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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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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Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB)

Also See Currently Funded Partners, Above

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

Also See Currently Funded Partners, Above

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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Tenants Union of Washington State

2020 Award: $100,000
Tenants Union will develop the leadership of low income tenants in King County to advocate for essential tenant protections, protecting renters from eviction, and putting the keys to housing stability back into the hands of low income communities most impacted by housing injustice. This work aims to result in a base of engaged tenant leaders and tenant councils across King County and Washington State.

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Collective Justice Project (formerly the Community Justice Project)

2020 Award: $100,000

Work to strengthen the systems and policy work to build a survivor-led movement in King County that transform the criminal legal system and promote policies that support the people most impacted by violence.

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Open Doors for Multicultural Families

2020 Award: $100,000

In 2020, Open Doors will build knowledge about advocacy and civic engagement strategies to promote meaningful communication between families and schools so that all students and families with developmen­tal/intellectual dis­abil­i­ties and spe­cial health care needs have equal access to cul­tur­ally and lin­guis­ti­cally appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion, resources, and services.

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Casa Latina

2020 Award: $100,000

Casa Latina aims to improve economic conditions for domestic workers by advocating for improved systems and policy changes that affect their working conditions.

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Para Los Niños

2020 Award: $100,000

Para Los Ninos (PLN) will educate and support Latinx families engagement to support students’ academic success from birth on.

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FEEST

2020 Award: $100,000

FEEST youth leaders will continue to build a movement for better student health by organizing for increased access to fresh, free, and culturally relevant school breakfasts and lunches.

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