COO partners with 17 organizations & coalitions to improve health, social, and economic outcomes
New partnerships funded by King County and Seattle Foundation will help address inequities in housing, health and economic opportunity. The 17 grants, totaling $4.15 million, to over 25 organizations will focus on policy and systems change efforts towards increased health and wellness.
A complete list of systems and policy change grantees:
Casa Latina will improve economic conditions for domestic workers in Seattle, King County and Washington State by changing the policies that affect their working conditions.
Chief Seattle Club’s Coalition to End Urban Indigenous Homelessness will advocate to include an AI/AN representative on the new regional homelessness entity’s 11-person board, and to ensure the City’s new Community Preference policy includes AI/ANs as displaced people.
Church Council of Greater Seattle will support local faith leaders to connect & mobilize their communities for housing justice in cities and across King County.
Collective Justice Project will build a survivor-centered movement in King County to transform the criminal legal system and build community-based responses to harm that uphold the dignity and humanity of people most impacted by violence.
Crescent Collaborative will pursue a multi-pronged, community-driven anti-displacement strategy that elevates communities’ voices around shared issues in affordable housing, economic opportunity, healthy, safe communities and equitable community development.
FEEST youth leaders will continue to build a movement for better student health by organizing for increased access to fresh, free, and culturally relevant school breakfasts and lunches.
Got Green will work to build community power for Seattle’s Green New Deal, which outlines a vision of decarbonization by 2030, addresses historic injustices, creates thousands of unionized green jobs, and invests in climate resilient communities, as it relates to all four of the COO result areas (health, housing, economic opportunity & community connections).
Ingersoll will develop and implement an advocacy strategy for Apple Health improvements with the Coalition for Inclusive Healthcare, educate their provider consult group, and build more partnerships with community health clinics.
New Economy Project’s partnership between Front and Centered, People’s Economy Lab, Washington Budget and Policy Center, and Poverty Action Network will focus on building infrastructure and supporting leaders for a more just and democratic economy.
Open Doors for Multicultural Families will build community power to advocate for state language access policies that promote meaningful communication between families and schools.
Para Los Ninos (PLN) will educate and support Latinx families towards parent engagement and leadership that supports students’ academic success from birth on.
Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) will focus on creating culturally attuned and sustainable behavioral health systems, and address gender-based violence and the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis.
Skyway Coalition will address the historic lack of investment, inequitable policies and systems that have directly impacted our urban unincorporated King county community. The Coalition will advocate for policies and funding that support anti-displacement strategies, affordable housing, and economic development. Skyway Coalition strives for community-led development and growth that also supports and protects our racial/ethnic/socio-economic diversity.
Surge Reproductive Justice will establish a policy table comprising individuals and organizations that represent women of color and queer and trans people of color who will work together to establish policies that meaningfully and effectively address reproductive health injustices.
Tenants Union will develop the leadership of low income tenants in King County to advocate for essential tenant protections of Just Cause and Rent Control, protecting renters from eviction, and putting the keys to housing stability back into the hands of low income communities most impacted by housing injustice.
UTOPIA will support the development of a leadership cohort to lead queer and trans Pacific Islander action campaigns for the health, safety, wellbeing, empowerment, and economic stability of QTPI (Queer Trans Pacific Islander) youth, adults, elders and families.
Wa Na Wari will support anti-displacement organizing work with Black Homeowners in the Central District with the goal of changing land use policy and permitting processes on the city level to allow for a wider range of community use of properties zoned single family residential.