Greater Puget Sound
American Red Cross Serving South Puget Sound & Olympics
Program: Blood Saves Lives
Funding support will strengthen the ability of the American Red Cross Northwest Region to collect and provide blood products to those in need. Funds will help cover the cost of approximately one week of blood drives in the Puget Sound area. This will provide the ability to collect an estimated 150 units of blood, which has the potential to save up to 450 lives.
Category: Health Care
Ashley House NW
Program: Equipment Updates
Ashley House provides compassionate care for medically fragile children in a home-like setting, operating out of 5 group homes. Funds will help to purchase and install equipment at all five South Puget Sound locations.
Category: Children, Health Care
Cancer Lifeline
Program: Improving Health Care for Individuals Diagnosed with Cancer
Funds will sustain and grow services including Cancer Lifeline’s no-cost counseling program for low-income cancer patients. Funds will primarily be used to compensate contract mental health counselors and other program expenses.
Category: Health Care
Medical Teams International
Program: Care & Connect Mobile Dental Clinics
Funds will cover the operating expenses of holding approximately 22 Medical Teams mobile dental clinics in partnership with MultiCare in Pierce and South King Counties, providing free dental care to approximately 286 low-income and marginalized adults over a 12-month period.
Category: Health Care
Prescription Drug Assistance Foundation
Program: Prescription Drug Assistance Network
Prescription Drug Assistance Network (PDAN) is dedicated to making medications available to low-income, uninsured and underinsured patients in Western Washington communities whose prescription drug coverage is inadequate. Funds will be used to help sustain personalized one-on-one assistance services for patients and will provide training opportunities for care managers and health care providers.
Category: Health Care
Sumner Community Food Bank
Program: Sumner Food Bank Program
Funding will be used to meet the increasing food insecurity in low-income families, specifically in running the food bank, marketplace and warehouse. Funding will be used for the food bank building, equipment & vehicle costs, payroll, food purchases and non-perishable groceries and warehouse supplies.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity
Pierce County
AHAT Homecare
Program: Stable Housing & Support for Low-Income Pierce County Residents Living with HIV/AIDS
AHAT provides no-cost access to quality care, stable housing and relevant treatment options for housing-insecure Pierce County residents with HIV/AIDS. Funds will support the staffing and operations of Three Cedars and Project Open Door, benefiting diverse, underserved individuals living with HIV as they work toward a greater quality of life and increased self-sufficiency.
Category: Health Care, Homelessness/Housing
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound
Program: Social Emotional Learning Program
Funding will support the successful delivery of the Integrated Social Emotional Learning Program at both Milgard Family Eastside Club and the Henry T. Schatz Club. Funds will help support a portion of the wages and benefits of the on-staff mental health expert who facilitates the program and supports the organization with the social emotional learning curriculum and behavioral management. Additionally, Dianna will lead and deliver the annual 20 hours of Mental Health Wellness and Safety training to all staff. The remaining funds will be allocated to both Tacoma Clubs to support the critical need in updating supplies and tools for Calming Corners.
Category: Children
CJK Community Homes
Program: Onsite Mental Health Services
Funding will be used for CJK’s onsite mental health program and will help to continue providing 12-15 current clients with weekly counseling sessions with a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and 2-3 hours of peer support needed to help them to their path of recovery, healing and self-sufficiency.
Category: Health Care
The Coffee Oasis
Program: The Loft Youth Shelter
Funds will beused to support The Coffee Oasis Pierce County Youth Shelter and Programs. The Loft Youth Shelter is a 12 bed DCYF licensed under-aged youth shelter in Tacoma that provides youth with a safe and encouraging place to live while working toward sustainable housing and employment. Youth programs include safe and clean beds, showers and hygiene products, clothing and laundry, snacks and meals, internal and external resource referrals, mentoring and case management, access to emergency medical care, family reunification and after care.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Homelessness/Housing
Communities In Schools Lakewood
Program: Integrated School Supports
Funding from this grant will support Communities in Schools Lakewood within the expanding network service area. This includes the Site Coordinator costs, food pantry stocking and student supplies.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Homelessness/Housing
Emergency Food Network
Program: Emergency Food Network’s General Distribution
Emergency Food Network (EFN) is Pierce County’s nonprofit food distributor, with a mission to provide Pierce County with a consistent, diverse and nutritious food supply so that no person goes hungry. Funding will go to general operations.
