Organizations Filed Purposes:
Chief Seattle Club exists to provide a sacred space to nurture, affirm and renew the spirit of urban Native people.
Chief Seattle Club provides basic needs to Seattle's homeless Native Americans such as hot meals, showers, and laundry. Additional on-site human services include housing assistance, health care, legal aid, employment, mental health, and traditional wellness programs.
DAY CENTER AND CAPITAL PROJECT: The Day Center is open 7 days a week, 364 days a year, from 7am to 2pm. Members receive 4 meals a day, take showers and have their laundry washed. Additional on-site services are available, including a nurse, mental health counselor, DSHS Financial Screener, and Traditional Healers.From 2018 to 2019, total visits to the Day Center increased 18 percent, from 32,220 to 38,023 visits annually.In 2019, the Club served 1,479 unduplicated members through 70,041 meals; 10,297 showers and laundry services; 938 public benefit applications; 744 health treatments; assistance obtaining birth certificates, state/ tribal ID cards and bus passes for 601 members; 120 mental health encounters; and legal aid to 60 members.
HOUSING ASSISTANCE: In 2019, the Club provided housing assistance to 757 households. Case Managers paired with financial assistance help homeless/low-income Native Americans obtain permanent housing through move-in assistance (first/last months rent, security deposits, applications fees); maintain housing to prevent homelessness through eviction prevention funds (back rent, utility assistance); diversion (employment and transportation expenses to increase access to income/resources to obtain housing); and emergency housing (short-term motels for homeless households that have permanent housing lined up in the near future). The Club has successfully operated our expanded housing program for 2 years, and in 2020 we are expanding programming to address other causes of homelessness including employment, mental health, domestic violence, and re-entry.
CAPITAL HOUSING PROJECT: Chief Seattle Club is developing ?al?al (translates to home in Lushootseed) adjacent to our current facility. The 9-story building includes affordable housing, a health clinic, caf/art gallery, and expanded space for Chief Seattle Club. In 2019, we selected our low-income housing tax credit investor, completed architectural design, bid the project, and secured all public funding sources for the project. In February 2020, we closed on all of the projects financing (low-income housing tax credits, construction loan, public funding contracts) and started demolition of the existing building on the ?al?al site. Construction will be completed in October 2021. As of June 2020, we have secured $44 million towards the $47 million project budget.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Colleen Echohawk | Executive Dir. | 40 | $126,102 |
| Hannah Franklin | Controller | 40 | $103,697 |
| Koji Clark | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Temryss Lane | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tod Leiweke | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Denise Stiffarm | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Bree Kameenui-Ramirez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tiara Turner | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tricia Trainer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Aren Sparck | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mel Sheldon | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lonnie Nelson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Heather Nason | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Ken Gordon | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Steve Trainer | Secretary | 4 | $0 |
| Denise Busch | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Annie Kirk | President | 3 | $0 |
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