Phinney Neighborhood Association

The mission of the Phinney Neighborhood Association is to build community by providing programs, services, and activities aimed at connecting neighbors and fostering civic involvement in our diverse community. The Phinney Neighborhood Association was founded in 1980 by a group of neighbors to foster a sense of community. Started with block grant funds, the PNA has evolved into an active community center that serves as a focus of the Phinney/Greenwood neighborhoods and offers programs for the entire community. The PNA currently has over 3,000 members and more than 200,000 people from throughout the city annually participate in its programs. The Association is governed by an eighteen-member Board of Directors elected by the members and has an annual operating budget of approximately one million dollars raised through program and membership fees, property management and special fund raising events.

The Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA) is a non-profit community organization located in North Seattle offering a wide variety of programs and activities. Programs offered at the PNA include the Greenwood Senior Center, Phinney Neighborhood Preschool Co-op, Ballard Preschool Co-op, a Spanish language and a Japanese language preschool co-op, Whittier Kids providing before and after school care and day camps for children in grades kindergarten through five, the Well Home Program with home repair classes, a tool-lending library, and training for residential earthquake retrofitting, the Education Program offering over 80 classes per month, the Arts Program and Art Gallery with monthly art shows, two Hot Meal Program sites serving 18,000 meals annually, plus monthly outreach events. Additionally the PNA serves as a resource for the community providing meeting space for civic, arts and community groups, as well as support in grant writing and organizing such efforts at tree plantings , park projects and traffic issues. Volunteers ensure the success of PNA programs and make our community a better place to live. In 2014, 1,570 volunteers donated 49,279 hours to make the PNA a model community center.