Regularly updated news and happenings from COO community and aligned partners.
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Let’s Talk! The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle (ULMS) is planning a community conversation with the Statewide Poverty Action Network, and looking for community members to participate in the conversation about direct cash assistance or receiving services such as TANF, SNAP, and Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC).
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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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The Othering & Belonging Institute is excited to be partnering with the Social Impact Exchange (SIE) and the Seed Collaborative on a first-ever Targeted Universalism (TU) Community of Practice designed to train people from foundations, large nonprofits, and institutions who want to take a deep dive into understanding and implementing TU.
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Looking to level up your business knowledge? During the month of April, Seattle Public Libraries are offering virtual consultations on crucial topics like trademarks & copyrights, real estate law, intellectual property, and more. These Business & Nonprofit resources are designed to help you succeed in today's competitive business world.
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Common Future & The Bento Society have partnered in support of the launch of the Library of Economic Possibility (LEP) — a new research and media platform. LEP's mission is to advance public knowledge of economic policies that may help build a thriving 21st century economy.
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Join the Urban League for their next online Homebuyer Education Workshop! This is a free (virtual) five-hour workshop to help you meet the WA State Housing Finance Commission’s education requirements for down payment assistance and a variety of affordable housing programs and opportunities for qualified applicants!
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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.
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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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Videos from Lead Local that explore the connections between community power and healthy communities.
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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
Read MoreCOO Learning Community strategy partnered with Communities Count to bring workshops and capacity building resources on data and evaluation to community partners.
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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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