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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreKent 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.
Read MoreSnoqualmie 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCommunidad 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.
Read MoreSUNN 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.
Read MoreAfricatown: 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.
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.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $30,000
InterIm CDA will advocate for the promotion of equitable development and ensure that the COVID-19 crisis is not used to further displace Asian, Pacific Islander and Refugee and Immigrant communities.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $125,000
To support organizing with Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color in Seattle and King County towards a just COVID-19 recovery framework that centers policies that prevent further displacement and gentrification and promote resiliency through community stewardship of land.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $50,000
OneAmerica will continue advocacy efforts to shape a just, community-led recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Read More2020 Grant Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $125,000
CHOOSE 180 and Community Passageways will work in partnership for the development of a sustainable advocacy strategy led by those most impacted by mass incarceration, thus ensuring the health and well-being of incarcerated or court-involved young people; and that equitable public health and systemic changes made in response to COVID-19 are expanded upon and made permanent.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $133,000
The Community Health Board Coalition will support systems change and policy development work that will address the disparate impact of COVID-19 among communities of color by focusing on addressing mental health issues that are rooted in structural racism and exacerbated by the impacts of COVID-19.
Read More2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $42,000
The Muslim Community & Neighborhood Association will advocate for city policies in East King County that protect low-income immigrant and refugee renters from eviction during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Read More2020 Award - Policy & Systems: $100,000
2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $20,000
Got Green fights for transformative change at the intersection of racial, economic, gender and climate justice by building community power in South Seattle.
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2020 Award - Policy & Systems Change: $100,000
2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $50,000
Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) is a community health center that provides health and human services to its patients, while specializing in the care of Native people. SIHB is recognized as a leader in the promotion of health improvement for urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, locally and nationally.
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2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $57,000
The Statewide Poverty Action Network is an anti-poverty advocacy organization that works through in-person community organizing and online advocacy to advance equitable policy solutions for low-income people in Washington state.
Read MorePartners 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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