Seattle · practical life-skills program
Culture Shock
Culture Shock brings practical life skills into mentorship, art, sports, and urban agriculture.
Practical life skills · Food · Water · Energy · Shelter
Kids need more than a diploma. They need life skills.
Students learn food, water, energy, and shelter through real projects. Learning happens by doing.
Two programs. One practical framework.
Learn by doing.
Two places, same idea: young people learn practical skills by working on real projects.
Read the field notes
Puerto Vallarta · food forest demonstration site
Proyecto Indigo Azul
A food forest demonstration site where Food, Water, Energy, and Shelter are practiced in the same place.
Field archive
What happened, in order.
A dated record of the work we can document. Future plans stay separate until they are completed.
Record 01
Apr 10, 2021
DocumentedChapter 1 · 2020-2021
The soil gets repaired first
Field documentation captured Apr 10, 2021.
Source note: Google Drive photo sorted by capture date
Record 02
Apr 18, 2021
DocumentedChapter 2 · 2021-2022
The community starts to return
Field documentation captured Apr 18, 2021.
Source note: Google Drive photo sorted by capture date
Record 03
Apr 8, 2023
DocumentedChapter 3 · 2023-2024
The food forest takes root
Field documentation captured Apr 8, 2023.
Source note: Google Drive photo sorted by capture date
Record 04
Apr 8, 2023
DocumentedChapter 4 · 2024-2025
Infrastructure documentation
Field documentation captured Apr 8, 2023.
Source note: Google Drive photo sorted by capture date
Record 05
May 1, 2023
DocumentedChapter 5 · 2025-2026
Program documentation
Field documentation captured May 1, 2023.
Source note: Google Drive photo sorted by capture date
Planned — not completed
Scale without losing the heart
Public records
What the paperwork actually proves.
Two records matter here: our Washington nonprofit incorporation and our fiscal sponsorship agreement. We show them separately so you can see exactly what each one proves.
Washington record
THE NORTH WEST KIDS
Washington nonprofit corporation. Effective May 16, 2022. UBI 604 917 764.
Source: Washington Secretary of State Articles of Incorporation certificate.
Fiscal sponsorship
Humanitarian Social Innovations
A fiscal sponsorship grant agreement dated April 13, 2023 identifies Humanitarian Social Innovations as Grantor and NW Kids as Grantee for the sponsored program.
The agreement also states that funding sources approached and fundraising text are subject to the Grantor's prior written approval.
Source: signed NW Kids Fiscal Sponsorship Grant Agreement.
Services for mission-driven teams
Stop losing your week to admin.
We build practical systems around the work that steals time from the mission: grant research, reporting, donor updates, content publishing, and website upkeep.
The outcome is simple: less hunting, copying, chasing, and re-entering information. More time running programs, raising money, and doing the work people came to you for.
See what we can take off your plate →Problems we solve
Find better-fit grants faster
Automate grant research and organize opportunities before your team loses hours searching databases by hand.
Turn field work into donor-ready proof
Reuse approved photos, notes, and updates across reports, pages, and campaigns instead of rewriting the same story from scratch.
Keep recurring admin moving
Automate handoffs, reminders, reporting, and publishing so fewer tasks depend on someone remembering to push them forward.
Make your website do the explaining
Build a clear public site that answers donor and partner questions before they become another email or meeting.