2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Funds will be used toward the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom’s ongoing efforts to address the urgent need for more BIPOC health practitioners by driving policy change to secure public investments in innovative, community-designed healthcare workforce solutions.
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Funds will be used toward Open Doors for Multicultural Families’ ongoing efforts to support and provide community oversight to the implementation of new language access programs and policies in Washington’s K-12 public school system.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $200,000
The partnership between the White Center Community Development Association (WCDA), Community Roots Housing, FEEST, Healthpoint, Southwest Youth and Family Services and YES Foundation, seeks to mobilize a community-wide policy advocacy effort to create a community preference housing ordinance for King County.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) will be coordinating and mobilizing its organizing and policy strategy efforts around health equity and unemployment insurance for all, regardless of immigration status.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023 and 2024, Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) will work toward systems and policy change that will bring economic equity to immigrant and refugee Family Child Care (FCC) providers in King County.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023 and 2024, The Mockingbird Society (TMS) is seeking to advocate for policies to establish a racial equity focused county-level “Office of Homeless Youth,” a cross-system coordinating body among housing, employment, education, behavioral health service providers, child welfare, juvenile justice systems and service providers which will center youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and engage them as core members.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Surge Reproductive Justice (SRJ) will support and facilitate the Doulas for All coalition, a doula and birth worker led effort, working to address maternal and perinatal health outcomes by advancing Medicaid reimbursements for doulas.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Through “Campaign for Cash” (CFC) and the CFC's Core Leadership Team, Statewide Poverty Action Network will work to change the narrative around poverty and champion cash assistance policies in Washington State.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Through policy advocacy, the Seattle Indian Health Board will continue its work to implement culturally attuned systems and policies for addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People crisis and reducing gender-based violence among Native populations in Washington State and the greater Seattle-King County Area.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
The partnership between the New Americans Alliance for Policy and Research, Somali Community Services of Seattle, Partners in Employment, Iraqi Community Center of Washington and Horn of Africa Services is looking to give refugees a platform to voice their needs to policy makers in order to tackle the inequities in economic opportunities available to them.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
By utilizing tactics that center the voices and experiences of those most directly impacted by the criminal legal system, Look2Justice (L2J) seeks to expand its current network of 400+ organizers to at least 1,200 organizers over the next years to reach 10% of the incarcerated population across Washington State and collaborate towards advancing policies that will transform the state's criminal legal system.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
The partnership between the Indian American Community Services, Muslim Community Network Association, Eastside for All and the Housing Development Consortium seeks to advance policy and systems change toward housing justice while effectively addressing racial disparities in East King County.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
This partnership between the Horn of Africa Services, Somali Community Services of Seattle, and the Oromia Center in Washington seeks to address gun violence and the school to prison pipeline that affect BIPOC immigrant and refugee youth disproportionately in the New Holly, Rainier Vista, High Point and Yesler Terrace communities.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
FEEST will continue to develop low-income BIPOC and immigrant youth leaders to build collective power and organize for transformative and systemic change in their schools, including building a culture of holistic health equity in schools in South Seattle and South King County
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023-2024, Fair Work Center (FWC) seeks to build organizing power among food service industry workers to ensure employers follow existing local and state policies and workplace protections.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Disability Rights Washington (DRW) seeks to support its Disability Mobility Initiative (DMI) with the long-term goal of advancing policy toward the prioritization of funding to create an accessible and equitable public infrastructure and transit system that benefits all Washington residents.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
The Crescent Collaborative (Africatown Community Land Trust, Byrd Barr Place, Community Roots Housing, First Hill Improvement Association, Friends of Little Saigon and Seattle Chinatown International District PDA) are working together on a multi-pronged, community-driven anti-displacement strategy that unites and elevates cross-community voices around shared issues in affordable housing; economic opportunity (small businesses); healthful, safe communities; and community capacity with an eye towards equitable community development.
Read More2023-34 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Chief Seattle Club will continue building its organization’s platform for long-term homelessness and housing advocacy for Native people in King County.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023-2024, Casa Latina (CL) will continue its work to improve the working conditions of domestic workers in Seattle, King County and Washington State by changing the policies that affect them.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience & Response: $125,000
Gender Justice League and partners, The Black Trans Task Force and Heartspark Press will activate, and advocate for trans and non-binary people who are experiencing significant barriers to safe housing (permanent and non-permanent) due to the intersection of transphobia, misogyny, and the COVID-19 crisis.
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