OUR GRANTEES
As a partner to our grantees, we are committed to the overall health of organizations and people. We co-invest in their missions, teams and goals. In recognition of the Covid-19 pandemic, we increased our grantmaking and joined regional efforts to respond to the crisis. Please use this link to view a full list of Covid related grantees. We are proud to work with the following organizations:
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Asia Pacific Cultural Center
APCC serves as an interactive cultural crossroads between local and international communities with the mission to bridge communities and generations..
Asia Pacific Cultural Center
Founded 1996
Mission
Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) serves as an interactive cultural crossroads between local and international communities with the mission to bridge communities and generations through art, culture, education and business. APCC is was formed from the vision of a small group of citizens representing three generations of Americans from Asian and Pacific Islanders heritage. APCC represents 47 countries and cultures, offering programs and services honoring their distinct artistry, business protocols, history and social practices.
Accomplishments
We are extremely proud of our work with students and their families since 2010 in Pierce County, particularly the Tacoma School District. We are proud to report since 2011 we have assisted in graduating over 270 students from high school. We have worked with students of ages 8 to 21 and following them from certain grade levels to graduation and receiving their high school diplomas. Working with students is not all about their school work and activities – it’s especially working with the families. Otherwise these students will never make it through. A lot of the families have issues regarding housing, cash assistance, medical insurance, immigration, and a lot of the families don’t want to deal with their kids anymore. APCC brings them together again, working together with us to make sure the student is back on track with school and on their way to success. We are also proud to say that 80% of our students go on to community/trade college or 4-year colleges. This is an amazing part of our work. Getting the students from “no credits, little credits, bad grades” to college, that is amazing we believe.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $345,000 | To support the Promised Leaders of Tomorrow youth program |
| 2020 | $30,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2020 | $15,000 | Technology upgrades for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $280,000 | To support the Promised Leaders of Tomorrow youth program |
Contact Information
www.asiapacificculturalcenter.org
(253) 383-3900
BIPOC ED Coalition of Washington State
The BIPOC ED Coalition is a multicultural, cross-sector collaborative of 200+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color nonprofit leaders working...
BIPOC ED Coalition of Washington State
Mission
The BIPOC ED Coalition is a multicultural, cross-sector collaborative of 200+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color nonprofit leaders working in solidarity to promote wellness and restore resources in our communities. Through healing and advocacy, our multicultural, cross-sector collaborative works to nourish our collective well-being and generate shared abundance. Together, with you, we will recreate the fabric of society.
Funding
The BIPOC ED Coalition is fiscally sponsored by Byrd Barr Place
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $200,000 | Support for the Health & Wellness Sabbatical Fund |
Contact Information
https://bipocedcoalitionwa.org
Boys & Girls Clubs of King County
The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (BGCKC) is to inspire and enable all young people—especially those who...
Boys & Girls Clubs of King County
Founded 1943
Mission
The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (BGCKC) is to inspire and enable all young people—especially those who need us most—to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Accomplishments
In 2016, the BGCKC served more than 17,000 youth members with programs supporting academic success, healthy lifestyles, and good character and citizenship. Nearly 2,000 youth, on average, attend a Club each day during the school year, and we provided more than 300,000 snacks and almost 90,000 meals in 2016 alone. We’re confident that our support and interventions are successfully closing equity and access gaps, particularly around education. Our most recent survey (2016) indicates that 93 percent of BGCKC members expect to attend college.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2017 | $50,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2018 | $50,000 | 2019 summer learning loss programming |
Contact Information
(206) 436-1800
Carbon Leadership Forum
The Carbon Leadership Forum accelerates the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and...
Carbon Leadership Forum
Founded 2010
Mission
The Carbon Leadership Forum accelerates the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and construction through collective action. We pioneer research, create resources, foster cross-collaboration, and incubate member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero. We are architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners, and policymakers who are taking bold steps to decarbonize the built environment through better data, policy and innovation.
Accomplishments
To date, the Carbon Leadership Forum is made up of ~6,500 professionals from the building sector, academia and other organizations representing 33 countries across the world. Our collective action model empowers leadership through dozens of local hubs in places like Boston, Vancouver, Seattle and London. Through applied research on embodied carbon data and policy we support the development of tools and other resources like the embodied carbon in construction calculator (EC3), which is now being used by over 11,000 industry professionals to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $25,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2021 | $25,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2022 | 25,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
https://carbonleadershipforum.org/
Cascadia CleanTech/E8
The Northwest Cleantech Collaboration consists of the angel investing group E8 and the CleanTech Alliance, united in partnership to increase...
Cascadia CleanTech/E8
Founded 2019
Mission
The Northwest Cleantech Collaboration consists of the angel investing group E8 and the CleanTech Alliance, united in partnership to increase investment in cleantech enterprises whose products and services mitigate climate change. Other priorities include dramatically expanding the pool of families and foundations investing in cleantech, and increasing knowledge of climate change and cleantech issues.
Accomplishments
The initial capacity building grant helps the Collaboration pursue three activities in the first half of 2020:
- Designing and launching the Decarbon8-US Fund, a philanthropic impact investing vehicle aligned with Northwest 2045 clean energy goals and pathways and making early stage investments in companies anywhere in North America. Decarbon8-US makes it possible for all families, companies, funds and foundations to invest in the innovation and entrepreneurs that will accelerate our transformation to a clean energy economy.
- Building a community of active, inspired investors and donors for cleantech and climatetech. With popular interest in climate change at a high point, there is significant potential for engaging new investors, donors and advocate in common cause.
- Increased networking across the national cleantech startup support ecosystem, connecting and supporting incubators, accelerators, other early stage investors and later stage venture capital funds, to improve the efficiency for enterprises in raising capital and driving their economic and environmental outcomes.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $25,000 | For the general purposes of E8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Cascadia CleanTech) |
| 2020 | $50,000 | To support the investment fund for D8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Realize Impact) |
| 2020 | $50,000 | For the general purposes of E8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Cascadia CleanTech) |
| 2021 | $50,000 | To support the investment fund for D8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Realize Impact) |
| 2021 | $75,000 | For the general purposes of E8 |
2022 | $100,000 | For the general purposes of E8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Cascadia CleanTech) |
| 2022 | $25,000 | To support the investment fund for D8 (grant is fiscally sponsored by Realize Impact) |
Contact Information
(425) 409-9531
Center for Sustainable Infrastructure
The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure (CSI) is a Northwest-focused nonprofit that catalyzes state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure...
Center for Sustainable Infrastructure
Founded 2013
Mission
The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure (CSI) is a Northwest-focused nonprofit that catalyzes state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure solutions that help communities thrive economically, socially and environmentally.
CSI has been in operation for almost 7 years, though has only operated as an independent 501c3 since late 2018. Prior to that CSI was a public service center of the Evergreen State College.
Accomplishments
CSI’s strategy of exposing bi-partisan policy-makers to sustainable infrastructure and policy in Scandinavia, for import to the US, resulted in Washington State investment in and adoption of the first statewide Industrial Symbiosis program in the US.
We’ve produced major reports on infrastructure, energy, water and waste that offer decision-makers visionary but practical avenues for accelerating our transition to a sustainable built environment.
Our Innovation Lab has helped communities reimagine how their infrastructure investments can deliver more value for people, planet and economy, and developed proven best practices that others can use to bring sustainable infrastructure to scale.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2021 - 2022 | $150,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
https://www.sustaininfrastructure.org/
(360) 867-8819
Children's Home Society of Washington
The mission of the Children’s Home Society of Washington is to develop healthy children, create strong families, build engaged...
Children's Home Society of Washington
Founded 1896
Mission
The mission of the Children’s Home Society of Washington is to develop healthy children, create strong families, build engaged communities, and speak and advocate for children.
Accomplishments
An adoption provider at its inception in 1896, the Children’s Home Society of Washington has grown to become one of the largest child and family service providers in the country. Our multiservice organization believes in creating the greatest impact in the lives of children and their families locally and nationally by turning evidence-informed research into practice through innovation, collaboration, and learning opportunities with partners and stakeholders.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $15,000 | Early learning programing, general operating |
| 2016 | $25,000 | Early learning programing, Parent-Child Home Program |
| 2016 | $100,000 | Innovation, early learning programing, and scaling for the Intergenerational Mobility Mentoring Pilot in King County |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 388-5870
Chinese Information and Service Center
The Chinese Information and Service Center (CISC) aims to create opportunities for Asian immigrants and their families...
Chinese Information and Service Center
Founded 1972
Mission
The Chinese Information and Service Center (CISC) aims to create opportunities for Asian immigrants and their families by helping them make the transition to a new life while keeping later generations in touch with their rich heritage. Our service philosophy is to use a holistic approach, with bilingual/bicultural staff providing developmentally appropriate services to individuals, families, and groups throughout the community. The ultimate goal is for our clients to reach their maximum potential as quickly as possible and become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.
Accomplishments
The CISC’s approach of providing comprehensive services to the entire family has been instrumental in improving the performance outcomes of our clients, as evidenced in our early learning program. While utilizing the evidence-based teaching model for children, we also provide wraparound services that support the parents and caregivers of these children, such as our Parent-Child Home Program, which trains adults on how to effectively nurture and promote the learning that their child receives. The result of this approach was the CISC achieving a score of 4 on a 5-point quality measurement scale by the State Department of Early Learning.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $45,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2018 | $45,000 | Early learning general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 624-5633
Clean Energy Transition Institute
The Clean Energy Transition Institute’s mission is to promote strategies to achieve deep decarbonization and accelerate the transition to a clean...
Clean Energy Transition Institute
Founded 2018
Mission
The Clean Energy Transition Institute is an independent, nonpartisan Northwest research and analysis nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy by identifying deep decarbonization strategies; advancing urban clean energy solutions; and building a clean energy workforce. The role of the Clean Energy Transition Institute is to:
- Provide research and analytics on and roadmaps for the pathways to a clean energy economy
- Offer an information clearinghouse for research on decarbonization solutions and technologies
- Convene stakeholders to facilitate the shift to a low-carbon economy
Accomplishments
With support from the Stolte Family Foundation, the Clean Energy Transition Institute commissioned a deep decarbonization pathways study to chart a blueprint for how the Northwest can significantly decrease energy systems emissions in the coming decades. The Institute engaged in an extensive stakeholder process in Washington and Oregon to scope the study and created an expert Technical Advisory Group to inform the study’s assumptions and examine its results. In early 2018, the Institute hired a seasoned economic and technical consulting firm, Evolved Energy Research, to test eight different pathway scenarios.
On June 5, 2019, the Institute released the study, Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest, which is the first economy-wide analysis to examine decarbonization pathways through 2050 mapped to the economic and institutional realities of the four Northwest states (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington). In addition to the study and the technical analysis, the Institute produced a Key Findings document and three infographics to help translate the study’s major conclusions into easy-to-understand materials.
The Institute continues to work with policymakers, advocates, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, and investors to provide analysis and guidance for how to achieve a low-carbon economy in the Northwest at the required scale within the next three decades and to ensure that the findings of the Northwest deep decarbonization pathways study translate into action.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $200,000 | To support general operations and match donor contributions |
| 2019 | $150,000 | To support general operations |
| 2020 | $150,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2023 | $450,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $100,000 | To support 2022 CETI Net-Zero Northwest study |
Contact Information
Climate Alliance for Jobs & Clean Energy
The Climate Alliance is a coalition of environmental advocates, labor unions, health professionals, businesses, faith communities, and communities...
Climate Alliance for Jobs & Clean Energy
Founded 2014
Mission
The Climate Alliance is a coalition of environmental advocates, labor unions, health professionals, businesses, faith communities, and communities of color, working with tribal nations–plus thousands of volunteers from across Washington State–committed building a resilient climate justice movement. Together, we understand that in order to achieve transformative solutions to the climate crisis, we need everyone at the table. We believe the climate crisis requires profound systems transformation – of energy sources, political, and racial power structures, and our economy.
Accomplishments
Over the last five years, we have begun to transform these systems by changing the conversation in our state from whether we should take action on climate, to demonstrating how it should be done: with a broad coalition that includes frontline communities and impacted workers, and policy solutions that combine deep carbon reductions with advances for workers, low-income communities, and communities of color who disproportionately bear the impacts of pollution and of the transition.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $150,000 | General Operating Support (fiscally sponsored by WEC) |
Contact Information
https://waclimatealliance.org/
Climate Jobs National Resource Center
The Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC) and CJNRC’s Action Fund are labor-led organizations that work to combat climate change...
Climate Jobs National Resource Center
Founded 2017
Mission
The Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC) and CJNRC’s Action Fund are labor-led organizations that work to combat climate change, create good union jobs, and reverse racial and economic inequality by building a worker-centered renewable economy.
We provide strategic and technical support to unions organizing for worker-centered climate action. In collaboration with the Labor Leading On Climate Initiative at Cornell University’s Worker Institute, we work in close collaboration with the unions to develop state-specific science-based climate action plans. We then support unions in establishing state coalitions, organizing around their plans, and building strategic campaigns to win each plan’s implementation. Our staff is skilled in mobilizing resources, experienced in labor and policy advocacy, and knowledgeable in climate science.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $75,000 | To support climate and clean energy jobs in Michigan |
Contact Information
Climate Solutions
Climate Solutions’ mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Our vision is a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered...
Climate Solutions
Founded 1998
Mission
Climate Solutions’ mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Our vision is a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered by clean energy, inspiring the transition to sustainable prosperity across the nation and beyond. To achieve this ambitious mission, we champion transformational policies and market-based innovations; catalyze powerful partnerships and a diverse movement for action and accountability; and communicate a bold vision for solutions at the scale required by climate science.
