2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
By utilizing tactics that center the voices and experiences of those most directly impacted by the criminal legal system, Look2Justice (L2J) seeks to expand its current network of 400+ organizers to at least 1,200 organizers over the next years to reach 10% of the incarcerated population across Washington State and collaborate towards advancing policies that will transform the state's criminal legal system.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
The partnership between the Indian American Community Services, Muslim Community Network Association, Eastside for All and the Housing Development Consortium seeks to advance policy and systems change toward housing justice while effectively addressing racial disparities in East King County.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
This partnership between the Horn of Africa Services, Somali Community Services of Seattle, and the Oromia Center in Washington seeks to address 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.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
FEEST will continue 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
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023-2024, Fair Work Center (FWC) seeks to build organizing power among food service industry workers to ensure employers follow existing local and state policies and workplace protections.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Disability Rights Washington (DRW) seeks to support 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.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000
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) are working 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.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000
Chief Seattle Club will continue building its organization’s platform for long-term homelessness and housing advocacy for Native people in King County.
Read More2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000
In 2023-2024, Casa Latina (CL) will continue its work to improve the working conditions of domestic workers in Seattle, King County and Washington State by changing the policies that affect them.
Read MoreLa Roxay is co-designing and presenting a speaker series to highlight COO partners’ work and spark a strategic set of conversations for COO stakeholders with leaders in the field, in partnership with BDS Planning & Urban Design.
Read MoreHeadwater People is designing and hosting a series of communications workshops for Communities of Opportunity in 2021!
Read MoreContacto 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.
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