Puget Sound Community Partnership Fund Recipients
Greater Puget Sound
American Red Cross – South Puget Sound & Olympics – Blood Gives Life
Program: Blood Gives Life
Funding will help strengthen the ability of the American Red Cross Northwest Region to collect and provide blood products to those in need. They will be used specifically for outreach and donor recruitment efforts, support research and conduct testing on blood and blood products to ensure the safest supply possible, and ensure blood and blood products are delivered where and when they are needed.
Category: Health Care
Best Dental Help
Program: Mobile Dental Sealants, Uncompensated Care Fund
Best Dental Help is a mobile school based dental sealant program that prevents dental decay in children. They serve approximately 5,000 children in the Puget Sound region. Funds will be used to cover the cost of direct dental care procedures to include: screenings, cleanings, dental sealants & fluoride varnish, at-home dental care kits, dental clinic referral lists provided to parents that partner with Best Dental Care and case management.
Category: Health Care, Children
Eastside Baby Corner
Program: Helping Children Thrive Post-Pandemic
EBC provides critical life improving services to children and their caregivers: diapers, wipes and diaper rash cream, car seats, baby food or formula, pack n play and safe bedding and blankets and hygiene products. Funds will be used to maintain their service and resume normal operations after the pandemic and meet increased demand.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Food Lifeline
Program: Food Lifeline – Direct Food Distribution & Mobile Food Program
Funding would be used to provide nutritious food to people facing hunger in Western Washington. Food is distributed through Food Lifeline’s own programs and in partnership with over 235 food banks, shelters and meal programs.
Category: Food Insecurity
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children
Program: Dental Care for Puget Sound Children in Need – Uncompensated Care Fund
The requested funds would provide dental care, along with oral hygiene education at each patient contact, to 209 children and youth from low income families who are unable to pay a portion or all of their out-of-pocket dental care costs.
Category: Children, Health Care
Medical Teams International – Mobile Dental Clinics
Program: Mobile Dental Clinics – MultiCare
The purpose of this project is to provide free dental care to populations in need, primarily low-income and marginalized adults who need treatment and are currently without private insurance or other means to pay for services. The funds would cover operating expenses for approximately 35 Medical Teams mobile dental clinics in partnership with MultiCare in South King and Pierce Counties over a 12-month period.
Category: Health Care
Museum of Glass
Program: Hot Shop Heroes
Hot Shop Heroes provides emotional healing for soldiers and veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury and other depressive disorders by providing at no charge to them, a series of 16 weeks of glassmaking classes in our Hot Shop.Fund will be used for glassmaking instruction to soldiers and veterans enrolled in the program.
Category: Health Care
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky
Program: Teen Council Peer Education and Youth Empowerment Program
Planned Parenthood believes everyone needs access to sexual health education that is age appropriate, affirming, LGBTQ+ inclusive, culturally responsive, medically accurate, and trauma-informed. Teen Council addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects of sexual health with an age-appropriate and youth-friendly approach. funds will be used for Teen Council program expenses, to include facilitators, program materials, supplies, mileage, office supplies & occupancy costs (rent, phone, etc.)
Category: Children
Prescription Drug Assistance Foundation
Program: Prescription Drug Assistance Network
PDAF provides personalized prescription assistance to low and moderate-income individuals in the Puget Sound Region. Funding will support the ongoing one-on-one assistance services provided to patients and training for care managers and providers.
Category: Health Care
Puget Sound Kidney Centers Foundation
Program: Chronic Kidney Disease Education Program
Funds from this grant will be used to support the CKD Education Program to expand into Pierce, Kitsap, and Jefferson counties. This will include marketing of the program in these new areas, and, as pandemic precautions allow in-person educational classes in partnership with community centers, senior centers, and other local organizations.
Category: Health Care
Wakulima USA
Program: Mental Health Support for East African Immigrants living in the Puget Sound
This funding will help immigrants from East Africa facing mental health issues due to their current immigration status and Food insecurity among immigrant population by providing culturally relevant organic foods that have nutritional value and encourage healthy eating habits. Administrative, 20%; Ethic Media Outreach, 60%; Training Materials, 20%
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity
Washington Healthcare Access Alliance
Program: Volunteer & Retired Providers Program
This is a request for a grant of $5,000 to increase the number of licensed, professional healthcare volunteers serving low-income patients in safety net clinics in throughout Washington State. A grant of $5,000 will be used for administration, equipment, supplies, software, and system improvements to support the healthcare volunteers who staff our state’s safety net.
Category: Health Care
Pierce County
Amara
Program: Foster Care Support in Pierce County
Amara works to meet the needs of children and families in foster care in Pierce County through the following programs: Foster Care Services, Kinship Care Services, Family Time & Family Connections Program. Funding will be allocated towards paying the staff salaries it takes to implement these crucial programs.
Category: Children
Arivva
Program: Clerical/Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Workforce Training Program
Arivva is moving to implement a Clerical/Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) workforce training program in Pierce County. Grant funding will support operating costs associated with the maintenance and administration of business activities on a day-to-day basis. Specifically, this will include rent, payroll, utilities, and maintenance expenses. None of these funds would be used for renovation purposes.
