America Has a Fatherless Problem. A Group in Seattle Is Setting an Example to Fix It.

Seattle has suffered from a lot of bad publicity lately: horrendous homelessness problems, intractable traffic congestion, through-the-roof housing prices, and pushback against its radical city council for passing a “head tax” on jobs that was repealed just weeks after its enactment.

But Seattle also is the home of many robust and innovative nonprofit organizations, most notably the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is doing extraordinary work worldwide. At the other end of the scale, I’m working with a little nonprofit that hopes to become a national model for similar groups in other states. It received some favorable attention around Father’s Day, and deservedly so.