov. 8

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This is an important meeting for demonstrating community support for the programs and scheduling of activities at neighborhood community centers!

In a World Café format, you will have the opportunity to:

Talk with Parks and Recreation staff and neighbors about your ideas to build community relationships Help [...]

The Power of a Strategic Father: A Fatherhood Training for Real Dads

“The Power of a Strategic Father” is a unique personal development opportunity for fathers to learn how to be a “strategic father” and why it is necessary for this generation of youth.

This training will be using some of the best research in the field of fatherhood, including The Search Insitutes 40 Developmental Assets, [...]

Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan Update – Be There!

Where’s the Beach? What’s the Beach?

These are just some of the questions our neighborhood discussed during the first two Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan Update workshops this year.  We said that Rainier Beach should be a:

Strong community, with organizations, events and programs that bring people together and serve our kids. [...]