As HIV/AIDS emerged in Seattle during the 1980s, Pike Market Medical Clinic (now Neighborcare Health at Pike Place Market) played a uniquely critical role in offering care at a time when the virus was being ignored and misrepresented. Read More

March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility: a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people while also raising awareness for the disproportionate risks of prejudice, poverty, and violence their community faces. In a year of unprecedented anti-trans legislation in our country and state, the Market Foundation wants to vocally affirm trans people in our neighborhood and defend their right to live safe, healthy lives.  Read More

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility! Today we especially uplift young trans people in our community and their right to live healthy, thriving lives. Read More

Stephanie Shull, owner of Pike Place Pigs, made her first ceramic piggy bank in 1998. “It was a way to remember my uncle,” says Stephanie. “My uncle made me a piggy bank when I was six years old. He passed away in 1995 and I missed him, so I bought a bag of clay and thought to myself: ‘I can do this’! Read More