Compassionate Tacoma
Compassionate Tacoma is founded in the belief that each of us has the ability to make Tacoma a more welcoming, connected, resilient, and vibrant community by listening and serving others with love.
Each of us have the power to impact the lives of our friends, families, neighbors, and neighborhoods every day. We can do so by practicing compassion in ways both small and large everyday – at work, at home, driving on the freeway, or in school. The long-term benefits to us as individuals and to our community as a whole can be much larger than we believe.
Mayor Victoria Woodards Invites You to Share Your Story of Compassion
Have you seen compassion? Received compassion? Acted with compassion? Tell us your story.
Ways to Show Your Compassion and Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved in the Compassionate Tacoma initiative and to stay informed.
Volunteer Opportunities
There are many ways to show your compassion in Tacoma and throughout Pierce County. To see possible volunteer opportunities, please go to the Volunteer web page of United Way of Pierce County (uwpc.org).
20 is Plenty Campaign
The 20 is Plenty campaign is partnering with Compassionate Tacoma. This campaign is working to create more space for safe walking on residential streets, as well as promote biking, and people powered transportation. More than ever, people are out using residential streets differently than they have before.
This campaign encourages us to all to look out for each other, be a good neighbor, and slow down while driving on residential streets, because 20 is Plenty. To learn more, visit tacoma.gov/20isplenty.
Why Does Compassion Matter?
Engaged Communities are Stronger Communities. Results from the 2019 community survey showed that Tacoma is an engaged city – More than 75% of surveyed residents indicated that they come to City Council meetings or City events, belong to community or faith groups, or actively volunteer. However, only 22% of respondents believed that their civic engagement and service is “very impactful” or “impactful” to our community.
While the public may doubt the value of their connections and contributions, the City of Tacoma holds that these things are vital. Communities and the government agencies that serve them can only function well when community members are actively engaged.