Posts in Systems & Policies
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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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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Look 2 Justice

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.

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Horn of Africa Services

2023-24 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.

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FEEST

2023-24 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

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Crescent Collaborative

2023-24 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.

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