Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements in March 2021
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More than 60 community members came together on January 9th to learn more about the Community Real Estate Stewardship Team (CREST)'s development projects and what it means to own and control land as a community. Watch the recorded presentation here.
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The evaluation report provides an overview of progress for Communities of Opportunity (COO) from January 2019 through June 2020. Read more for details…
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King County Executive Dow Constantine has announced his plan for the six-year Best Starts for Kids levy renewal to continue building toward our long-term vision for King County’s children, youth, and families. Hear what our community has to say about Best Starts for Kids and Communities of Opportunity:
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Learn about PLN’s path to now and how Para Los Niños is meeting community needs and strengthening community connections in this new video.
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New works by seven local artists and community creatives offer fresh ways of understanding the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic with race, bias and culture.
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“Listen and be ready to shift”. These were the words of now Communities of Opportunity (COO) Governance Group member and Executive Director of the White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA) at the nascent stages of the formation of COO. Read more about the beginnings of COO and how community partners pushed the initiative to do things differently.
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Through the Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits Collaborative (SUNN), 14 organizations are working in partnership to improve the health and well-being of the urban Native community across King County. Read more about the work and vision of the Collaborative…
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The White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA) has deep roots in the community, embodied in their ability to organize and implement community vision.
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Communities of Opportunity (COO) announces commitments to five organizations to document impacts, uplift stories of resilience in communities significantly impacted by COVID-19.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity (COO) seeks to create a culture grounded in community-informed evaluation throughout our partnerships. The COO Evaluation Advisory Group (EAG), composed of representatives from COO’s community organizations and partnerships, was originally assembled in 2018 to support baseline evaluation and since then, has continued to meet to provide feedback on that plan, as well as guidance on partners’ evaluation needs.
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The Best Starts for Kids (BSK) 2019 Annual Report is here! BSK supports Communities of Opportunity to build safe, healthy, thriving places for children, youth and families with $6.9M invested in 2019
Communities of Opportunity’s Governance Group members Michael Brown (Civic Commons, Seattle Foundation) and Lydia Assefa-Dawson (King County Regional Housing Authority), and COO Director Andrea Akita, spoke to the Sound Cities Association on the initiative’s commitments to racial equity and social justice.
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Communities of Opportunity & Healthy and Safe Environments initiatives panel at the first annual Best Starts for Kids Summit: “Youth, Family and Community Led Movements for Systems Change: How young people and families work upstream to impact inequities by race and place”
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Communities of Opportunity Resilience and Response awards will address inequities in housing, health, and economic opportunity. Grantees will receive $1.275 million to promote change in policies and systems for communities most impacted by COVID-19 in King County.
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The Learning Community provides funding, resources and activities to strengthen the work of our funded partners and those working in alignment with COO. We also provide opportunities to build strategic and critical relationships and connections, and the opportunity to develop and test new tools and strategies to create equity within our result areas. Learn more about what we’ve accomplished over the last year and half and what we have planned for the next.
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A Just Recovery in a Changing World: Event Recording and Future Opportunities for Training & Strategy
Best Starts for Kids Community Engagement Survey! Best Starts for Kids is community driven which means your input, as community voice, is critical. Best Starts strong commitment to equity requires participation by community members to achieve the kind of community we want to build together. Let us know your thoughts on BSK and the work for greater equity and healthier communities in King County!
Moving into the next phase of COO, a Policy and Systems Cohort was envisioned to ensure community experts inform and guide a set of systems and policy recommendations at the intersection of community connection, economic development, health and housing.
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