Tina Butt Joins Together Center's Board of Directors

Together Center is happy to announce the addition of Dr. Tina Butt to its Board of Directors. She has lived in Sammamish for over 30 years.

Since 2003, Butt has served as Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for the Mukilteo School District, which followed more than twenty years in the in a variety of roles, including Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction.

Together Center Chair Barb de Michele noted, “We are very pleased to gain Tina’s involvement. She is a community leader with superb experience and skills and knows well the importance of partnerships between the worlds of public education and human services.”

One of the first nonprofit multi-tenant centers in the nation, Together Center was designed first and foremost to lower barriers to finding help. Where East King County residents once needed to travel from Bothell to Renton or beyond to find help at individual locations, people from throughout the Eastside, including Sammamish, now find comprehensive assistance at one location in downtown Redmond.

Services include food, shelter, medical and dental care, child care assistance, youth and family counseling and more. Over 60,000 were on campus last year. In addition, the nonprofit campus keeps lease rates as low as possible so agencies and provides other efficiencies so agencies can focus their resources on clients. In 2010, for example, Together Center saved agencies $230,000 in lease costs alone.

Together Center is located at 16225 NE 87th in Redmond. For more information, contact 425-869-6699 or visit www.togethercenter.org.

Editor's note: This information was sent by Together Center. It is being posted, as it was written, as a public service announcement.