Category: Food Insecurity
Girl Scouts of Western WA
Program: Financial Assistance Program
Girl Scouts of Western Washington (GSWW) distributes Financial Assistance (FA) to girls and gender expansive youth enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program and/or foster care, and as possible, to anyone who asks for it. Funds will be used to issue FA grants to girls and gender expansive youth in Pierce County, which can be used for membership in Girl Scouts USA national organization, week-long camps, vouchers which will help Girl Scouts purchase camping supplies, uniforms, patches, beads, badges and other program supplies, troop dues, GSWW event costs and costs for adult volunteers to attend training to learn to become troop leaders.
Category: Children
Greentrike
Program: Play to Learn Pierce County
Greentrike advocates throughout Pierce County on behalf of quality early childhood education through research-driven, play-based models. Funding will support Play to Learn Pierce County program delivery in the 2023-2024 program year. Funding will help support staffing (Play to Learn teachers and assistants), contracted consulting expenses (data collection, analysis and outcome distribution) and program materials necessary for providing P2L.
Category: Children
Hilltop Artists
Program: Hilltop Artists Youth Education Programs
Funds will be applied to Hilltop Artists’ youth education programs, covering a percentage of the supplies and equipment needs and teaching artists’ salaries.
Category: Children
HopeSparks
Program: HopeSparks’ Behavioral Health Services
HopeSparks’ Behavioral Health Services program provides evidence-based and trauma-informed behavioral health care for children and their families. Grant will support behavioral health services for children, youth and families in Pierce County. Funds will support direct services including the time of mental health therapists, and will benefit more than 1,000 children and their families this year.
Category: Health Care, Children
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children (LDCC)
Program: Dental Care for Puget Sound Children in Need – Uncompensated Care Fund
Funding will be directed to the Uncompensated Care Fund which allows Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children to provide essential dental care and oral hygiene education to children and youth from low-income families.
Category: Children, Health Care
Multicultural Child & Family Hope Center
Program: Hilltop Family Resource Center
Multicultural Child & Family Hope Center is a high-volume direct service provider that accomplishes prolific distribution of concrete goods, basic needs and family resources to build service equity among historically disadvantaged populations throughout Pierce County. Funds will be used to support partial salary for case managers and flexible fund assistance to families in the areas of basic needs, eviction prevention, crisis needs, transportation support and other needs that present a barrier to stabilization and self-sufficiency.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Homelessness/Housing
New Phoebe House Association
Program: New Phoebe House – Offering Shelter, Recovery and Reunification
New Phoebe House Association recognizes the critical need to provide shelter and recovery resources for mothers (and their children) impacted by chemical dependency, homelessness and domestic violence so they secure reunification with their children. Funds will be utilized to support dedicated staff members in facilitating the project’s components, including providing case management, mental health care, teaching parenting and life skills, and offering guidance and support for women struggling to maintain a sober lifestyle and reunite with their children in a stable and healthy home environment.
Category: Homelessness/Housing Children, Health Care
Northwest Infant Survival & SIDS Alliance (NISSA)
Program: SUID/SIDS – Unsafe Sleep Prevention & Crib Distribution
NISSA’s program aims to reduce preventable infant deaths due to SUID/SIDS (Sudden Unexpected Infant Death & Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in Pierce County by promoting safe infant sleep practices. Funds will go to purchasing crib and sheet sets for families living in Pierce County.
Category: Children
Nourish Pierce County
Program: Feeding Neighbors in Need
Nourish Pierce County’s mission is to provide nutritious food and support services to those in need with compassion, dignity and respect. Nourish provides each client with enough food to prepare three meals a day, three days each week for every household member. Funds will be used for operating costs.
