News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated June 2023
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This learning session, geared towards others working on collective impact projects, discussed key community-centered capacity building activities, impacts, learnings and contributions to community power building and systems and policy change outcomes and progress.
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Regularly updated news and happenings from COO community and aligned partners.
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Seattle Foundation and King County recently awarded grants to 18 community partners to advance systems and policy change to improve health, social, and economic outcomes in the region. This $2.8 million in funding is made through Communities of Opportunity’s Systems and Policy Change strategy.
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News, Stories, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated May 2023
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Communities of Opportunity is seeking individuals interested in serving on the Governance Group (GG)/Advisory Board beginning in early 2022. The Communities of Opportunity GG/Advisory Board will guide the implementation of the COO activities and serve in an advisory role for the COO elements of the Best Starts for Kids levy. Learn more..
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Each of the nine Place-Based and Cultural Community (PBCC) Partnerships selected through a 2022 open request for proposals (RFP) process have shared ideas and priorities, a shared understanding of their collective work, vision, and set of actions that will focus on the root causes of inequities. With this shared strategy and analysis each partnership will work to implement a collaborative project that supports community power building and contributes to better community health, safe and affordable housing, economic opportunity, and strong community connections.
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The Tesfa Program developed this web-based toolkit to increase the capacity of providers, organizations, and decision-makers to better connect and serve local Ethiopian communities. Check out the toolkit, accompanying podcast and ways to get involved here!
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This conversation with youth leaders and staff from Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) explored how to create supportive and healthy spaces for youth leadership and development — and youth ownership of transformative organizing work.
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This workshop focuses on basic fundamentals of what fiscal sponsorship is - including a particular focus on exploring how to best support youth-led groups who are interested in being fiscally sponsored and working with youth-driven projects.This panel included, youth and community leaders who have had successful experiences as a fiscal sponsor and/or as a fiscally sponsored group and what contributed to a healthy relationship.
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated July 2022
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The first two sessions from the GROUNDED 2022 Speaker Series are now available for viewing! Learn how local organizations and faith communities are responding to community needs and priorities in a time of global pandemic and displacement.
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated July 2022
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We now invite you to join us for the 2022 GROUNDED Speaker Series, a free, online event series that moves from cultivating to grounding, and from storytelling to conversations on implementation and how groups and organizations have moved forward with their visions to action and outcome.
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated March 2022
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Join COO in a 6-week series on Somatics as a methodology to account for and work through the impact of trauma and oppression in our bodies.
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New Toolkits & Capacity Building resources for community organizations — learn more about supports available through the COO Learning Community
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated March 2022
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To support continuous improvement and learning for equitable contracting work COO sought to document where and how COO has been successful in creating more equitable procurement processes, particularly in the area of contracting, and what gaps continue to exist. The Equitable Contracting Report here, summarized a review of King County COO Community Service Agreements and Consultant Contract processes, best practices from the field, and themes from key informant interviews with COO community partners.
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Share your thoughts for a Native Neighborhood! The Indigenous Seattle Working Group and Na'ah Illahee Fund have been collaborating on a community survey that is made by and for Native and Indigenous Peoples who live, work, visit, or get services in Seattle. This survey is the first step toward building a Native Neighborhood that can be anything from a single building to multiple blocks.
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