Category: Children
Associated Ministries of Tacoma Pierce County
Program: Community Resource Connection Center
The Community Resource Connection Center (CRCC) addresses unique barriers to stability and helps individuals and families maintain housing and avoid future homelessness. Funds will be used toward direct client services and resources, to include NW Furniture Bank referrals, interview & work clothes, apps for govt-issued phones, assistance with WA State ID or driver’s license obtainment, replacement & renewals, social security cards, birth certificates & other vital documentation.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound
Program: Thrive: Social & Emotional Wellness Program
Funds will be used for the wellness program at Milgard Family Eastside Branch and Henry T. Schatz Branch. $12,300 will support staff wages, covering a portion of time spent by staff delivering the program. The remaining amount will be split at two Tacoma clubs to support program supplies, including educational materials, sports equipment and Calming Corners/Regulation Stations.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Catherine Place
Program: Women’s Holistic Wellness
Catherine Place benefits the community by helping women in crisis. They provide one-on-one individualized support and mentoring to women experiencing economic, relationship or housing instability, discrimination or immigration challenges. Funding would support their individual advocacy program to support women experiencing life transitions.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
CJK Community Homes
Program: Basic Needs for Low-Income Youth in Transitional Housing
CJK Community Homes is committed to providing clean, safe, contemporary, and affordable housing and supportive case management services to low-income Pierce County residents to reduce the impact of poverty. Funds would be used for food, clothing, hygiene products, healthcare (including mental health therapy vouchers), clothing, and transportation.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Communities in Schools Lakewood
Program: Integrated Student Support Site Coordination
Communities In Schools of Lakewood delivers a unique model of Integrated Students Support that places highly qualified coordinators inside schools and communities, to address the identified needs of students facing academic and non-academic barriers to achievement in school and life. All funds will be applied to the salaries of the Site Coordinators
Category: Children
Communities in Schools Tacoma
Program: Oakland Health and Wellness Initiative
CIS of Tacoma requests $15,000 to fund their health and wellness program operations at Oakland High School. This funding will support the CIST Health Coordinator position and program expenses to provide students the opportunity to improve their health, well being, behavior, and academic goals during the 2021-2022 school year.
Category: Children, Health Care
Community Health Care
Program: Foster/Adoption Program
Children and young adults in the foster and adoption population are underserved and do not have adequate access to trauma-informed care. To meet this need, Community Health Care is creating dedicated clinical space at the Hilltop Regional Health Center that is focused on the needs of children in foster care, adoption and who have aged out of the foster care system. Funding is required to pay for staffing and other operational costs for the first year of the program.
Category: Children, Health Care
Crystal Judson Family Justice Center
Program: Domestic Violence Victim support
This program assists the clients of Crystal Judson Family Justice Center determine the best course of action for them to live violence-free, healthy and normal lives through support, counseling and assistance. The funds will be used to pay for additional hours for a skilled domestic violence advocate at the CJFJC for services to survivors, including the provision of a support group.
Category: Health Care
Emergency Food Network
Program: General Operations
The mission of Emergency Food Network (EFN) is to provide Pierce County with a consistent, diverse and nutritious food supply so that no person goes hungry. Funds will support general operations: soliciting donated food, pay food storage expenses at Distribution Center, distribute food to their 70+ partner programs, and provide the community with 50,000 meals.
Category: Food Insecurity
Friends of the Children Tacoma
Program: Improving Quality of Life for Youth and Families through Professional Mentoring Services
This program helps children develop social-emotional and academic skills, as well as healthy behaviors needed to overcome the many challenges they face and, ultimately, graduate from high school with a plan for the future. This grant will support trauma-informed mentoring to children at highest risk of entry into foster care as they expand to serve a new cohort of 24 children in 2021 and will enhance their capacity to hire and train professional mentors to reach and serve a total of 48 children and 48 caregivers.
Category: Children
Girl Scouts of Western WA
Program: Girl Scouts Financial Assistance Program
GSWW is requesting funding from MultiCare to support their Financial Assistance (FA) program, which subsidizes costs for Girl Scouts in grades K-12 who otherwise might not be able to participate in their programs. This grant will assist GSWW in the ability to continue to fund memberships and camp experiences to girls that do not have the financial means.
Category: Children
Greentrike
Program: Play to Learn
A $10,000 grant would support P2L Pierce County program delivery in their 2021-2022 program year, complete with our COVID-19 program adjustments. MultiCare funding will help support the staff planning time necessary to modify the program to new virtual realities and in-person social distancing guidelines, and will fund the purchase of necessary program supplies, PPE, and other associated costs.
Category: Children
Hilltop Artists
Program: Hilltop Artists Education Programs
Hilltop Artists is a youth development organization that seeks to engage youth through the medium of glass art. Funds will be applied to Hilltop Artists’ education programs in this current fiscal year 2021-22, covering a percentage of their supplies and equipment needs and teaching artists’ salaries.
