qcafe gives back 10%


eugenecho - Posted on 10 March 2008


 

As we have this past year, we will be giving away 10% of our monthly cafe sales to an outside non-profit organization. Our hope is to focus mostly on Seattle based organizations doing work either locally or globally. 

The cafe staff and Advisory Board have decided to partner with World Aid [based in Ballard, WA] for the month of March but our slate for the rest of the year is completely open.   

We are now looking to our customers, friends, supporters, and neighbors for your suggestions.

So, take a few moments and make your recommendations here.  Each month, we'll also highlight each organization we are supporting.

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[...] take a few moments and visit the Q CAFE website here and make your recommendations.  Each month, we’ll also highlight each organization we are [...]

I would love to see One By One (www.fightfistula.org) highlighted! After volunteering there for about six months, I'm now an employee. We're right down the street from you, too!

I heard about this organization called Youth In Focus which empowers urban teens through photography. They have kids take classes on photography and seek to help them become more than mere photographers, but to prepare them for successful lives overall. I've been meaning to contact them for awhile. I could see photos taken by the kids hanging in the cafe during the month that the proceeds would go to them, which I think would be pretty cool.

Whoops. Forgot to add the link to the website: http://youthinfocus.org/

Agros does great work in Central America.

http://agros.org

Former Qcafe barista, Rachel, and her husband Karl-Peter are in New Orleans. Their current church is trying to build a community center and are looking for funds/help. I have a video about that project.

I'll cast my vote for YouthCare [Youthcare.org], a Seattle based organization running a variety of at-risk youth oriented programs inculding: transitional housing, orion drop-in center, and barista training.

Solid Ground (fomerly the Fremont Public Association) helps 30,000 King County families each year to overcome poverty, homelessness, hunger and despair. http://www.solid-ground.org

I would like to suggest Northwest Family Life, located in the Northgate area. Their mission is "to assist individuals and families in finding hope and healing when faced with the pain of domestic violence and related issues". They are a "treatment focused facility offering intervention for perpetrators and advocacy for adult and children survivors". I think it is vital that organizations support programs to end violence in the family as it occurs as often in religious circles as anywhere else.

FamilyWorks- a food bank and family resource center in Wallingford. I'm on the Board of Directors if you have any questions.

Another suggestion- The Tenants Union of WA. www.tenantsunion.org They provide free counsel to low income people encountering issues with their rental housing. Many people assisted are persons of color and/or recent immigrants. They basically provide assistance that isn't offered anywhere else. They had a major funding cut a couple of years ago and have had to restrict their hours and work with a skeleton staff. I have volunteered there actively until Ethan was born.

Stuff that's come in via the cafe:

Conservation NW [works on policy side of enviro issues]

People for Puget Sound - envio education, outreach, and policy.

CDM House Care Services

Seattle Labor Chorus

Solid Ground [http://solid-ground.org]

Agros International

St. Martin de Porres Homeless Shelter for Men

Atlantic Street Center [turoring, gang preventijon, teen leadership development, etc.]

Northwest Parkinsons Foundation

Faceless International

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About Us

Q Cafe is a non-profit neighborhood cafe in Seattle featuring direct trade espresso [Stumptown Coffee] and tea, art, live music, and community events.

Location & Hours

3223 15th Ave. W, Seattle WA 98119

Monday - Thursday
8am-9pm Daily

Tuesdays we have OPEN MIC from 6:30-9pm.

Fridays we're open from 8am-5pm... open again at 7:30pm for our weekly Live Music Show.

Saturday we're open from 8am-1pm.

Closed on Sundays.