The Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference attracts top-notch speakers with expertise that includes lessons learned from recent worldwide events like earthquakes, work place violence, current hazards research, contingency planning, school preparedness, technology, media interactions, and public health issues. Speakers and exhibitors provide cutting-edge information on subjects such as business continuity planning, school safety, public health preparedness, homeland security, and public information.

Why You Should Attend

Successful management of emergencies can only be accomplished through effective and pre-established partnerships. This conference offers you the opportunity to develop those relationships; gain the necessary information to develop your response, recovery, and mitigation plans; create your preparedness messaging to those you serve; and gain valuable insight into lessons learned and established best practices. This is the largest and most successful regional emergency management preparedness conference in the Pacific Northwest—attracting attendees from:

• Emergency Management
• Safety Professionals
• Law Enforcement
• Fire Services
• EMS
• Business sector
• Schools
• Universities
• Public Health
• Utilities
• Public Works
• Non-profit Sector
• Economic Development
• Local and Federal Government
• Volunteers
• Hospitals
• and all that are tasked with emergency management planning

For more information, please contact us at  360.867.8806 or info@piepc.org.

PIEPC is an all-volunteer and a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization. If you support the conference’s mission of building stronger emergency management partnerships through collaboration, continuous education, and encouragement of those entering the field, be a part of PIEPC. Visit www.piepc.org to learn more about how you can offer a tax-deductible donation to the conference, apply to join the conference committee, become a volunteer, and attend the conference in coming years.

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Guardian Roofing & Gutters believes it’s important to give back and take care of our community. That is why each year the Guardian family takes time to determine how they can best give back to our community in a way that is unique to them.

In 2018 they found the answer in the Guardian Halo Project, an internal team-lead project where one homeowner in dire conditions would be gifted with a major roof repair or replacement. The local community was encouraged to nominate themselves or someone in need on the Guardian website.

Now in it’s fifth year, Guardian Roofing & Gutters invites you to nominate someone you know in need of a major roof repair or replacement. Find complete information about the 5th Anniversary of the Guardian Halo Project here. Nominate someone you know today!

Located on the north side of the Bellevue Downtown Park next to Bellevue Square, The Light the World Giving Machine provides our community with the opportunity to donate to local and global charities with a push of a button.

Open daily from November 29, 2022, through January 1, 2023, featured donation items include hot meals, warm clothing, fresh water, classroom supplies, polio vaccines and more!

The organizations featured in the Giving Machines represent a wide variety of global and local causes, all with pressing needs and with the goal of helping people one by one.

One hundred percent of donations made at a Light the World Giving Machine will be used for the purchased item, similar items, or services of greater need as determined by the applicable charitable organization.

Donation options are also available online at LightTheWorld.org.

Where: Edmonds Waterfront Center

When: November 5^th, 2022 @ 6pm

What: They will have a plated dinner, speakers, music, a silent auction, paddle raise, desert dash and more!

Purchase your ticket, or simply donate to Hand in Hand today!

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It’s a Free In-Person Train the Trainer event for the Fall Sports Season!

High school coaches, you’re invited to join Team Up Washington for an important training. Are you disturbed by reports of violence and abuse in our communities? Dating violence and sexual assault are preventable. The conversations you’ll start through your implementation of Coaching Boys Into Men and Athletes As Leaders and will empower student athletes to shift culture on and off the field and in their schools.

Attend this free coaches training on July 27, 2022 from 5:00-7:00 pm at the Mercer Island Community & Event Center. Parking is free and dinner will be provided!

Register today!

Participants can receive clock hours and copies of the curricula. Language interpretation available upon request, see registration for details!

Trainers include members of the Team Up Washington Crew:

Carlos Enriquez, Coach – Garfield HS, Seattle United Soccer Club

Rebecca Milliman, Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center

Monica Schell, Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center

Ward Urion, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

As part of their COVID-19 precautions, all attendees and staff at WSCADV events are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  Per CDC guidelines, you are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after your second dose in a two-dose series, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after the single-dose J&J/Janssen vaccine. If you have any questions, please contact Ward Urion (contact information below).

Contact information:
Ward Urion
ward@wscadv.org
206-389-2515 x 308 (voice)

Katherine’s and Rita’s Houses are transitional housing programs for homeless, adult women in recovery from substance abuse.

If you’d like to support the houses please head to the Katherine’s House and Rita’s House website where you can get information on volunteering, donations needed, and how to give financial gifts.

Swedish wants your support. Join others virtually on Sunday, May 1st and Walk Your Way. We’d love to see you out and about in your neighborhood during walk time—or whenever works for you – as we take over the Greater Seattle Area and beyond. Register as a virtual walker and show your support and help researchers find a cure for glioblastoma.

Learn more about the event here.

