2020 Award: $100,000
Support local faith leaders to connect & mobilize their communities for housing justice in cities and across King County.
Read More2019 Award: $75,000
WA Dream Coalition will recruit new leaders expand their work to include South Seattle Community College and Highline School District. The Coalition will continue to work with existing groups on implementation of the plans and best practices guidelines they developed in 2018.
2019 Award: 150,000
Nine racial/ethnic health boards will come together to establish the Community Health Board Coalition (CHBC) to strengthen social cohesion across groups by creating a joint policy agenda and ultimately positioning the CHBC as a powerful voice for health.
2019 Award: 25,000
EmPower will sustain a coalition in South King County to protect immigrant rights and offer legal support when needed, including exploring the role of Department of Justice (DOJ) Accredited Representatives.
2019 Award: $71,786
The Washington Bus Education Fund aims to engage young people in generating creative policy solutions and increasing voting rates. Keys issues for young people include access to post-secondary education and voting access.
2019 Award: $40,000
The WICRC will build relationships with public officials and develop leadership within the Native community through a series of advocacy and listening events with the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families.
2019 Award: $75,000
Civil Survival provides civic education and mobilizes formerly incarcerated individuals and their network of family and friends to advocate for greater participation and advocacy that results in better quality of life and outcomes, including in housing and employment.
2019 Award: $40,000
This coalition harnesses the voice of parents and young people to build community power and advance policy goals and strategies that end the use of discipline practices that disproportionately affect students of color in public schools.
2019 Award: $125,000
A collaborative project to increase the influence of two-spirit, gender diverse, queer, and transgender people of color to lead grassroots movements and demands for change by becoming meaningfully involved in the political process. Participants will work to address issues that are specific to these communities on a local and regional level and in the neighborhoods where they live and work.
2019 Award: $30,000
This organization will engage small family businesses to mitigate changes in the neighborhood and to strengthen Little Saigon in Seattle's International District as a cultural hub for the larger Vietnamese population.
2019 Award: $150,000
Puget Sound Sage and Transportation Choices Coalition aim to ensure communities of color, immigrants and refugees share in and prosper from the benefits of transit, specifically Sound Transit 3. This includes representation of marginalized communities in decisions such as station location and accessibility, equitable development and affordable housing along transit lines.
2019 Award: $40,000
This project would increase advocacy capacity among Somali parents through practical skill building. The Task Force will advocate for policy changes to make public schools more accessible to and effective for Somali families and to use those newly developed skills to address other community needs.
2019 Award: $150,000
All in For Washington, in partnership with Coalition of Immigrants and Refugees and Communities of Color (CIRCC), will engage communities of color through in-language education to develop comprehensive tax policy options that bring multiple perspectives to the table.
2019 Award: $29,700
This project will strengthen cross-sector collaborations between neighborhood organizations and the school district to promote healthy youth development in Southeast and Central Seattle and more effectively address mental health and violence issues in the community that hamper the futures of students.
2019 Award: $40,200
Federal Way Youth Action Team will expand its work to engage youth of color in policy making. Building youth leadership and youth voice includes engaging city leaders to discuss vital issues with young people, including violence prevention approaches.
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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