Spokane Alliance Accomplishments
2013
Local Campaigns
- Spokane Feb 12th City Election: Spokane Alliance voted to support Prop 3, oppose Prop 2 and took no position on Prop 1. We took commitments to talk to 1,300 people to GOTV.
2011-2012
Leadership Development
- Developed 32 new leaders through local campaigns and actions.
- Trained 21 Spokane Alliance members in a two-day local Leadership Institute.
- Three leaders attended week long Regional and National training.
- One leader attended a 3-day training on Transformational Leadership.
- Three new organizations joined Spokane Alliance.
Local Campaigns
- Supporting Local Jobs. Spokane Alliance’s Jobs Team led the effort to engage the Public Facilities District (PFD) to make their upcoming expansion on the Convention Center and Arena a truly local project. The PFD will hire local contractors and employees and use a local manufacturer. We supported a modest increase for the hotel/motel tax to directly help fund this Design/Build project. We are still meeting with the PFD board to continue to push for apprenticeship utilization and full family health care.
- Shifting Public Conversation about Spokane’s Budget. During the Spokane City Budget process, Spokane Alliance responded to dramatic cuts to city services and jobs. We changed the way people where talking about the budget and shifted the tone of how the budget was covered in the news by:
- Bringing attention to a budget that cuts services and threatens our safety
- Turning out over 60 people to the budget hearings, which is the most people to ever turn out for a budget conversation.
- Engaging citizens in the process when the city was silent.
- Keeping Spokane Beautiful. Spokane Alliance built a public relationship with absentee landlords next to Westminster UCC Church. We asked them to clean up their property. They are acting on our request.
State Wide Campaign: Washington State Jobs Bill
Spokane Alliance partnered with our sister organization in the Puget Sound, Sound Alliance to pass a $1.1 billion construction bill that is creating over 18,000 jobs in Washington State. It includes $54 million of projects in the Spokane area, such as the rest of the needed funds to complete the WSU Medical School and expand a learning center at our local community college. The bill included money to develop the Centennial Bike Trail, a pedestrian bridge and a number of other local projects. It also included funding for the Community Energy Efficiency Pilot program (CEEP), which has been a primary funding source for Sustainable Works.
Spokane Alliance members played a key role in this campaign. We led strategic efforts by phone banking our membership to educate them about the bill and encouraged them to call their legislators. Our members met with local city and county officials to gain their support. A team of 12 traveled to Olympia to meet with all Spokane County State Representatives. The Alliance organized a press conference/rally with over 100 Alliance leaders and all TV, newspaper, and local radio stations turned out. The Jobs Bill has already made a difference for many of our families who have been put back to work and it has spurred other local investment and development.
Earlier Accomplishments
Spokane Alliance has accomplished a lot since our inception. Please click here to see a list of achievements since our founding.
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