We’re Hiring! Administrative Coordinator

We have an opening for Administrative Coordinator. Apply Now.

Working for REACH is deeply gratifying: we are a close-knit, fun-loving group with the very compelling mission of expressing unconditional love and acceptance to kids, families, and single adults harshly stigmatized by HIV. Over 100 volunteers work with the staff to serve 475 family members and adults affected by HIV.

We have an opening for Administrative Coordinator. Our Administrative Coordinator works with the staff and volunteers in three main areas: office administration, donor and client events, and volunteer and donor relations. The job is 24 hours per week, seasonally required up to 32 hours per week before major events and camps. 

Position announcement and application instructions for Administrative Coordinator

We’re Hiring! Office and Events Coordinator

We have an opening for Office and Events Coordinator. Apply by January 5th.

Working for REACH is deeply gratifying: we are a fun-loving group with the very compelling mission of expressing unconditional love and acceptance to kids, families, and single adults harshly stigmatized by HIV. Over 100 volunteers work with the staff to serve 475 family members and adults affected by HIV.

We have an opening for Office and Events Coordinator. Our Office and Events Coordinator works with the staff and volunteers in three main areas: office administration and finances, donor and client events, and volunteer and donor relations. The job is 24 hours per week, seasonally required up to 32 hours per week before major events and camps. Priority consideration will be given to applications received by January 5, 2022. 

Position announcement and application instructions for Office and Events Coordinator

Circle of Hope 2021 – Interim Results


Watch and learn
the profound impact HIV has on families. Also hear how the accepting REACH Community comes into their lives to strengthen them to flourish.

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We are at 99.7% of the $75,000 goal. You can still make a gift or pledge to welcome new families in 2022. Learn more about Circle of Hope, our vision for the future, and make a gift or pledge.

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join Circle of Hope. Watching all 3 videos will take about 17 minutes. You may watch them in one sitting or spread it out at your convenience.

This is our biggest fundraising and “friend-raising” event of the year. Thank you to everyone who has already shown their support!

$75,000 is needed for our goal to welcome 30 more families who need our safe community.

We want more people to understand HIV and know we are here to help. Please share this post with family and friends by email or other social media.

Simply say, “Please take a look at this. I love REACH and how they lift up kids and families facing rejection because of HIV. I’m not expecting you to make a gift. Please watch and learn why this is so important to me.”

Circle of Hope 2021 – Online

Watch and learn the profound impact HIV has on families. Also hear how the accepting REACH Community comes into their lives to strengthen them to flourish.

Anytime from Wednesday, December 1st through Friday, December 3rd, pour yourself a cup of coffee and join Circle of Hope. Watching all 3 videos will take about 17 minutes. You may watch them in one sitting or spread it out at your convenience.

This is our biggest fundraising and “friend-raising” event of the year. Thank you to everyone who has already shown their support!

$75,000 is needed for our goal to welcome 30 more families who need our safe community.

We want more people to understand HIV and know we are here to help. Please share this post with family and friends by email or other social media.

Simply say, “Please take a look at this. I love REACH and how they lift up kids and families facing rejection because of HIV. I’m not expecting you to make a gift. Please watch and learn why this is so important to me.”

Fall Newsletter 2021 – Together We Flourish

Read our Fall Newsletter to see how our new initiatives to serve many more people with HIV are taking shape.

https://reachministries.org/Staging/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fall-2021-Newsletter.pdf

Please join us for a Thanksgiving Zoom Gathering!

Let’s gather on Sunday, November 14th from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM on Zoom for a gathering of thanks. Register by November 5th to receive your party-in-a-box. You won’t want to miss this! Sign up now!

Pray for Labor Day REACH Camp, September 3rd-6th

We have a tradition of inviting you to pray during Labor Day REACH Camp.

REACH Camp 2021 Registration for families and volunteers is now open!

REACH Camp is on Labor Day weekend

Friday, September 3rd through Monday, September 6th

This is our first in-person gathering since 2019 … we are looking forward to being together again!

Campers register now:

Family registration

Family Thursday early arrival registration


Volunteers register now:

Volunteer Counselor registration

Rover and Activity Leader registration

A Volunteer Story of HIV, part 2

What happened to me and my siblings from there is a whole other saga but one theme that carries through my whole youth is shame. Shame that my family was different. Shame of eating off paper plates because people thought they would get sick from us eating off their real dishes. Shame that the church asked us to leave because of my family’s status. I was met with ignorance and stigma whenever I disclosed how I was orphaned. I have worked towards healing and forgiveness of these events, and my REACH community has been instrumental with that.  

When I found out there was an organization in Tacoma that is giving families what my family needed, I knew I found a community I could give my heart and soul to work with. This community is what my family needed 20 years ago; what I as a young person, needed. A place where they could be supported emotionally, spiritually, and practically. A place of solace and understanding. Where they could have been met with love, acceptance, and a promise of hope. That they weren’t alone in this.  

When I see REACH families arrive at camp, I watch a burden lifted from them. Maybe for the first time all year, they feel safe. They feel relief that their kids are loved as they are, that they are with family. These are life changing relationships that can help heal and provide hope for these families. 

Watch for more REACH stories coming soon.

A Volunteer Story of HIV, part 1

In 1991, my life was forever changed by a fast and tragic series of events. First was the birth and death of my baby brother. He came home for 3 weeks and then for reasons unknown to me, had to go back to the hospital. He passed at three months old. Then my mother told me she wouldn’t be alive much longer. She and my father were HIV-positive. At the time, I didn’t even know what HIV was.  

Shortly after that talk, my mother passed. My family was split up between my father and a family friend. That situation was short lived for a variety of reasons, so all my siblings and I were returned to our sick and dying father.  

As a 12-year-old, I watched my father’s body and spirit be overcome by HIV and then AIDS. In the end, I am not sure if it was the AIDS or the guilt that took him. My dad was a hemophiliac; he spent his youth in hospitals receiving blood transfusions. As science evolved, he was able to do his own transfusions at home. He was saving his own life with other people’s blood. That is how HIV entered our family. It took his wife, his youngest son, and him. How could he not feel guilty? How could he fight that mental battle alone? How could he have hope? My father gave into the effects of AIDS on December 23, 1994.

Watch for part 2 of Jill’s story coming soon.