Category: Children
Korean Women’s Association
Program: Culturally Responsive Integrated & Strength-Based Parenting (CRISP)
CRISP will address the community need for culturally responsive education that empowers BIPOC parents of young children and pregnant individuals to utilize preventive health services, benefits, and information. Funding would allow KWA to provide care packages for the participants each month to help them afford healthy food and purchase essential household items. It will also allow KWA to partner with MultiCare to expand the CRISP Program, not used to pay MultiCare employees, but to help reallocate funding from other sources to support MultiCare in this work.
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity
Lutheran Community Services NW
Program: Senior Companion Program
The Senior Companion Program was designed as a way to help socially isolated seniors and people with disabilities remain in their homes and live independently as possible for as long as possible. Funds will be used to continue recruitment and retention efforts for their volunteers.
Category: Health Care
My Sister’s Pantry Food and Clothing Bank
Program: Operation Funding for My Sister’s Pantry
My Sister’s Pantry Food and Clothing Bank addresses the nutritional needs of families and individuals of all ages that are struggling financially by providing full bags of groceries, warm meals, and clothing. Funding will go towards the operational needs for the food pantry to continue running its services efficiently (wage, maintenance/transportation cost of organization’s truck, and monthly lease payments).
Category: Food Insecurity, Children
Neighborhood Clinic
Program:Healthcare for the Underserved
Neighborhood Clinic is requesting $10,000 for their HealthCare for the Underserved program. Funds would support operational expenses: personnel, facilities, medical supplies, clinic supplies, cleaning supplies, PPEs, patient materials, and office supplies. All funds would be used within this year.
Category: Health Care, Children
New Phoebe House Association
Program: Phoebe Family Recovery, Reunification and Resiliency Re-Housing Project
New Phoebe House Association helps homeless women and those fleeing domestic violence, and addresses physical, financial, emotional, legal and behavioral health needs so they can safely and successfully rehouse and achieve self-sufficiency, Funds will be used to fund case management services that lead to resolving barriers to health.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Northwest Infant Survival & AIDS Alliance (NISSA)
Program: SIDS/SUID – Unsafe Sleep Prevention & Crib Distribution
This program aims to reduce preventable infant deaths due to SIDS/SUID (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and/or Sudden Unexpected Infant Death) in Pierce County by promoting safe infant sleep practices. Ninety-five percent of funds raised go directly to the purchase of new, portable, safety-approved cribs and crib sheets for infants whose parents are low-income and have no crib in which their babies can sleep. The remaining 5% is held by NISSA to cover administrative expenses.
Category: Children, Health Care
Nourish Pierce County
Program: Bulk Food Procurement
Nourish Pierce County is the oldest and largest food bank network in Pierce County, with seven “Built” Food Banks and two Mobile Food Banks that visit 13 unique locations each week. Funds would be used to support the bulk purchase of essential, nutritious foods for their clients.
Category: Food Insecurity
Oasis Youth Center
Program: Urgent Basic Needs for LGBTQ Youth
Funding would be used for mental health therapy vouchers and the remaining for other client needs: clothing, transportation, food, miscellaneous expenses such as medical copayments, rent deposit, gas, etc.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
Olive Crest
Program: Safe Families for Children in Puget Sound Region
Safe Families supports and strengthens families going through crises. Funds will be used to place children of families in crisis into safe homes and care for their daily needs, connect struggling moms and their children into safe families and friends to pull them out of isolation, provide moms and kids with peer support and social activities to help achieve stability, link moms to community resources, screen, assess and approve families and homes of applicant volunteers in which children are hosted.
Category: Children, Housing/Homelessness
Our Savior Lutheran Church
Program: Backpacks 4 Kids
Backpack 4 Kids identifies hungry children and supplies them with child-friendly food items that are easy to open and prepare. The food is packed each week by volunteers into individual bags and sent home with students for the weekend. Funding will allow the program to continue to feed over 300 children every week.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Peace Community Center
Program: Academic Coach Support
The McCarver Scholars Program serves Scholars in 2nd through 5th grades after school. This program provides a solid foundation for elementary students by reinforcing academic skills that help Scholars become good readers, develop social and emotional tools, learn how to apply classroom lessons to the real world, and build character strengths. Funds will support 4 part-time Academic Coaches to support an estimated 50 Scholars.
Category: Children
Raising Girls
Program: Expanding Services to High Poverty Schools
Funding will provide care bags for low-poverty youth and teens. Each bag costs $20 and contains full-sized personal hygiene supplies. They typically include menstrual products, body wash, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush, lotion, and washcloths.
Category: Children, Health Care
The Rescue Mission
Program: Emergency Services
Through their Emergency Services program, The Rescue Mission meets the immediate needs of men and women who find themselves homeless in Pierce County through their Men’s Shelter, Women’s Shelter, Street Outreach & Search & Rescue, and Good Neighbor Cafe. A grant will continue to fund the expenses associated with the Emergency Services program.
Category: Homelessness/Housing, Food Insecurity
Safe Streets Campaign
Program: Building and Sustaining Safe, Healthy and Thriving Communities
Grant funds will directly support programming to build equitable, inclusive, safe, and healthy community environments where children and families can thrive. Funds will be directed to program expenses, including staffing and purchasing materials for youth and neighborhood groups to complete projects that improve community environments.
