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Palmer Scholars is Committed to EQUITY.

At Palmer Scholars, we acknowledge and celebrate our similarities and differences as active community members in Pierce County. We are dedicated to promoting agency and equity for our Scholars in their journey of becoming critical learners, community leaders, and global citizens. We value self-worth and the importance of personal development through accountability, leadership, goal planning, empowerment, and community service.  Through this work, we center our values: personal growth, relationships, leadership opportunities, community responsibility, advocacy, family support, and access to opportunity. We strive to foster an environment that is open, engaged, equitable and is respectful of all identities based on age, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. We believe in representing diversity and inclusivity with our Board Members, staff, mentors, volunteers, and Scholars. 

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Our VISION

Our vision is for our students to succeed in graduating from 2-year, 4-year, or apprenticeship program with the essential tools to be catalysts for change and leaders in our community.

"As an educator and advocate, I love being part of Palmer Scholars. The organization embraces low-income youth of color who see education as their path to fulfilling their dreams for themselves and their families. It motivates me to want to include everyone I meet (just ask people who know me) to join the Palmer vision by helping to fund our mission. Asking for your financial support is easy because the outcomes are so gratifying! We change lives!"  - Steve Schain, PhD   

 SUPPORT OUR MISSION TODAY!

Palmer Scholars acknowledges that our work is carried out on, and our office space is located within, occupied Coast Salish land, specifically that of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous peoples. To acknowledge this land is to recognize its longer history and our place in that history; it is to recognize these lands and waters and their significance for the peoples who lived and continue to live in this region, whose practices and spiritualties were and are tied to the land and the water, and whose lives continue to enrich and develop in relationship to the land, waters, and other inhabitants today.

 

We also pause to recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built.

We remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the U.S. from the African continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We also acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, forced, and undocumented peoples who contributed to the building of the country and continue to serve within our labor force. We acknowledge all unpaid care-giving labor.

 

To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the spaces in which we operate today. It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.

Physical Address - 

4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW BLDG 16

Lakewood WA 98499-4004

Mailing Address - 

PO Box 7119, Tacoma, WA 98417

Phone - (253) 317-7627

Email - info@palmerscholars.org

To contact someone directly visit our staff page here: Our Team

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