Give MODERATELY to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for BIG impacts today
Cathy Tuttle
Together we’re transforming Seattle streets. Give MODERATELY right now to show your commitment to safe, healthy streets. Please keep us moving forward.
In the next few days your email boxes will be crammed with appeals to GIVE BIG. If you are a member of one of our 21 local greenways groups, you know we cannot build a city of safe, family-friendly, livable, healthy streets without you. Your passion, knowledge, and hard work on behalf of your own neighborhoods is priceless. Our work collectively, as a citywide organization, is what allows each neighborhood to be much greater than the sum of its parts.
You may have contributed to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways in our December 2012 appeal. Thank you!
We’d love your springtime donation too! Now is the time to give MODERATELY! Your donation is fully tax-deductible through our fiscal partner Seattle Parks Foundation.
Here’s what we’ve been up to since December 2012.
- Initiated, advertised, and staffed a Memorial Walk on April 1 and a Memorial Bike Ride on May 7 for recent traffic fatalities in partnership with local NE Seattle and West Seattle groups and the City of Seattle. Developed an action response template for future pedestrian and bicycle traffic fatalities.
- Negotiated for faster timelines and improved safety infrastructure on local greenways with elected officials, City staff, and consultants.
- Received a major $20,000 award from REI to partner on safe streets maps for Seattle.
- Hosted informative meetups with Portland Traffic Signals Manager Peter Koonce and Alta Planning’s Fred Young on Learning from Dutch Street Design.
- Held monthly citywide meetings for local greenways leaders on mapping, engineering standards, technical reading, and sharing best practices.
- Hosted bike rides on safe streets and greenways in Ballard, West Seattle, Fremont, Wallingford, NE Seattle, and Green Lake.
- Staffed multiple government panels, Boards and Commissions.
- With the UW School of Public Health, developed traffic signal safety improvement recommendations for Rainier Valley Greenways and Lake City “Maps of Fear and Comfort” with local residents.
- With support from National Parks Service Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, developed an outreach program for Rainier Valley Greenways.
- Supported Lake City Greenways on multiple projects with UW College of the Built Environment
- Provided coaching and produced graphics for Lake City Greenways, NE Seattle Greenways, Central Greenways, Ballard Greenways, Kirkland Greenways, Queen Anne Greenways, Wallingford Greenways, West Seattle Greenways, Rainier Valley Greenways, Maple Leaf Greenways, Madison Greenways, Green Lake Greenways.
- Continued to develop great on-line resource tools at www.SeattleGreenways.org
- Looking out to the near future, we’re planning cargo bike Disaster Relief Trials in June with the Red Cross and the Office of Emergency Management and hosting a Mayoral Forum on Livable Streets in early July with a variety of safe streets partners.
If this is the kind of work that benefits you and that you support, support us! Donate here today.
Give MODERATELY! Our partner and fiscal sponsor Seattle Parks Foundation will make sure your donation is fully tax-deductible. And please do give BIG next week to other stellar local non-profits as well.
Thank you for what you do locally, and for your support for a whole city of safe, healthy streets!
Cathy Tuttle, Executive Director
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways