About This Cause
We serve as a community service organization focused on the legacy of redlined neighborhoods comprising the Central Area. These neighborhoods were historically inhabited by African Americans, due to racially prohibitive covenants declared throughout the City of Seattle restricting ownership and equitable opportunities. We look to provide economic opportunity within the disenfranchised population that has been severely battered by the effects of gentrification and displacement. We seek to provide community-level input to all practices and policies presented by City leadership and as well as state and federal policies to ensure equity and racial social construct is at the forefront of any solution presented. We provide guidance for business technical assistance for our minority-owned businesses. We serve as an intermediary between local government agencies and the business community by ensuring the community voice is addressed during policy and decision making events. We serve as the neutral third party community service agency within the Central Area neighborhoods, in which we demonstrate our trustworthiness and transparency by being selected by Seattle’s Office of Economic Development to steward the Only In Seattle Neighborhood Business Grant. By using a collaborative approach to management and encompassing the imperatives of Equity, Resilience, Climate Protection, Economic Development, and Culture, we provide an overarching strategy of ensuring our neighborhoods are not being left out of the economic prosperity others are achieving at the expense of our legacy African American and lower socioeconomic constituents