Accomplishments
Climate Solutions is at the forefront of Oregon and Washington’s statewide coalitions organizing for action on climate and clean energy. Working with a robust community of partner organizations in various sectors, we’ve provided strategic and policy leadership, field organizing, business engagement, communications outreach, and fundraising support for the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, Power Past Coal, Renew Oregon, and Stand Up to Oil coalitions. In 2016, Climate Solutions and our partners won one of the most significant state-level victories in the country by passing first-in-the-nation legislation to phase out coal completely from Oregon’s electricity generation programs.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Type of Support | Description |
| 2014 | $100,000 | General operating grant | |
| 2015 | $100,000 | General operating grant | |
| 2016 | $100,000 | General operating grant | |
| 2017 | $120,000 | General operating and project support | Research support for potential climate policy |
| 2018 | $15,000 | Project support | Support for modeling and analysis of decarbonization in the PNW |
| 2018 | $250,000 | General operating and project support | 100% Clean local engagement and advocacy for statewide impact |
| 2018 | $250,000 | General operating grant | |
| 2019 | $950,000 | General operating grant | General support with a specific focus on launching a multi-year Northwest Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign |
| 2020 | $925,000 | General operating support | |
| 2021 | $925,000 | General operating support | |
| 2021 | $650,000 | General operating support | |
| 2021 | $75,000 | To support phase I of the business and climate leadership initiative | |
| 2022 | $50,000 | To support WA advocates to coordinate, develop, and share data on federal investment programs and WA revenue programs | |
| 2022 | $700,000 | General operating support | |
| 2022 | $75,000 | To support the NW Climate and Business Leadership program |
Contact Information
Seattle (206) 443-9570
Olympia (360) 352-1763
Portland (503) 206-4837
Community Center for Education Results
The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) staffs and supports the regional Road Map Project, which aims to improve...
Community Center for Education Results
Founded 2010
Mission
The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) staffs and supports the regional Road Map Project, which aims to improve education results in South King County and South Seattle. The Road Map Project’s goals are ambitious:
- By 2020, we’ll increase equitable policies and practices in our education systems and dramatically improve outcomes from cradle through college and career
- By 2030, we’ll eliminate the opportunity and achievement gaps impacting children of color and low income children in South King County and South Seattle to the point where 70 percent of youth in the region will earn a college degree or career credential.
Accomplishments
The CCER has built several capacities that support regional priorities and the work of aligned partners and local programmatic and school improvement efforts:
- Our data team maintains an education data warehouse, produces analytic dashboards, and conducts predictive analytics and qualitative research to support Road Map Project partners.
- Our communications team uses the Road Map Project website, several social media accounts, email newsletters, and other tools to support communications internal to the Road Map Project (which includes hundreds of partners) and external to the broader public.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $10,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 | $10,000 | General operating grant |
| 2017 | $30,000 | General operating ($15,000) and Follow the Money research ($15,000) |
| 2018 | $30,000 | General operating grant |
| 2019-2021 | $302,904 | To support the Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) in the Roadmap Region |
| 2022 - 2024 | $1,407,384 | To support the growth and expansion of Academic Parent Teachers Teams in the RoadMap Region |
Contact Information
(206) 838-6610
Community Network Council
CNC is a group of community organizations and volunteers working cooperatively to connect youth to resources that will help them become successful.
Community Network Council
Founded 2006
Mission
The Community Network Council (CNC) is a group of community organizations and volunteers working cooperatively to connect youth to resources that will help them become successful. The goal of the Community Network Council is to increase trust, safety, cooperation, and positive parenting in the community for both children and parents. We will help to increase these benefits by sponsoring different programs to bring the community, families, and organizations together – for the purpose of identifying ways we can help children.
Accomplishments
One of the accomplishments of CNC is to empower families and provide avenues that will improve academics and social-emotional behavior. CNC mentors and provides tutoring to students in math and has seen an increase in student math scores, we provide different venues that gain trust with both families and students by attending various events that includes Broadway plays, outdoors adventures, and focusing on redirecting their concerns to learn ways to be successful. This has provided avenues for open dialogue and exchange of cultural differences that improves community relationships.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $310,000 | To support the Scholars Program Parent Engagement Project |
| 2020 | $15,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $300,000 | To support the Scholars Program |
Contact Information
Community to Community
We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to...
Community to Community
Mission
We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements.
We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.
Towards this end we:
- Confront racism in existing power structures
- Empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes
- Develop cross-cultural awareness with formación
- Restore justice to our food, land and cultural practices
- Promote community relationships towards self-reliance
- Work in solidarity with those that strive towards human rights for all races and genders
- Demand and demonstrate that the value of feminine intellect and leadership is recognized
Funding
Community to Community is fiscally sponsored by Institute for Washington's Future
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2022 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
[email protected]
(360) 738-0893
Denise Louie Education Center
The Denise Louie Education Center (DLEC) promotes school and life readiness through high-quality, multicultural early learning and...
Denise Louie Education Center
Founded 1978
Mission
The Denise Louie Education Center (DLEC) promotes school and life readiness through high-quality, multicultural early learning and family support services to low income, immigrant, and refugee children and families in Seattle. We respect and preserve each child and family’s individuality, cultural heritage, and home language. Our goal is to promote personal and social responsibility with integrity and love in an environment defined by social justice and peace.
Accomplishments
During the 2015-2016 program year, the DLEC served nearly 700 at-risk children and their families. More than 80 percent of the people we help are immigrants and refugees, and more than 70 percent speak a language other than English at home. The DLEC believes that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, so we work with families holistically to ensure their child’s success in kindergarten and beyond. DLEC classrooms recently ranked in the top 10 percent in the nation in supporting children’s emotional and learning development, and well above national medians in classroom organization and instructional support.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2017 | $5,000 | Staff training around legal rights for immigrants and refugees |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 973-1810
EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
EarthGen guides and supports youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment. Through EarthGen’s science-based...
EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
Founded 2011
Mission
The next generation will inherit two interconnected crises they did not create: climate change and social injustice. Given this legacy, young people need the education and experience to protect our communities and the environment. EarthGen’s mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and K-12 schools to be changemakers for climate solutions and environmental justice. Through its program and partnerships, EarthGen helps close environmental and educational equity gaps that affect historically underserved communities, especially people of color. EarthGen’s vision is that throughout their education, every young person will gain the knowledge and experience to help create a just and sustainable world.
Accomplishments
Each year, thousands of young people build their knowledge of local environmental issues and take action in their communities through EarthGen’s programs. Educators benefit from EarthGen’s training, resources, and support, which make learning about climate change and environmental justice relevant and accessible for their students. By increasing teachers’ knowledge and confidence, EarthGen ensures that students across Washington can learn about climate change, environmental injustice, and potential solutions.
EarthGen partners with scientists, tribal leaders, and other experts to center the best available science in its programs. As a result, educators view EarthGen as a trusted partner who provides accurate information and focuses on relevant issues. EarthGen’s programs are grounded in academic standards and available in English and Spanish. Since its founding, EarthGen has prioritized partnerships with school communities who have been historically underserved by science education, especially those serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018-2020 | $150,000 | To support the strategic plan and outreach goals |
| 2021 - 2023 | $150,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
(206) 351-0506
EarthLab - UW College of the Environment
EarthLab’s mission is to accelerate and focus University of Washington’s expertise to address widespread environmental...
EarthLab - UW College of the Environment
Founded 2015
Mission
EarthLab’s mission is to accelerate and focus University of Washington’s expertise to address widespread environmental challenges. We’re engaged on campus, in our community, across the region, and around the world. EarthLab drives collaborations spanning the private, public, nonprofit, and academic sectors, increasing our collective capacity to create solutions that are scientifically sound, technically feasible, and economically viable while promoting equity and justice.
Accomplishments
Equal parts research engine and community catalyst, EarthLab harnesses the power of co-created solutions to our most imminent environmental challenges. We hosted a symposium on the impact of nature in bettering human health in our diverse communities to build understanding and cultivate partners for 150 cross-sector guests. We developed a first-of-its-kind tool to help shellfish hatcheries forecast approaching lethal water and how to respond. We’re also mapping the off-shore Cascadia fault to develop early warning systems for earthquakes and tsunamis likely to occur in our region, adopting new measures to reduce the resulting human and property toll.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 - 2019 | $1,050,000 | Support for EarthLab’s Executive Director office and seed projects |
| 2020 - 2022 | $500,000 | Unrestricted operational funds for support of Executive Director's office and seed projects in EarthLab |
| 2022 | $200,000 | To provide flexible support for Earthlab |
Contact Information
(206) 543-5045
East African Community Services
East African Community Services (EACS) works to improve the well-being of East African immigrant and refugee families in King County...
East African Community Services
Founded 2001
Mission
East African Community Services (EACS) works to improve the well-being of East African immigrant and refugee families in King County, creating an inclusive space that celebrates the specialized knowledge, traditions, and values that immigrants bring to our communities. Our mission is to provide culturally responsive K-12 education programs that keep our youth safe and help them succeed in school and life. To end generational poverty in our community, we believe that we must provide our youth with holistic pathways to college.
Accomplishments
For 12 years, EACS has established a strong record of assisting hundreds of Ethiopian, Somali, Eritrean, and other East Africans living in King County to achieve naturalization through citizenship classes, interpretation services, and in-home tutoring. We were awarded a Social Venture Partners (SVP) K-12 education grant in August 2016. As part of our commitment to closing the education achievement gap, EACS currently provides after school, summer, midwinter, and spring break programs.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $26,150 | Summer learning loss programming and training |
| 2017 | $6,500 | Community forums and client services for immigrant and refugee families |
| 2017 | $25,000 | General operating to help during staff transition |
| 2018 | $30,000 | Summer learning loss general operating support |
| 2018 | $30,000 | 2019 Summer learning loss programming |
Contact Information
(206) 721-1119
Economic Opportunity Institute
EOI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit public-policy center using research, education and advocacy to encourage public debate and advance...
Economic Opportunity Institute
Founded 1998
Mission
EOI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit public-policy center using research, education and advocacy to encourage public debate and advance new policy ideas that help build an economy that works for everyone. Our mission is to advance public policies that promote educational opportunity, good jobs, respect for workers, healthy families and workplaces, and a secure retirement enabling a good quality of life for all. Working in concert with grassroots organizations, community coalitions and elected officials, we publish research, encourage public debate, and catalyze policy initiatives that make Washington state a better place to live, work, raise a family, and do business.
Accomplishments
EOI campaigned for Paid Family and Medical Leave for two decades, leading it to pass in 2017. Paid family and medical leave went into effect on January 1, 2020 and has provided more than 50,000 people with benefits. EOI led the campaign for statewide Paid Sick Days, which have been in effect since 2018, and for passage of Cascade Care in 2019, the nation’s first public option health plan. EOI led progressive taxation strides, including Washington’s estate tax in 2005 and Seattle’s Income Tax on the Affluent in 2017. Currently EOI is advocating for excessive compensation and excessive wealth taxes.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2022 | $30,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
http://www.opportunityinstitute.org/
(206) 633-6580
Educare Seattle
Educare Seattle is part of a growing national network that aims to advance equity and excellence in early learning and education...
Educare Seattle
Founded 2010
Mission
Educare Seattle is part of a growing national network that aims to advance equity and excellence in early learning and education. Each Educare school is
- a partnership of Head Start, local school district, philanthropist, and other community organizations;
- a program dedicated to healthy child development leading to school readiness for all children;
- a place that showcases a high-quality early learning environment and related programs; and
- a platform for change that increases public will to support successful outcomes for all children.
Accomplishments
Educare Seattle partners with families and schools to ensure successful kindergarten transitions, prepares families for effective advocacy and leadership in their communities, and helps organize a diverse workforce of teachers to provide culturally and linguistically responsive early learning education. In 2017, we shared best practices with community providers through a series of training programs on data-informed practices. Our Parent Ambassador Program engages families of children (newborns to age 8) in our community to organize and advocate for change in their schools and in our state’s early learning system.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $30,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2018 | $30,000 | Parent engagement and advocacy support |
Contact Information
(206) 716-8800
El Centro de la Raza
As an organization grounded in Washington State’s Latino community, it is the mission of El Centro de la Raza (the Center for People...
El Centro de la Raza
Founded 1972
Mission
As an organization grounded in Washington State’s Latino community, it is the mission of El Centro de la Raza (the Center for People of All Races) to build the beloved community by unifying all racial and economic sectors; to organize, empower, and defend the basic human rights of our most vulnerable and marginalized populations; and to bring critical consciousness, justice, dignity, and equity to all peoples of the world.
Accomplishments
Since 1972, El Centro de la Raza has been a voice and hub of the Latino community in Seattle and South King County. Of the 16,452 individuals and 10,128 households we served in 2016, 57 percent were Latino, 90 percent were people of color, and 91 percent were low income. An estimated 1 in 3 participants is an immigrant or refugee who speaks limited English. In 2016, El Centro de la Raza completed construction of Plaza Roberto Maestas, a new community-inspired, transit-oriented development with 110 units of affordable housing for households making between 30 and 60 percent of area median income.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $34,503 | Summer learning loss programming and staff training |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programing |
| 2017 | $10,000 | Emergency safety planning for immigrants |
| 2017 | $30,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
| 2018 | $30,000 | 2019 Summer learning loss programming |
Contact Information
(206) 957-4629
Equity in Education Coalition
The Equity in Education Coalition is the only statewide civil rights organization focused on revolutionizing education so that a child’s race...
Equity in Education Coalition
Founded 2012
Mission
The Equity in Education Coalition is the only statewide civil rights organization focused on revolutionizing education so that a child’s race and zip code aren’t the predicating factors in defining their success.
To achieve this vision, EEC continues to build a movement of power within communities of color to advocate for an education system that promotes equity.
Accomplishments
- In 2013, the EEC was instrumental in earmarking $800M into the state’s Learning Assistance Program -- which supports low income children and the educational programs that support their educational achievement.
