April 4, 2003
                                                      
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
WINS TWO DISTINCTIVE AWARDS

2003 Evergreen State Award
for Excellence in Community Service

Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce 
2002 Nonprofit Breakthrough Award

Family Resource Center received an award for excellence in community
service from the Evergreen State Society on April 3. Presented by Secretary
of State Sam Reed at this year's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Seattle,
Family Resource Center was recognized for creative financial management
during difficult times.
 
This award comes on the heels of a business excellence award made by the
Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce. Family Resource Center was
awarded that group's 2002 Nonprofit Breakthrough Award at its Business
Excellence awards gala in February.
  
Both awards take note of Family Resource Center's unusual fundraising
campaign that will increase program dollars at 18 of the health, housing and
human service agencies operating from its innovative campus. In completing
the campaign, $2.8 million dollars will be redirected from mortgage principal
and interest payments to agency use in providing medical and dental services,
getting the homeless back to work, supporting programs for at-risk youth and
much more.
  
"Responding to the clear warnings of declining government support for the
programs of its tenants," the Evergreen State Award reads, "Family Resource
Center initiated a capital campaign to pay off its mortgage and thereby
significantly lower overhead costs and increase program dollars at 18 of its
agencies. As support for Family Resource Center’s needed community
services declines, Family Resource Center has designed a creative financial
strategy that extends the benefits of sharing a physical location and offers a
positive, sustainable answer to limited funding."
  
Evergreen State Society President Putnam Barber noted, "We appreciate
that despite the social and economic turbulence of the times, Family Resource
Center continues to address many serious concerns such as medical and
dental care, low income housing and homelessness and the effects they have
on our community members of every age and ethnic background."
  
The Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce presented Family Resource
Center with its inaugural nonprofit award, "because of its support and
encouragement of other charitable organizations. Its 'breakthrough' occurred
with the successful launch of its capital campaign to pay off the building
mortgage. The accomplishment is significant because it enables Family
Resource Center to lower the rates for its charitable tenants, in effect
freeing-up desperately needed dollars to support increasing community
needs."
  
Family Resource Center launched its unusual fundraising campaign in 2002,
and has received significant support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation (which will double gifts made to the
Center through September 30 as part of a one-to-one matching grant),
Microsoft, The Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Joshua Green
Foundation, Puget Sound Energy, Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation,
US Bank, Washington Mutual Bank, Nintendo, Olympian Precast, Inc.,
Tenhulzen Corporation and Clark Nuber.
  
"We have had great support from corporations and foundations, whose
decision-makers really appreciate the benefits of helping so many through one
centralized organization," Family Resource Center Executive Director Pamela
Mauk said. "We are now working to expand the campaign to the broader
community and would welcome an opportunity to talk to any who are
interested in learning more about our project."
  
Family Resource Center, the Eastside's human services campus, is an
innovative nonprofit organization designed to relieve the difficulties of getting
to community services. Twenty-two agencies provide services to 35,000
Eastsiders each year, half of them children. The Center is located in
downtown Redmond at 16225 NE 87th.

Pamela Mauk may be reached at (425) 869-1174 or pamm@familyresourcecenter.org

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