Category: Children
St Vincent de Paul Tacoma-Pierce County
Program: St Vinnie’s Homeless Prevention & Immediate Basic Needs Funds
Funds for St. Vinnie’s Homeless Prevention & Immediate Basic Needs Program would be used to help individuals and families facing immediate financial crisis struggling to pay for essential basic needs, such as rent, utilities, food and gas, prescriptions and short-term motel vouchers to keep families off the streets, as well as motel vouchers due to COVID restrictions or shelters with not enough beds.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
Tacoma Clubhouse
Program: Clubhouse Media Center & General Operations
The Tacoma Clubhouse is an after-school enrichment program for youth aged 10-18. They are fundraising to remodel their recording studio and seeking to raise $25,000 toward building a media center that can be used for film editing and audio recording. Half of the requested $15,000 would be used toward that goal. The other half would be used for arts and crafts supplies, T-shirts, hats, and mugs for their heat press so members can custom design those items for themselves, and general operations.
Category: Children
Tacoma Farmers Market
Program: Fresh Express Mobile Market
Fresh Express Mobile Market brings fresh food and staples directly to highest need community members in underserved and outlying parts of Pierce County. By funding staff time for a Program Coordinator and market truck driver; marketing to continue their outreach to LI/LA communities; and operating costs such as truck fuel and insurance, the grant will support the transition and allow the program to become self-sustaining by their goal of 2023.
Category: Food Insecurity
Tacoma Housing Development Group
Program: Fall Prevention and Balance Classes for Senior and Disabled
This organization is requesting assistance with bringing back Fall Prevention and Balance classes to residents of their Senior and Disabled buildings. Funds will be used to provide these classes at five of their buildings in the City of Tacoma. Staff will oversee, advertise and coordinate the classes.
Category: 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 would be used for program coordination, including mentoring, management, reporting, printing costs, materials and snacks to support projects and activities.
Category: Children
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center
Program: Academy Dance Program, 2021-2022
The Academy Dance Program is the only Black-run classical dance education organization in Tacoma. Their staff, board and contributing artists are Black, Asian, Latinx, students, elders, gay, straight, emerging pre-professional artists and professional artists and educators. Funds would be used for scholarships, staff salaries, guest mentors/artists, equipment, sets, costumes, rentals and program marketing.
Category: Children
Tacoma-Pierce County Habitat for Humanity
Program: Aging in Place: Critical Home Repairs for Seniors, Veterans, Persons with Disabilities
In late 2019 Tacoma Habitat established the Aging in Place (AIP) Critical Home Repair program. AIP provides low-cost home modifications and repairs to low-income homeowners who are seniors, veterans, and/or persons living with disabilities. Funds provided by MultiCare will allow Tacoma Habitat to complete approximately four AIP projects in Pierce County over the next year.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Ted Brown Music Outreach
Program: Live It OutLoud Rock School
The Live It OutLoud program gives students the technical and artistic skills necessary to pursue their passion in the entertainment industry. The funds will be used to buy laptops and other hardware and software for the Live it OutLoud program. The technology will be used to teach the students about sound recording, mixing and editing, as well as videography and editing of video.
Category: Children
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Program: Trinity Education Programs (Bobcat Learning Center & Trinity After school Program (TAP))
The Bobcat Learning Center provides in-class support, after-school tutoring, mentoring, and enrichment opportunities for Jason Lee Middle School students. The Learning Center is run in partnership with Tacoma Public Schools. Funding will support the costs of staffing and operating Trinity Education Programs.
Category: Children
Washington Trafficking Prevention
Program: Engaging Youth and Prevention Violence
The mission of Washington Trafficking Prevention is to empower young people with the tools to keep themselves safe online, practice empathy, develop value systems, set boundaries, identify healthy and unhealthy relationships, find safe employment, and improve self-esteem. Funds would be used for personnel costs, space, consumable supplies, travel, participant stipends and communication.
Category: Children
YWCA Pierce County
Program: Youth Prevention and Support Programming
Funds will be used for program supplies and staff training for Healthy Love Prevention Groups, Teen Dating Violence Presentations, Kids’ Club, and YOU Group. Supplies include program equipment, materials and construction for program manuals and workbooks, program marketing supplies, art supplies, and incentive items for students who participate.
Category: Children
East Pierce County
Communities in Schools Puyallup
Program: Site Coordination
CIS Puyallup delivers the human, financial, and community resources to help children succeed in school and in life. This grant will be used to help fund the implementation of the CIS model of site coordination in Puyallup School District elementary schools. The majority of funds will go to support staff time coordinating programs, volunteers and services.