- In 2015, the EEC led the advocacy efforts of decriminalizing our Kindergarten thru 2nd grade disciplinary processes by imposing a moratorium on suspensions and expulsions of students in K-2nd grade.
- In 2016, the EEC led a group of 14 people, including legislators, funders, and decisions makers, to California to learn about CA’s Local Control Funding Formula -- a process undergone by Governor Brown to ensure equity and racial justice in the funding formula for public education.
- In 2019, the EEC held the first ever “Decolonizing Education Conference” which brought together 300 educators, parents, funders, and community leaders to discuss what a truly culturally anchored public education could look like in WA State.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $25,000 | Partners in Change - general support for Covid-19 relief |
Contact Information
(206) 486-6031
Evergreen Collaborative
Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda. We’re building the ambitious, actionable policy roadmap...
Evergreen Collaborative
Founded 2020
Mission
Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda. We’re building the ambitious, actionable policy roadmap for an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change—and to create millions of jobs in a thriving, just and inclusive clean energy future. We partner with climate and community leaders, and advocate for President Biden and Congress to adopt the urgent climate policies that science demands.
We were founded by a group of former Inslee for America staffers and supporters who came together on a mission to build an all-out national mobilization to defeat the climate crisis and create millions of jobs in a clean energy economy. When Gov. Inslee left the presidential race, he made his 218-page “gold standard” policy plan into an open-source document. It lives on today as the Evergreen Action Plan, a comprehensive roadmap for this national mobilization: investing in and building both a thriving clean-energy economy that strengthens communities and a future rooted in justice and economic inclusion.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $200,000 | To advance state implementation of federal clean energy and infrastructure investments |
Contact Information
https://www.evergreenaction.com/
Fair Work Center
Fair Work Center empowers workers to achieve fair employment. We are a hub for workers to understand and exercise their legal rights, improve...
Fair Work Center
Founded 2015
Mission
Fair Work Center empowers workers to achieve fair employment. We are a hub for workers to understand and exercise their legal rights, improve working conditions and connect with community resources.
We envision a society in which workers are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of class, gender, or race. We will work to ensure that workers are informed of their rights under the law and that employers are held accountable to labor standards.
Accomplishments
Fair Work Center is a multi-industry workers rights organization that provides community-based outreach, education, and legal services to workers. Along with our sister organization, we are a national leader in organizing food and grocery delivery workers in the gig economy, and recently passed first in the nation paid sick and safe time and hazard pay laws for the industry in Seattle. We led the effort to expand overtime protections for Washington’s salaried workers, and in 2019 passed safety and health protections for strippers. We’ve trained hundreds of farmworkers in Eastern Washington about their rights at work, and we continue to organize domestic workers to enforce Seattle’s groundbreaking Bill of Rights. We focus on industries with high rates of workplace violations, where people of color, immigrants and refugees, women, LGBTQ+ workers and young workers are more likely to work. Over the last several years we have trained tens of thousands of workers on their rights at work, and this past year our legal clinic recovered over $1 million dollars for workers.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2021 - 2023 | $100,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
https://www.fairworkcenter.org
(844) 485-1195
Firelands Workers United
Firelands Workers United Trabajadores Unidos builds multiracial working-class power in rural battleground counties in WA State to fight for a...
Firelands Workers United
Founded 2019
Mission
Firelands Workers United Trabajadores Unidos builds multiracial working-class power in rural battleground counties in WA State to fight for a just economy for people and the planet. Through grassroots organizing, civic engagement, education and media, we work to win transformative policy change benefiting working people and the land.
Accomplishments
Firelands launched with 300 deep listening conversations with low-wage workers in 7 rural counties. Through these conversations and 4 community dinners, Firelands developed a Green New Deal platform and was about to launch a campaign for a Workers Bill of Rights when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. In response to the crises we: launched an all-Latina and Spanish-speaking team of 11 community resource promoters who supported over 200 immigrant families with resources; organized a bilingual caravan; joined county task force and statewide coalitions; gathered advocacy letters; phonebanked with a survey and petition; and started a 20-member Organizing Committee and a 10-person Steering Committee, both bilingual and majority Latina.
Funding
Firelands Workers United is fiscally sponsored by Washington CAN ERF
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2021 - 2023 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(360) 209-4212
Forth
Forth's mission is to electrify transportation by bringing people together to create solutions that reduce pollution and barriers to access. We...
Forth
Founded 2011
Mission
Forth was founded as Drive Oregon 2011, and became Forth in 2017.
Forth's mission is to electrify transportation by bringing people together to create solutions that reduce pollution and barriers to access. We work in partnership to build lasting program and policy models that significantly expand equitable access to electric transportation in the U.S. and beyond.
Accomplishments
One of Forth’s hallmarks is our annual Roadmap Conference, the largest electric mobility conference in the U.S. We also helped pass Oregon’s first EV rebate: a standard $2,500 rebate, as well as an additional $5,000 for low-income drivers (increased in 2022 from $2,500 in large part due to Forth’s lobbying efforts). Forth works to make clean transportation options equitable and accessible and was a founding member of the Clean and Just Transportation Network to facilitate that work in Oregon. We provide workshops and webinars to educate the public on electric transportation. Forth also opened the nation’s first brand-neutral, all-electric vehicle showroom and recently built a mobile electric showcase to bring outreach and education to communities all across the state.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $75,000 | Transportation policy in WA and OR |
| 2022 | $75,000 | Transportation policy in WA and OR |
Contact Information
(503) 724-8670
Front & Centered
Front and Centered strives to elevate the voices and interests of communities of color as a driving force on public policy, community-based...
Front & Centered
Founded 2014
Mission
Front and Centered strives to elevate the voices and interests of communities of color as a driving force on public policy, community-based education, and investments addressing climate change and pollution. Coalition members share three core beliefs: FIRST, communities of color and low-income communities experience the most harmful consequences of climate change and pollution in terms of job loss, displacement, compromised health and wellness. SECOND, any successful policy addressing the environment must include equity as a central tenet. THIRD, any successful organizing strategy to win on climate change or the environment, must include the partnership of communities of color.
Accomplishments
Front and Centered was created by leaders of color who recognized that climate change and pollution disproportionately affected people of color and people with low-incomes. They understood that their leadership, and the engagement of their communities, was essential to the success of any effort to solve the urgent threat of climate change. Over the past five years, Front and Centered has emerged as a leading force on equitable and just environmental policies and greater diversity and inclusion in Washington state’s environmental movement.
Recent Accomplishments include:
- Advised the Governor and legislative leaders regarding equitable climate and environmental policies.
- Played key role in developing and leading the effort on the nation’s most equitable climate policy that went to the ballot in November 2018.
- Created, in partnership with University of Washington, the Environmental Justice Mapping Tool, a groundbreaking framework for guiding equitable policy-making throughout Washington State.
- Reached over 120,000 people of color to listen to their concerns and ways in which climate and environmental disparities impact their lives.
- Generated 28-plus earned media pieces in local and national publications including AP, Reuters, The Nation, Politico, Mother Jones and others.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $25,000 | General operating grant |
| 2020 | $75,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $75,000 | Project support for transportation efforts in Washington |
| 2021 | $75,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $75,000 | Project support for transportation efforts in Washington |
| 2022 | $100,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
(206) 941-4817
Fuse Innovation Fund
Fuse Innovation Fund aims to achieve progress through government by the people and for the people in Washington state. We give ordinary people a...
Fuse Innovation Fund
Founded 2017
Mission
Fuse Innovation Fund aims to achieve progress through government by the people and for the people in Washington state. We give ordinary people a stronger voice on the issues that matter most to their communities. We add organizing and communications capacity to issue-based campaigns. We share lessons-learned to increase the capacity and effectiveness of the progressive movement in Washington state, and work to hold those in power accountable to ensure all voices are heard, not just those of the wealthy few.
Accomplishments
In 2018, Fuse worked with community partners in the Washington Voting Justice Coalition to advocate for historic improvements to Washington’s voting system. The Communications Hub team generated nearly 100 news stories locally and nationally on the effort to expand voting access and give everyone the opportunity to have their voice heard. We will build on these efforts to strengthen our democracy by registering thousands of new voters this year across Washington state.
In 2017, Fuse helped organize 1,000 people to advocate for protected access to healthcare and immigrants in our community, generating more than 200 news stories locally and nationally.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $35,000 | To support general operations and civic engagement |
| 2019 | $35,000 | To support general operations and the Fuse Education Fund |
| 2020 | $12,500 | To support the Communication Hub's work supporting SiX Washington |
| 2020 | $50,000 | To support organizing and communications work |
| 2021 | $12,500 | To support the Communication Hub's work supporting SiX Washington |
2021 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $62,500 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $43,500 | To support the Communications Hub |
Contact Information
(206) 420-0133
Futurewise
Futurewise works to prevent poorly planned sprawl, to protect our State’s resources and to make our urban areas livable for and available to all...
Futurewise
Founded 1990
Mission
For almost 30 years, Futurewise has worked to prevent poorly planned sprawl, to protect our State’s resources and to make our urban areas livable for and available to all. Founded to help support implementation of Washington’s innovative Growth Management Act, we focus on preventing the conversion of wildlife habitat, open space, farmland, and working forests to subdivisions and development, while directing growth into our cities and towns. We promote urban development that incorporates livability, housing affordability, sustainable transportation, social justice, public health and environmental quality.
Accomplishments
- Staffed the Seattle for Everyone campaign to pass inclusionary upzones, allow more backyard cottages, and increase tenant protections throughout Seattle in 2019.
- Won a 2011 Washington State Supreme Court ruling requiring new ground water users to mitigate their impacts on the Yakima River.
- Won a 2009 Washington State Supreme Court ruling requiring Whatcom County to reorient residential growth towards urban areas.
- Led the defeat of Tim Eyman Initiative-745 in 2000, which would have dramatically cut funds for public transit.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 -2022 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 343-0681
Greentrike
Greentrike is a nonprofit that advocates for and models equitable access to playful experiences for children, youth, and family — because play...
Greentrike
Founded 1985
Mission
Greentrike is a nonprofit that advocates for and models equitable access to playful experiences for children, youth, and families — because play is essential for learning, joy, and a thriving community.
Greentrike powers museums, programs, and initiatives honoring children, youth, and families in Pierce County. Founded as the Children’s Museum of Tacoma in 1985, the organization later transitioned into Greentrike in 2019 after growth that made the organization more than a museum.
Today, Greentrike powers the Children’s Museums of Tacoma and at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, featuring a first of its kind donation-based admission model known as Pay As You Will.
Greentrike carries out its mission of honoring children and youth through comprehensive initiatives. As of 2021, Greentrike serves as the Out-of-School Time Intermediary (OSTI) to deliver Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) to children and youth throughout Pierce County.
Greentrike champions play through innovative programs like Preschool Powered by Play, Play to Learn, and Virtual Play to Learn.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $75,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(253) 627-6031
Grist
Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and...
Grist
Founded 1999
Mission
Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck. Our mission is to make the story of a better future so irresistible, you want it right now. Grist’s nonprofit newsroom pursues in-depth stories on under-covered topics like clean energy, sustainable food, livable cities, environmental justice, and a better economy. Our solutions lab, Fix, connects emerging leaders to each other and to the public to accelerate progress. We elevate solutions, expose inequity, and give readers the context, knowledge, and tools to make a difference.
Accomplishments
Grist reaches a growing monthly audience of 2 million readers, 65% of whom report (via on-site surveys) taking action based on our content. Our work has been syndicated, cited, and shared by mainstream media, presidential candidates and politicians, celebrities, academics, and movement leaders. We’ve won a host of awards, like Best Consumer Website (Folio), Best Video Explainers (Webby), and Best Magazine Investigative Reporting (Society for Professional Journalists), along with numerous nominations, including one for a prestigious National Magazine Award.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $50,000 | To support newsletter development |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2020 | $100,000 | Support for regional Midwest expansion |
| 2021 | $100,000 | Support for regional Midwest expansion |
| 2021 - 2023 | $150,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2022 | $100,000 | Support for regional Midwest expansion |
Contact Information
(206) 876-3164
Hacks/Hackers
Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of groups (and counting) and thousands of members...
Hacks/Hackers
Founded 2009
Mission
Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of groups (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting). Our mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $50,000 | Support for climate communications |
Contact Information
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS)
The Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to discovering the fundamental principles...
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS)
Founded 2004
Mission
The Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to discovering the fundamental principles of human learning, with a special emphasis on early learning and brain development. We collaborate with national and international organizations in a growing movement to help children maximize their learning capability. By reaching out to the people and organizations directly impacting children’s lives—from caregivers and educators to policymakers and national advocacy organizations—our discoveries shape evidence-based programs and policies that help children everywhere reach their potential.
Accomplishments
The Outreach and Education division of I-LABS was created in 2011 to bridge the gap between the science and the practice of child development. This department is a unique group of trained scientists from multiple disciplines who are passionate communicators of science. Organizations look to I-LABS to increase the quantity, quality, and application of research-based information in their work. To date, we’ve shared the latest science of child development with more than 200,000 early learning professionals through in-person workshops and training, keynote addresses, science fairs, and online resources for teachers and childcare providers.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Education outreach general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 543-6000
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
KUOW’s mission is to create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and...
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
Founded 1952
Mission
KUOW’s mission is to create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, and cultures. American’s trust in media is declining, which is contributing to the country’s balkanization, to people no longer sharing a common understanding of the problems we face. By publishing first-rate storytelling that leverages the voices from the community we serve, we aim to draw a broad community into serious journalism, including people from all walks of life. We’re working to bind the community together with common understanding rather than let it rend apart.
