Community Schools Collaboration passes another milestone next week when the local nonprofit holds its first annual breakfast fundraiser.

The event is Thursday, Nov. 5, at the SeaTac Radisson, and it marks another step up the ladder for the SeaTac-based organization.

CSC, formerly Tukwila Community Schools Collaboration, established in 1998, is a non-profit organization created to develop and strengthen full service community schools in the Tukwila and Highline school districts.

The organization's mission is to ensure that all students and families have access to resources, opportunities and essential services by engaging and collaborating with schools and community partners using culturally competent strategies.

The breakfast fundraiser is the latest sign of growth for the organization, which last year reached the two million dollar revenue point.
CSC programs exist in Tukwila at Cascade View, Thorndyke, and Tukwila Elementary Schools, Showalter Middle School, and Foster High School, in SeaTac at Madrona and Bow Lake Elementary Schools, Chinook Middle School, Global Connection and Odyssey-The Essential High Schools, and the Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment, and in White Center at Beverly Park, Mount View, and White Center Heights Elementary Schools, Cascade Middle School, Technology Engineering and Communications, and Health Sciences and Human Services High Schools, and Arts and Academics Academy.

The breakfast is a new attempt to reach out to the community and talk about the agency. Organizers wanted to make it a small step, though, and made the breakfast affordable and the goal reachable.

"These are exciting times for our organization," Hunt said. "But we want to enter into this new fundraising approach at a sustainable rate."

Those interested in attending the breakfast event and hearing more about CSC, or making a donation, may go to www.cscwa.org, or contact Phyllis Byers at 206-244-0110 or email Phyllis@cscwa.org.