Spokane nonprofit breaks ground on 48-unit Affordable housing project for refugees

We Can’t Have Good Nonprofits without Affordable Housing

Heart and Home is a column by Josh Ishimatsu Housing affordability impacts so many aspects of our lives and the high price of housing in our region hurts us in ways that are big and obvious (our homelessness crisis, for example) but also in lots of smaller ways we don’t always understand as being related to housing. Top of mind and somewhat selfishly, I’ve been thinking about this in terms of staffing for our organization.  Hiring and retaining …

Spokane nonprofit breaks ground on 48-unit Affordable housing project for refugees

By Cody Wendt | FāVS News Reporter “Refugees deserve more than shelter,” reads a banner headline on the homepage for the Spokane-based nonprofit Thrive International. “They deserve a future.” The charity seeks to help provide that future, and its efforts have gained literal and figurative ground in recent weeks. Making Spokane hospitable Thrive was founded close to three-and-a-half years ago by Mark Finney, a graduate of Fuller Theological Semin…