Accomplishments
In 2017, KUOW’s broadcast audience averaged 386,000 listeners per week, its digital aggregate audience averaged 741,000 visitors per month, and its streaming sessions have been consistently above the 1 million mark with a monthly average of 1,319,498. All of these numbers are trending upward as we near 2018. KUOW launched the “terrestrial” podcast’s season one in spring and season two in fall, and it has exceeded 500,000 downloads to date. Season one listenership rocketed us into the top 1 percent of all 400,000 podcasts listed in the iTunes directory, and of those 1-percenters, we're the only one focused exclusively on the environment and climate change.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $85,000 | General operating and funding to support the “terrestrial” podcast |
Contact Information
(206) 543-2710
Latino Community Fund of Washington State
The Latino Community Fund cultivates new leaders, supports cultural and community based non-profit organizations, and improves the quality of life...
Latino Community Fund of Washington State
Mission
The Latino Community Fund cultivates new leaders, supports cultural and community based non-profit organizations, and improves the quality of life for all Washingtonians.
To achieve its mission and address the needs of Latinos, LCF programs create a vibrant community through civic engagement, healthy families, arts and culture.
Latino Community Fund cultiva nuevos líderes, apoya organizaciones culturales y comunitarias sin fines de lucro y mejora la calidad de vida de todos los habitantes de Washington.
Para cumplir su misión y abordar las necesidades de los latinos, los programas de LCF (como se conoce por sus siglas en inglés) crean una comunidad vibrante a través del compromiso cívico, las familias saludables, las artes y la cultura.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $15,000 | To support LCF's climate-related advocacy |
Contact Information
https://www.latinocommunityfund.org
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF)
The LCVEF works to turn environmental values into national, state, and local priorities. The LCVEF, in collaboration with our state...
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF)
Founded 1985
Mission
The LCVEF works to turn environmental values into national, state, and local priorities. The LCVEF, in collaboration with our state partners, advocates for strong environmental protections, organizes communities to speak up about their environmental values, and engages people in the democratic process to enact strong environmental laws.
Accomplishments
Since 1996, we’ve partnered with independent state conservation voter league education funds, helping grow their number from 9 to 29. Today, our network closely coordinates nonpartisan issues and civic engagement work, with states providing outstanding local involvement as we advocate for strong environmental protections, organize communities to voice their environmental values, and engage people in the democratic process. Our state 501(c)(3) affiliates are our primary partners for the LCVEF’s grassroots work and provide our network, which we call the Conservation Voter Movement (CVM), with unparalleled reach across the country.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $25,000 | Conservation Voter Movement plan implementation |
| 2018 | $200,000 | Supporting LCV's State Capacity Building work |
| 2019 | $200,000 | Supporting LCV's State Capacity Building work |
| 2020 | $200,000 | To support State Capacity work and National 100% clean policy work |
| 2021 | $200,000 | Supporting LCV's State Capacity Building work |
| 2022 | $200,000 | Flexible support for LCVEF's state capacity building program |
Contact Information
(202) 785-8683
Look, Listen & Learn
Look, Listen and Learn TV (LL+L) inspires and advances early learning in young children of color by offering a locally-produced television show and...
Look, Listen & Learn
Founded 2004
Mission
Look, Listen and Learn TV (LL+L) inspires and advances early learning in young children of color by offering a locally-produced television show and related programming that is anchored in research about what works best to promote school readiness and success.
With Auntie Lena and Possum, children develop social-emotional skills and a love for learning through educational activities including storytelling, art and cooking. LL+L is streaming on YouTube and airs on local TV stations.
Accomplishments
Look, Listen and Learn TV filmed its first full season with local kids, educators and learning venues in 2019. Since then, LL+L has reached nearly 2,000 people on YouTube and thousands more on public television stations Seattle Channel, King County TV and Tukwila TV. The LL+L team is proud to make innovative media which shows kids of color learning: 95% of the kids and adults featured on the show are Black, Indigenous or people of color (BIPOC) compared to just 4% of children’s TV characters nationwide. In May 2020, Look, Listen and Learn “Change” (Episode 3) won a Telly Award, a recognition of “excellence in video and television.”
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $30,000 | To support the completion of season 1 programming (fiscally sponsored by Shunpike) |
| 2021 - 2023 | $150,000 | General operating support (fiscally sponsored by Building Changes) |
Contact Information
https://www.looklistenandlearn.org/
(206) 293-8860
Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America provides the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media...
Media Matters for America
Founded 2004
Mission
Media Matters for America provides the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for misinformation - news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards a particular agenda - every day, in real time. Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.
Accomplishments
- Media Matters has published hundreds of pieces discrediting life-threatening coronavirus misinformation, and our work has fueled government legal action against misinformers.
- Our research spurred Disney and Papa John’s to drop their advertising from Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox.
- Our expertise played a major role in Facebook’s 2020 decision, to curb manipulated media such as deepfake video.
- We stopped right-wing propaganda mill Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed takeover of Tribune Media.
- Our headlines study showed how major media reinforced Trump’s rampant lies. Then our follow-up work with media brought a striking improvement.
- We were instrumental in shutting down the NRA’s racist and misogynist NRATV outlet.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $50,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Michigan LCV Education Fund engages elected officials, business leaders and all Michigan residents to take action on the most pressing...
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Founded 1999
Mission
Michigan LCV Education Fund engages elected officials, business leaders and all Michigan residents to take action on the most pressing land, air and water issues facing our state. We also conduct non-partisan civic engagement work such as Get-OutThe-Vote efforts and citizen organizing on specific policy issues.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $100,000 | To support climate communications in Michigan |
Contact Information
[email protected]
734-222-9650
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center (MCFHC) is a non-profit human services agency. Our mission is to provide culturally relevant support...
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center
Founded
Mission
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center (MCFHC) is a non-profit human services agency. Our mission is to provide culturally relevant support services to children and families through daycare, ECEAP, and DSHS contracted services. A positive relationship between teacher and student is an important factor in the social, emotional and academic development of a child. Our center strives to ensure this balance.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $50,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(253) 593-6641
Neighborhood House
Neighborhood House’s mission is to partner with diverse individuals and families to build a community that helps them achieve...
Neighborhood House
Founded 1906
Mission
Neighborhood House’s mission is to partner with diverse individuals and families to build a community that helps them achieve their goals for health, education, and self-sufficiency. Our 2016-2020 strategic plan includes goals related to child development, youth development, self-sufficiency, community health, underserved communities, professional development and communications, branding, and fund development.
Accomplishments
Founded in 1906, Neighborhood House is one of the oldest social service agencies in the Puget Sound region. We provide wraparound support to more than 12,000 people annually to help break the cycle of poverty. This includes programming in early learning, youth development, family and social services, housing stability, employment and adult education, health, and aging and disability services. Our services are located throughout King County in the areas where low income, immigrant, and refugee community members live and learn. Many of our staff members come from these communities, enabling us to provide support in 39 languages.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $10,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2017 | $5,000 | Safe provider resource document and staff training for immigrant and refugee services |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 461-8430
New Media Ventures
NMV is a mission-driven venture fund and investor network supporting media and tech startups that catalyze progressive change. Our mission is to find,
New Media Ventures
Founded 2010
Mission
NMV is a mission-driven venture fund and investor network supporting media and tech startups that catalyze progressive change. Our mission is to find, support, and finance organizations that are telling new stories, building movements, and boosting civic engagement. We envision a world in which entrepreneurs have the resources at every stage of growth to solve the big civic and political problems facing our democracy.
Accomplishments
Since our inception, NMV has evaluated thousands of startups and mobilized more than $60 million to 60 companies and organizations driving progressive change. We’re proud of the role NMV has played in helping to launch groups like Upworthy, SumOfUs and Vote.org. Our 2017 Resist & Rebuild open call received 500 applications from entrepreneurs focused on serving a more empowered democracy. After a thorough diligence process, we invested $1 million in 17 promising startups – including for-profits, 501c3/c4 nonprofits, and 527s. Since then, we have worked with our angel network to raise an additional $2 million for these groups.
Quote/Testimonial
“Since our first conversation, the Stolte Family Foundation has asked provocative questions, seen the importance of funding boldly, and helped us invest in entrepreneurs solving some of the most pressing problems facing our democracy. We’re thrilled to have their support.”—Shannon Baker, Director of Partnerships
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $50,000 | Supportive funding and mentoring of startups around advocacy and community organizing |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Tides Foundation for the benefit of New Media Ventures Education Fund |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Impact Assets for the benefit of the NMV Innovation Fund |
| 2019 | $100,000 | $50,000 to Tides Foundation for New Media Ventures Education Fund and $50,000 to Impact Assets for the NMV Innovation Fund |
| 2020 | $150,000 | $50,000 to Tides Foundation for New Media Ventures Education Fund and $100,000 to Impact Assets for the NMV Innovation Fund |
| 2021 | $100,000 | $50,000 to Tides Foundation for New Media Ventures Education Fund and $100,000 to Impact Assets for the NMV Innovation Fund |
| 2022 | $100,000 | $50,000 to Tides Foundation for New Media Ventures Education Fund and $100,000 to Impact Assets for the NMV Innovation Fund |
Contact Information
OneAmerica
OneAmerica advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state, and national levels by building power within immigrant...
OneAmerica
Founded 2001
Mission
OneAmerica advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state, and national levels by building power within immigrant communities in collaboration with key allies. We envision a peaceful world where every person’s human rights and dignity are respected, where communities appreciate differences and stand together for justice and equality, and where each person contributes to the common good. We are a welcoming and learning community deeply committed to being a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, anti-racist, intergenerational organization that upholds fundamental values of human rights and racial equity both internally and externally.
Accomplishments
2019 Accomplishments:
- Provided free citizenship services and information to 8,549 individuals via our Washington New Americans Program
- Organized 36,070 calls, texts and house visits to mobilize immigrants to vote
- Involved 447 grassroots leaders in our base communities across the state
- Delivered free English classes to 440 immigrants and refugees via our English Innovations Program
- Registered 929 new voters
- Trained 22 individuals to run for local office via the Ready to Lead Program
- Mobilized 1,136 people to take action on our state and federal legislative priorities
- Deployed 195 OneAmerica Votes volunteers to elect people like us into local office
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $100,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $100,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 723-2203
Open Arms
Open Arms provides community-based support during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting to nurture strong foundations that last a lifetime...
Open Arms
Founded 1997
Mission
Open Arms provides community-based support during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting to nurture strong foundations that last a lifetime. Our unique program pairs each client with a doula whose culture or language match whenever possible (we currently support 17 languages). Open Arms is the only community-based nonprofit in Washington State that provides doula services specifically for families from low-income backgrounds and the first in the country to be nationally accredited.
Accomplishments
Open Arms has served more than 2,500 clients and conducted over 18,000 home visits. We support more than 300 new mothers and their babies each year by providing culturally responsive emotional and birth support for families who face significant challenges, including isolation, homelessness, and cultural or linguistic barriers. We’re proud of our reputation as a trusted community-based resource, as well as our expertise in providing responsive, equitable support for families of color and others most affected by health disparities.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $125,000 | Early learning capacity building |
| 2017 | $5,000 | “Know Your Rights” workshop and support for intensive case management with immigrant and refugees |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 723-6868
Open Doors For Multicultural Families
ODMF has serviced thousands of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families..
Open Doors For Multicultural Families
Founded 2009
Mission
Open Doors for Multicultural Families (Open Doors or ODMF) provides culturally and linguistically relevant information, services, and programming to culturally and linguistically diverse families of persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The families served are often immigrants, refugees, and/or people of color. ODMF’s staff come from the same culture and speak the same language as the families they serve, communicating with families in their own language and within their cultural context (a “cultural brokering” model), as well as being knowledgeable of disabilities services, Special Education, and other mainstream social services, to help bridge the gap between the families served and the services they need.
Accomplishments
Over the course of 10 years, ODMF has serviced thousands of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families. ODMF's services range from direct one-on-one family support and specialized programming to advocating for systems change. One of ODMF's most recent achievements was the passage of the Language Access Bill, which provides mandates for improved equitable access to IEP meetings for culturally and linguistically diverse parents of children with disabilities. Through the advocacy efforts of ODMF Staff and our families, the Language Access bill was signed by Governor lnslee into law on May 7, 2019.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $315,000 | To enhance and expand the Multicultural Family Community Parent Resource Center Program |
| 2020 | $30,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $280,000 | To enhance and expand the Family Leadership Training Institute |
Contact Information
(253) 263-4372
Oregon Environmental Council
OEC’s mission is to advance innovative, collaborative and equitable solutions to Oregon’s environmental challenges for today and future generations...
Oregon Environmental Council
Founded 1968
Mission
OEC’s mission is to advance innovative, collaborative and equitable solutions to Oregon’s environmental challenges for today and future generations. Our 2012-2022 strategic plan focuses our work on: climate protection to safeguard our communities and economy; clean and plentiful water to support people, fish and wildlife; and toxic-free environments to protect human health, starting with children’s health. It also includes two cross-cutting goals to ensure that we focus on advancing change at a transformative scale and that all of our efforts are developed and implemented through a social equity lens.
Accomplishments
Our recent advocacy work with our partners is generating important benefits for Oregon’s climate:
- 1.2 million tons of climate pollution are eliminated annually because of Oregon's Clean Fuels law (2009-present), and those amounts will more than double by 2030.
- $1.2 billion was committed over the next 10 years to transit, electric vehicle rebates and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure (2017).
In 2021, we:
- helped pass the nation’s strongest 100% clean electricity law, requiring Oregon to eliminate coal by 2030 and natural gas by 2040.
- secured first-ever limits on climate emissions from industry (a 50% reduction by 2035)
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $75,000 | To support OEC’s transportation work in OR |
| 2022 | $75,000 | To support OEC’s transportation work in OR |
Contact Information
(503) 222-1963
Para Los Niños de Highline
Rooted in Latin American culture, language, and values, Para Los Niños de Highline organizes from the heart, strengthens the...
Para Los Niños de Highline
Founded 2003
Mission
Rooted in Latin American culture, language, and values, Para Los Niños de Highline organizes from the heart, strengthens the entire Latino family, and supports children and parents as they learn and grow together. We’re a grassroots, community-led organization that educates and organizes South King County Latino families to transform our communities and schools, creating academic and life success for every Latino student.
