Meet our HS4H Guild Officers & Founding Members
Scott Bingham (President & Co-Founder)
I am honored to have served in my leadership role in Information Technology at Seattle Children’s for nearly 11 years and have deep passion for delivering technology solutions that enable our clinicians and researchers to provide the hope, care and cures for all patients coming to Seattle Children’s. I am privileged to have completed my Leadership Executive MBA at Seattle University where I refined my dream of helping families in need by blending philanthropy with business, social justice and corporate social responsibility. Just as Seattle Children’s founding promise is to provide care for all children regardless of a family’s ability to pay, I believe we also must provide support for the whole family as necessary to promote a healing home for our patients.
When a child is critically ill, the whole family is affected. I was inspired to give more than I could through my current role alone in Information Technology and was compelled to found the Housing Solutions for Hope Guild (HS4H).
Our mission is to deliver safe, readily available housing solutions for patient families in greatest need at Seattle Children’s to improve health care outcomes while supporting greater hope, care and cures.
I invite you to join us in our pursuit through generous financial donations and if you too are so inspired – please join me as an individual member or corporate sponsor of the Housing Solutions for Hope Guild.
Lauri Bingham (Operations Officer & Co-Founder)
I am honored to be a Founding Member of the Housing Solutions for Hope Guild. I saw firsthand the impact a child’s illness has on the whole family as both the mother of a patient as well as several years as a volunteer at Seattle Children’s. While I was there as a baby rocking specialist, I met many families whose lives had been dramatically altered due to their child’s illness. Everyone’s goal was ‘to go home’. Knowing that there are families that struggle with that goal, due to no fault of their own, became a passion project as my husband Scott, formulated his Seattle University LEMBA project. Housing Solutions for Hope Guild was originated from a deep desire to ensure all families have a safe, healthy ‘home’ on the other side of their hospital stay.
Sarah Bingham (Treasurer)
I am equally inspired and honored to work alongside our amazing members to work towards finding housing solutions for the many innocent in need. With a deep rooted passion for medicine & desire to take care of others, as a pre-medical student myself, joining in on the efforts of this guild was a no brainer.
There really is nothing like the comfort of ‘home’ & my hope is to help give those patients and their families in need at Seattle Children’s just a little peace of mind that they have a ‘home’ to go to when the time comes. A home after all, makes a world of difference as their healing begins
Sarah Thomas (Vice President) –
Derik Harris (Technology Officer) –
Maritza Chott & Audrey Chisholm (Membership Chair Officers) –
Rebekah Luce (2023 Golf Tournament Project Manager) –
Peyton Anstine (2023 Golf Tournament Volunteer Coordinator) –
Marty and Stacia Weishaar (Founding Members)
The Weishaar family became founding members of HS4H after giving to Seattle Children’s for many years. Stacia and Marty served on the HS4H board for the first few years and are still involved financially and as volunteers. Stacia who works for Cross Country Mortgage, continues to donate a portion of every closed transaction to the Guild.
On why you should choose to support HS4H: We hope to make an impact for families at Seattle Children’s by helping with housing solutions for the HOME, which can improve the health and life of the patients and their families during and after care at this amazing hospital.
Wendy Kristek (Founding Member)
When one of my close friends asked me to become a founding member of the Housing Solutions 4 Hope Guild (HS4H), I didn’t hesitate to accept the invitation. Our son was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) in 2002, and he unwillingly became a long-term care recipient from the oncology department at Children’s Hospital. Our family spent the next ten months helping him fight for his life. We were fortunate enough at the time that we could focus on our son’s healing. I can’t imagine, as a mother of a very sick child, what the outcome might have been if we had been concerned about the family’s resources for necessities, such as housing. I’m passionate about helping families through HS4H, with the goal of making sure all families in such situation have safe and adequate housing during and after in-patient care.
View Wendy’s Son’s Seattle Children’s recovery story on YouTube HERE
To become a member of the guild, or volunteer, please see our How to Join Page or contact us at info@housingsolutionsforhope.org.