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Donor Relations Manager

Published: 
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Reporting to the Associate Director of Individual Giving, this position will feed the major gift pipeline by pre-qualifying major donor prospects. Application Deadline: March 2, 2023
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Restraint and isolation in Washington schools: What these practices are, how they are being used and what needs to change 

Published: 
Monday, February 6, 2023
One parent recounted their son saying that he couldn’t breathe, and that he thought he was going to die. Another described how her kindergartener was placed in isolation, often for “cussing,“ many times a week for months. A survivor described witnessing restraint at a non-public agency as “an everyday thing” in all classrooms. 
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REPORT: Washington Schools Routinely Physically Restrain and Isolate Students, Disproportionately Subjecting Students with Disabilities, Black, Homeless and Foster Care Students to Traumatic Practices that Violate State Law 

News Release, Published: 
Monday, February 6, 2023
Advocates call on the Legislature to Clarify the Law and Adopt Reforms to Protect Students 
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The difference between the decriminalization and legalization of substances 

Published: 
Friday, February 3, 2023
Maintaining or increasing penalties for drug possession and relying on jails and prosecution as a pathway to treatment would be repeating the mistakes of the past and continuing the failed legacy and racially inequitable outcomes of the War on Drugs. 
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ACLU of Washington comment on passage of abortion and gender affirming care bills out of policy committees

News Release, Published: 
Friday, February 3, 2023
Policy committees in the Washington state House of Representatives and Senate advanced the progress of number of important pieces of legislation to protect abortion and gender affirming care.
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Focused on Black Futures

Published: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Focusing on Black Futures allows us to hold what we know about Black history and weave that knowledge into our plans for action.
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