Accomplishments
Para Los Niños de Highline has come a long way since 2003, when four Latino immigrant families met over carne asada to discuss how the school system was failing our children. Since then, we’ve built five culturally competent programs that involve the entire Latino family in a child’s education, from preschool through college. Para Los Niños has partnered with Highline Public Schools and Highline College to advance the needs of Latinos, and to date, more than 6,000 families have engaged with our work. We’ve also graduated 120 parents from our Leadership Academy, ensuring our growth and impact for years to come.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $5,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016-2018 | $90,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2017 | $7,000 | Community forums to support immigrant and refugee community |
| 2018-2019 | $17,683 | Matching funds to encourage new donors and increased giving |
| 2019-2021 | $345,000 | To support Aprendamos Juntos and the parent Leadership Academy |
| 2020 | $30,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $280,000 | To support Aprendamos Juntos and the parent Leadership Academy |
Contact Information
(206) 241-7900
Pathwaves WA
Pathwaves WA creates pathways for leaders of color to hold decision-making roles in early childhood systems so they can equitably drive and shape...
Pathwaves WA
Founded 2021
Mission
Pathwaves WA creates pathways for leaders of color to hold decision-making roles in early childhood systems so they can equitably drive and shape the design of policies that affect generations and generations of our kids and our communities. Founded by a collective of women and non-binary people of color, we’re a Washington-based organization working within the early childhood policy sector in our state. Our goal is to make the sector more just and inclusive by increasing representation and power in this space so that there are more leaders of color — particularly people from Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Pacific Islander communities — because communities that are most impacted by educational injustices must be represented in positions of power.
Funding
Pathwaves WA is fiscally sponsored by Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC)
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $270,000 | Support for fellowship cohort |
Contact Information
PRIME Coalition
PRIME partners with philanthropists to invest charitable capital in extraordinary companies that combat climate change...
PRIME Coalition
Founded 2014
Mission
PRIME partners with philanthropists to invest charitable capital in extraordinary companies that combat climate change, have a high likelihood of achieving commercial success, and would otherwise have a difficult time raising sufficient financial support.
Accomplishments
Since late 2014, PRIME has supported 10 companies through syndicated investment that would not have been supported by traditional investors. PRIME has worked with more than 80 philanthropic partners to unleash a new type of capital into the climate financing landscape, including 37 first-time philanthropic investors and 25 first-time energy or climate investors.
Quote
"In order to unleash the power of philanthropic investing for climate innovation, we need pioneering philanthropists to go first. The Stolte Family Foundation was an early mover in supporting the launch of the PRIME Impact Fund, which has enabled us to back companies whose products the planet urgently needs, as well as unlock additional support within the philanthropic community." - Johanna Wolfson, Principal PRIME Impact Fund
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018-2022 | $1,000,000 | A Program Related Investment in the PRIME Impact Fund, to support breakthrough climate-focused startup companies |
| 2021 - 2023 | $4,000,000 | A Program Related Investment in the PRIME Azolla Fund, to support breakthrough climate-focused startup companies |
Contact Information
Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS)
The Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS) mission is to enable parents of infants and young children to build communities...
Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS)
Founded 1983
Mission
The Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS) mission is to enable parents of infants and young children to build communities that empower them to meet the challenges of parenting through mutual support and information sharing. Our high-level organizational goal is to grow our reach and impact by increasing access and availability of PEPS groups; engage with communities in each of our three service regions; demonstrate our commitment to racial equity; strengthen our culture of diversity and inclusion; and grow the PEPS Network and community partnerships.
Accomplishments
PEPS has served tens of thousands of families in King and Snohomish counties over the past 35 years. Through our programs, we create social connections, foster parental resilience, model secure attachment to babies, teach about child development and parenting, and connect families to community resources. In 2016, 83 percent of parents in our support groups reported feeling less alone and 84 percent better understood their feelings; 9 out of 10 better understood their baby’s milestone and received helpful resources; and 92 percent of our newborn groups kept meeting after their 12=week group sessions concluded.
Funding
Year | Amount | Purpose |
2013 | $3,500 | General operating support |
2014 | $9,500 | General operating support |
2015 | $4,000 | General operating support |
2016 | $4,000 | General operating support |
2017-2019 | $75,000 | Growing impact campaign |
2020-2022 | $60,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 - 2023 | $130,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 547-8570
Rainier Valley Corps
Rainier Valley Corps promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering..
Rainier Valley Corps
Founded 2015
Mission
Rainier Valley Corps promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.
Accomplishments
RVC launched the Operations Support program in 2017. They centralize operations support, strategically providing operations staffing to partners so that they get the small amounts of highly-skilled labor an organization their size needs - and that they receive it in timely, financially viable, and culturally responsive manner. They currently provide Operations Support to four organizations. They launched the second cohort of the Fellowship Program, partnering with ten organizations and hosting twelve fellows. Executive Director, Vu Le, recently published an article with Nonprofit Quarterly.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $2,500 | Support for the philanthropic field-enhancing blog Nonprofit AF |
| 2017 | $50,000 | Support for the Operations Support program |
Contact Information
(206) 436-9536
Reach Out & Read Washington
Reach Out & Read Washington gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care...
Reach Out & Read Washington
Founded 2007
Mission
Reach Out & Read Washington gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. In our evidence-based school readiness program, doctors give children new books and inspire families to read together, starting when children are babies. At each well-child checkup from ages 6 months through 5 years, doctors use a children’s book to help assess child development and parent-child interactions, while modeling for and teaching families how to promote literacy at home.
Accomplishments
Reach Out & Read Washington partners with communities and doctors to provide a free and accessible program that serves many of the most vulnerable children in the state. Families across cultures embrace this proven program, reading aloud more often and helping their children improve their language and literacy skills. To date, we’ve expanded the program to more than 1,750 medical providers in over 222 clinics, serving more than 125,000 young children and their families. Reach Out & Read Washington is now the largest early learning program in the state. We’re proud to simultaneously expand access, assure quality, and prioritize equity.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2017-2018 | $100,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2019-2020 | $60,000 | Programming support in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties |
| 2021 | $30,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
(206) 524-3579
Rural Democracy Initiative
RDI is a coalition of local and national rural innovators and aligned funders working in states where powerful, progressive, and permanent civic in...
Rural Democracy Initiative
Founded 2018
Mission
RDI is a coalition of local and national rural innovators and aligned funders working in states where powerful, progressive, and permanent civic infrastructure in small cities and towns will have the biggest impact on public opinion, elections and redistricting processes. We are building sustainable infrastructure that supports rural people working to transform rural America – and therefore our national politics – for decades to come. RDI offers a high impact program of coordinated rural civic engagement, communications, policy advocacy, and community organizing efforts. The Heartland Fund houses our charitable civic engagement and issue advocacy programs.
Accomplishments
In 2020 Heartland Fund granted $6.5M to 71 groups based in 18 states – 41% to groups working primarily in rural communities of color. RDI granted an additional $2.8M in 501c4 funding. Our network organizes in diverse rural communities: Native American, Black, Latinx and youth organizations, restaurant and retail workers, farmers, small business owners and mobile home communities.
We support cutting edge field experiments including a People’s Action program recently featured in Rolling Stone, relational organizing led by groups like Voces de la Frontera, and tailored digital platforms at United for Respect. Our network leads groundbreaking rural communications research, and we have established rural communications hubs at RuralOranizing.org, Progress Michigan, Progress Arizona and Wisconsin Voices.
Funding
Rural Democracy Initiative is a project that includes the 501c3 Heartland Fund and the 501c4 Rural Victory Fund. The Heartland Fund was founded in 2018. In 2019 the founders of the project established the Rural Victory Fund, hired staff – Project Director Sarah Jaynes – and dramatically expanded their scope and budget under the umbrella of the Rural Democracy Initiative. The Stolte Family Foundation grants to the 501c3 Heartland Fund in 2019 and 2020 enabled the hiring of staff and provided the catalyst for our expansion.
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $75,000 | To the Heartland fund as startup funding for the Rural Democracy Initiative |
| 2020 | $100,000 | To support the Rural Democracy Initiative at the Heartland Fund |
| 2021 - 2023 | $200,000 | To support the Rural Democracy Initiative at the Heartland Fund |
Contact Information
www.ruraldemocracyinitiative.org
Sarah Jaynes, Director
(206) 909-4737
Schools Out Washington
School’s Out Washington provides services and guidance for organizations to ensure all young people have safe places to learn and grow when not in...
Schools Out Washington
Founded 1987
Mission
School’s Out Washington provides services and guidance for organizations to ensure all young people have safe places to learn and grow when not in school. SOWA is dedicated to building community systems to support quality after-school, youth development, and summer programs for Washington’s children and youth ages 5 through young adulthood. Our four pronged approach includes:
Quality & Training: Building a quality improvement system to strengthen expanded learning opportunities.
Policy & Advocacy: Promoting equitable policies that ensure youth continue learning and thriving after school and in the summer.
Grants to Programs: Administering grants that allow programs to increase access, improve quality, and start or expand services.
Racial Equity: Advancing practices and policies that close opportunity gaps.
Accomplishments
Since 2009, SOWA has supported over 600 afterschool and summer programs from large multi-site organizations to small community-based programs across Washington in a research-based continuous quality improvement process. SOWA serves as the backbone organization working to ensure programs get the support and resources they need to empower youth to reach their full potential.
In 2017, SOWA was selected to administer the Best Starts for Kids Quality Out-of-School Time investment. Through two funding models supporting place-based partnerships and people of color led organizations, SOWA will partner with 19 grantees to deliver high-quality afterschool and summer programming impacting thousands of children in some of the counties highest need communities.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2018 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2019-2021 | $300,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $25,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 323-2396
Seattle Foundation
The Seattle Foundation ignites powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make greater Seattle a stronger, more vibrant...
Seattle Foundation
Founded 1946
Mission
The Seattle Foundation ignites powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make greater Seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all. Focused on creating equity and opportunity, our goal is to simplify giving and strengthen the impact of philanthropy for the more than 1,200 individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits we serve. As a civic leader in our region, we work at the intersection of the public and private sectors to enable effective partnerships for social change across all areas of community life with a particular focus on education, economic opportunity, and civic engagement.
Accomplishments
The Seattle Foundation strengthens the health and vitality of our community by connecting generous people with well-informed philanthropic strategies and investment opportunities. We’re entrusted with nearly $1 billion in charitable assets and pledged bequests, and we annually distribute more than $85 million in grants that are invested locally, nationally, and internationally toward our shared goals of creating greater equity and opportunity for all. Our investments impact all areas of community life: arts and culture, basic needs, economy, education, environment, health and wellness, vibrant neighborhoods, and global impact.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2014 | $30,000 | GiveTogether, higher education |
| 2015 | $25,000 | GiveTogether, global focus on women and girls |
| 2017 | $75,000 | Vibrant Democracy Engagement Pipeline |
| 2017 | $50,000 | Resilience fund to increase protection of vulnerable residents in King County |
| 2018 | $100,000 | Community Programs general operating support |
| 2018 | $75,000 | Vibrant Democracy Engagement Pipeline |
| 2020 | $145,000 | To support the Communities of Opportunity Black-led Policy RFP |
Contact Information
(206) 622-2294
Sightline Institute
Sightline Institute’s mission is to make the Northwest a global model of sustainability—strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy...
Sightline Institute
Founded 1993
Mission
Sightline Institute’s mission is to make the Northwest a global model of sustainability—strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment. We envision in the Pacific Northwest an economy and way of life that are environmentally sound, economically vibrant, and socially just. Sightline equips the Northwest’s citizens and decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to advance long-term solutions to our region’s most significant challenges. Our work includes in-depth research, commentary, and analysis, delivered online, by email, and in-person to Northwest policy champions, emerging leaders, and a range of community partners.
Accomplishments
Our research and communications tools brings together a community of thousands of northwesterners ready for change:
- On any given day, around 5,000 Cascadians rely on Sightline—via our websites, email, social media, and RSS feeds—to be inspired, stay informed, and be empowered.
- Since 1993, we’ve published 19 books, scores of reports, and thousands of blog posts.
- Our daily news service keeps Northwesterners informed about the latest, most important sustainability news from around the region and beyond.
- We inform news articles in reputable media outlets every week, reaching hundreds of thousands of regional and national readers.
- Every year, Sightline staff meet with hundreds of regional leaders and changemakers, participating in panels, briefings, and consultations.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2023 | $150,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 447-1880
Social Venture Partners
Social Venture Partners (SVP) envisions a Puget Sound region where everyone thrives regardless of income or race. To get there, we connect and...
Social Venture Partners
Founded 1997
Mission
Social Venture Partners (SVP) envisions a Puget Sound region where everyone thrives regardless of income or race. To get there, we connect and invest in people and organizations to co-create thriving, sustainable and just communities — building powerful relationships that advance our shared community goals:
All children enter kindergarten ready to learn.
All students graduate from high school on time, ready for success in college or career.
The Puget Sound region is a sustainable community that balances the built and natural environment.
Accomplishments
SVP is celebrating its 20th anniversary, having given more than $17 million in unrestricted grants to 100 nonprofits and mobilizing more than $600,000 in impact investments for social enterprises. We’ve worked with more than 1,000 partners who give more, donate more strategically, and get more engaged in their community because of their experiences with SVP. We consistently find that 78 percent of SVP partners increase their giving of money or time after joining SVP. Our partners have contributed more than 50,000 hours of skilled volunteer time to strengthen local organizations in the last two decades.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2011 | $6,000 | General operating grant |
| 2012 | $6,000 | General operating grant |
| 2013 | $15,000 | General operating grant |
| 2015 | $25,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 | $12,000 | General operating grant |
| 2017 | $12,000 | General operating grant |
| 2019 | $75,000 | Matching funds for operating support |
Contact Information
www.socialventurepartners.org/seattle
(206) 374-8757
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
SESEC’s mission is to rally communities of color and allies to improve SE Seattle schools so that all students succeed and all families are empowered
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
Founded 2012
Mission
SESEC’s mission is to rally communities of color and allies to improve SE Seattle schools so that all students succeed and all families are empowered. We work to achieve this through the following programs and projects: (a) Family Engagement Surveys, (b) Advocacy and Policy Cohorts (APC), (c) Equity and Equality in Education (EEE) Project, and (d) Exploring Data Accessibility and Analysis Project.
