Posts in Systems & Policies
InterIm CDA

2020 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.

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Puget Sound Sage

2020 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.

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OneAmerica

2020 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.

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CHOOSE 180 and Community Passageways

2020 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.

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Community Health Board Coalition (CHBC)

2020 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.

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Muslim Community & Neighborhood Association (MCNA)

2020 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.

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Got Green

2020 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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YES! Foundation of White Center

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $50,000

The YES! Foundation of White Center serves children, youth and young adults through relationship based programs that foster self and social awareness, promote education and repurpose power in an under resourced community.

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Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB)

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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Statewide Poverty Action Network

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.

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The Maternal Coalition

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $125,000

The Maternal Coaltion will support birth rights, birth advocacy, and perinatal mental health advocacy for communities of color in King County.

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Northwest Health Law Advocates

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $83,000

Northwest Health Law Advocates (NoHLA) will support advocacy to maintain and strengthen immigrant health coverage and access beyond the COVID-19 pandemic emergency period.

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Chief Seattle Club

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $50,000

2020 Award - Policy & Systems: $180,000

Chief Seattle Club is a human service agency that provides basic needs for our members, many of whom are experiencing homelessness. Native people in urban areas face unique challenges and Chief Seattle Club embraces the cultures, languages, and traditions of American Indians and Alaska Natives as the primary method for healing and transformation.

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UTOPIA (United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance)

2020 Award - Policy & Systems: $95,000.

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $85,000

UTOPIA works for the health, safety, well-being, empowerment, and economic stability of Queer & Trans Pacific Islanders, for the sake of liberation for all queer and trans people of color.

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Africatown Community Land Trust (to support the King County Equity Now Coalition)

2020 Award - COVID-19 Resilience and Response: $125,000

Africatown and the King County Equity Now coalition will support community priorities for effective public and private investments needed to effectively respond to COVID-19 and for greater equity for the Black King County community.

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New Economy Project

2020 Award: $200,000

The New Economy Washington Project partnership between Front and Centered, People’s Economy Lab, Washington Budget and Policy Center, and Poverty Action Network will focus on building infrastructure and supporting leaders for a more just and democratic economy.

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Skyway-Westhill Coalition

2020 Award: $200,000

Skyway Coalition will address the historic lack of investment, inequitable policies and systems that have directly impacted our urban unincorporated King County community.

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Wa Na Wari

2020 Award: $100,000

Wa Na Wari will support anti-displacement organizing work with Black Homeowners in the Central District with the goal of changing land use policy and permitting processes on the city level to allow for a wider range of community use of properties zoned single family residential.

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Surge Reproductive Justice

2020 Award: $100,000

Surge will establish a policy table comprising individuals and organizations that represent women of color and queer and trans people of color who will work together to establish policies that meaningfully and effectively address reproductive health injustices.

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Crescent Collaborative (formerly the Yesler Community Collaborative)

2020 Award: $200,000

The Collaborative will pursue a multi-pronged, community-driven anti-displacement strategy that unites and elevates communities’ voices for: affordable housing; economic opportunity (small business); healthful, safe communities; and community capacity to engage in equitable community development.

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