Our Mission

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

Kubota Garden needs volunteers!

Kubota Garden is a Seattle City Park, open 365 days a year with no admission charge. 20 acres are landscaped, with a large Natural Area surrounding Mapes Creek. The central core of the garden that was built in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota is designated as a historic site. A project to restore the Natural [...]

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 [...]

Become an ElderFriends Volunteer!

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The ElderFriends program matches isolated elders with volunteers.  The Rainier Beach community has a shortage of volunteers for the program and quite a few elders on a waiting list for Elder Friends.  The program is an amazing opportunity to connect with the community.  Many [...]

Southeast Seattle volunteer and internship opportunities with Seattle Tilth!

Seattle Tilth has some great internship and volunteer opportunities going on in Southeast Seattle. We are working to build a healthier Southeast Seattle by promoting growing and eating healthy food.

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities in Rainier Valley with Seattle Tilth & Community Kitchens N W

Come build skills teaching, organizing, growing food [...]

GIVE: Volunteers needed for Fun In The Sun at Othello

Looking to get involved? Our Give Page is the only comprehensive listing of volunteer opportunities in the Rainier Valley. Designed to link neighbors with local volunteer opportunities, this is the place to start if you’ve got time and/or financial resources and a desire to help improve your community. From the Ribbon of Parks Association: [...]

Rainer Valley Food Bank Rip-Off to be Celebrated by SouthendSeattle.com Volunteer Day, Nov. 20

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Just a few days before Thanksgiving, while preparing to face the biggest day of the year, the Rainier Valley Food Bank was ripped-off last year by burglars hauling $2000 worth of food intended for the Seattle’s needy. The Southend community responded by leading efforts to [...]

Help prepare for the 8th Annual Rainier Beach Back2School Bash!

It’s time for the Rainier Beach Back2School Bash!

Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010 Time: from 12 to 4 pm Location: Beer Sheva Park behind Rainier Beach High School

Join us; combine your energy with others in our great neighborhood to inspire students about education in Rainier Beach. Our children are worth it!

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15-19 year olds needed to develop designing and planning skills

If you are a teenager 15-19 years old this is a very coop programm that the Seattle Art Museum is offering this summer.  It is a 6-week teen workshop where teens learn to be design thinkers and chager makers.  They get to explore visual art, architecture, design software, urban planning and social activism.  The [...]

Reminder: Bridge to Beach All Valley Earthday Makeover: April 24

Just a friendly reminder that the second annual Bridge to Beach All Valley Earth Day Makeover will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010.

Hurry and get together with your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to form a team and decide on a project whether it be trash collecting, graffiti removal, flower planting, weeding, [...]

RB Coalition Stewards Group Forming: March 24

This is shaping up to be an incredibly exciting year for the Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition–and a tremendous time for raising up and supporting new leadership across all generations and backgrounds.  Here’s another opportunity for you to make a huge difference, while also supporting the youth, elders, and local activists who are already [...]