Accomplishments
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC) is a collaboration of stakeholders working to improve education in SE Seattle. Initially established as a program of the Vietnamese Friendship Association (VFA), SESEC worked in partnership with community organizations and schools to conduct family engagement trainings. In 2014, the family engagement training was transferred to the partner organizations and SESEC was restructured under the fiscal-sponsorship of VFA and refocused on educational policy and advocacy. In November 2017, SESEC received its 501c3 non-profit status from the IRS and, in 2018, separated from VFA to be an independent organization.
Key achievements of SESEC include:
- Co-chaired the City of Seattle’s Mayoral Task Force for the City’s pre-school implementation plan.
- In partnership with the UW College of Education, sponsored a community survey on parent/family engagement.
- Developed Advocacy and Policy Cohorts (APC to develop policy, advocacy and leadership assets within the SE Seattle.
- Coordinated an advocacy effort resulting in Seattle Public Schools approval of additional pre-K classes for the 2016-17 school year.
- Launched Equity and Equality in Education (EEE) Project.
- In August 2018, secured funding to launch Data Equity Project.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $10,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 972-3141
Southwest Youth and Family Services
Southwest Youth and Family Services (SWYFS) partners with youth and their families to transform their futures. Specifically...
Southwest Youth and Family Services
Founded 1979
Mission
Southwest Youth and Family Services (SWYFS) partners with youth and their families to transform their futures. Specifically, SWYFS serves culturally and economically diverse families, youth, and children in Southwest Seattle and King County, and promotes healthy family functioning, early childhood learning, academic success, and positive youth development.
Accomplishments
In 2006, SWYFS began offering a Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) to very low income families with two- and three-year-old children. PCHP is an early literacy program that models interactive reading and playing with toddlers. Children who complete the two-year program graduate from high school at the same rate as their middle-class peers. In 2013, SWYFS acquired the New Futures programs, offering a wide range of educational support and family advocacy services at sites in White Center, Burien, and SeaTac.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $10,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Early learning programming |
| 2016 | $36,250 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2017 | $7,500 | Supporting families through legal costs and immigration-related application fees |
| 2017 | $35,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2018 | $50,000 | Early learning general operating support |
| 2018 | $35,000 | 2019 Summer learning loss programming |
Contact Information
(206) 937-7680
Spark Northwest
Spark Northwest creates communities powered by locally controlled clean energy. We demonstrate that a clean energy future is possible...
Spark Northwest
Founded 2001
Mission
Spark Northwest creates communities powered by locally controlled clean energy. We demonstrate that a clean energy future is possible through on-the-ground projects and advocacy for progressive energy policy.
Accomplishments
Spark Northwest has a long track record of success helping communities switch to renewable energy and energy efficiency systems in their homes and communities.
Recent accomplishments include:
- We have helped over 1,000 farmers, Native Americans, and homeowners switch to energy efficiency and renewable energy.
- We have mobilized whole city neighborhoods, 22 and counting, to go solar together resulting in over 1,000 solar systems, $22 million in local economic investment and 30 green jobs.
- Through our Access Solar program, 8 affordable housing providers have committed to install solar on properties that provide housing to over 800 low income tenants.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2019 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $25,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 328-2441
Start Early (Formerly The Ounce)
Start Early was founded in 1982 as the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a nonprofit public-private partnership. Since the beginning, we have delivered...
Start Early (Formerly The Ounce)
Founded 1982
Mission
Start Early was founded in 1982 as the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a nonprofit public-private partnership. Since the beginning, we have delivered best-in-class doula, home visiting and Early Head Start and Head Start programs and advocated for thoughtful policies and adequate funding at the local, state, and federal levels. From our roots directly serving families and children on Chicago’s South Side and rural Illinois, we have expanded nationwide impacting early childhood programs and policies with partnerships in 25 states. Our role as on-the-ground practitioners continues to be the bedrock of our expertise and source of innovation and leadership in the field.
Accomplishments
Start Early (formerly known as the Ounce) applies our deep expertise across program, policy and research to optimize and scale our work. Our comprehensive approach allows us to create impact for the greatest number of children, families and educators.
- Through this work, we reached more than 202,000 children, families and early childhood professionals last fiscal year.
- Our intensive policy and advocacy consultation enabled policymakers in seven states to build more equitable systems for nearly 2.3 million children between the ages of 0-5.
- We connected over 2,300 early childhood system leaders with the knowledge they need to accelerate progress in 49 states and Washington, D.C.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $100,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2020-2022 | $150,000 | Program Support for ParentChild+ |
| 2022 | $100,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
(312) 922-3863
State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
SiX is a national resource and strategy center that supports state legislators in advancing and defending progressive policies across the country...
State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
Founded 2014
Mission
The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a national resource and strategy center that supports state legislators in advancing and defending progressive policies across the country, and has built a network of more than 3,000 elected officials who represent all 50 states. SiX is the result of an unprecedented merger of three organizations that combined forces to ensure state legislators are empowered with top-notch research, training, policy expertise, communications support, political strategy, and a space to network and share ideas. SiX also builds the legislative power of grassroots movements and progressive causes – connecting policymakers with the important organizing work being done in communities across the nation.
Accomplishments
In the last year, we have organized three twitter town halls with several dozen legislators participating. We garnered buy in for a unified agenda from progressive partners across the state and produced a messaging guide on progressive priorities for legislators to use. We’ve been hosting and facilitating several conversations to help progressive legislators better organize themselves. Following the end of session, we put together the first ever statewide tour to promote progressive wins and champions from the legislative session. The tour included 6 stops from Bellingham to Spokane covering a huge array of issues.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $10,000 | General support of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Washington State chapter |
| 2020 | $12,500 | To support the SiX Washington chapter |
| 2021 | $12,500 | To support the SiX Washington chapter |
Contact Information
Supporting Partnerships in Education and Beyond (SPEB)
Working to close the education gap by promoting parent leaders in the education system.
Supporting Partnerships in Education and Beyond (SPEB)
Founded 2015 (formerly Somali Parents Education Board)
Mission
- To close the education gap by promoting parent leaders in the education system.
- Partner with parent leaders, providing workshops, inform parents about policy changes at the local, state, and federal levels in the education system.
- Work with Somali parents and students to embrace their dual culture while navigating the education system.
- Collectively collaborate with existing organizations that share similar values as SPEB to make meaningful and positive influences to shift the education system.
- Partner with schools to develop culturally responsive methods to communicate/include parent voices.
Accomplishments
Our vision is to inspire Somali parents to become leaders and strong advocates for themselves and their children’s education by providing them with the resources and the support they need.
We believe our children’s success depends upon strong partnerships between parents, schools, and communities. To that end, we strive to work with Somali parents and students to embrace their dual culture while navigating the education system. We partner with parent leaders to provide workshops and inform parents about education policy changes at the local, state, and federal levels, while also working with schools to develop culturally responsive methods to communicate/include parent voices.
In 2018, we launched Transforming Partnerships in Education: A Learning Institute for Educators and Parents. This is a nine-month journey to strengthen the capacity of parents and educators to collaborate with Somali community members and change norms within our schools and K-12 education system.
Through monthly Saturday sessions, participants will learn how to build trusting relationships that lead to reciprocal learning and partnership between parents and educators, identify structural inequities within education, embed community assets through shared decision making and leadership, and assess and change the climate, practices, and policies of our schools and institutions using an equity-based approach.
Topics will include creating a shared vision for our children’s education, addressing institutional racism and implicit bias, assessing and creating a culturally responsive school environment, and cultivating authentic engagement between families and educators.
Funding
SPEB is fiscally sponsored by RVC
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $35,000 | To support Transforming Partnerships in Education: A Learning Institute for Educators and Parents |
| 2019-2021 | $345,000 | To support the Learning Institute and parent-educator team projects |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $270,000 | To support the Learning Institute and broader community and family engagement work |
Contact Information
Sustainable Northwest
We work at the intersection of environment, community, and economy, bringing entrepreneurial solutions to natural resources challenges to keep...
Sustainable Northwest
Founded 1994
Mission
We work at the intersection of environment, community, and economy, bringing entrepreneurial solutions to natural resources challenges to keep lands healthy and provide economic and community benefits. We work on the ground in communities, collaborating to create long-term benefits. Our work focuses on: forests, farms, and ranches; clean energy; green markets; and water throughout the Greater Northwest.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $75,000 | To support Making Energy Work for Rural Oregon |
| 2022 | $75,000 | To support Sustainable NW's rural clean energy program |
Contact Information
https://www.sustainablenorthwest.org/
(503) 221-6911
Team Read
Team Read is a year-round (after school and summer) tutoring and youth development/employment program with the...
Team Read
Founded 1997
Mission
Team Read is a year-round (after school and summer) tutoring and youth development/employment program with the mission of “teens tutoring kids to achieve reading success.” Our goal is for our second- and third-grade students to read at grade level after a year of one-on-one tutoring, and for teen reading coaches to gain critical work and life skills. We serve elementary and K-8 schools where assessments show that second- and third-graders need intensive reading support beyond the classroom. Team Read gives vulnerable children the opportunity to regain reading traction and a chance to succeed in school and life.
Accomplishments
Since 1998, thousands of students have been engaged in Team Read. Elementary students become better, more confident readers, and teens learn the value of community service and build their work and college resumes. We’re proud that our teen workforce is incredibly diverse—85 percent of our reading coaches are students of color—and last year’s coaches spoke 21 different languages (our second- and third-graders spoke 24). As academically successful students, they’re powerful role models and mentors for their students. We love that, every year, teens become coaches who were themselves tutored in Team Read.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $20,000 | General operating and capacity building grant |
| 2016 | $15,000 | Capacity building grant |
| 2017 | $15,000 | Capacity building grant |
| 2018 | $15,000 | General operating grant |
Contact Information
(206) 252-0069
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy in Washington is dedicated to sustaining and enhancing a healthy relationship between people and nature...
The Nature Conservancy
Founded 1959
Mission
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends.
The Nature Conservancy in Washington is dedicated to sustaining and enhancing a healthy relationship between people and nature. As part of the world’s largest global conservation organization, we are uniquely positioned to deliver innovative solutions to our most pressing conservation needs and leverage them at a meaningful scale assuring the quality of life for people and nature, in our state—and in our world.
Accomplishments
Increasingly, climate change is central to our efforts across conservation priorities. In the past year, through science-based strategies that tackle real-world risks, we established 12 fire-adapted communities and trained more than 50 professionals in prescribed fire. We planted 70,000 seedlings to restore landscapes devastated by the 2017 Jolly Mountain Fire; and we published research that revealed increased wildfire risk and vulnerability faced by 1,458 minority communities in Washington, including Indigenous tribes.
Across the state, we took our efforts from treetops to grassroots, knocking on hundreds of doors to urge climate action through I-1631. This momentum carried us into a historic legislative session, where we championed clean energy and climate justice to advance five key legislative wins in partnership with a broad, diverse coalition.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019 | $50,000 | General operating support for the Washington chapter |
| 2020 | $100,000 | Support for the Washington Chapter's natural solutions to climate change work |
| 2021 | $200,000 | Support for the Washington Chapter's natural solutions to climate change work |
| 2022 | $150,000 | To provide flexible support for the TNC Washington chapter work on climate |
Contact Information
(206) 343-4344
The Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society’s mission is to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. We contribute...
The Wilderness Society
Founded 1935
Mission
The Wilderness Society’s mission is to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. We contribute to better protection, stewardship, and restoration of our public lands, preserving our rich natural legacy for current and future generations. We achieve this mission through research-based identification and protection of land and water, smart energy development on public lands, and removal of barriers for people getting outside.
Accomplishments
The Wilderness Society has led the effort to permanently protect nearly 110 million acres of wilderness in 44 states. We’ve been at the forefront of nearly every major public land victory. One-quarter of US emissions originate via fossil fuels on public land, making public land a massive lever for ensuring that the US meets both energy needs and emission reductions. We also advocate for responsible energy development, including smart sourcing of renewable energy to reduce impact on the ecosystem and recreation.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $25,000 | General operating, particularly within the Energy and Climate Program |
| 2018 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2019 | $15,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 624-6430 x239
Thrive Washington
Thrive Washington brings together people, data, expertise, and family voices to develop a shared vision for what Washington’s...
Thrive Washington
Founded 2006
Mission
Thrive Washington brings together people, data, expertise, and family voices to develop a shared vision for what Washington’s youngest children and families require for a great start. Specifically, we amplify local voices to influence state policy and practice, elevate key issues, and serve as a crucial conduit to spur action and broaden the statewide commitment to early learning. We also invest in both proven solutions and those with great potential to accelerate progress by joining with others to innovate and build evidence, so that we all improve the way we support children and families.
Accomplishments
Thrive Washington helped lead the creation of the state’s 10-year early learning plan. We also coordinated and supported 10 early learning regional coalitions to build local, regional, and state early learning efforts, partnering with the Native American community to help them have a stronger voice in early learning. Thrive Washington launched “Love. Talk. Play.,” a campaign to support families of babies and toddlers as their children’s first and most important teachers. We also worked with partners to develop a toolkit on trauma and adverse childhood experiences for use in home visits.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $25,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 | $15,000 | General operating grant |
| 2017 | $15,000 | General operating grant |
Contact Information
(206) 621-5555
Transportation Choices Coalition
Our mission: Transportation Choices Coalition is working to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices — real opportunities to tak...
