28 Community Art Projects Funded By The Tacoma Arts Commission The Tacoma Arts Commission recently awarded $156,000 in Community Arts Projects funding to 28 Tacoma organizations, groups, and businesses in support of 2024 public outreach projects in the fields of culture, dance, literary, music, theatre, visual, and cross-disciplinary arts. “We’re heartened to fund [...]
Making A Difference Foundation has been committed to helping college-bound students for more than 20 years. Making A Difference Foundation (MADF) of Tacoma announces its 2023 scholarship awards to 10 students attending college throughout the nation. "For more than 20 years, Making A Difference Foundation has been committed to helping college-bound students gain [...]
By Ahndrea Blue Making A Difference Foundation There are a lot of people who want expensive electronics, cars, vacations, and gifts for the holiday, which is not inherently a bad thing. Yet so many people in the community, the working poor, lack the very basic essentials. For them, they would just be more than [...]
The Making a Difference Foundation Ensures People Without Housing Aren’t Without Good Meals The Making a Difference Foundation (which encompasses Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank), is one of five nonprofit organizations SUCCESS magazine is spotlighting during the week of Giving Tuesday. Early in November, we posted on our social media accounts asking followers [...]
Food insecurity brings need year-round It was wonderful how communities rallied over Thanksgiving to make sure no one went hungry for this holiday that’s all about food. Giveaways of turkeys and side dishes seemed to be everywhere, from the Tacoma Police Department partnering with the Tacoma Ministerial Alliance to hold a series of [...]
Eloise’s cooking pots help fight food insecurity at Pierce Co. During the holidays, many people take time to practice charity and goodwill, but for Eloise’s Cooking Pot, every day is an opportunity to help those in need. TACOMA, Wash. – As food prices continue to rise, food banks are struggling to cover the [...]
Eloise’s cooking pots help fight food insecurity at Pierce Co. During the holidays, many people take time to practice charity and goodwill, but for Eloise’s Cooking Pot, every day is an opportunity to help those in need. TACOMA, Wash. – As food prices continue to rise, food banks are struggling to cover the [...]
Press Release: 2011 Jefferson Awards Winners Chosen MEDIA ADVISORY: February 23, 2011FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:Tobias Coughlin-Bogue206-682-7395jeffersonawards@seattlecityclub.org CityClub is pleased to announce the selection of the five winners of the 2011 Washington State Jefferson Awards. The winners were selected by a panel of six judges, who faced the difficult task of narrowing down the field [...]
By Ahndrea Blue Making A Difference Foundation It is widely known that Christopher Columbus did not, in fact, "discover” America. Leif Erikson, an Icelandic Norseman, actually arrived about 500 years before Columbus. But even that isn’t accurate, for how can someone "discover” a land that is already inhabited by people who had been [...]
Ahndrea Blue, President and CEO of the Making A Difference Foundation, was honored as part of The Roosevelt High School Foundation’s 83-member inaugural class of Wall of Honor members. This first class of distinguished alumni and/or staff of Roosevelt High School culminates a nearly year-long process of input from the school and alumni [...]