Category: Children
Mountain View Community Center
Program: Youth Empowerment Program
Funding will support the Mountain View Community Center’s PowerPack program, serving 400 youth in food-insecure situations. They re partnered with the Fife School District, Edgewood Schools, and the City of Milton to distribute these packs on bus routes and at convenient pick-up locations. Funds could also be used to purchase backpacks, school supplies or craft supplies for the summer youth programs.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Puyallup Valley St Francis House
Program: Emergency Assistance/Homelessness Prevention Program
St. Francis House’s Emergency Assistance/Homelessness Prevention Program provides funds to help east Pierce County residents with rent, utilities, transportation, and other critical necessities. Funds will be used to pay for portions of clients’ basic needs listed above.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Recovery Café Orting Valley
Program: Recovery Café Orting Valley
Recovery Café Orting Valley serves individuals who have been impacted by life challenges. These challenges include homelessness, addiction, mental health concerns, trauma, and injustice. Funds will be used to support individuals as they move through their recovery. Services include but are not limited to transportation, individual Recovery Coaching and support, Recovery Circles, sober social events, educational classes, and assistance with basic needs.
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Step By Step Family Support Center
Program: Maternity Support Services
This grant will assist Step By Step in their efforts to address emerging and on-going needs of their families. Funding will allow extending visits to high-risk clients (beyond what First Steps funds provide) and bridge the gap for their Virtual Home Visits and Telemedicine.
Category: Health Care
West Pierce County
Children’s Home Society of WA – Key Peninsula
Program: Success in School Initiative
The Success in Schools Initiative provides local elementary school students with middle and high school student mentors, builds self-esteem and leadership skills, and supports students who have difficulty going to school on a consistent basis. 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: Purchase fresh meat, dairy and produce for a month
GHP FISH’s goal is to provide healthy, balanced meal options to their clients. Part of this funding will go toward support of their financial aid program, which provides emergency financial aid assistance for individuals and families to help with housing, utilities and medical services; another part will contribute to Food insecurity and will be used to purchase fresh food (meat, eggs, milk).
Category: Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness, Health Care
Key Peninsula Community Services
Program: Generator Replacement and Installation
Key Peninsula Community Services is an active Food Bank, Senior Meal Program, and Senior Center. Funds would be utilized to assist with the salaries for the Food Bank Manager and driver.
Category: Food Insecurity
Mustard Seed Project of Key Peninsula, The
Program: Essential Services for Key Peninsula Senior Citizens
The Mustard Seed Project’s programs and services are designed to help seniors on the Key Peninsula to live safely in their chosen community. Funds will support program operations such as transportation to medical appointments, provide information and referrals, expand friendly visits calling clients and checking in, providing fresh local produce, and connect clients with Coronavirus vaccines.
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity
Red Barn Youth Center
Program: After School Program
Red Barn Youth Center is an after school program whose mission is to be a safe, welcoming place for middle and high school students to recreate, socialize, find guidance, develop positive relationships, and become community-minded citizens. Funds will be used for program operations including salaries, program materials and equipment and maintenance.
Category: Children
King County
Alimentando al Pueblo
Program: Alimentando al Pueblo Food Bank
Funds will provide culturally relevant food (non-perishable & organic produce) to the community. They will also be used to pay staff, who come from the community, living wages to carry out the work of their food distribution site.
Category: Food Insecurity
American Diabetes Association
Program: ADA Camp Sealth
Camp Sealth supports campers with diabetes and accompany children during traditional camp activities, as well as teach campers about carb counting, insulin injections, catheter insertions, glucagon administration, & ketone & blood glucose testing. Grant funds will be used to cover camp-related expenses, help keep registration fees affordable for families, and to provide assistance to families who are unable to pay for the full cost of camp.
Category: Children, Health Care
Ashley House – Bridges to Hope
Program: Bridges to Hope
At Ashley House a child can receive skilled nursing care while the family adjusts and prepares for their child’s homecoming at a much lower cost than if the child stayed in the hospital. Funds will help cover the costs of uncompensated medical care provided to children/youth.
Category: Children, Health Care
Building Changes
Program: Improving Food Security Among Students and Families Experiencing Homelessness
MultiCare funds will be used to collect and analyze information detailing the barriers blocking families from accessing healthy and nutritious food in a sustainable and continuous way, and to support the coming together of a Workgroup whose purpose is to review the collected information and outline recommendations for policy and practice changes to improve food security for children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness.
Category: Food Insecurity
Cancer Lifeline
Program: Whole Patient Care with Enhanced Outreach and Services to BIPOC Communities
Funds will be used for Cancer Lifeline’s telephone support line, classes and support groups, counseling services, and financial assistance program, with a specific emphasis on improving outreach and programming to low-income and BIPOC communities.
Category: Health Care
Catholic Community Services of Western WA
Program: Kent Community Engagement Center (CEC)
The Kent Community Engagement Center (CEC) aims to aid individuals who are either experiencing homelessness or are in imminent danger of experiencing homelessness. Located within Kent, the CEC provides support to individuals in and around south King County. Funds will support the CEC operating expenses, to include hygienic services, case managers and community spaces for individuals in need.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN)
Program: General Operating Request for DAWN’s Life-saving, Hope-giving Programs
DAWN provides legal advocacy, mobile advocacy, mental health therapy, support groups, child advocacy, TANF advocacy, confidential emergency shelter, and 24-hour advocacy and support line. Funds will directly support their Mobile Community Advocacy Program’s operating expenses.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
Emergency Feeding Program Seattle King County
Program: SOS Street Feeding – Emergency Feeding Program
The S.O.S Program serves food, water, masks and personal hygiene items to homeless encampments around the city twice a week.Funds will help the S.O.S Street Feeding Program continue providing healthy organic meals to homeless men, women, and families, and hygiene packets in BIPOC and food insecure areas throughout King County.