Transportation Choices Coalition
Founded 1993
Mission
Our mission: Transportation Choices Coalition is working to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices — real opportunities to take a bus, catch a train, ride a bike, or walk.
Our vision: Affordable, walkable, bike-friendly, vibrant communities connected by great transit.
Our organizational goals for 2022 include increasing multimodal funding at the state, regional, and local levels and institutionalizing racial equity internally and throughout the transportation system.
Accomplishments
In the past two years, TCC has won billions of dollars in State and Federal funding for public transit, helped pass Seattle Proposition 1 and preserved bus service and transit affordability programs, and supported Sound Transit to adopt an equitable realignment plan keeping Washington’s transit expansion on track.
TCC created a comprehensive campaign around policing and enforcement in transportation that will advance mobility justice, redefine safety, repair harm, and center racial equity. TCC continues to work with national partners such as TransitCenter, the Transportation Equity Caucus, and the National Campaign for Transit Justice to institutionalize racial equity in transportation.
Funding
| 2021 | $75,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2022 | $75,000 | To support TCC's Washington transportation program |
Contact Information
https://transportationchoices.org/
(206) 329-2336
Treehouse
Treehouse’s mission is to give foster kids a childhood and a future. We envision—and strive to create—a world where every...
Treehouse
Founded 1988
Mission
Treehouse’s mission is to give foster kids a childhood and a future. We envision—and strive to create—a world where every child that has experienced foster care has the opportunities and support they need to pursue their dreams and become productive members of our community. Treehouse currently serves more than 7,500 youth in foster care each year through programs that focus on their academic success, fulfill key material needs and provide important childhood experiences every child deserves.
Accomplishments
Treehouse set a bold goal in 2012 that youth in foster care in King County would graduate high school at the same rate as their peers by 2017. Today, the extended graduation rate for youth in our program, Graduation Success, is 89 percent—seven percent higher than all students in the state. The rate includes on-time and fifth-year graduations throughout King County, and a growing number of school districts in Pierce and Spokane counties. Treehouse’s new goal is to expand that success statewide by 2022, with each graduate receiving support and a plan to launch successfully into adulthood.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2013 | $10,000 | General operating grant |
| 2015 | $10,000 | General operating for education programs |
| 2016 | $5,000 | General operating for education programs |
| 2017 | $5,000 | General operating for education programs |
| 2018 | $5,000 | General operating for education programs |
Contact Information
(206) 767-7000
United Way of King County
The United Way of King County’s mission is to bring caring people together to give, volunteer, and take action in a way...
United Way of King County
Founded 1921
Mission
The United Way of King County’s mission is to bring caring people together to give, volunteer, and take action in a way that helps people in need and solves our community’s toughest challenges. This is a bold vision, and it takes the coordinated efforts of many other players, including individual donors, volunteers, businesses, foundations, public funders, and nonprofit partners. Together, we’re building a community where people have homes, students graduate, and families are financially stable.
Accomplishments
The United Way of King County’s Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is an intensive two-year home visiting program aimed at closing the opportunity gap by intentionally reaching out to low income families, families of color, and immigrant and refugee families. Earlier this year, our evaluation partner, ORS Impact, reported that the success our PCHP graduates experience and take with them to the first day of kindergarten sticks with them for years to come. Kids who completed the program not only entered kindergarten ready for school, they outperformed the comparison group on nearly every measure.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2014 | $100,000 | Parent-Child Home Program general operating |
| 2015 | $25,000 | Parent-Child Home Program general operating |
| 2016 | $50,000 | Parent-Child Home Program general operating |
| 2017-2018 | $200,000 | Parent-Child Home Program general operating |
| 2019-2022 | $2,355,000 | To support ParentChild+ in King County |
Contact Information
(206) 461-5600
Urban Impact
Urban Impact’s mission is to partner with families and communities to break the cycle of social, material, and spiritual...
Urban Impact
Founded 1987
Mission
Urban Impact’s mission is to partner with families and communities to break the cycle of social, material, and spiritual poverty. Our community engagement organization is working hard to identify and transform under-resourced neighborhoods in greater Seattle into flourishing communities. Utilizing Christian Community Development efforts, we engage a thousand individuals and 20 churches through trainings, gatherings, and other events. In the Rainier Valley, we’ve built community wealth and financial stability by supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses. Urban Impact provides refugee resettlement programs and after school/school break programming; in 2017-18, we’re working to create and sustain a well-established tutoring and support systems for Franklin and Evergreen High School students, faculty and staff.
Accomplishments
Urban Impact, celebrating its 30th year of service in the Rainier Valley community this year, is launching a new partnership with Franklin High School to provide homework and tutoring help for students. Our summer literacy program is culturally and ethnically relevant for 70 South Seattle children who have a disproportionately higher level of summer learning loss compared to children in more affluent neighborhoods. Rainier Health and Fitness, our affordable fitness center, now serves more than 1,600 community members, helping people both prevent and address poor health.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $16,200 | Summer learning loss programming and training |
| 2018 | $10,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2018 | $10,000 | 2019 Summer learning loss programming in SE Seattle |
Contact Information
(206) 722-2052
Verde
Verde serves communities by building environmental wealth through social enterprise, outreach and advocacy. Verde’s five program areas are a...
Verde
Founded 2005
Mission
Verde serves communities by building environmental wealth through social enterprise, outreach and advocacy.
Verde’s five program areas are a reflection of community-identified priorities: generating monetary wealth and physical infrastructure (Verde Builds, Living Cully), securing beneficial environmental investments and policies through policy advocacy and community organizing (Energy, Climate & Transportation; Healthy Communities Coalition, Living Cully) and creating a shared analysis through developing leaders and building community power (Living Cully, Outreach).
Accomplishments
Cully Park, transformed a 25-acre landfill into a park in the under-served Cully neighborhood. We raised $14 million over six years to build the park, engaged thousands of Portlanders in the design and build, and achieved 70% minority- and woman- owned business participation.
Co-led Portland Clean Energy Fund, winning the only climate initiative to pass anywhere in the country in the mid-term elections. The Fund creates $54-71 million annually to be invested in low-income and people of color communities in Portland, to be built by minority, women-owned and social enterprises partnering with non-profits who will competitively access the Fund.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2021 | $75,000 | To support Verde’s transportation work in OR |
| 2022-2023 | $150,000 | To support Verde's Oregon transportation program |
Contact Information
(503) 290-8570
Vietnamese Friendship Association
The Vietnamese Friendship Association’s (VFA’s) mission is to advance equity in education, foster civic engagement, and...
Vietnamese Friendship Association
Founded 1978
Mission
The Vietnamese Friendship Association’s (VFA’s) mission is to advance equity in education, foster civic engagement, and advocate for Vietnamese and other refugee and immigrant communities. Some of our organization’s goals this year are to strengthen systems and processes for Project: R.I.S.E., increase board capacity, and complete and implement an engagement plan.
Accomplishments
The VFA, in partnership with Sound Child Care Solutions and Artspace, opened Hoa Mai, the first (and right now, only) Vietnamese-English bilingual preschool in the Pacific Northwest. We successfully branded our youth program as Project: R.I.S.E. (Refugee and Immigrant Student Empowerment), creating a stronger identity and affiliation for students, parents, volunteers, and donors. The VFA works closely with Seattle World School (SWS) and other community organizations to provide after school programs, Saturday English School, and Summer Science Academy for SWS youth. Students who participate in the VFA’s academic programs make strong academic gains: over 85 percent have increased their math and English scores by the equivalent of half a grade level, as measured by standardized tests.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $5,000 | General operating grant |
| 2016 - 2018 | $90,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2016 | $575 | Support to attend the School's Out Washington Bridge Conference |
| 2017 | $3,000 | Staff and board training for leadership development |
Contact Information
(206) 760-1573
Voices of Tomorrow
Voices of Tomorrow’s mission is to preserve Immigrant & Refugee children's identity through culturally responsive child-focused programs...
Voices of Tomorrow
Founded 2012
Mission
Voices of Tomorrow’s mission is to preserve Immigrant & Refugee children's identity through culturally responsive child-focused programs, with the vision of a strong sustainable community that's successful in defining its own liberation and narratives. Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) works closely with community partners to eliminate racial inequities in the Early Learning System, which deeply affect Immigrant and Refugee children’s growth, development, and academic performances. Early childhood is the most critical phase of human development, and the focus of Voices of Tomorrow is to create early learning programs that preserves the child’s culture/language, while advancing African indigenous parenting practices and community-driven narratives.
Accomplishments
In 2017, VOT set out to better understand the needs of the Somali refugee and immigrant community. Out of 650 families surveyed, 500 of them said that their number one need was to preserve their child’s Somali language and culture. Valuing what the parents wanted, VOT used this data to drive its next move and create a Somali-English dual language pre-school in 2017, the first in the Nation.
Each year, VOT provides services to:
- 250 East African Family Child Care Providers
- 230 Immigrant and Refugee Families
- 25 Youth
- 200 Children under -five -years -old
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $345,000 | To support the Family-Centered Pedagogy Program |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $270,000 | To support the Family-Centered Pedagogy Program |
Contact Information
(206) 466-1229
Washington Alliance For Better Schools
WABS is a collaborative of school districts that leverages resources, talent and intellectual capital to help over a quarter million students graduate
Washington Alliance For Better Schools
Founded 1995
Mission
Washington Alliance for Better Schools (WABS) is a collaborative of school districts that leverages resources, talent and intellectual capital to help over a quarter million students graduate career and college ready. WABS helps member districts share resources, expertise and technical assistance as they strive to increase indicators of academic achievement and career readiness, build teachers’ skill and capacity, close the achievement and opportunity gaps and strengthen student and family engagement. WABS also provides its members with opportunities to share strategies, opportunities for high quality professional development, partnerships with community agencies, and leverage for a regional focus to improve public education.
Accomplishments
In the 2018-19 school year we had 65 schools in 10 school districts participating in the program. Through this participation we served 43,461 people at Natural Leaders events that included social, educational, and service oriented activities.
Natural Leaders are gaining confidence, skills, and building community. Participant feedback includes:
“I have enjoyed this program a lot, the trainings are very helpful and hope to attend more next school year! Thank you WABS for your dedication in bettering our community.”
“The program is great and empowered me to not be afraid when dealing with schools administrators and advocate for my children.”
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $210,000 | To support the Natural Leaders program in North King and Snohomish Counties |
2020 | $25,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $200,000 | To support the Natural Leaders program in North King and Snohomish Counties |
Contact Information
(206) 393-4913
Washington Building Leaders of Color (WA-BLOC)
WA-BLOC empowers academic, creative, community-connected lifelong leaders through high-impact academic and “place-based” social justice leadership...
Washington Building Leaders of Color (WA-BLOC)
Founded 2016
Mission
Our mission is to empower academic, creative, community-connected lifelong leaders through high-impact academic and “place-based” social justice leadership development. WA-BLOC builds this mission and vision through year-round programming that re-engages students in school, builds intergenerational place-based leaders of change, dismantles systemic racism, and disrupts the school to prison pipeline for black and brown youth in Southeast Seattle.
Accomplishments
In the summer of 2018, we expanded to three Freedom Schools sites in the Rainier Beach community at South Shore Middle School & Rainier Beach High School serving over 150 students! An essential piece of our Freedom Schools program involves a Day of Social Action where scholars address and build awareness on an issue in the community. Examples of this include marching for ORCA cards (2015), building a community garden (2017), and protesting the Youth Jail (2018).
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $5,000 | To support Freedom Schools |
| 2018 | $5,000 | To support Freedom Schools |
Contact Information
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund (WA CAN ERF)
Washington CAN’s vision is to be one of the nation’s most effective economic and racial justice organizations, building a movement of people whose...
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund (WA CAN ERF)
Founded 1983
Mission
Washington CAN’s vision is to be one of the nation’s most effective economic and racial justice organizations, building a movement of people whose collective action ensures that all communities are healthy, prosperous, and have an equal voice in determining their future. Our mission is to achieve racial, gender, economic, and social equity in order to establish a democratic society characterized by justice and fairness, with respect for diversity, and a decent quality of life for all those who reside in Washington.
Accomplishments
- Led the winning campaign, Stable Homes, a ballot initiative for Good Cause Eviction protections in Federal Way.
- Organized with renters to effectively push the Washington Legislature to pass eviction reforms, extending the notice period from just three days to fourteen days, under SB 5600.
- Organized immigrants, churches and community members to press local lawmakers to pass an Inclusive City resolution in Auburn in 2017 to protect immigrants’ rights.
- Led the fight to pass move-in fee legislation in Seattle to curb prohibitive rental fees.
- Pushed the "Honest Elections" initiative fight in 2015 bringing Democracy Vouchers to Seattle voters.
- Mobilizing communities to pressure lawmakers to pass the Affordable Care Act.
- Registered more than 52,000 voters from low income neighborhoods and communities of color in 2004.
- Won the reauthorization and expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), including the removal of the five-year bar for legal permanent resident children in 2009.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2020 | $50,000 | General Operating Support |
| 2021 - 2022 | $100,000 | General Operating Support |
Contact Information
(206) 389-0050
Washington Community Alliance
Washington Community Alliance is a statewide coalition of organizations and tribes led by and working in communities of color. We organize...
Washington Community Alliance
Founded 2020
Mission
Washington Community Alliance is a statewide coalition of organizations and tribes led by and working in communities of color. We organize to close the representation gap for people of color in elected office, and to make the systemic changes we need for Black and Brown communities to share in the prosperity all of us build. Together, we’re going to make Washington State a true, representative, multiracial democracy for the first time in history.
