Together, We’re Building a Future Where Every Child Thrives.
No single organization can solve our region’s challenges alone.
Eastside Pathways unites educators, nonprofits, businesses, government leaders, families, and young people to improve outcomes for more than 103,000 children and youth across East King County.
The Mission
To empower community leaders, foster connections, and support East King County by collaborating, convening, researching, and providing training and resources to partners dedicated to improving systems intergenerationally.
- 80+ Partner Organizations
- 83,000+ Children & Youth Impacted
- 15 Years of Collective Impact
- 4 Collaborative Action Networks
- Hundreds of Leaders Advancing Solutions Together
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WHY EASTSIDE PATHWAYS
No single organization can solve today’s challenges alone.
Children and families face increasingly complex barriers to success—from mental health challenges and educational inequities to economic instability and social isolation.
Eastside Pathways helps communities work better together by aligning partners, sharing data, amplifying community voice, and driving collective action that improves outcomes for children and youth.
THREE WAYS TO INVEST
Give Your Time
Join a Collaborative Action Network, attend events, or volunteer your expertise.
Stay Connected
Contribute your skills, leadership, experience, and lived expertise to our regional cross-sector initiatives.
Invest Your Treasure
Help sustain the systems, partnerships, and innovation needed to create lasting change.
2026 Youth Council
Save the date! For the 5th Annual Youth Council Presentation Day! Empowering youth voice as they conclude this year’s summer programming. Collectively shaping community systems alongside young people for the 2026-2027 school year.
Wisdom Series
Season 5 of the Wisdom Series, features Seattle Times “Under Our Skin” project. Join us for this expansive film screening and community dialogs, presented in partnership with the City of Kirkland and the Overlake Park Presbyterian Church.
What’s really impact youth today?
Clear Path Forward
Biannually, Eastside Pathways backbone staff asks our partners to pause, reflect, and share honestly about what’s happening in their organizations and communities. The 2025 Partnership Survey brought together voices from across East King County and beyond—schools, nonprofits, healthcare providers, community‑based organizations, faith partners, philanthropy, and local government.
We Need All of Us
Every child deserves opportunities to thrive.
Whether you contribute your time, talent, or financial support, you become part of a growing movement creating lasting change across East King County.
“This moment calls for deep empathy and even deeper partnership. We cannot out-organize a broken funding structure alone, but we can outlast it together. We’re holding space for hard conversations. We’re advocating for students…”
Let’s keep showing up. Let’s keep building forward. Together.”
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