In 2025, the Economic Development Team advanced its mission to keep Rainier Beach a clean, safe, and vibrant place for everyone by...
Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable Growth in Rainier Beach: EcDev’s 2025 Highlights
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RBAC Events
RB Arts & Culture Roundtable #4
Event details: Friday, July 17 from 6 – 7:30 PM at the RB Food Innovation Center – 9059 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA 98118
This free event is a gathering space for arts inventory conversations, resource sharing, and creative exchange. Connect with local creatives and be part of equitable creative development in your neighborhood!
2026 Rainier Beach Back2School Bash
Event details: Saturday, August 22 from 12 – 4 PM at the Rainier Beach Community Center Plaza – 8825 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118
The Annual Rainier Beach Back2School Bash is about supporting students in RB to succeed in school! This will be our 23rd year of giving free backpacks to students, sharing family resources, and hosting fun activities. Join us at this free family event!
RBAC Construction Trade Awareness Orientations
Every Tuesday from 1 – 2 PM at the RB Food Innovation Center – 9059 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA 98118
These free orientations introduce participants to the wide range of careers available in construction and provide information about Seattle’s Priority Hire program, apprenticeship pathways, and insight into next steps toward employment in the construction trades.
Rainier Beach Farmers Market (June-October 2026)
Event details: On June 30, July 28, August 25, September 29, October 13 from 3 – 7 PM on 52nd Ave S (Festival Street) to the East of Safeway
Join us at the Rainier Beach Farmers Market! It is on the last Tuesday of every month (except for the last one for the year on October 13)! Our goal is to bring locally grown produce to the Neighborhood, support our local farmers, and increase access to healthy foods!
YNE Pearl Activations
Every Wednesday from 3 – 6 PM at rotating locations: 7/8-Lake WA Apartments | 7/15-RB Light Rail Station | 7/22-Rainier Beach Community Center | 8/5-Lake WA Apartments | 8/12-RB Light Rail Station | 8/19-Rainier Beach Community Center | 8/26-Rose Street.
Engaging community by offering resources, engaging youth, conducting community surveys, providing neighborhood clean-up support, and implementing restorative safety practices led by our guardianship team.
A Beautiful Safe Place in Action: 2025 by the Numbers
In 2025, the A Beautiful Safe Place (ABSP) branch prioritized neighborhood safety, youth engagement, and collaborative initiatives...
Learning, Leadership, and Neighborhood Care: A 2025 Lifelong Learning Recap
We are grateful for a year shaped by learning, leadership, and collective care through RBAC’s Lifelong Learning Branch. This work...
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Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC)
is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. For over ten years, it has promoted quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood.
Our Mission:
- Implement the Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan (1997, 2014) and build a connected, sustainable and equitable community within the Rainier Beach neighborhood.
- Promote the “made in Rainier Beach”, quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing for all.
- Promote a safe place where people thrive, a neighborhood the world calls home.
- Build neighborhood capacity to enhance quality of life in Rainier Beach as well as to address critical issues threatening the welfare of Rainier Beach resident.
