Wallingford community groups: You on the list?

How many community groups are in Wallingford? Would you guess 20? 40? Community organizer Cathy Tuttle told us recently that the nationwide organization Code for America, “hundreds of hackers” and the City of Seattle are putting together “an interactive database of community groups for people who long to get involved locally.”

Tuttle compiled a seemingly exhaustive list (about 100) of Wallingford groups, gleaned mostly from Sustainable Wallingford’s annual report. But Tuttle thinks many groups aren’t on the list, and here’s where you come in, she writes:

Now it is time for our collective wisdom. What is missing from this list? Code for America will use our collective list as an example to show to other neighborhoods around Seattle.

I put Wallingford Community Groups into three categories:

1)   Non-profit groups headquartered in Wallingford that serve the city or larger region, such as Solid Ground or Seattle Tilth
2)   Non-profit groups based in Wallingford that serve local needs such as churches, PTSAs, Friends Of park groups, and the Wallingford Community Kitchen.
3)   For-profit groups that actively promote the community in their places and cyber-spaces by having a bulletin board, posting on-line info, donating to community projects, and the like.

So Wallingford community, please go at it! What groups do you know about and participate in? I’m guessing, with a population of 15,000, Wallingford has literally hundreds of community groups I’ve never heard of that we’d all like to know more about! Thank you!

Again, here’s the list (.pdf) that Tuttle put together. Have a group to add? Post a comment here, or send email to cathy.tuttle [at] gmail.com.