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Check out this video featuring Nicole, FOCS Board Secretary!
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Pick FOCS as your choice for the BECU People Helping People Awards to help us win $40,000! Participate by November 29 at becu.org/awards
What are the People Helping People Awards?
BECU knows their members are dedicated to serving and supporting their communities. That’s why BECU created the People Helping People Awards. It’s a way for BECU to put their philanthropic dollars behind the causes their members care about. Every year, nominations are solicited from members, and the nonprofits are brought together to celebrate. It’s a way for all of us to recognize and support those who exemplify one of the most important principles BECU was founded on: helping others.
Who can participate?
Anyone with a valid email address! You do not have to be a BECU member. One vote per email address.
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Welcome Naima!
This month, we welcomed an RVC Community Impact Fellow to our team to support our capacity as Operations Manager
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Naima (she/her) is an artist, educator, mentor, and community organizer within the Seattle community through her various organizations and projects especially when it comes to youth development using art as her platform. Starting at a young age, she started practicing art through writing poetry, songs, and paintings as a way of expression in telling her story. In 2015, she started her first business, Hennai4life, as a henna artist in order to make henna accessible and reteach traditions through educating other artists and community members about the cultural significance of henna. In 2016 she also started a blog page called, “Story of a Hijabi,” which is dedicated to changing narratives, honoring underrepresented voices and work, and learning life lessons through the power of storytelling.
During completing her double BA for Society, Ethics & Human Behavior and Health Studies at UW Bothell, she became a lead advocate for POC students rights through leading protests, creating event programming, and starting community groups. In her last academic year, she started a project called RISE UP — Resilience Involving Student Empowerment through Uplifting Poetry which later ended up being one of the two awards she received for UWB Outstanding Program of the Year 2019. Naima is currently completing her second year through the RVC’s Community Impact Fellowship. She has also recently started her second business, Story of an Artist, which focuses on the importance of storytelling through art.
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QTFOCS
Queer and Trans Families of Color
Winter dates + time TBD
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NORTH SEATTLE NEWBORNS
Children ages 0 - 6 months
Tuesdays | 1 – 3 pm
January 12 – March 9
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SOUTH SEATTLE NEWBORNS
Children ages 0 - 6 months
Saturdays | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
January 9 – March 6
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NORTH SEATTLE WADDLERS
Children ages 6 months - 3 years
Wednesdays | 2 – 4 pm
January 1 – March 3
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SOUTH SEATTLE WADDLERS
Children ages 6 months - 3 years
Saturdays | 2:30 – 4:30 pm
January 9 – March 6
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WHEN
Mondays | 4 - 4:45 pm
November 2 - December 21
WHAT
Mindful Mondays: Mindfulness Practice for BIPOC Youth & Families facilitated by Space Between
In need of some melanated mindfulness? Join us for Mindful Mondays, an 8-week mindfulness series for BIPOC Youth & Families facilitated by Space Between! Each week, Space Between will lead us through a 30 minute mindfulness practice for adults and school-age youth, followed by 15 minutes for Q+A for the parents/caregivers.
BIPOC youth are welcome to join any/all sessions, with or without a parent/caregiver.
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WHEN
Tuesdays | 3 - 4 pm
October 6 - December 15
WHAT
Join us for a drop-in "grown-FOCS" zoom happy hour just for parents + caregivers of children of color. Come share your truths, triumphs, and troubles. Spill the tea with us, we see you!
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Get ready for #GivingTuesday on December 1
Save the date!
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Save the date! We're one week away to #GivingTuesday, a global movement in unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world, encouraging the importance of the practice of giving back to our communities. Join in support on Tuesday, December 1st!
We know that this year has been difficult (to say the least!) for many of our families during our global pandemic. Each and every donation helps FOCS provide free virtual parent groups and gatherings for BIPOC families to stay connected and rooted in a strong community!
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Thanksgiving Promotes Whitewashed History, So I Organized Truthsgiving Instead
Bustle, Christine Nobiss, MA (Religious Studies), Plains Cree/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation and Decolonizer with Seeding Sovereignty
ThanksTaking or ThanksGiving?
All My Relations Podcast. This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous Perspective.
Colonialism And Other -Isms With Prof Tiffany Lanoix
Parenting for Liberation Podcast. In this podcast Professor Tiffany shares the regular and ongoing practices she engages in to discuss potentially heavy theoretical topics of colonialism, racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, sex, and more in ways that are age-appropriate and allow the young person to lead and guide the conversation. Beyond sharing her own best practices, she also shares some resources for folks to access.
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Brick by Brick: The LGBTQ Advocacy Curriculum for Students of Color
National Women's Law Center
Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund
Apply by December 6 and receive a $1,000 one-time direct payment (up to $3,000 per household).
2020 Gift Guide
Seattle Green Book Black Business Directory
Real Rent Duwamish
Real Rent calls on people who live and work in Seattle to make rent payments to the Duwamish Tribe. Though the city named for the Duwamish leader Chief Seattle thrives, the Tribe has yet to be justly compensated for their land, resources, and livelihood.
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