Who We Support

Groups and Projects we Support

Transform Burien

Transform Burien currently serves approximately 1400 hot meals each month as well as giving out non-perishable food items to more than 300 Burien area families in need. Gently used clothing and household items are distributed to over 400 families each month. In addition, a partnership with King County brings a mobile medical van and a mobile dental van to the Burien area to provide free care to those in need.

Para Los Ninos

Para Los Niños is transforming lives by closing the achievement gap for children in poverty. Their mission is to ensure those children and families have the tools and supports they need to succeed in school and in life. Para Los Niños serves more than 7,000 children and their families each year. Para Los Niños is a small grassroots community organization committed to its mission of fostering academic success for every Latino student through parent and community involvement.

Angle Lake Family Resource Center

The Family Resource Center is a community based program supporting the health and well-being of families and individuals through community partnerships. The Center provides a place where individuals, children and families can learn and grow, can share information, connect and build friendships, have access to formal and informal resources and can create a sense of community.

White Center Food Bank

Minimizing hunger in Seattle’s White Center Neighborhood, while nourishing community, nurturing self-reliance, and embracing our rich cultural diversity.

Westside Baby

Westside Baby is the only social service agency in the West King County area that collects, inspects and distributes free diapers, clothing, cribs and safety gear for babies and children. More than 120 local social service agencies, including shelters and food banks, rely on Westside Baby to provide critical necessities for low-income families.

Tape Ministries Northwest

Our mission is to provide wholesome, inspirational recorded material for people who cannot read due to blindness, visual impairment or other disabilities. We aim to share the pure joy of reading through books that inspire, entertain and provide encouragement, comfort and hope.

Hospitality House

Hospitality House provides shelter and evening meals for homeless women in the Highline Area.

Crisis Clinic – Teen Link

Is a safe place for any young person to connect with other youth for resources and emotional support for whatever comes up in their lives. Today, Teen Link answers calls and online chats from teens needing support and also makes youth suicide prevention presentations at schools throughout King County.

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)

AVID is a philosophy based on the premise that if you hold students accountable to the highest standards and provide them academic and social support, they will rise to the challenge. AVID trains educators to use proven practices in order to prepare students for success in high school, college, and a career, especially students traditionally underrepresented in higher education.

Disabled Americans Have Rights Too (DAHRT)

An advocacy group for people with disabilities. DAHRT offers assistance with public and special needs transportation for the elderly and disabled. The group also offers housing assistance, support groups and Memorial Services.

Des Moines Food Bank

Each month the Des Moines Area Food Bank receives more than 1,000 visits and responds by handing out over 110,000 pounds of food. Families can visit once a month for as long as they need assistance, receiving a mix of canned, fresh, and frozen food.

Highline Area Food Bank

Dedicated to the gathering and distribution of food to those in need who reside in the south end of Highline. Working from a local Community Center, grocery items from canned vegetables to meat and bread are distributed from this location.

Highline Botanical Garden

The Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden covers 10.5 acres of display gardens, woodlands, and trails reclaimed from a suburban brownfield.

Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence

Since 1999, the Highline Schools Foundation has been supporting innovation and excellence in Highline Public Schools.  Their funding priorities focus on scholarships for college and careers, grants to teachers for engaging classroom projects, programs to improve academic achievement, the arts, and programs that keep students in school and productive.

New Futures (Southwest Youth and Family Services)

Our mission is to strengthen communities in southwest Seattle and King County in which culturally and economically diverse families, youth, and children thrive and prosper. In partnership with families, schools, and communities, we promote healthy family functioning, early childhood learning, student academic success, and youth development.

Matt Griffin YMCA

Serving the Highline Community with a goal of a community where all people, especially the young, are encouraged to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body. This goal is lived daily, one person, one child and one relationship at a time.

Funds from Exchange Club of Highline are earmarked for the Charlie LaBenz Youth Development program, summer programs and membership scholarships for low income families.

Southwest Boys & Girls Club

Working to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

In addition, we fund our own Projects

Backpacks for Elementary age kids

Using an allocation in our annual budget, plus funds raised at the annual dinner auction earmarked for this back-to-school project, Exchange Club of Highline assembles over 600 backpacks for each new school year. These backpacks are loaded with the paper, pencils, crayons, markers, scissors and other school supplies needed to start the school year. They are then distributed by the staffs at elementary schools in the Highline area to students in their school from low income and other disadvantaged families.

Toilet Paper Drive

Understanding that low income families cannot purchase toilet paper with food stamps and that the product is a necessity, Exchange Club of Highline sets aside two days each year for this project. A truck will be located at the 5 Corners parking lot at Trader Joe’s and another weekend will be setup at Manhattan QFC. The stores bring in extra stock for purchase by their customers. As a result of this partnership, we have traditionally collected enough TP, (average is more than 11,000 rolls) to provide area banks with a 3 month supply.

Uniform funds for elementary schools

Exchange Club of Highline provides funds to Madronna and Midway Elementary Schools for them to procure school uniforms. The uniforms are distributed to children within their student body whose families cannot afford them.

Sunshine Special

It’s a wonderful way to spend an evening, at T-Mobile Park for a Mariners game with good friends. Each year, Exchange Club of Highline takes a group of seniors from the Highline area to a Mariners’ game. Everything is provided for the participants – a ticket to the game, transportation and a goody bag full of treats.

Fire Protection

Funds are allocated to the Burien Fire Department for the purchase of Smoke Detectors. These are then distributed to local families as needed for their protection.

Support Our Troops

We support the USO center at Seatac  Airport by supplying Hot Dogs to the servicemen and women.

And, we support Scholarship program

A.C.E High School Scholarship

Awarded locally as part of the National Exchange Club program designed to acknowledge students who have Accepted the Challenge of Excellence (A.C.E.) . The A.C.E. Scholarship nominees have made dramatic changes in their attitudes and performances throughout high school, often overcoming educational, social and personal obstacles.

Puget Sound Occupational Skills Center Scholarship

A scholarship for a student at an alternative school in the Highline District for use to further their education – be that at a trade school or a traditional college.