Action Areas
Rainier Beach Farm Stand Grand Re-Opening
The Rainier Beach Farm Stand grand re-opening will be June, 19th, 2021 at 10 am. This year the...
Read MoreFinancial Literacy Curriculum
As part of RBAC’s YATTA Rising Wellness Core, Elijah Lewis and his team facilitated 6 weeks of financial literacy curriculum, which they called the Flourish Financial Group Planning Series. Each class consisted of a new...
Read MoreGuaranteed Basic Income
RBAC launched a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot with support from the office of King County District 2 office and Council Member Girmay Zahilay. When we were approached to pilot a guaranteed basic income program for...
Read MoreBeach Fresh Update
On Wednesday, Beach Freshers got the chance to attend a summit Called Food is Power. This summit featured African American Chefs/Bakers that are running restaurants/bakeries while serving the community. Edouardo Jordan gave a...
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206 Rising Peace Coalition Award Goes to RBAC Circle Keepers
On Thursday, May 28th on Facebook Live the Circle Keepers were given the annual 206 Rising Award,...
Read MorePriority Hire Advisory Committee Recommendations
About ten years ago the Rainier Beach Community Center was being demolished for a rebuild. We were so excited and Rainier Beach deserved it. Our excitement waned, however, when it was discovered that in the demolition and...
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Roles & Goals
We want to give you a glimpse inside the coordination of a non-arrest crime intervention project...
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Farm Stand Update
Farm Stand season is getting close and the team is hard at work figuring out how to operate...
Read MoreFinancial Literacy Class
RBAC is having a financial wellness core class taught by Elijah Lewis. Elijah is one of the founders of the Financial Flourish group. So far, there have been four classes out of a six-week course. In the first class, we talked...
Read MoreEddie’s Update: Priority Hire
Eddie Grinnell has been continuing to hit the streets to find people interested in well-paid trade jobs. The city’s Priority Hire program is meant to ensure that people in the 98118 have access to the jobs created by the City’s...
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Fatima’s RBAC Experience
My name is Fatima, I have been working with RBAC for the past two years now. I am blessed to be a...
Read MoreDisaster Gentrification in King County and How to Stop it From Happening Again
Rainier Beach Action Coalition, the Multicultural Community Coalition and Puget Sound Sage studied the risks of disaster gentrification created by the COVID-19 pandemic and propose what our local governments can do now to...
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