Category: Food Insecurity, Children
Our Savior Lutheran Church
Program: Backpacks 4 Kids
Backpacks 4 Kids (B4K) identifies hungry students and provides a food bag filled with nutritious, easy-to-prepare meals and snacks each weekend all through the school year. B4K also stocks pantries at the secondary schools in the district, as well as at the district office, allowing families additional access to nutritious food and specially requested food. The goal of the program is combat poor nutrition, poor health, inattention and lack of motivation caused by hunger.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Rainbow Center
Program: Gender Transition Assistance
Rainbow Center will be starting a program to assist low-income transgender individuals who are seeking to start their gender transition in any capacity. Funding will be used for medical laboratory testing necessary to track hormone levels, mental health provider costs, prescription costs, renewing official identification records, medical copays, gender affirming clothing, one time laser hair removal appointments, and emergency and temporary housing when necessary.
Category: Homelessness/Housing Health Care
Rebuilding Together South Sound
Program: Community Revitalization Partnership
Rebuilding Together South Sound is a leading local nonprofit dedicated to repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives with a vision of safe homes and communities for every person. Funds will be used to support Community Revitalization Partnership home repair/modification projects through two programs, Safe at Home and Rebuilding Day. The bulk of the funding will be allocated for materials and services needed to complete repairs or modifications, while any remaining funds will be utilized for operational support, including increased outreach in underserved communities.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
Salvation Army, The – Jarvie Memorial Lodge
Program: The Jarvie Memorial Lodge
The Jarvie Memorial Lodge is an emergency shelter that provides shelter, basic needs and case management for families and individuals experiencing homelessness. Funds will be used to remove housing barriers and help place individuals into permanent housing.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
Shades of Divinity
Program: Divinity Kits and Pantry Program
The purpose of Shades of Divinity Birth Kit-Starts/Divinity Pantry program is to increase protective factors for social determinants of health and improve health promotion efforts for BIPOC communities at risk for poor maternal and general health outcomes. Funds will go towards program expenses for the Birth Kit-Starts/Divine Pantry. Birth Kit-Starts will include self-care items, information, resources and goodies selected to enhance the individual’s pregnancy experience.
Category: Food Insecurity
Health Care
Sound Outreach
Program: General Operations
Sound Outreach helps improve people’s housing situations by supporting their financial planning and literacy, specifically through helping clients develop savings plans for deposits and down payments and learning about mortgage lending. Funds will be used to support general operating and staffing costs of their programs.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
St. Vincent de Paul Tacoma/Pierce County
Program: St Vinnie’s Homeless Prevention & Basic Needs Program
Funds will be used to support the Homeless Prevention & Basic Needs Program that assists low-income and homeless persons with basic needs such as rent/rental deposits and utility assistance, emergency motel shelter, prepaid grocery and gasoline cards, inclement weather survival items and hygiene supplies.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity
Step By Step Family Support Center
Program: Maternity Support Services
As a Washington State First Steps provider, Step by Step’s primary services are providing Maternity Support Services and Infant Case Management to at-risk pregnant and parenting women. Funding will help support families by allowing Step by Step to extend visits to high-risk clients beyond what First Steps funds provide. These additional home visits will help the case managers to identify and address emerging risk factors that can surface later such as gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and/or prenatal mood disorders, and/or the use of alcohol or drugs.
Category: Health Care
Tacoma Pierce County Habitat for Humanity
Program: Creating and Maintaining Affordable Homeownership in Pierce County
Tacoma Pierce County Habitat for Humanity has been providing affordable homeownership for moderate-income Pierce County families. Funds will be used as needed in each of Tacoma Habitat’s program areas: Housing Counseling, Aging in Place and New Homeownership, including the homes located in the Blue Zones Project area. Each of these programs invest in different but essential areas that work toward the goal of creating a culture of affordable homeownership in the community.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
Tacoma Rescue Mission
Program: Tacoma Rescue Mission Operations
Funds from this grant will support Tacoma Rescue Mission’s general operations, which include emergency shelter services, street outreach, addiction recovery, meals and more.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Homelessness/Housing, Health Care
Tacoma Urban League
Program: Girls With Purpose/Sisterhood in the City
Girls With Purpose/Sisterhood in the City is an all-girls program that combines positive adult female mentoring with group activities and a structured curriculum that helps to empower young females of color to make healthy decisions, bolster self-confidence and cultural awareness, and succeed as productive citizens, both scholastically and in all aspects of their personal life. Funds will be used for program coordination to include mentoring, management, and reporting; printing costs and materials; and snacks to support the projects and activities in Girls With Purpose/Sisterhood across Tacoma/Pierce County throughout the rest of 2023 and into 2024.
