Charitable Giving
Each year Ross Strategic donates to local and regional non-profits in the areas where we work and live. Ross also makes donations in response to critical social and environmental pressures, based on our core values and commitment to equity. We choose organizations to support based on our personal connection to their respective causes, the impact we can make, and the needs they serve.
2023 Recipients
Climate Solutions
The mission of Climate Solutions is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Climate Solutions works to champion transformational policies and market-based innovations, catalyze powerful partnerships and a diverse movement for action and accountability, and communicate a bold vision for solutions at the scale required by climate science. Climate Solutions focuses its work in the Pacific Northwest, a region well positioned to make globally significant progress toward 100% clean energy.
Conservation Northwest
Conservation Northwest acts as a voice for conserving local wildlands and wildlife. Conservation Northwest has protected hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlands, supported the recovery of threatened species, and touched the lives of thousands of people in the greater Northwest. Conservation Northwest recognizes that for long-term progress, conservation must go hand-in-hand with healthy, prosperous, and equitable communities.
Go! Austin/Vamos! Austin
Go! Austin / Vamos! Austin (GAVA) is a coalition of neighbors and community partners breaking down barriers to healthy living and strengthening neighborhood stability in Austin, Texas. GAVA uses community organizing to improve equitable access to healthy lifestyles by engaging and developing community leaders who identify, initiate, and lead efforts to reduce barriers to healthy living and increase stability in their neighborhoods and schools.
Hill Country Alliance
The Hill Country Alliance (HCA) works to raise public awareness and build community support around the need to preserve the natural resources and heritage of the Central Texas Hill Country. The Hill Country Alliance promotes responsible and planned growth in a region under tremendous pressure to urbanize. HCA works cooperatively with landowners, ranchers, conservationists, developers, and elected officials to preserve the water quality, water supply and natural beauty of Texas.
Mozambique Safe Water Project via Goldstandard
By rehabilitating and installing critical water infrastructure and committing to ensure it is maintained and tested for water quality over the project lifetime, the Mozambique Safe Water Project reduces the risk of water borne illnesses and the need to boil water for purification. This saves thousands of tons of firewood each year and reduces CO2 emissions. As the burden for collecting water and firewood for purification falls disproportionately on women and children, the project also allows women and children to spend the time saved on other activities.
Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
As the crisis in Gaza unfolds, the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, delivering crucial and life-saving medical relief and humanitarian aid. Founded in 1991 by concerned humanitarians in the USA, it provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children who lack access to care within the local health care system. The Fund is supported by a worldwide network of thousands of volunteers.
Rainier Valley Food Bank
Rainier Valley Food Bank is the primary emergency food resource for Seattle’s most racially, ethnically, and economically diverse neighborhood and home to many people who regularly face systemic obstacles to living wage employment, affordable housing, and food security. Over nearly 30 years, Rainier Valley Food Bank has served millions of visits and distributed an unimaginable amount of food, with a 62% increase in participants in just the last year.
Real Rent Duwamish
Real Rent Duwamish calls on people in Seattle to make rent payments to the Duwamish Tribe. The city of Seattle was named after the Duwamish leader Chief Seattle, but while the city thrives, the Tribe has yet to be justly compensated for their land, resources, and livelihood. Real Rent Duwamish directs all funds to Duwamish Tribal Services to support the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Tribe. Ross Strategic’s Seattle office is on Duwamish homelands, and Ross donates to Real Rent Duwamish monthly.
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrant non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. It is the nation’s only crisis and peer-support hotline, and unlike other hotlines of a similar scale, it doesn't engage in nonconsensual intervention.
Tree Folks
TreeFolks believes that planting trees is a powerful means of connecting people with their community. TreeFolks has engaged thousands of volunteers to plant more than 3 million trees in Central Texas to support the health of the planet and the community. Trees clean the air and water, provide habitat for wildlife, produce fresh fruit, and shelter residents from the hot Texas sun.
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund
The Washington Conservation Action Education Fund works to support the land, air, water, and communities of Washington through its mission to develop, advocate, and defend policies that ensure environmental progress and justice by centering and amplifying the voices of those most impacted. The Fund focuses on how historical dehumanization, division, extraction, and disconnection from the natural world are linked to pollution, environmental degradation, and injustice.
Previous Recipients
Casa Marianella: Welcomes displaced immigrants and promotes self-sufficiency by providing shelter, support services, access to legal and medical resources, food, clothing, and English classes.
Choose 180: Transforms systems of injustice by supporting the young people who are often impacted by these systems.
Community to Community Development: Strives to redefine power to end structural racism and all of its manifestations by empowering under-represented peoples.
Fair Fight Bond Fund: Provides detained immigrants in Washington the bond money needed to return to their lives and families while they build a case to gain status.
Oregon Natural Desert Association: Encourages people to get to know the desert and to take steps to conserve these public lands.
Romanian United Fund: Focuses on creating a global, innovative, and vibrant community that encourages and finances the development of the Romanian diaspora and its connections with Romania.
Texas National Wildlife Federation/Texas Living Waters Project: Advocates for water management so that Texas communities and wildlife can thrive in a future made uncertain by climate change.
Washington Environmental Council: Drives positive change and brings people together to solve Washington’s most critical environmental challenges.
Wimberley Valley Watershed Association: Works to ensure a holistic approach to watershed protection by engaging people in land and water conservation throughout the Texas Hill Country.