Nearly a decade ago, YWCA Spokane and YMCA of the Inland Northwest partnered to build a state-of-the-art facility strategically situated near downtown Spokane.
The Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Center has come a long way since it started 30 years ago, and the organization is in the midst of a capital campaign to pay for recent improvements.
The biggest improvement was the purchase and remod
In the 10 years since its founding, the Empire Health Foundation has developed a reputation for making bold investments that have resulted in some big impacts for the health of people living in the Inland Northwest.
Some of those impacts include: help
Two Spokane-area horse-centered nonprofits have new programs in the works here.
Last week, Free Rein Therapeutic Riding, of Spokane, launched The Equus Effect, a Connecticut-based equine therapy program, says John Owen, executive director of Free Rein.
A new Washington state law takes effect within a few months that will require health care facilities, following a mammogram, to inform patients if they have dense breast tissue, says Dr. Rachel O'Connor
Some medical educators here say a growing number of medical students are choosing to specialize in women's health, specifically obstetrics and gynecology.
Jacob Rooksby, new dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law, says he's looking forward to finding ways to make the school more innovative and to integrate it more fully into the Spokane and Gonzaga communities.
Rooksby was hired in June as dean
After having begun his professional career in Seattle and on the East Coast, Christopher Malde, owner of Malde Capital Management LLC, says living in Spokane is a dream come true.
Malde, 36, grew up in Ellensburg, Wash., and attended Washington State
Last year, employment and public records attorney Emily Arneson knew she needed a new line of work even though she enjoyed what she was doing for a Spokane law firm.
'I really hated having to bill people for the work I was doing,†Arneson says. 'I