A Washington-based nonprofit that worked to help asylum-seeking refugees will no longer exist at the end of the year.
Thrive International, which was founded in Spokane in 2021 and later expanded its work to Western Washington in Tacoma, formally announced this month it is ending operations as a result of its receivership case, filed in March of this year in Pierce County Superior Court.
Thrive provided transitional housing for refugee and immigrant families. In the Nov. 4 announcement, Thrive stated that the receiver, Shelly Crocker, had “determined to pursue the dissolution of the organization following a thorough review of its financial and operational circumstances.”…