Category: Children
TEAM WRK
Program: WRK ZONE
WRK ZONE provides responsible gaming, character building, and bullying prevention clubs to 100% BIPOC youth (70% of whom are below 50% of area median family income) that challenges them to level up to their full potential. Funds will be used for staffing, healthy snacks, incentives/rewards and equipment.
Category: Children
Trinity Neighborhood Health Clinic
Program: 2024 Operations for Trinity Clinic
Trinity Neighborhood Free Clinic provides medical and nursing care, medications and sports physicals to the uninsured and underinsured of Tacoma. Funds will be used to cover the costs of operating expenses, rent, insurance, medications, and stipend for the executive director.
Category: Health Care
YWCA Pierce County
Program: Relationship Violence Education and Prevention
The Healthy Love program is an 8-10 week intensive curriculum for teens and young adults. Through this program, the YWCA hopes to empower youth to take control of their relationships by providing them with the knowledge they need to form healthy relationships and identify signs of unhealthy or abusive behavior. Funds will be used to support staff time and acquire physical resources for implementation, such as supplies and administrative costs.
Category: Children
East Pierce County
Bonney Lake Food Bank
Program: A Health Equity Solution – The Market + Market Fresh Smart Lockers
The purpose of the Market + Market Fresh Locker Programs is to ensure access to healthy food. Funding will be used for fresh and healthy food purchases for the Market and Market Fresh Lockers.
Category: Food Insecurity
Eatonville Area Council dba Eatonville Family Agency
Program: Food Bank Support
Funds will be used to purchase food for children in the Backpack Program, support the costs of the delivery program (supplying food and taking it where needed), extend hours of the food bank and employ staff to handle caseloads and food distribution.
Category: Food Insecurity
Puyallup Main Street Association/Puyallup Farmers’ Market
Program: We Care!
Funds will be used to match (with a cap) the SNAP/EBT funds distributed at the Puyallup Farmers’ Market for low income families.
Category: Food Insecurity
Puyallup Valley St. Francis House
Program: Emergency Assistance/Homelessness Prevention Program
St. Francis House’s Emergency Assistance/Homelessness Prevention Program is comprised of two funds that provide low-income Puyallup Valley residents with one-time assistance with rent, utilities, transportation and more (as well as referrals to additional resources) in order to avoid homelessness and help meet critical needs. Funds will be used to pay for portions of rent and utilities for up to 15 needy households.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
West Pierce County
Children’s Home Society of Washington
Program: Key Peninsula Family Resource Center
Children’s Home Society of Washington’s family resource centers acts as a single entry point for families, providing comprehensive, integrated and collaborative community-based services. Funding will go towards staff salaries and benefits, program supplies and materials, building rent and utilities.
Category: Children
Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Food Bank
Program: Monthly Food Purchases
Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH serves as a collection point for food donations in the local community. Funds will be used to supplement GHP FISH’s purchased food budget for one month.
Category: Food Insecurity
Key Peninsula Community Services
Program: Operational Costs Food Bank Staff
Key Peninsula Community Services is an active and vibrant Food Bank, Senior Meal Program and Senior Center. Funds will be applied to the salaries of two part-time Food Bank employees.
Category: Food Insecurity, Health Care
King County
Bellevue Schools Foundation
Program: Student Mental Health Services Expansion
Funding will help support the expansion of student mental health services, including suicide screening and prevention efforts, in the Bellevue School District. Funding will help pay for a mental health screening tool that will be administered by trained school staff including counselors and teachers; support for staff training on the screening tool as well as on-going consultation with cognitive behavioral therapy community specialists; a half-time Signs of Suicide program coordinator staff position; and related books and materials for staff and students.
