Northwest Focus

About this original series

NW Focus, produced by KWPX TV, is a public affairs program dedicated to the issues in and around the community it serves. This show airs each Thursday @ 6am & 6:30am on KWPX (Seattle) and KGPX (Spokane). Check your local listings for your ION channel. NW Focus welcomes your comments, both good and bad! Be aware, however, that comments of a vulgar nature and/or containing profanity will be removed from the postings.

  • # Episodes

    127 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-G

Episodes of Northwest Focus

    • Play NW Focus: Cascade Harvest Coalition - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Cascade Harvest Coalition

      Cascade Harvest Coalition is dedicated to re-localizing the food system in Washington by connecting consumers more directly with producers. On today's show Erin sits down with Mary Embleton and talks about the importance of eating local.

      • Release date
        Jan 25, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: FEMA - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: FEMA

      Disaster can strike anytime, anywhere. It can take many forms -- a hurricane, an earthquake, a tornado, a flood, a fire or a hazardous spill, an act of nature or an act of terrorism. It builds over days or weeks, or hits suddenly, without warning. Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences. FEMA’s mission is to support citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, pro...

      • Release date
        Dec 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: Solar Power - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Solar Power

      Solar Pie is a nonprofit organization that promotes solar energy awareness and solar power through environmental education, advocacy and the creation of high-profile demonstration solar roofs. Their goal is to grow the Solar Pie by developing an online community of like-minded members who would like to see a world powered by safe, clean renewable solar energy. Their vision is to leverage this membership with corporate sponsorship and foundation grants, using these funds to facilitate and promo...

      • Release date
        Dec 8, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:02
    • Play NW Focus: Hendrix Music Academy - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Hendrix Music Academy

      Hendrix Music Academy is a not-for profit music school whose central purpose is to give the At-risk youth of our community a ”voice“ through innovative and dynamic music intervention programs. Within their first year, and during a time of economic struggles in our country, the Hendrix Music Academy, in partnership with their generous supporters, has been able to provide music intervention programs to the youth of south King county, without any costs to their families. Dozens of teens, from S. ...

      • Release date
        Nov 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: Dress For Success - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Dress For Success

      The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Founded in New York City in 1997, Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization offering services designed to help clients find jobs and remain employed. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and can return for a ...

      • Release date
        Nov 2, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: 15 Minutes at a Time - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: 15 Minutes at a Time

      Kim Kircher has logged over six hundred hours of explosives control, earning not only her avalanche blaster's card, but also a heli-blaster endorsement, allowing her to fly over the slopes in a helicopter and drop bombs from the open cockpit, while uttering the fabulously thrilling words "bombs away" into the mic.An Emergency Medical Technician, she has received both a National Ski Patrol Purple Merit Star for saving a life as well as a Green Merit Star for saving a life in arduous conditions....

      • Release date
        Oct 27, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: HSDC - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: HSDC

      HSDC is the leading nonprofit in Western Washington providing a full continuum of services for individuals who are Deaf, Deaf-Blind, hard of hearing, or facing speech-language and learning challenges. For over 70 years, HSDC has employed a holistic approach - combining clinical services, education, advocacy, technology and community programs - dedicated to communication, language development and learning. The Center's innovative programs serve the family, workplace, and community - in the clie...

      • Release date
        Sep 29, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: Urban Forestry - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Urban Forestry

      The purpose of the Washington Urban and Community Forestry program is to educate citizens and decision-makers about the economic, environmental, psychological, and aesthetic benefits of trees and to assist local governments, citizen groups, and volunteers in planting and sustaining healthy trees where people live and work in Washington. Primary community forestry issues include local government impacts from the Endangered Species Act, urban-rural interface challenges, the need to develop compr...

      • Release date
        Sep 15, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: Junior Achievement - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Junior Achievement

      Junior Achievement USA is the nation's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. They have several programs, in the areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, that ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century. Their purpose is to inspire and pre...

      • Release date
        Sep 8, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
    • Play NW Focus: Poverty Action Network - Northwest Focus on Blip Northwest Focus episodes on Blip

      NW Focus: Poverty Action Network

      Poverty Action builds grassroots power to end causes of poverty and create opportunities for everyone to prosper. They envision a state where people of all income levels fully promote and participate in building the fabric of socially, politically, and economically just communities. Poverty Action was established in 1996, in response to the federal government’s passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), or “welfare reform.” They use their position ...

      • Release date
        Aug 18, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:00
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