Tubman Center for Health & Freedom

2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000

Funds will be used toward the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom’s ongoing efforts to address the urgent need for more BIPOC health practitioners by driving policy change to secure public investments in innovative, community-designed healthcare workforce solutions.

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SeaTac Airport Community Coalition for Justice (STACC for Justice)

The Coalition will build capacity to educate and organize BIPOC and immigrant/refugee communities in cities near SeaTac Airport (STA), communities under STA flight paths, and other under-served airport communities to address environmental, health and climate impacts of aircraft air and noise emissions.

Partners: Equity in Education Coalition, Beacon Hill Council and El Centro De La Raza, KC Int’l Airport Community Coalition, Quiet Skies Puget Sound and 350 Aviation

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Together We Heal: Addressing Root Causes of Inequity through Community-Centered Healing

Using a community-centered and culturally informed framework, Together We Heal will grow their capacity to build an alternative to the carceral system and disrupt cycles of incarceration by deepening capacity to provide intensive restorative justice training and skill building, and provide healing spaces for the healers within organizations, while providing material resources including housing for communities impacted by violence and incarceration.

Partners: Freedom Project and Collective Justice

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The Burien Collective

The Burien Collective will strengthen partnerships between Burien based agencies, leveraging the strength of community connections to mobilize and grow the collective towards a cohesive service network to create a permanent collective space for agencies while filling the gaps that currently exist in the social service net and provide a model for a community-care centered ecosystem.

Partnership members: Southwest Youth and Family Services, Lake Burien Presbyterian Church, YES! Foundation, Alimentando Al Pueblo and BLKBRY

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Snoqualmie Valley Human Services Coalition

The Coalition will continue to grow and operate the shared Referral & Navigation program to improve access to key resources in the Snoqualmie Valley and to address the systemic inequities that hinder the effectiveness of a coordinated nonprofit ecosystem, and to support more residents in accessing the services they need and help shift the culture of participating organizations to increase equity and reduce staff burnout.

Partnership members: A Supportive Community for All, Acres of Diamonds, Empower Youth Network, Encompass NW, Holy Innocents Food Pantry, Helping Hands, Hopelink, Huntington Learning Center, Mt Si Senior Center, Mamma’s Hands, Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank, Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services, Sno-Valley Senior Center and Tolt Congregational UCC Community Connections Program

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Refugee Immigrant Community Health (R.I.C.H) Program

The R.I.C.H collective will address the mental health access disparities in the Cham, Somali, and Oromo communities in the Rainier Valley and South King County through community engagement, culturally appropriate mental health support, and engaging youth to address the root causes of disparities.

Partnership members: Cham Refugees Community, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Islamic Center, and Somali Cultural Center

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LGBTQ+ South King County Collaborative

The Collaborative will build a sustainable network of LGBTQ+ led organizations that uses an equity-centered, collective impact framework to advance systems and policy changes toward housing, health, economic, and racial equity for LGBTQ+ communities in South King County.

Partnership members: Queer Power Alliance (formerly LGBTQ Allyship), Entre Hermanos, and POCAAN

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KCDC Community Healthcare Navigation Initiative

The Initiative will address the healthcare disparities faced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities in Kent through education reform, stakeholder/community mobilization, and advocacy.

Partnership members: Kent Community Development Collaborative (KCDC), Community Network Council, Communities of Rooted Brilliance, Mother Africa, Communities In Schools of Kent and Being Empowered Through Supportive Transitions (BEST)

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Build 2 Lead - POWER Council

The Council will create community-based collaborative committees to design the B2L Legacy and Wellness Center hub in partnership with community, health, and wellness partners.

Partnership members: Build 2 Lead, Momentum Belonging Group, King County Public Health Department, Livia Behavioral Health Services, UW Medicine Physicians Clinic, Morehouse School and Medicine, Leadership Tomorrow and Federal Way Public Schools

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White Center Community Development Association

2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $200,000

The partnership between the White Center Community Development Association (WCDA), Community Roots Housing, FEEST, Healthpoint, Southwest Youth and Family Services and YES Foundation, seeks to mobilize a community-wide policy advocacy effort to create a community preference housing ordinance for King County.

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The Mockingbird Society

2023-24 Award - Systems and Policy Change - $125,000

In 2023 and 2024, The Mockingbird Society (TMS) is seeking to advocate for policies to establish a racial equity focused county-level “Office of Homeless Youth,” a cross-system coordinating body among housing, employment, education, behavioral health service providers, child welfare, juvenile justice systems and service providers which will center youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and engage them as core members.

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Seattle Indian Health Board

2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $125,000

Through policy advocacy, the Seattle Indian Health Board will continue its work to implement culturally attuned systems and policies for addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People crisis and reducing gender-based violence among Native populations in Washington State and the greater Seattle-King County Area.

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New Americans Alliance for Policy and Research

2023-24 Award - Systems & Policy Change - $200,000

The partnership between the New Americans Alliance for Policy and Research, Somali Community Services of Seattle, Partners in Employment, Iraqi Community Center of Washington and Horn of Africa Services is looking to give refugees a platform to voice their needs to policy makers in order to tackle the inequities in economic opportunities available to them.

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