Category: Children, Health Care
Catholic Community Services of Western WA
Kent CEC
Program: Kent Community Engagement Center (CEC)
The Kent Community Engagement Center (CEC) directly responds to individuals experiencing homelessness or in need of essential services in the Kent and South King County community. The CEC provides access to hygiene supplies, laundry, showers, food and a place out of the elements four days a week. In addition to essential services, guests can receive case management, onsite health care and resources. Funding will help pay for staffing and general program expenses for the CEC to continue providing uninterrupted services.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity, Health Care
Christ Community Free Clinic
Program: Monthly Free Medical & Dental Clinic
Last year’s funding helped with acquiring most of the hardware and software needed to diagnose more illnesses and recruit new volunteer providers. This year’s funding will help to finish these acquisitions, plus help acquire needed dental equipment. The goal is to re-open the free dental practice to accommodate patients who are also in need of dental care. Funding will also help cover the clinic’s operational costs which will increase due to being open for additional days each month.
Category: Health Care
Entre Hermanos
Program: HIV Care and Support for LGBTQ+ Latinx Community
Entre Hermanos’ program will focus on providing HIV-related care services and promoting health care and well-being for the priority population of LGBTQ+ Latinx individuals with goals to prevent HIV and link Latinx clients to HIV care and treatment services. Funds will provide peer navigation, medical and non-medical case management and HIV+ support groups for LGBTQ+ Latinx clients.
Category: Health Care
Food Lifeline
Program: Culturally Relevant Food Sourcing and Distribution
Food Lifeline works to fill the immediate needs of people facing hunger and reduce systemic food insecurity by creating long-term solutions that focus on the root causes of hunger and poverty. Funds will support the increase of targeted food resources by adding BIPOC-led, -serving food banks, meal programs and food access points.
Category: Food Insecurity
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Program: KCSARC’s Wrap-around Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault
Funds will support King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) in providing trauma-specific therapy, legal advocacy and parent education to more than 2,000 child and youth victims of sexual abuse, and parent education to the parents/caregivers of 300 child and youth victims of sexual abuse. Funds will support the general expenses of KCSARC, and include salaries, program supplies, training and administrative overhead costs.
Category: Children, Health Care
Living Well Kent
Program: Culturally Relevant Food Hub
Funds will increase Kent immigrants and refugees’ access to culturally relevant and Halal foods. This will help keep shelves stocked and mitigate food fluctuations, which sometimes occur due to limited donated food.
Category: Food Insecurity
Lois Price-Spratlen Scholarship Foundation
Program: Lois Price-Spratlen Scholarship Foundation
The Lois Price-Spratlen Foundation works to bring advanced practice psychiatric nursing within reach of the people living in Washington state. Funds will be used to provide scholarships to students attending accredited psychiatric nurse practitioner programs in Washington state.
Category: Health Care
NAMI Seattle
Program: Helping Families, Healing Lives
The Helping Families, Healing Lives program is an 8-week course focused on building knowledge of mental health diagnoses and their symptoms, self-care for the caregiver, and strategies to support and communicate with a child living with serious mental illness. Funding for this project will support the following personnel activities: program coordination and administration, outreach and recruitment, and volunteer management. Additionally, funding will help to cover the cost of program materials, postage and volunteer stipends.
Category: Children, Health Care
NAMI Washington
Program: Peer-Led Mental Health Outreach for Puget Sound Youth
The focus of NAMI Washingtons’ Mental Health Youth Outreach Initiative is to provide young people, parents, and educators with the knowledge that enables them to challenge the stigma, to recognize early warning signs and to seek help when it’s most needed. Funds will be used to support the Ending the Silence (EtS) and College Club programming for youth, educators and parents.
