Funding Opportunities
Grant funding and contract opportunities from COO and aligned groups below. For the latest Best Starts for Kids funding news & opportunities, visit the Best Starts page.
Financial Coaching Training and Technical Assistance Partner: We seek proposals from organizations poised to boost financial stability by weaving financial coaching into regional employment and training programs. This role involves developing and supporting the infrastructure necessary for expanding the Financial Opportunity Center®, including creating and conducting staff training, co-designing curriculums, and formulating financial coaching supports for workforce participants. Funding of up to $100,000 is available.
FOC Expansion Partners: We are also seeking proposals to pilot the expansion of this model in Snohomish, King, and Pierce Counties. This initiative aims to integrate financial coaching with access to public benefits, thereby enriching employment and training programs. Proposals for grants of up to $75,000 per year for three years, contingent on performance and fund availability, are invited.
A new funding opportunity is available from the Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL) to provide trainings and cultural competency to the veteran-serving community on key issues that affect veterans, military servicemembers, and their respective families or that strengthen the ability of entities to be inclusive and welcoming of veterans, servicemembers, and their respective families.
The Seattle Office of Housing, in partnership with Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR), invites developers to submit proposals for the redevelopment of the Lake City Community Center.
The Community Development Block Grant Program, Washington Department of Commerce, has $2 million in General Purpose grant funding available for low- and moderate-income communities. We will be accepting applications on an ongoing basis through 2024.
New Funding Available: LISC Puget Sound announces two significant grant opportunities aimed at organizations dedicated to fostering economic empowerment and enhancing workforce outcomes in the region.
The Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act was passed in 2021 to reduce environmental and health disparities and improve the health of all people in Washington state. This HEAL capacity grant program focuses on enhancing community-led decision making to advancing environmental justice (EJ) and building climate resilience.
The King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) is pleased to release this Request for Proposals (RFP) for Support Services for Immigrants and Refugees with funding from the Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL). VSHSL seeks to improve access to civil legal advice, civic engagement, and resources for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers residing in King County.
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is seeking one or several contractors (business, government agency, or community-based organization) to measure the use of neighborhood parks in King County. Measuring how people are using parks will be done for 3 days at each park by counting the number of people in various locations following a taught method. PHSKC is interested in better understanding how people use parks to support planning and programming decisions with the goals of increasing park use, access, and quality.
The submission form for the Health Equity Zone for Native Communities opened on March 18, 2024. Tribal and Urban Native communities from across Washington are encouraged to apply. One community will be selected by the Indigenous Advisory Panel in this pilot phase of the Initiative.
The selected community will receive flexible funding of $200,000 per year for two years that can be used towards developing organizational infrastructure to support community decision-making, identifying health priorities, and developing culturally relevant strategies.
Sweetgrass grants support public health programs related to chronic disease prevention and management. Part of our Community Grants Program, Sweetgrass grants award up to four grants of $10,000 to urban Native health and human services organizations and to urban Indian organizations with programming focusing on Indigenous approaches to chronic disease.
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) Food Assistance (FA) is excited to announce the opening of applications for the fourth round of Resiliency Grants. To help address critical needs of hunger relief organizations across Washington, WSDA FA is offering the Resiliency Grants Program with at least $5.3 million in pass through state funding to eligible hunger relief organizations, including those not currently participating in FA core programs.
A new funding opportunity is available from the Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL) to provide housing navigation services for veterans experiencing homelessness in King County.
The Community Change Grants NOFO is NOW OPEN! Deadline to apply is November 21, 2024.
EPA is accepting applications on a rolling basis for $2 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding available to support community-driven projects that build capacity for communities to tackle environmental and climate justice challenges, strengthen their climate resilience, and advance clean energy.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy invites proposals for original research that can be applied to address the challenge of promoting the fiscal health of municipal governments in a range of contexts and institutional settings across the world. Of particular interest is research that explores the ways sound urban planning, land-based taxation, and economic development combine with disciplined financial management to promote prosperous, sustainable, equitable, and fiscally healthy communities.
The Collective Grants are made on an annual basis. The application process begins with an online Letter of Inquiry (LOI), which opens in October of each year after our priorities have been announced at our Annual Meeting. Funding decisions are made and announced each June. Organizations selected for a WA Women’s Collective Grant Awards will be provided with a Letter of Understanding (LOU) that outlines the relationship between the foundation and the grantee.
Neighbor to Neighbor supports grassroots efforts that increase engagement, power and influence of community members affected by poverty and racial disparities.
Rapid Response are small project specific grants of $3,000 to help grassroots organizations respond quickly to the changing political climate with actions and/or strategies that could not have been anticipated.
Seed Grants are small general operating grants of $5,000 to support new and emerging groups that are developing their community organizing work but might not yet meet all the qualifications for SJF’s Giving Project grants.
Have a funding opportunity to share? Email it to us at info@coopartnerships.org!