About Us

We are driven by the philosophy of self-reliance for both the organization and the people we serve. Self-reliance for the organization includes not only being as efficient and effective as possible with our funds, but in changing the balance of State and Federal tax dollars with their restrictive requirements that prohibit exactly those activities and accountabilities that would ensure permanent self-reliance for the clients. It means creating a better combination of tax dollars generated by community citizens, local unrestricted funds from donors, and income-producing projects.

We will, and we should, continue to make good use of the tax dollars that citizens are assessed by the State and Federal government that return to the County in the form of various tax-funded programs (most of our core programs), rather than allowing our local tax dollars to be disbursed throughout the State because we have failed to use them in programs in our own area. Those State and Federal tax-return dollars, however, rather than focus on programs that would provide the skills and accountabilities to help people move forward, simply maintain people in a crisis 'status-quo.'

Our history

HopeSource is a private, non-profit organization that has provided a wide range of human services in Kittitas County since 1966. Our HopeSource Service Area
HopeSource serves residents of Kittitas County, Washington, from the crest of Snoqualmie Pass at Hyak east to Vantage, and north from Liberty south to Thrall, an area of 2,297 square miles.

HopeSource's transportation contracts currently cover the I-90 corridor from Cle Elum to Ellensburg including service to Kittitas.

Click for transportaion information service area stretches from the east side of Snoqualmie Pass to the Columbia River.

HopeSource was created through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to address the needs of low-wealth households and has provided emergency and sustained support to thousands of families in the Upper and Lower Kittitas County since that time. There is a Community Action Agency in every county in Washington State and in most counties nationwide.

Meet the Hopesource staff

Carmelita

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to it; not by what life brings us, but the attitude we bring life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst... a spark that creates extraordinary results."

— Anonymous

Lisa

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

— Confucius

Geoff

"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."

— Robert Hunter

Ben

"I'd rather be here now."

— As seen on a bumper sticker

Jeri

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

— Isak Dinsen

Susan

"Audentes Fortuna Juvat - Fortune Favors the Bold."

— 80th Fighter Squadron

Elizabeth

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Amanuel

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greg

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

— Samuel Johnson

Dallas

"Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is the one drawing it up."

— Proverbs 20:5

Andrew

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God."

— Romans 12:2