CHCC - Give Big Day!!!

Give Big to the CHCC

Thanks all who have donated in the past year. The CHCC has many continuing costs - Zoom account, mailing list, web hosting, and more. If you have the ability please donate. Want to donate to other great Capitol Hill groups? Scroll down find a partial list.

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Happy Hour - 5/7

Come meet your neighbors and check out a new spot (or check back in on a familiar one). This time will be at Last Drop Bottle Shop on Pike and Belmont. Event runs from 5pm-7pm, on Thursday May 7. That's this Thursday!!!

More Info - CHCC Calendar - Event Brite (RSVP) | Partiful (RSVP)

General Meeting

Wednesday, May 27, 6:30 - 8pm

Join us in meeting with Council Member Dione Foster. CM Foster is one of two at large Seattle City Council members. She was elected in Nov 2025. You may have seen her at the Eastlake/CHCC Let’s Talk Local Candidate Event back in September.

Wednesday, May 27 - 6:30-8pm - Seattle Central College, Room 1111

More Info - CHCC Calendar - RSVP - EventBrite | Partiful

Give to Others

The Capitol Hill Community Council is not the only worthy group on Capitol Hill to donate to. Here is just a partial list of groups that would benifit from your genoricity.

Parks - Green Seattle Partnership, Cal Anderson Park Alliance, Volunteer Park Trust

Services - Community Lunch, Community Fridge,Operation Nightwatch

LGBTQIA - Seattle’s LGBTQ+ Center, Lambert House, PEERS Seattle

Art, Community, Activation - Safe Street Alliance, Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle Art Museum, Friends of SPL, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Parks Foundation

Public Schools PTSAs - Lowell Elementary, Stevens Elementary, Montlake Elementary, Meany Middle, Garfield High

Immigration Support - La Resistencia, Catholic Immigration Legal Services, WA Immigrant Solidarity Network, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Have extra stuff? See if it is on the list of for Capitol Hill Tool Library and donate.

Don't want to donate, just want to eat. Lowell Elementary PTA has you covered. May 13 4-8pm - More Info English | Spanish

Board Nominations Open!

It’s that time of year: the CHCC Board is open for nominations!

Looking to get involved in making the community better, safer, stronger? Join the board! Know of someone with a passion for community? Nominate them or yourself here!

What does the commitment look like? The Board meets for 1.5 hrs, once a month; general community meetings happen once a month (also 1.5 hrs). Any special committees you’d want to join and/or work you want to contribute (e.g., social media marketing? finding space for board meetings? other talents to contribute?) would be additional time commitments you can choose to contribute.

What’s most important is: having a thoughtful, honest intention to engage with all members of the community for the purpose of making Capitol Hill great for everyone!

So, step up! Now is your time to shine!

Official voting will happen at the end of May.

CHCC Governance Meeting Recap

The Capitol Hill Community Council held its bi-annual Governance Meeting on April 15, 2026. Community members broke into groups to discuss what they would like to see the CHCC focus on/do/change, as it moves forward.

Following is a summary of the feedback the groups provided, as it related to governance of the CHCC:

Clarify the role of the community council Does it exist just to share information to members of the community? Does it exist to advocate for certain things? Middle path is recognizing that we are not an issue-based advocacy org, but that we should be gathering information both to share to the community and to share to decisionmakers in the community, while still acknowledging that we can’t talk to everyone
Make board meetings public
Discord is hard to navigate; find another communication tool
Committees reporting back to the larger group about what they did
Have a a community meeting night for committees

The next step of the CHCC is to discuss these items among the board members and present feedback to the community.