Category: Food Insecurity
Entrée Hermanos
Program: Care for LGBTQ Latinos Living with HIV
Funds will promote better community health through services aimed at linking Latinx clients to HIV care and clinical services. Entrée Hermanos supports low-income clients living with HIV through peer navigation, medical case management, and support groups.
Category: Health Care
Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle
Program: Eritrean Senior Program
Funding will support the Eritrean Association Senior Program which serves approximately 300 Eritrean and Ethiopian seniors by providing them with healthy food, age-appropriate exercise, socialization, health information and resources. Specifically, these funds will be used to increase the frequency of their food pantry services so that seniors can get the culturally appropriate food items they need more than just twice a month.
Category: Food Insecurity
Food Empowerment Education & Sustainability Team (FEEST)
Program: FEEST Grocery Program
FEEST develops low income youth of color and immigrant and refugee youth leaders to change the landscape around health and healthy eating in their schools and school districts. Funds will be used to support their Grocery Program to provide emergency food support to low income youth from BIPOC and immigrant and refugee communities in South Seattle and King County.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Global to Local
Program: Food Justice and Security for Low-Income Immigrants and Refugees in South King County
This program addresses racial inequity in the food system by creating a farm-to-fork distribution channel and connecting immigrants and refugees (BIPOC) to healthy, affordable, and culturally-relevant food. $10,000 of funding would be used for staff time, stipends for outreach, Market support and supplies. $10,000 would be used for Heart Bucks, their own incentive to support those most impacted by Food insecurity. Food insecure families receive Heart Bucks they can use throughout the farmers market season.
Category: Food Insecurity
Lifelong: Health for All
Program: Medically Tailored Meals and Nutrition Services
Funds will be used to pay for medically tailored meals among low-income homebound seniors with chronic and serious health conditions. This meal service will be provided to 20 clients and grocery bag service to 25 clients each for 15 weeks. Clients will also receive nutritional counseling and needs assessment for other services such as linkage to social services and case management.
Category: Food Insecurity, Health Care
Living Well Kent
Program: Community Food Center
Living Well Kent plans to launch the Community Food Center. They have secured funds to pay for the start-up budget of kitchen equipment and materials needed for the physical space. MultiCare funds will complete the goods and supplies budget and leave $5,000 remaining to fully fund the staffing portion of this project for the first year.
Category: Food Insecurity
Mary’s Place
Program: Baby’s Best Start
MultiCare funding will be used to support nursing staff in the Baby’s Best Start program and dedicated supplies.
Category: Children, Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
Multi-Service Center
Program: General Operating Request
Funds would help MSC maintain and/or enhance its service level through its housing program, for staff & case-manager’s time providing resources, support & guidance to families ready for permanent, stable housing, home-delivery food bank, purchase of foods based on clients’ specific requirements.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Washington
Program: Mental Health Youth Outreach Initiative: Puget Sound Region
Youth Outreach programs have an impact by combating stigma; supporting early identification and intervention of mental illness through increased awareness for students from middle school through college and their families, peers, and caregivers; creating a pipeline of support and education. Funds would be used for community outreach, training for Ending the Silence (EtS) presenters, staff and for conferences and summits centered on best practices.
Category: Children, Health Care
Northwest Center
Program: Early Supports for Infants and Toddlers with Developmental Delays
The Early Supports program provides the level of therapy and support needed based on each child’s therapists’ recommendations, without regard to the funding available (insurance or government reimbursement). Funds will be used to cover the costs of services they provide to families that are not covered by other dedicated funding sources.
Category: Children, Health Care
Northwest Education Access
Program: Support Opportunity Youth in Puget Sound region to prepare for, enroll and graduate with a post secondary degree
Funding will provide direct support to 560 students served by NWEA’s College Prep and College Success Programs in South King County and Pierce County. The majority of the program costs are associated with salary and benefits for their full time Education Advocates who work comprehensively with their students. Funding would also provide transportation so advocates can meet students where they are across the counties.
Category: Children
Northwest Harvest EMM
Program: SODO Community Market and Mobile Food Bank
SODO Community Market & Mobile Food Bank, starting in June 2019, has been Northwest Harvest’s direct distribution point for meeting the needs of Seattle’s families. The Market’s goal is to increase their customers’ access to nutritious food by providing a neighborhood grocery store setting instead of an institutional food bank. Funds will be used to support the distribution of produce and other foods purchased specifically for the shoppers and customers of SODO Community Market and its Mobile Food Bank.
