Every year, Real Change updates, prints, and distributes thousands of Emerald City Resource Guides to the greater Seattle area. You may have seen these little books around, especially if you work in social service. They are booklets that compile all the local resources into one easy- to-access guide. These guides are invaluable to not only social workers, but also unhoused community members, who rely on them to find vital resources like shelters and food banks.

Like previous years, our goal this year is to produce the next edition and ensure this resource reaches those who need it most. But the truth is, we need your help. We are short on the funds needed to produce them and the rising costs of paper and production means it will cost us more every year to distribute them to our community.

Help us uplift our unhoused neighbors and donate directly to support the production of the 9th edition of the Emerald City Resource Guide. We see this as a partnership even more than a donation. Ensuring people have the resources they need to not just survive, but thrive, takes all of us. So, if you would like to help us get the Emerald City Resource Guides in the hands of those that need them, here are a few ways you can help!

Donate to our resource guide fund. These funds will go directly toward helping us print and distribute them across Seattle. Just click the button below.
If you are connected to any social service organization or larger corporation, consider asking them if they would be a sponsor of this guide. You can see the various sponsorship levels here, so please, share this with them!
Share this information with friends, family, or anyone else you think would like to partner with us to get this guide into the hands of our community members.

Lastly, are you part of a larger organization? You could help us out even more by sponsoring (or asking your organization to sponsor) the Emerald City Resource Guide. This not only helps us print our guides, if comes with additional perks! Read more below.

For the 9th edition of the Emerald City Resource Guide, we are requiring agencies with operating budgets of $25 million or more to pay at a higher level. This will help us cover the expenses of printing the guide while continuing to provide this resource at a low (or free) cost to the community organizations and individuals who need it!

VISIONARY SPONSORSHIP $5,000 (budget under $25M) / $10,000 (budget $25M+)

Logo on the back cover of the guide
Logo on the Real Change website
Two (2) quarter-page ads in the Real Change paper
Logo in Thank You ad in six (6) newspapers
Logo and tag included in four (4) social media posts
Ability to order 201–5,000 guides for your organization

CHANGE MAKER $2,500 (budget under $25M) / $6,000 (budget $25M+

Logo on the back cover of the guide
Logo on the Real Change website
One (1) quarter-page ad in the Real Change paper
Logo in Thank You ad in six (6) newspapers
Logo and tag included in four (4) social media posts
Ability to order 201–2,500 guides for your organization

CATALYST SPONSOR $1,000 (budget under $25M) / $4,000 (budget $25M+)

Logo on the back cover of the guide
Logo on the Real Change website
One (1) business card-sized ad in the Real Change paper
Logo in Thank You ad in six (6) newspapers
Logo and tag included in two (2) social media posts
Ability to order 201–1,000 guides for your organization

GRASSROOTS SPONSORSHIP $500 (budget under $25M) / $2,500 (budget $25M+)

Logo on the Real Change website
Logo in Thank You ad in six (6) newspapers
Logo and tag included in two (2) social media posts
Ability to order 201–500 guides for your organization

Agencies requesting more than 200 guides will be required to sponsor. This includes organizations with chapter or branch affiliates that order a total of more than 200 guides combined.

Help Us Print the Emerald City Resource Guide!

You can help us get this much needed resource out to our Seattle community.