2026-27 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 MoreWith this grant funding, KCEDI will deepen its internal coalition infrastructure, by creating leadership development pathways for coalition members to take on additional responsibilities, revisit and strengthen shared agreements around conflict resolution and decision-making, and create intentional space for joy, celebration, and relationship-building - recognizing that these practices are central to sustaining the work to end displacement.
Read MoreThrough this grant, The Common Acre aims to amplify the impact of their existing work to advance land stewardship and cultural revitalization in South Seattle. They do this by engaging local communities of color in Indigenous, land-based practices and how they intersect with Black and Indigenous traditions in agriculture and collective efforts fighting for land and water justice.
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]
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