Hope Starts Here Campaign

We completed the Capital Campaign in May 2022! From 2018 to 2022, LifeWire’s Board, Campaign Cabinet, and staff joined together with hundreds of generous donors to raise $15.75 million in private and public funds to purchase a 25-unit apartment complex and build a services office in one central location. The HSH apartments are now providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, and comprehensive onsite services for survivors who face the greatest safety risks and highest barriers to safe housing in our community.

Thank you to all of our amazing LifeWire donors for your vision, dedication, and generosity in creating a confidential, healing place for survivors of domestic violence and their children. 

Campaign Cabinet Members

  • Cabinet Co-Chair: Justice Bobbe Bridge | Center for Children & Youth Justice, Founding CEO (ret.)
  • Cabinet Co-Chair: Tuna Ertemalp | Principal Development Manager, Microsoft, (ret.)
  • Charlene Blethen | Professional Fund Development, (ret.)
  • Lee Drechsel | Founder and the first LifeWire Executive Director, (ret.)
  • Linda Ebberson | Principal Family Law Attorney | Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson
  • Drew Farrell | LifeWire Board Member | Senior Vice President/National Sales Manager | Symetra
  • Monique Gablehouse | LifeWire Board Member | COO Post-Acute Care | EvergreenHealth
  • Mike Geri | Managing Director | RBC Wealth Management Seattle
  • Beth McCaw | Co-Founder | Bernier McCaw Foundation
  • Rob McKenna | Partner | Orrick | Former Washington State Attorney General
  • Brenda Puls | Senior Business Relationship Manager | Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Mary Snapp | Vice President, Strategic Initiatives | Microsoft
  • Grant Yerke | Principal | Broderick Group

Beacon Development Group

Beacon Development Group is an affordable housing consulting firm that works with nonprofits and housing authorities. As a subsidiary of HumanGood, they facilitate the funding, design, and construction of affordable housing developments for their clients, managing the entire development process from financing to construction to handing off the keys.

Environmental Works

Environmental Works, a nonprofit Community Design Center, engages with Washington communities to create the spaces they need to succeed. Their team provides planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and design services to nonprofits and agencies.

Capital campaign donors