2026-27 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $210,000 per year
The partnership between the White Center Community Development Association (WCDA), Community Roots Housing, FEEST, HealthPoint, Southwest Youth and Family Services and YES Foundation, mobilized a community-wide policy advocacy effort to create a community preference housing ordinance for King County. [Updated description to come]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $135,000 per year
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) coordinated and mobilized its organizing and policy strategy efforts around health equity and unemployment insurance for all, regardless of immigration status. [Updated description to come]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000 per year
In 2023-2025, Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) worked toward systems and policy change that will bring economic equity to immigrant and refugee Family Child Care (FCC) providers in King County. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
Funds were 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $135,000 per year
In 2023-2025, The Mockingbird Society (TMS) advocated 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
Surge Reproductive Justice (SRJ) supported and facilitated 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
Through “Campaign for Cash” (CFC) and the CFC's Core Leadership Team, Statewide Poverty Action Network worked to change the narrative around poverty and champion cash assistance policies in Washington State. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $135,000 per year
Through policy advocacy, the Seattle Indian Health Board continued 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000 per year
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 gave refugees a platform to voice their needs to policy makers in order to tackle the inequities in economic opportunities available to them. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
Funds were 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
By utilizing tactics that center the voices and experiences of those most directly impacted by the criminal legal system, Look2Justice (L2J) sought 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000 per year
The partnership between the Indian American Community Services, Muslim Community Network Association, Eastside for All and the Housing Development Consortium advanced policy and systems change toward housing justice while effectively addressing racial disparities in East King County. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $210,000 per year
This partnership between the Horn of Africa Services, Somali Community Services of Seattle, and the Oromia Center in Washington addressed 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $135,000 per year
FEEST continued 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $135,000 per year
In 2023-2025, Fair Work Center (FWC) built organizing power among food service industry workers to ensure employers follow existing local and state policies and workplace protections. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000 per year
Disability Rights Washington (DRW) supported 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $210,000 per year
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) worked 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. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $135,000 per year
Chief Seattle Club continued building its platform for long-term homelessness and housing advocacy for Native people in King County. [Updated description coming soon]
Read More2026-27 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $200,000 per year
In 2023-2025, Casa Latina (CL) continued its work to improve the working conditions of domestic workers in Seattle, King County and Washington State by changing the policies that affect them. [Updated description coming soon]
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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