Company Profile
Millionair Club Charity
Company Overview
Since its founding in 1921, the Millionair Club Charity has operated a 501 c3 nonprofit corporation that has never lost sight of its mission: Everyone in the Puget Sound Region should have access to jobs and support services.
Specialists in rebuilding the self-confidence and dignity of people who are homeless or face other barriers to employment, the Millionair Club Charity’s supportive employment program offers free services specially designed for the needs of this population group. These services include meals, showers, laundry service, storage lockers, work clothes, job training, occupational licensing, eye exams, and prescription eye glasses. Once people are job ready, they can connect to jobs through the MCC’s temporary staffing agency. In 2016, over 1,000 men and women accomplished 16,258 days of work, and 232 people achieved permanent placements.
Company History
In 1920 Seattle businessman, Martin G. Johanson, watched from the window of his Pioneer Square office as the line for a local soup kitchen grew longer every day. The men standing in the cold waiting for a hot bowl of soup had lost their jobs due to the national economic downturn after World War I and were desperate for help.
Johanson believed the men in line wanted not just a meal, but a chance to earn back their dignity. He rallied friends to that cause and, six months later in March 1921, opened doors to the Millionair Club Charity in a borrowed basement in Pioneer Square.
Since that day, the Millionair Club Charity has provided jobs, hot meals and other essential support services to men and women in the greater Seattle area.
Nine decades later, throughout Seattle's history of economic boom and bust, the Millionair Club Charity has been constant for the ever-present homeless and unemployed. The charity is named for the way it made Johanson feel — "like a millionaire." But he dropped the "e" because he believed you don't need to be rich to help.
Benefits
Paid bus pass or parking pass