Category: Food Insecurity
Partner in Employment
Program: Home Homeless Prevention Program
Partner in Employment provides rental assistance to clients who are unable to pay rent or are behind on rent, with the goal of keeping them in their homes. Funds will be used to provide direct rental assistance to clients behind on rent and/or at risk of imminent homelessness to ensure they can stay in their homes. They ensure that funds are only being used for rental assistance by providing the support directly to property management or landlords.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Reach Out and Read Washington
Program: Reach Out and Read in King County
Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read together. Grant funds will be used to support their early literacy program at high-need clinics in King County.
Category: Children
Safe Crossings Foundation
Program: Safe Crossings Children’s Grief Support Program
Safe Crossings helps children prepare for the death of someone they love, and provides those children and their families with ongoing support after a death occurs. Funds will support the grief-support services free of charge.
Category: Children
Salvation Army, The – Food Banks
Program: The Salvation Army Food Banks
This funding would be used to combat Food insecurity through The Salvation Army’s food banks in King County by providing groceries and meals to all those in need, including low-income and homeless families and those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Category: Food Insecurity
Somali Health Board
Program: Health Equity Services for the Somali Community
The Health Equity Services provides services for the Somali Community, which include health care, health education, pregnant and parenting programs, youth health initiatives, and senior services. Funds would be used to cover direct program costs that include program staff’s time, program supplies, contractors that do the on ground work of their services, food or supplies, meeting space, transportation, insurance, and data collection expenses.
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity
St Vincent de Paul Seattle/King County
Program: Emergency Assistance for Essential Needs
100% of the funds will be used to provide emergency and financial assistance, especially when the rent moratorium expires on June 30, 2021. After COVID-19, volunteers will pursue fact-to-face interaction with home visits to build relationships and identify emergency needs.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
St Vincent de Paul St Theresa’s
Program: SVDP St Theresa’s Emergency Services
The purpose of SVDP St Theresa’s Emergency Services Program is to provide emergency motel shelter to families and individuals with medical respite needs or a verified disability in order to prevent the household from being unsheltered. Support also includes food, transportation, referral access to housing resources and development of an emergency shelter plan. Funding of $8,000 from the MultiCare Community Partnership grant will be matched with St. Theresa’s parish donations ($16,000) and will assist 40 households or approximately 120 individuals.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
Team Read
Program: Year Round Read Tutoring Program
Funds will be used to provide direct program services including: materials, supplies, wages for program staff, planning & implementation activities (meetings w/families & other community-based organizations) in new partner districts (Renton & Tukwila).
Category: Children
Tukwila Pantry Food Bank, The
Program: Anti-Hunger Food Distribution Initiative
Funding will support the Tukwila Pantry Food Bank’s ability to buy healthy, fresh food, cover general operating costs, and hire employees to keep their organization running.
Category: Food Insecurity
United Territories of Pacific Islanders’ Alliance – UTOPIA
Program: BIPOC Sex Worker Outreach Project
UTOPIA works to support the health, safety, and wellbeing of queer and trans Pacific Islanders in the Puget Sound, particularly those involved in the sex trades, whose lives and livelihoods are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Funds will go directly towards project expenses, including staff time, transportation, materials and supplies.
Category: Health Care
Vine Maple Place
Program: Building Stable Families
VMP provides evidence-based, trauma-informed services to single-parent families facing homelessness in south King County. Funding will support their capacity to expand the Stable Families program so they can serve more families in crisis by helping them secure stable housing, identify the tools they need and work with them to build those skills.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Voices of Tomorrow
Program: Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Resources for COVID-Related Needs
Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) is a community-based organization serving families and childcare providers in King County’s East African immigrant and refugee community. They deliver culturally and linguistically relevant programs and events in early childhood, youth and adult education, social services, and civic engagement. Funds will be used to pay for tangible items (food, diapering supplies, toys, and learning resources) along with staff time to support families through the process of accessing rental assistance.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Wonderland Child & Family Services
Program: Hope RISING Clinic
Prenatal substance exposure (PSE) is the number one known cause of intellectual disability, and it effects a person’s ability to regulate their emotions and behavior, concentrate, learning readiness, impulse control, and social-emotional development. Funds will be used to diagnose PSE, provide interventions, support parents/caregivers, and give children a better chance to succeed despite struggling with the effects of PSE.
Category: Children, Health Care
YWCA Seattle/King/Snohomish
Program: Tackling Food insecurity: Support for Families
A grant of $5,000 from the MultiCare Community fund would be used to purchase grocery store gift cards for families at YWCA locations in King and Snohomish Counties. Gift cards would 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 low-income families from the community.
Category: Food Insecurity
Thurston County
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest WA
Program: General Operating Support
This grant will be used for general operating funds to expand mentoring programs and increase the ability to serve and support more kids. These costs include enrollment fees, background and reference checks for Bigs, and ongoing match support to guarantee safety of all parties involved.
Category: Children
Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB)
Program: GRuB Garden Project
The GRuB Garden Project will provide backyard gardens and gardening resources and training to 50-100 (funding dependent) households with low incomes and people experiencing Food insecurity. Funding 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
Funding will be used to support core program staff and special guest stipends for Sensory Friendly Sundays. It will also support staff time and supplies for the development of sensory friendly educational kits to promote at-home learning and development. Funds will also support efforts to make the Museum more accessible to children with special needs, including headphones available for free checkout and “emergency de-stress kits” with items that have a calming effect on children with sensory processing issues.
