Message from the Executive Director

Although I am sure everyone across the state is ready for the 2026 fire season to be over, sadly it is not. Several fires have popped up in eastern Washington…

What. A. Week. A Note from Jody is back after summer vacation and with a bang! The Giving Grid program has been featured on at least 2 Spokane television stations…

March has somehow come and gone in a flash. Miraculously, my NCAA bracket hasUConn and Michigan in the championship game. Madness indeed, since I do notfollow college basketball! March was…

Last year was the first year PRWA had the funding needed to begin robustly serving rural Washington communities. In December 2024, we had only 3 contracted staff, a lot of ideas, and almost no one…

In our line of work, it at times seems impossible to be able to do enough, quickly enough, to make any meaningful difference as the needs are so overwhelming. And that’s harder to deal with some days more…

Hello from Garfield, It’s interesting what resonates with you when you’re a kid; you read, see or hearsomething, and it fundamentally shapes who you become and how you think about…

I am typing and listening to what is left of one very ferocious wind storm while I contemplate the various things I might write about for this, my last Note…

Sometimes, the enormity of something you’ve undertaken stops you in your tracks. You have moments when you wonder “what the hell was I thinking?” Then the people who are helping…

Another Halloween is upon us, and I don’t know about the rest of you, but I feel like the month of October lasted about 4.7 days. I also feel a…

The nights may be getting cooler, but The Giving Grid program is heating up (over 20 schools and counting) and our first school solar installation is complete and generating power!…