Headwater People is designing and hosting a series of communications workshops for Communities of Opportunity in 2021!
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Contacto Consulting is a consulting firm that brings together people and organizations to foster equitable communities and belonging, supporting COO communications capacity building.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Storytelling: King County Equity Now (KCEN) will focus on solutions to improve the on-the-ground, lived experiences of Black communities in King County experiencing the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Storytelling: Collectivo de Pueblos Orginarios will engage South King County youth and adults who are from indigenous communities of the P'urhepecha, Ñuu Savi and Kichwa Otavalo.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Storytelling: Washington Dream Coalition will engage members of undocumented communities throughout King County to explore research questions relevant to community needs and resilience and systemic changes for long-term impacts.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Storytelling: Tesfa Program will uplift experiences of Amharic-speaking Ethiopian community members throughout King County.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Storytelling: Centro Cultural Mexicano will focus on the direct and estimated long-term effects of COVID-19 on low-income Latino children in King County, including housing stability, education, food security, physical health, and social-emotional well-being.
Read MoreThe National Development Council (NDC) leads a consultant team including, BDS Planning & Urban Design, Craft3, and Moving Beyond on the COO Learning Community Commercial Affordability Pilot Project.
Read MoreCascadia Consulting Group supports the administrative and coordination of the COO Learning Community.
Read MoreAfrican Community Housing & Development was host to the Economic Development NOW (ED NOW!) Learning Circle that began in 2019.
Read MorePuget Sound Sage is a Learning Community partner and host of two cohorts of the Community Real Estate Stewardship Team (CREST) Learning Circle: Session 1: Introduction to Community Stewardship of Land; Session 2: Building Power through Community Organizing
Read MoreSama Praxis LLC (Sarah Tran) is lead consultant for the Learning Community’s Capacity Building activities
Read MoreCommunities Rise is a consultant, co-designer and facilitator for the Learning Community’s Capacity Building activities
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.
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