Funding
Washington Community Alliance is fiscally sponsored by Latino Community Fund
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
2022 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
https://wacommunityalliance.org
Washington Environmental Council
Washington Environmental Council is a nonprofit, statewide advocacy organization that has been driving positive change to solve Washington’s most...
Washington Environmental Council
Founded 1967
Mission
Washington Environmental Council is a nonprofit, statewide advocacy organization that has been driving positive change to solve Washington’s most critical environmental challenges for over 50 years. Our mission is to protect, restore, and sustain Washington’s environment for all.
Accomplishments
WEC was instrumental in passing (and now enforcing) the foundational laws that help keep Washington’s environment healthy: the State Environmental Policy Act, the State Superfund Law, the Growth Management Act, and the Shoreline Management Act.
We bring the environmental community together through the Environmental Priorities Coalition. Thanks to our focused power, we have been able to achieve groundbreaking solutions – from promoting clean cars and greener buildings to setting responsible limits on climate pollution to eliminating dangerous toxins in children’s products.
Through our Voter Education Program, WEC helps educate and empower environmental voters and tackle ballot initiatives that would have an impact on our environment.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2021 | $100,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2023 | $300,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 |
Contact Information
(206) 631-2600
Washington Nonprofits
We make sure nonprofits have what they need to succeed through learning, advocacy and collaboration.
Washington Nonprofits
Founded 2010
Mission
We make sure nonprofits have what they need to succeed through learning, advocacy and collaboration.
Accomplishments
Washington Nonprofits is the state association for all nonprofits. Last year, we offered 150 learning events serving over 10,000 people across the state. We advocate for nonprofit interests at the state and federal levels, and have been successful in defending against numerous proposals that would have had negative consequences for nonprofits. Last year, we mobilized hundreds of nonprofits to sign a national letter to preserve the Johnson Amendment.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $20,000 | To support the development of a new toolkit, Nonprofits and Advocacy |
Contact Information
855-299-2922
Washington Progress Alliance
The Washington Progress Alliance’s vision is Washington State as a healthy, just place to live, with shared economic success...
Washington Progress Alliance
Founded 2006
Mission
The Washington Progress Alliance's vision is that Washington State is a healthy, just place to live, with shared economic success and security, and a democracy that works for its people. We want solutions that are truly at the scale of the problems we face. Our mission is to build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.
Accomplishments
In 2016, the Washington Progress Fund invested over $1 million to support civic engagement, and we've achieved impressive results from that investment. Our investments in All In for Washington and the Washington State Budget and Policy Center, for example, supported development of the leading state revenue proposal to end the tax break on capital gains. The Communications Hub at Fuse also trained more than 500 communicators to talk about the role of government, taxes and the economy, and conducted 45 workshops on this narrative for over 1,300 activists statewide. In addition, we helped to launch the Democracy Hub at the Win/Win Network to implement coordinated policy changes that increase access to voting, reduce the influence of money in politics, and build a more reflective democracy.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $195,000 | General operating funds; Staffing, training, technology and general support for community-focused progressive organizations |
| 2018 | $300,000 | General support and Pooled Funds |
| 2019 | $300,000 | General support and Pooled Funds |
| 2020 | $300,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $300,000 | General operating support |
| 2022 | $300,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 324-2741
Washington State Budget & Policy Center
The Washington State Budget & Policy Center is a policy organization that uses research and analysis to advance the well-being of Washington...
Washington State Budget & Policy Center
Founded 2005
Mission
The Washington State Budget & Policy Center is a policy organization that uses research and analysis to advance the well-being of Washington communities, improve the economic security and social opportunity of all in the state, and support the essential role of government in promoting a just and prosperous society.
Accomplishments
In 2005, a visionary group of public policy experts, community leaders, and social justice advocates joined forces to create a nonpartisan organization that would ensure that Washington state invests in the priorities that create a more just and prosperous state. A year later, the Washington State Budget & Policy Center was officially open for business. For the past 12 years, the Budget & Policy Center has played a role in leading and supporting many significant policy successes in our state, while advocating for a state budget and tax code that equitably invest in the priorities that serve all Washingtonians.
In 2017, after we showed why granting tax breaks for big manufacturing corporations without basic transparency or accountability provisions was a bad deal for our state, Governor Inslee vetoed a proposed new tax break for manufacturers and protected funding for schools. This action informed our ongoing effort with All In for Washington to flip Washington state’s upside-down tax code.
In 2017, after we advocated for greater higher education access through WorkFirst for people with low incomes, the legislature increased the amount of post-secondary education available from 12 to 24 months.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $100,000 | To support Balance Our Tax Code work |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 - 2022 | $100,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 262-0973
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust
We are dedicated to building the capacity of schools, families and communities to work together for the education and well-being of children and...
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust
Founded 2014
Mission
The Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building the capacity of schools, families and communities to work together for the education and well-being of children and youth. They envision transformed schools and communities where the collaborative work of educators, families and diverse communities is a cornerstone of student academic success and healthy development.
Accomplishments
We are proud of:
- Having brought the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) to the State of Washington from the State of Connecticut
- Graduating 102 parents from the parent Leadership Training Institute so far
- Developing a partnership with Everett Community College to offer the PLTI as a 5-credit college course.
- Adding a Children’s Leadership Training Institute for children of PLTI participants
- Creating an PLTI Alumni network in Snohomish County
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $170,000 | To support the Parent Leadership Training Institute and Children's Leadership Training Institute |
| 2020 | $15,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $200,000 | To support the Parent Leadership Training Institute and Children's Leadership Training Institute |
Contact Information
(425) 273-1595
WestEd
A nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency — works with education and other communities throughout the United States...
WestEd
Founded 1966
Mission
WestEd — a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency — works with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. Since its inception, WestEd has been tackling real-world challenges, often in partnerships with others, to make a positive difference in the lives of millions of children and adults. The work is far from over as they continue to identify and develop ways to ensure success for every learner.
Accomplishments
Over the last eight years the Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) at WestEd has worked with over 800 schools in 24 states, helping to transform the way families and teachers work together to strengthen student learning. Our professional development and technical assistance help school and district leaders reimage and redesign their family engagement efforts as an integrated component of teaching and learning. Over 96% of families participating in APTT schools feel better informed about their child’s academic performance, and more confident in supporting learning at home.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $1,038,096 | To support the Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) in the Roadmap Region |
Contact Information
(877) 493-7833
Win|Win Network
Working to advance racial, social, and economic equity across Washington through civic and political engagement.
Win|Win Network
Founded 2008
Mission
Win|Win’s mission is to build a civically powerful network to advance social, racial, and economic equity throughout Washington State.
Accomplishments
Win|Win Network was founded over 10 years ago on the fundamental belief that we can build a stronger and more effective progressive movement when we work across different issues and silos. We are a network of organizations coming together to advance racial, social, and economic equity across Washington through civic and political engagement. We work together to create a democracy that inspires people because they see themselves and their values reflected in the policies we advocate, the campaigns we organize, and leaders we elect.
Win|Win is uniquely positioned to see the big picture intersections between advocacy, community, and service provider organizations and the opportunities to collaborate for long term changes that will address systemic disparities in our democracy and break down barriers to participation. We provide coordination, data and research, and individual technical assistance to over 30 different partner organizations. Most recently, our partners were successful in putting Washington at the forefront of voting access through recent wins on Automatic Voter Registration, the WA Voting Rights Act, pre-registration for 16 and 17 year olds, and postage-paid ballots. Looking ahead, we are organizing with community groups to ensure an accurate count in the 2020 Census and to use that data to build community power through Washington’s redistricting efforts in 2021.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2018 | $25,000 | Capacity building support |
| 2019 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2020 | $25,000 | General operating support |
| 2021 | $25,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo’s mission is to save animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences...
Woodland Park Zoo
Founded 1899
Mission
Woodland Park Zoo’s mission is to save animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences, inspiring people to learn, care, and act. We envision a world where people protect wildlife and conserve habitats to help create a sustainable future. We empower people, in our region and around the world, to become a force for nature—changing the lives of animals, people, and, ultimately, the world.
Accomplishments
Woodland Park Zoo serves the largest membership of any Puget Sound area cultural institution, with more than 1.3 million visitors each year. We play a leadership role in deepening science education and increasing ecological literacy for all through our educator professional development and learning experiences on zoo grounds and in classrooms, community centers, and local natural areas. In 2016, more than 1.5 million students were impacted through the zoo’s educational programming focused on early learning, summer learning loss, climate change, STEM, and other engagements on our grounds and throughout our community.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2016 | $30,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2017 | $15,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
Contact Information
(206) 548-2624
World Relief Seattle
World Relief Seattle envisions every local refugee and vulnerable immigrant welcomed by community, rooted in community, and empowered for community...
World Relief Seattle
Founded 1979
Mission
World Relief Seattle envisions every local refugee and vulnerable immigrant welcomed by community, rooted in community, and empowered for community.
Our work is informed by the belief that every refugee and vulnerable immigrant has an important place in our community. From the time of arrival to the first job to citizenship and beyond, the World Relief community is committed to serving and being served by this brave and resilient population.
Accomplishments
Founded in 1979, World Relief Seattle has grown to be the largest refugee resettlement and service provider in Western Washington, serving more than 40,000 individuals from over 50 countries.
Refugee, asylee and immigrant families hold immense hope for their children’s futures. Through our Next Generation programs, World Relief is able to honor that hope by offering programs that support parents and children through their early learning years. These Next Generation programs focus on actively preparing refugee and immigrant children for a successful school experience and long-term cognitive and socio-emotional development by working with them and their families.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2019-2021 | $315,000 | To support World Relief’s Family Literacy class and other programs for families with young children |
| 2020 | $30,000 | General support for Covid-19 relief |
| 2022 - 2023 | $270,000 | To support the Family Literacy program, launching of Home Visiting program and expansion of SEL supports for families |
Contact Information
(253) 277-1121
YMCA of Greater Seattle
The YMCA of Greater Seattle is the Northwest's leading human services nonprofit organization, strengthening communities...
YMCA of Greater Seattle
Founded 1876
Mission
The YMCA of Greater Seattle is the Northwest's leading human services nonprofit organization, strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Our mission is to build a community where all people, especially the young, are encouraged to develop to their fullest potential in spirit, mind, and body. We have a long history of providing services in our region and are uniquely suited to provide programming to all, especially to traditionally underserved groups. Since 1999, the Y has partnered with public schools and housing communities in the greater Seattle area to provide the support and resources needed for students to learn and thrive.
Accomplishments
The YMCA of Greater Seattle is so much more than swim and a gym. We provide crucial programs and services to more than 250,000 people in our region every year. In 2016, students in our brand-new summer program, Y Power Scholars Academy, gained an average of one month in their math skills and two months in their reading skills. These are students who otherwise might have slid backward in their learning by two months. Instead, they started the new school year ahead of where they finished the previous one and were set up to succeed.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $10,000 | Powerful Schools, literacy program |
| 2016 | $25,000 | Summer learning loss programming |
| 2017 | $25,000 | Summer learning loss programming in Kent |
| 2018 | $25,000 | 2019 Summer learning loss programming in Kent |
Contact Information
(206) 587-6115
Youth Development Executives of King County
YDEKC’s mission is to build and unify the youth development sector. Our vision is that every young person has the opportunity and support they need...
Youth Development Executives of King County
Founded 2011
Mission
YDEKC’s mission is to build and unify the youth development sector. Our vision is that every young person has the opportunity and support they need to learn, lead, connect, contribute, and thrive. We are guided by our over 100 non-profit member organizations supporting children and youth in King County.
Accomplishments
YDEKC is a key voice for youth and youth serving organizations in King County. Since organizing in 2011, we have elevated issues around whole child outcomes and the importance of social, emotional and academic learning. We have three core strategies:
- Advocacy: Represent the needs of the youth development field to partners and policy makers at multiple jurisdictions, and raise awareness on issues affecting King County youth
- Cross-Sector Collaboration: Partner with education, government, and philanthropic sectors to ensure young people can reach their full potential
- Leadership & Organizational Development: Support leadership and organizational development in youth serving non-profits including measurement and evaluation
To learn more about the progress we made in our first five years, please check out our retrospective report here. YDEKC has grown to six staff members, guided by an Advisory Board made up of YDEKC members. School’s Out Washington has served as YDEKC’s fiscal sponsor since inception.
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2017 | $15,000 | General operating support |
| 2018 | $15,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
206-336-6910
Zeno
Zeno's mission is to increase children’s competence and confidence in math with fun, engaging activities. Our programs...
Zeno
Founded 2006
Mission
Zeno's mission is to increase children’s competence and confidence in math with fun, engaging activities. Our programs serve children ages 3 to 11 as well as the adults in their lives, including parents, teachers, and caregivers. Our current strategic goals include expanding our early learning program (MathWays), serving families most in need of math resources, investing in program evaluation, and promoting the value of joyful math education for children and families.
Accomplishments
Zeno has made significant progress in establishing MathWays as a fully operational program. With the support of the Stolte Family Foundation, we’ll reach 500 families this year and plan to expand the program to reach 1,500 families in the 2017-2018 school year. As we continue to build the program, we’ve refined our game design and packaging, expanded program staff, partnered with a communications and marketing firm to create an innovative family discussion group evaluation model, and extended partnerships to a variety of community-based family service organizations to reach families where they live, work, and play.
Quote/Testimonial
“Our partnership with the Stolte Family Foundation has allowed us to build MathWays for the early learning program from the ground up. We place tremendous value in the meetings we have with SFF representatives, who continue to ask excellent questions and challenge our thinking around the program, resulting in program improvement and organizational growth.”—Julie Marl, Executive Director
Funding
| Year | Amount | Purpose |
| 2015 | $30,000 | Early learning curriculum development and general operating support |
| 2016-2018 | $75,000 | Early learning curriculum development |
| 2019-2020 | $100,000 | General operating support |
| 2021-2023 | $150,000 | General operating support |
Contact Information
(206) 325-0774
