Solid Ground is an anti-poverty and social service organization in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

. Originating in Seattle's Fremont

Fremont, Seattle, Washington

Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. Originally a separate city, it was annexed to Seattle in 1891. Named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders, L. H. Griffith and E...

 neighborhood and now based in the adjacent Wallingford

Wallingford, Seattle, Washington

Wallingford is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, named after John Noble Wallingford . The QFC supermarket at the corner of N 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue N may be regarded as the center of the neighborhood; its large WALLINGFORD neon sign is made in part from letters in the...

 neighborhood, the organization now serves clients throughout Seattle, King County

King County, Washington

King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population in the 2010 census was 1,931,249. King is the most populous county in Washington, and the 14th most populous in the United States....

 and (for some programs) statewide.

Operating on an annual budget of about US$18 million, major program areas fall under the headings "Anti-Racism Initiative", "Advocacy", "Ending Homelessness", "Ending Hunger", "National Service", and "Senior and Transportation Services". They also operate (as a fundraiser) the Fremont Fair but not the associated Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant

Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant

The Fremont Solstice Parade is an annual event produced by the Fremont Arts Council , an organization that supports the arts and artists in and around the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Started in 1989 by Barbara Luecke and Peter Toms, the parade quickly grew to tens of thousands of...

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Their programs include direct provision of services (food banks, housing programs, skills classes, in-home elder care, etc.), but they also provide legal advice, support, and representation to help people receive government benefits, ombudsman support for long-term care facilities, and lobby the Washington State government. Their National Service programs "mobilize about 150 full-time stipended volunteers… providing more than 500,000 hours of service each year"; they also provide senior

Senior citizen

Senior citizen is a common polite designation for an elderly person in both UK and US English, and it implies or means that the person is retired. This in turn implies or in fact means that the person is over the retirement age, which varies according to country. Synonyms include pensioner in UK...

volunteers to over 80 King County human service organizations.