WordNet
n. the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" [syn: land, dry land, earth, ground, terra firma]
Wikipedia
Solid Ground may refer to:
- "Solid Ground" (song), a 2007 single by Norwegian pop music singer Marit Larsen
- Solid Ground (Seattle), a social service organization in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- Solid Ground (Rob Crosby album), 1990
- Solid Ground (John Anderson album), 1993
- Solid Ground (The Black Seeds album), 2008
- Solid Ground (Peter Baldrachi album), 2006
- Solid Ground (Gugun Blues Shelter album)
- Solid Ground (Smokie album), 1981
- Solid Ground, an album by Wolf Mail
Solid Ground (founded in 1974 as the Fremont Public Association) is an anti-poverty and social service organization in Seattle, Washington. Originating in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and now based in the adjacent Wallingford neighborhood, the organization now serves clients throughout Seattle, King County and (for some programs) statewide.
Operating on an annual budget of about US$18 million, major program areas fall under the headings "Anti-Racism Initiative", "Advocacy", "Ending Homelessness", "Ending Hunger", "National Service", and "Senior and Transportation Services". They also operate (as a fundraiser) the Fremont Fair but not the associated Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant.
Other Solid Ground programs include direct provision of services (food banks, housing programs, skills classes, in-home elder care, etc.), but they also provide legal advice, support, and representation to help people receive government benefits, ombudsman support for long-term care facilities, and lobby the Washington State government. Their National Service programs "mobilize about 150 full-time stipended volunteers… providing more than 500,000 hours of service each year"; they also provide senior volunteers to over 80 King County human service organizations.
Statewide Poverty Action Network- A program of Solid Ground
One of Solid Ground's advocacy programs is the Statewide Poverty Action Network. They work to create systemic change to address root causes of poverty. This program was established in 1996, in response to the federal government’s passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), or “welfare reform.” Ten leaders from communities of color came together to form the Washington Welfare Reform Coalition, which in 2001 changed its name to the Statewide Poverty Action Network. The change was made to better to represent an expanded focus on poverty issues of statewide significance.
Poverty Action is a leader in statewide issues and maintains a full-time lobby presence in Olympia. With over 7,000 individual members of their network, Poverty Action is among the largest non-profit advocacy groups in Washington state. In addition to political advocacy, Poverty Action also coordinates the "Vote for A Change Campaign"- An award winning program focused on engaging people living with low-incomes, the previously incarcerated and communities of color in electoral politics. Over 100,000 Washingtonians have been reached through "Vote for A Change" Campaigns from 2004-2011.
Solid Ground is an album by country artist John Anderson. It was released in 1993 under BNA Records. The album includes the singles "Money in the Bank" (his final Number One hit), I've Got It Made", "I Fell in the Water", and "I Wish I Could Have Been There". Also included is "Bad Love Gone Good", which was written by Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson, and Henry Paul, who comprised the band BlackHawk at the time. They later recorded this song on their 1995 album Strong Enough.
Solid Ground is the fourth album by New Zealand reggae band The Black Seeds released in 2008. It was released in North America in September 2009.
Solid Ground is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Smokie, released in 1981.
Solid Ground is the first solo album from Peter Baldrachi. The album received favorable reviews from The Big Takeover, Amplifier Magazine, The Noise, Indie Pages, and The Boston Globe,and was named one of the Top Discs of 2007 by Absolute Powerpop.
In 2008, the track "You're Gonna Miss Me Someday" appeared on Not Lame Recordings' "International Pop Overthrow, Vol. 11.
Solid Ground is the fifth studio album by Indonesian-based blues rock band Gugun Blues Shelter. The album also the second released under Grooveyard Records and band name Gugun Power Trio. All recording material was recorded in their studio in Cibubur Jakarta, mixing and mastering process was taken by Don Moore in New York.
Solid Ground is the debut album of American country music singer Rob Crosby. It was released in December 1990 via Arista Nashville. The album includes the singles "Love Will Bring Her Around", "She's a Natural", "Still Burnin' for You", and "Working Woman".
Don Williams covered the song "She's a Natural" on his 2012 album And So It Goes.
Usage examples of "solid ground".
So y'get hidden crevasses that can swallow a party whole and never leave a trace, and nasty slicks and soft spots, and snow bridges, where it looks like solid ground but there's nothin' underneath ya but air when ya try it.
I walked across the now solid ground and knelt by his puzzled, wizened face.
Logic, she thought now that she was on solid ground again, had its uses.
As solid ground lurched beneath my feet once more, I felt my gorge rising and hastily darted to one side.
Pentaquod carried the disquieting news with him as they penetrated deeper into the swamp, and when they reached relatively solid ground on which they could camp, he went to the werowance and asked bluntly, What did you think, Orapak, when you saw the Great Canoe?
The bad news was that solid ground ended about a foot shy of being directly underneath it.
So that's why you're building your barriers and recovering solid ground above the sea.
Your bed is on the floor, what you used to think of as solid ground.
When we were both on solid ground, I footswept him into a convenient patch of mud.
A normal horse would have toppled, but the unicorn somehow managed to get a couple of feet onto solid ground and hurled itself away in a forty-foot standing leap.