• International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides relief, protection, and resettlement services to refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict. IRC-Seattle helps newly arrived refugees achieve self-sufficiency by providing initial resettlement, housing placement, job readiness training, employment counseling and job development, immigration services, ESL instruction, and general and intensive case management. IRC-Seattle has resettled over 16,000 refugees from over 27 different countries.
• Literacy Council of Seattle (LCS) enables adults to acquire the basic English skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, mathematics and technology that they need to solve the problems they encounter in daily life and to equip them for the future. More than 20,000 people in King County have limited English skills and another 185,000 are functionally illiterate. Their student base includes learners from 30 countries and LCS currently has 60 tutors directly teaching 100 students, one-on-one

• The Nature Conservancy is the world's leading private, international conservation group. They preserve habitats and species by saving the lands and waters they need to survive. They have helped protect more than 11 million acres of habitat in the United States and nearly 60 million acres in Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, and currently manage 1,340 preserves, the largest system of private nature sanctuaries in the world.

Health

• Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, logistics experts, water/sanitation engineers, and administrators join 15,000 locally hired staff to provide medical aid to people in more than 80 countries, regardless of race, religion, creed, political affiliation or political borders.

Education and the Arts

• Alliance for Education ensures that all 47,000 students in the Seattle Public Schools have the knowledge, skills and personal attributes necessary to succeed in learning, living and working. The Alliance has worked to improve academic achievement and is currently focused on strategies to achieve transformation goals in 98 schools, in partnership with The Seattle Public Schools District.
• Arts Corps addresses the lack of affordable, consistent and excellent quality arts education for youth, and serves primarily low-income, minority children and families. To create a generation of children who tap into their own creativity and power through art, Arts Corps offers art classes in many disciplines to young people at no cost at after-school facilities across Seattle. Arts Corps has recruited a diverse group of teaching artists in Afro-Cuban drumming, jazz dance, poetry, photography, mask making, sculpture, performance and more.

Charities You've Chosen cont'd

Funds contributed to any of the above organizations will be added to the JW Foundation For Building Successful Communities at The Seattle Foundation, a section 501 (c) (3) organization. The Seattle Foundation reserves the right to modify any restriction or condition on distributions from the JW Foundation For Building Successful Communities if such restriction or condition becomes unnecessary, incapable of fulfillment, or inconsistent with community needs.