Category: Children, Health Care
Olive Crest
Program: Child Welfare Prevention in Puget Sound Region
The purpose of Child Welfare Prevention (Host Families) is to support and strengthen families going through a crisis causing a disruption in the parent’s ability to provide safe and loving care for their children. Host Families helps families in Pierce County move from crisis to stability and create a more stable and nurturing home environment for their children. Funds will be used for program activities.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Health Care, Children
Raising Girls
Program: Expanding Service to South King County
Funds will be used to purchase full size personal hygiene and menstrual products and deliver them directly into the hands of schools and social service organizations for underserved students in the Federal Way School District. Funds will enable Raising Girls to distribute bags for girls and boys attending middle and high schools.
Category: Children, Health Care
ROOTS Young Adult Shelter
Program: Responding to the Needs of Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Seattle
Funds will allow ROOTS Young Adult Shelter to continue providing nightly low-barrier emergency shelter for up to 45 guests, meals, case management, hygiene facilities, clean linens, peer support, life development programs, health care and mental health referrals, housing and education referrals, and other related services to young adults ages 18-25 experiencing homelessness in Seattle.
Category: Children, Homelessness/Housing, Health Care, Food Insecurity
Safe Crossings Foundation
Program: Safe Crossings Children’s Grief Support Program
The Safe Crossings Program provides relevant, accessible support for children who have lost—or are about to lose—a loved one. Funds will go to supporting grief support services.
Category: Children, Health Care
Somali Health Board
Program: Somali Health Board Health Equity Services
The Somali Health Board mission is to reduce health disparities in King County’s Somali community. Funding will be used to support medical staff, supplies, outreach and marketing materials and other essential program expenses. Funds will sustain services such as mental health services, daylong health clinics, community health education, youth health initiatives, senior services, and pregnancy and infant services.
Category: Children, Health Care
St. Vincent de Paul Seattle/King County
Program: Emergency Assistance for Essential Needs
Funds will be used to provide emergency assistance in the Kent/Covington/Maple Valley area to meet the growing demand for essential needs, primarily as a result of post pandemic unemployment and high cost of living, as well as those suffering from personal financial setbacks.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity
Vine Maple Place
Program: Stable Families
Vine Maple Place’s Stable Families (SF) Program works to prevent or end a homeless episode for families by assisting them in obtaining safe, stable housing, identifying the tools they need to achieve self-sufficiency and working with them to heal and build new skills to leave homelessness forever. Funding will support the Stable Families Program model.
Category: Children, Homelessness/Housing, Health Care
Wonderland Child & Family Services
Program: Hope RISING Clinic
The Hope RISING Clinic offers assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children birth to age 13 with prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, as well as support for their families. Funding will provide families with occupational therapy, sensory processing support, mental/behavioral health support, speech therapy, social skills support, family support and psychoeducation.
Category: Health Care, Children
YMCA of Greater Seattle – Community Health Navigation
Program: Community Health Navigation
The YMCA of Greater Seattle’s Community Health Navigators provide culturally responsive, multilingual outreach, resource navigation and health support programs. Funds will be used to support staff expenses directly related to executing the program and providing services.
Category: Health Care
YWCA Seattle-King-Snohomish
Program: Tackling Food Insecurity: Continuing Support for Families
This program aims to alleviate ongoing food insecurity that was exacerbated by the pandemic and is continuing to be impacted by rising inflation. Funding will be used to purchase grocery store gift cards for families living at YWCA housing sites in Central Seattle and in South and East King County. Gift cards will be distributed among YWCA emergency shelters and transitional housing. Staff and case managers at those locations would distribute the cards to YWCA participants as well as to low-income families in the surrounding community.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity, Children
Kitsap County
Peninsula Community Health Services – Community Medical Respite Center
Program: Community Medical Respite Center
Community Medical Respite is a place for homeless people to heal after hospitalization and it endeavors to be a launching pad for each patient’s future too. While at Community Medical Respite, services will be available to connect people to housing, employment, mental health services, substance use disorder services, medical and dental care. Funds will be used to purchase hygiene products, clothing and storage solutions for the patients at Community Medical Respite.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Health Care
Peninsula Community Health Services – Mobile Food Rx
Program: Mobile Food Rx
Peninsual Community Health Services’ Food RX program addresses food insecurity in the moment, while the patients are being seen in the clinics. When patients identify food insecurity as part of their support screening process, and the need is identified as being urgent, PCHS’s care team provides the patient with a food box. Funds will be used to purchase shelf sustainable foods for distribution at PCHS’s mobile clinics and the staff time to purchase food, assemble food boxes and manage inventory.