Category: Children
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative
Program: IHTC General Operations
IHTC is the only Indigenous and survivor-led human trafficking services organization in Washington, and the only organization in the South Sound serving Indigenous survivors of human trafficking through solution-based knowledge and trauma-informed strategies. Funds will be used for general operating support.
Category: Health Care
Rebuilding Together Thurston County
Program: Critical Repairs Program
RTTC requests $10,000 from the MultiCare Community Partnership Fund to help fund our Critical Repairs Program and provide emergency repairs for homeowners in need. 80% of grant funds ($8,000) will go to purchasing building materials, hiring skilled contractors, and paying necessary fees. The remaining 20% ($2,000) will go towards personnel costs for the Critical Repairs Program Coordinator. The Coordinator completes site inspections, manages timelines, volunteers, and contractors, and completes some repairs.
Category: Homelessness/Housing
SideWalk
Program: Rapid Rehousing
SideWalk emphasizes the use of rapid rehousing to quickly move people off the streets and into homes. Rapid rehousing offers a small amount of short-term financial assistance, typically applied directly to rent, deposit, or utilities. Assistance is usually followed by intensive case management to support stability in housing. Funds will support the care of the local houseless population and help bridge the gap of income needed to get folks off the street and into homes.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity
Program: Critical Home Repair Project
The Critical Home Repair Project’s goal is to restore safety and health to the homes of 50 low- to moderate-income household residents by completing 24 critical home repair projects in 2021, helping residents avoid displacement and homelessness. Funds will be used to support the salary for the Repairs Program Director (50%) and materials for the repairs (50%).
Category: Housing/Homelessness
South Sound Parent to Parent
Program: SMART Team
South Sound Parent to Parent has the capacity to identify very young children who show early signs of Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and can give individualized information about the kinds of intervention that improve developmental outcomes. The School Medical Autism Review Team (SMART) process can help. Funds will cover the contract expenses associated with the specialty staff that comprise the SMART team (psychologist, speech and language pathologist, early intervention teacher and neurodevelopmental pediatrician) as well as the testing tools and protocols.
Category: Children, Health Care
South Sound Reading Foundation
Program: “Books for Kids Literacy Outreach & Family Engagement: Delivering free books to children and educating families about the importance of reading”
South Sound Reading Foundation’s programs educate children and families about the importance of reading and strive to get books into the hands of every child, from birth. Funds would be used to purchase books, coordinate program activities, deliver books and education programs, and purchase literacy outreach materials
Category: Children
South Sound YMCA
Program: Increasing Access to School Age Childcare Programs
Funding from MultiCare will support increased access to school age childcare programs when schools reopen in the fall of 2021. South Sound YMCA would be able to provide care at 33 childcare sites at any level of enrollment, ensure financial assistance to all families in need, and bridge the care gap as the community continues to reopen and recover from the pandemic.
Category: Children
Kitsap County
Early Life Speech and Language
Program: Expanded Speech-Language Therapy Services
Early Life Speech & Language provides intensive, individualized therapy to children, ages two to seven years, struggling with speech and/or language delays and disorders. Funds would be used to support the operations of the Bremerton clinic (speech-language therapy/assessments, parent education, community outreach, care coordination & documentation; new computer and iPad for teletherapy services).
Category: Children, Health Care
Holly Ridge Center
Program: Babies Can’t Wait
The purpose of Holly Ridge Center Infant Toddler Program is to provide comprehensive Early Intervention Services. Funds will support uncompensated care, marketing, and bridge the gap between the cost of provision of services and compensation (families ability to pay, coverage from insurance, contracts that pay part but not all).
Category: Children, Health Care
Kids Discovery Museum
Program: MiniMu – Free, Accessible, Parent and Child Education in Kitsap County
The purpose of this program is to reduce risk factors for maternal anxiety and depression for Kitsap County families of all income levels, and therefore to improve child development and health outcomes. This grant will provide for one year of MiniMu program and related material costs, including staff time to plan and facilitate the program, stipends for experts to speak on various topics, and for the additional toys and supportive play materials developmentally appropriate for ages birth to 18 months.
Category: Children, Health Care
North Kitsap Fishline
Program: Fortifying the Safety Net
In 2018 North Kitsap Fishline launched their new Healthy Food Bank Market & Comprehensive Services Center. Funds would be used for their Homelessness Prevention & Services ($15,000), which include rent, mortgage & utilities services and Children’s Services ($10,000) that include nutritious weekend meals and snacks for kids where resources are scarce or non-existent, clothing and school supplies.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity, Children
Scarlet Road
Program: Aftercare: Trauma Informed Care for Survivors of Exploitation
Scarlet Road’s Aftercare program provides wraparound recovery services specifically for survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation on the Kitsap Peninsula.Funds will be used to cover operations to ensure trauma-informed care for survivors of sexual exploitation, including: mobile case management, meeting space for group recovery & life skills classes, free trauma-informed medical care and transportation to medical and mental health care appointments and insurance.
Category: Health Care