Over seven million veterans are affected by PTSD each year and thirty percent develop mental problems within three months of being home. Mission Outdoors strives to create hope for veterans by engaging them in their communities and giving them a purpose. They immerse veterans with the outdoors and create events for them to attend. Their mission is to remind veterans they are not alone and give them something to look forward to. Their main events include the Washington Tuna Classic, the Lingcod Derby, Tapps Island golf, and a Charity Gala. Find out more at MissionOutdoors.org.

A meaningful location, visitors are able to see the Duwamish River and the ancient villages of Ha-Ah’-poos (“Where there are Horse Clams”) and Tohl-ahl-too (“Herring House”) to the east. The two story high structure includes a skylight and has archeological materials on display. There are events held to showcase traditional Duwamish cooking and teach about sustainability.

The mission of this project is “to promote the social, cultural, and economic survival of Seattle Washington’s aboriginal Duwamish Tribe”. This welcoming space honors the ancestors and leaders of the Duwamish people and immerse you in their culture.

Learn more about the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center here.

On October 26th at 8 p.m. tune in to KIRO Radio for a special Halloween show presented by Museum of Glass, Seattle Radio Theatre and Town Hall Seattle. Listen as your favorite voices depict the eerie story of the 1939 Orson Welles’ version of Agatha Christies, “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” Using the original script presented by CBS on KIRO more than 80 years ago, this story will re-create a spooky murder mystery. Featuring live sound effects creating a creepy mood, the action will unfold across the airwaves in the “theatre of the mind.”

Voices include Dave Ross, John Curley, Colleen O’Brien, Ursula Reutin, Gee Scott, Chris Sullivan, Aaron Granillo, Lisa Brooks, and KIRO 7 TV’s Nick Allard.

This event is presented in connection with René Lalique: Art Deco Gems from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection, on view now at Museum of Glass. The artwork of René Lalique helped to define the Art Deco movement in the early twentieth century, a time that produced a staggering proliferation of literary talent that contributes to how we interpret and understand Lalique’s art today. These voices share varying perspectives on an extraordinary time, which saw the emergence of the suffragettes, the rise of fascism and the Nazi Party, continuing racism, wild hedonism, the buildup and then catastrophic collapse of the stock market, a world-wide pandemic, and the continuing fall-out and recovery from World War I.

Aqua Quip has partnered with Wish for Our Heroes to donate a new Sundance Spa to a veteran. Wish For Our Heroes is a non-profit organization what helps veterans and their families in times of need and two veterans will be selected to receive a Chelsee or Hamilton Sundance Spa from Aqua Quip. If you are, or know a veteran who could be in need of hydrotherapy, follow the link below and complete the form HERE for them to be considered. The recipient will be announced on Veterans Day, November 11, 2021. Local Puget Sound area submissions only and submissions must be received by contest administrators by Friday, November 5, 2021 at midnight PST

Every purchase of a Sundance® Spa from Aqua Quip contributes to helping veterans in need through the support of Sundance® Spas and Wish for Our Heroes. If you are, or know a veteran in need of hydrotherapy, please complete the form below to be considered. Recipient will be announced on Veterans Day, November 11, 2021. Local Puget Sound area submissions ONLY.

Ovarian cancer can be genetically linked to breast cancer. While breast cancer survival rates have improved, ovarian cancer remains the deadliest gynecological cancer and is underfunded by national funding agencies.

Ovarian cancer tends to be caught in later, less treatable stages, because its signs mimic common symptoms — abdominal pain, bloating, feeling full quickly, and a frequent need to urinate. While we all experience these occasionally, talk to your doctor if they’re severe or last for more than two weeks.

The Rivkin Center is a Seattle-based nonprofit fighting to end ovarian cancer. The organization funds ovarian cancer research around the world. The Rivkin Center also provides ovarian and breast health workshops in the community.

Join the race to end ovarian cancer at the Rivkin Center’s SummeRun & Walk for Ovarian Cancer on Sunday, July 11th. Register HERE!

USO Northwest is supported entirely by charitable donations from individuals, organizations, foundations, corporate gifts and sponsorships, and three major fundraisers – including this year’s Five-Star Virtual Gala & Auction. Despite direct support to our military and their families, USO Northwest does not receive government funding of any kind. For more information, or to donate, visit Northwest.USO.org.

JustServe.org is a website where the volunteer needs of organizations may be posted and volunteers may search for places to serve in the community, providing opportunities to help those in need and enhance the quality of life in the community. For more information on ways you can help, visit JustServe.org

You can also find important projects and non-profits proudly supported Bonneville Seattle by visiting MyNorthwest.com/Community.

– Consider donating to or learning more about our recent Charity of the Month recipients (including September’s charity with a focus on services for first responders).

– Send a card to someone living in a nursing home with Gee and Ursula’s letter writing campaign.

– Help Coaching Boys into Men in their mission to prevent domestic violence.

You can register today by heading to TheWaveFoundation.org to learn more.