Category: Food Insecurity
Scarlet Road
Program: Outreach Program: Sex Trafficking Prevention Training for Youth and Crisis Services
Scarlet Road is the primary provider of services for survivors of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in the Kitsap region. The project supports prevention training for youth and crisis services for survivors. Funds will be used toward operating costs of the program.
Category: Children, Health Care
South Kitsap Helpline
Program: Sustaining SKH’s Food Programs Through Time of Record Need
South Kitsap Helpline is one of the few local emergency food resources in the Kitsap area and is critical for ensuring that vulnerable populations can access ample nutritious food year round. Funds will be used to cover costs of program staff who procure food, manage inventory, supervise volunteers, facilitate food distribution and deliver food to home-bound clients. Funds will also be used for program supplies, purchasing difficult to procure food and other program and administrative expenses.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Thurston County
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington
Program: Community-Based Mentoring Program
In Community-Based program, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington facilitates meaningful connections between youth and adult mentors who engage in community activities together. Funds will be used to expand the established community-based mentoring program to increase the amount of matches between underserved, vulnerable youth and trained adult mentors. These costs include enrollment fees, background and reference checks for Bigs, as well as providing ongoing match support to guarantee the safety of all involved.
Category: Children
Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB)
Program: GRuB Garden Project (GGP)
Each spring, the GRuB Garden Project brings home gardens, training and resources to around 35 recipients. Each garden is filled with weed-free, nutrient-rich soil, and recipients receive seeds, vegetable starts, and gardening guides. Throughout the year, GRuB provides free workshops on topics such as sustainable gardening practices, garden planning, harvesting, composting, seed saving, food preservation and cooking. Funds will be utilized to support staff salaries for the GRuB Garden Project.
Category: Food Insecurity
Hands On Children’s Museum
Program: Sensory Friendly Educational Programming & Resources
Funding will be used to support staff time and supplies for the development of two different kinds of Sensory Friendly kits. The Sensory Friendly STEAM educational kits promote learning and development at home or in other settings away from the museum. The “fidget kits” include items that have a calming effect on children with sensory processing issues and are designed to make the museum more accessible to children with special needs during regular business hours. Funding will also support special guests and a museum staff member to assist with the New Olympia School District’s toddler group for children with disabilities and developmental delays.
Category: Children
Interfaith Works
Program: Interfaith Works Homeless Services General Operations
Interfaith Works (IW) mission is to advance the social inclusion and empowerment of people experiencing homelessness through innovative practices of sheltering, mental health and emergency basic needs coordination. Funds will help support the general operations of Interfaith Works Homeless Services, including the Supportive Shelter Program, the Navigation Team, and the new project, Sergio’s daytime drop-in center.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
Saint Martin’s University
Program: Saints Nursing Student Emergency Fund
The purpose of this project is to establish an emergency student support fund specific to the needs of nursing students. Emergency funding will assist with childcare, transportation, equipment and food.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity
Program: Critical Home Repairs Program
This program provides affordable, critical home repairs to prevent low-income homeowners from being displaced from their residences and improve the quality and health of those homes. Funds will be used for materials for the repairs.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
South Sound Parent to Parent
Program: Growing Learners Transitional Preschool
This program focuses on the holistic development of children, addressing not only their educational needs but also their health and well-being. Funding will support direct services including a small portion of the Growing Learners Transitional Preschool program staff. The majority of the funding is earmarked for special activities and the educational curriculum (The Learning Box) materials.
Category: Children, Health Care
TOGETHER! Tumwater Community Schools
Program: Tumwater Community Schools
The Tumwater Community Schools Program will address the opportunity gap between low-income students and their higher-income peers. Funding will support operating expenses such as staffing, technology to support their work, materials and supplies and emergency basic needs assistance.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Homelessness/Housing