Publications

Solid Ground’s print and online publications share personal stories, advocacy opportunities, and inside views of how we meet basic needs, nurture success, and spread change to solve poverty.

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Vision 2030 | Strategic Plan

Two young Black kids on a jungle gym smile into the camera. Above them is a forest-green banner with ivory and white text that reads Vision 2030 | Solid Ground Strategic Plan, Thriving Residents, Stronger Communities. Solid Ground's logo is in the bottom right.Vision 2030 is Solid Ground’s Strategic Plan. To create it, we used a Community-Based Participatory Action Research approach driven by the following beliefs:

  • Community members are experts in their lives and needs.
  • People with lived experience are the researchers (rather than the objects of research and inquiry).
  • Communities have the capacity to conduct critical and systemic inquiry into their own strengths and needs – and this knowledge and expertise counters dominant cultural narratives that center deficits rather than strengths.

Every three years, Solid Ground conducts a Community Needs Assessment (CNA) to gather input from the communities we serve to help ensure our programs and services support people to create the lives they want to live. Vision 2030 built on CNA 2022 learnings, and community focus groups – including one made up of local youth – provided foundational input. Solid Ground’s Community Accountability Council (CAC) also played a key role in the creation of our plan.

 

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Groundviews Stories & Blog

Cover of a newsletter. On the left is a photo of an Indigenous woman with shoulder-length, salt and pepper hair – and wearing a white blouse and blue blazer – stands outside in front of a Craftsman-style house. The sun is shining, and a climbing plant behind her has golden fall leaves. On the right is a periwinkle Groundviews News & Notes masthead over details of what's inside the newsletter.Groundviews is the name of Solid Ground’s blog as well as our quarterly print newsletter, which highlights our work through program participant, partner, donor, volunteer, and program stories. Below are recent newsletter lead stories as published on the blog.

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Community Reports

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Solid Ground’s Community Reports provide annual snapshots of the previous year’s impacts, successes, and challenges.

 

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Other Publications

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Young Writers’ Projects

 

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Media Release Forms

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Contact Us

  • Media: Solid Ground staff are expert sources for stories on myriad issues impacting poverty and people living on low incomes in Washington state. To talk to someone about Solid Ground’s areas of expertise, please contact us at media@solid-ground.org or 206.694.6802.
  • Print publications: For hard copies of our print publications, contact publications@solid-ground.org.

 

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