Posts in Place-Based and Cultural Communities
SeaTac Airport Community Coalition for Justice (STACC 4 Justice)

STACC4J will work towards launching their Community Policy Labs where residents and organizations co-create and test community driven policy solutions. This will be advanced by facilitating and implementing “accountability scorecards” that will enable residents to measure progress on issues that have been raised by airport impacted communities.

Partnership Members: Defenders of Highline Forest, El Centro De La Raza, and KC International Airport Community Coalition. Fiscal Sponsor: Seattle Parks Foundation. Former members: Beacon Hill Council, Equity in Education Coalition, Quiet Skies Puget Sound and 350 Aviation.

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Snoqualmie Valley Human Services Coalition

The Coalition will continue to grow and operate the shared Referral & Navigation program to improve access to key resources in the Snoqualmie Valley and to address the systemic inequities that hinder the effectiveness of a coordinated nonprofit ecosystem, and to support more residents in accessing the services they need and help shift the culture of participating organizations to increase equity and reduce staff burnout.

Partnership members: A Supportive Community for All, Acres of Diamonds, CarePoint, Eastside Legal Assistance Program, Empower Youth Network, Encompass NW, Holy Innocents Food Pantry, Hopelink, Mt. Si Senior Center, Mamma’s Hands, Reclaim (formerly Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services), Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank, and Tolt Congregational UCC Community Connections Program. Former members: Helping Hands, Huntington Learning Center, and Sno-Valley Senior Center.

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Refugee Immigrant Community Health (R.I.C.H.) Program

The RICH Program Partnership will expand its policy advocacy and systems change work while sustaining existing intergenerational programs focused on culturally-relevant mental health supports and youth leadership. The Partnership will develop community power-building strategies to implement a community-led policy advocacy campaign that trains community advocates, conducts community listening sessions to document lived experiences with housing discrimination, connects with local elected officials, and brings community voice into policy conversations to advance solutions that address root causes of inequities affecting Cham, Somali, and Oromo communities.

Partnership members: Cham Refugees Community, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Islamic Center, and Somali Cultural Center

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LGBTQ+ South King County Collaborative

LGBTQ+SKCC's goals will work towards establishing a cross-sector Civic Engagement Cohort, linking community partners to local ordinances and resolutions related to housing, economic opportunity, and public health that will address the lived experiences of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Pacific Islanders, Asian, and Immigrant LGBTQIA+ communities.

Partnership members: Queer Power Alliance (formerly LGBTQ Allyship), Entre Hermanos, and PNW Black Pride. Formerly: POCAAN.

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KCDC Community Healthcare Navigation Initiative

The Initiative will address the healthcare disparities faced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities in Kent through education reform, stakeholder/community mobilization, and advocacy.

Partnership members: Kent Community Development Collaborative (KCDC), Community Network Council, and Communities in Schools of South King County (formerly Communities In Schools of Kent). Former members: Communities of Rooted Brilliance, Mother Africa, Being Empowered Through Supportive Transitions (BEST).

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Chinatown-International District Worker and Organizing Center

CID Worker and Organizing Center’s goals will work towards a community and worker led housing initiative for safer alternatives to employer-controlled housing in the CID, along with a two-year campaign focused on creating a certification and industry standards for Washington state immigrant workers in the massage industry.

Partnership members: Massage Parlor Outreach Project, Chinatown International District Coalition, Puget Sound Sage

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Burien Collaborative

Burien Collaborative’s goals will focus on social service providers in the Burien-Highline area, developing a stronger network of systems coordination and access to resources, bridging the gaps between community need and resource allocation; and work towards a shift in public narrative focused on Undocumented Immigrants, unhoused populations, and BIPOC folks.

Partnership members: Southwest Youth and Family Services, Lake Burien Presbyterian Church, YES! Foundation, and Alimentando al Pueblo. Formerly: BLKBRY

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Build 2 Lead - POWER Council

The Legacy POWER Council will focus on addressing inequities and disparities in the healthcare field. They will work towards developing a 5-year strategic plan and their Policy Development Program, as well as continue to advance their Youth/Young Adult Healthcare Career Education and Mentorship pipeline.

Partnership members: Build 2 Lead, Momentum Belonging Group, King County Public Health Department, Livia Behavioral Health Services, UW Medicine Physicians Clinic, Morehouse School and Medicine, Leadership Tomorrow and Federal Way Public Schools

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Together We Heal: Addressing Root Causes of Inequity through Community-Centered Healing

Using a community-centered and culturally informed framework, Together We Heal will grow their capacity to build an alternative to the carceral system and disrupt cycles of incarceration by deepening capacity to provide intensive restorative justice training and skill building, and provide healing spaces for the healers within organizations, while providing material resources including housing for communities impacted by violence and incarceration.

Partners: Freedom Project and Collective Justice

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Kent Community Development Collaborative 

Kent Community Development Collaborative is a partnership of community-based organizations working to ensure everyone can participate and benefit from decisions that shape their neighborhood and greater community. The partnership will convene community forums focused on creating affordable, safe housing for Kent residents, as well as opportunities for living-wage jobs and access to healthy, affordable foods.

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White Center

In White Center, a key priority driven by residents and grassroots organizations is anchoring multi-cultural businesses and partnerships in the community to prevent displacement. Paramount to this work is increasing community leadership, with an emphasis on engaging young people. 

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Snoqualmie Valley Supportive Community for All

Snoqualmie Valley Supportive Community for All will strengthen community connections by building an inclusive coalition of service providers and key community stakeholders around a shared vision of coordinating human services across the Snoqualmie Valley.

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Comunidad Latina de Vashon Organizamos

Communidad Latina de Vashon Organizamos is working to dramatically enhance community connections and mobilize LatinX residents on Vashon Island to activate their leadership in community decisions and advance greater health and well-being. Partners in this effort include Latino-based organizations in Seattle that will share their expertise in civic engagement with the Vashon Latino community.

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SeaTac/Tukwila

Partners in SeaTac/Tukwila have taken a bold approach to expanding economic opportunities and promoting health. The Community Coalition partners are working to keep communities in place by ensuring refugees and immigrants are empowered to be part of decision-making processes, and by creating a space for refugee and immigrant women to build successful businesses. Read more…

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Rainier Valley

Since the launch of the initiative, Rainier Valley has made progress in planning for an urban village near light rail stops in the Valley. Community partners and coalitions are focusing on shared ownership models to prevent displacement of historic cultural communities and to increase economic security.

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The Transgender Economic Empowerment Coalition

The Transgender Economic Empowerment Coalition will address the economic barriers transgender and gender-nonconforming communities and LGBTQ people of color experience as a result of transphobia, homophobia and racism. The Coalition will build leadership development programs and engage area employers to develop model employment policies.

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Africatown: Replanting Roots, Rebuilding Community

Africatown: Replanting Roots, Rebuilding Community is bringing organizations together in the heart of Seattle’s historic African American community to strengthen the community’s sense of place in the face of displacement due to historic practices and current gentrification.

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Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits (SUNN) 

SUNN is a roundtable that aims to unite the efforts of Native-led organizations to advocate for policies and positive changes that will improve health and well-being. The partners include the Potlatch Fund, Seattle Indian Health Board, Na’ah Illahee Fund, Chief Seattle Club, and NAWDIM, who all have a long history of engaging in the needs of urban Native families and relatives through a unique cultural lens.

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