Puget Sound Community Partnership Fund Recipients
Greater Puget Sound
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington – Volunteer Services
Program: Volunteer Services
Volunteer Services of Kitsap, Thurston, and Pierce County provide transportation for low-income seniors and people with disabilities who live in rural areas of the counties. They provide volunteers who are reimbursed mileage, receive training, and recognition for door-to-door transportation to their clients. Their clients are provided with transportation to medical, dental, mental health, and other necessities on a first-come, first-serve basis. Funds would be used for mileage reimbursement to volunteer drivers and replenish safety kits.
Category: Health Care
Medical Teams International
Program: Care & Connect Mobile Health Clinics (Mobile Dental & Health Screenings)
These funds would cover the expenses of holding 25 Medical Teams mobile Care & Connect clinics in partnership with MultiCare in Pierce and South King Counties, providing free dental care, medical screenings, and referrals to approximately 325 low-income and marginalized adults over a 12-month period.
Category: Health Care
Museum of Glass
Program: Hot Shop Heroes
Through Hot Shop Heroes, Museum of Glass strives to support 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 their Hot Shop. Museum of Glass will apply the $5,000 to the instruction of glassmaking to solders and veterans enrolled in the Hot Shop Heroes program.
Category: Health Care
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Washington
Program: Peer-Led Mental Halth Outreach for Puget Sound Youth
Funds from MultiCare will be used to support our Ending the Silence (EtS) and College Club programming for youth, educators, and parents. Specifically, funding will be used to provide a minimum of 4 state train-the trainer workshops, recruit & train 6 youth presenters who identify as PEERS, and working with NAMI WA Alliance offering 40 EtS for Students presentations & 5 EtS for Families presentations.
Category: Children, Health Care
Sumner Community Food Bank
Program: Food Bank Operations
Sumner Community Food Bank provides relief from food insecurity. They offer healthy fresh and packaged food and beverages, pet food, childcare items, and personal hygiene products that have been donated from local businesses and farms, food drives, and individuals. Funding will be used to meet the increasing food insecurity in low-income families, specifically in running the food bank marketplace and warehouse and split between building, equipment, vehicle costs, payroll, food purchases and warehouse supplies.
Category: Food Insecurity
The Wishing Well Foundation
Program: Fostering Community Connections & Sustaining Quality of Life
Funding will be used for reliable supplies of baby formula, baby monitors, car seats and other safety items, producing 4 to 6 annual education and support groups and 2 resource fairs.
Category: Children, Health Care
Pierce County
Amara
Program: Stabilizing, Affirming, and Reunifying Children, Adults, and Families Experiencing Foster Care
Funding from MultiCare will provide essential support to the Foster Care Services, Kinship Supports Program, and Family Time Visitation. The work is based in cultivating therapeutic relationships and environments with most program expenses allocated towards paying the staff salaries.
Category: Children, Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
American Red Cross South Puget Sound & Olympics
Program: Blood Saves Lives
Grant 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 sustain outreach and donor recruitment efforts, support innovating 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
Ark Institute of Learning
Program: General Operations
ARK’s services help children facing learning challenges to become successful in school and gain confidence and a positive outlook on their futures, which include evaluations, individualized instruction, collaborative partnerships with school districts, teacher trainings, and a scholarship program for children with financial need. Grant funds will be applied toward ARK student services ($1,000 per month for 10 months) so the organization may continue conducting its work to support struggling learners giving them the skills, tools and ARK strategies they need to become successful students.
Category: Children
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound
Program: Pierce County Mentoring
Big Brothers Big Sisters places each youth in a positive 1:1 mentor relationship specifically built for them, allowing their personal development to be addressed directly and consistently with the support and resources to help confront adversities in their life. Funds will help Big Brothers Big Sisters with the recruitment of volunteer mentors, guiding them through the enrollment process, and supporting their matches with young people in Pierce County.
Category: Children
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound
Program: Thrive: Social-Emotional Wellness Program
The purpose of Thrive: Social-Emotional Wellness Program (Thrive) is to prevent the short- and long-term impacts of toxic stressors by providing youth with a safe, nurturing, and stable environment when they are not at home or at school. Funding will be used to support staff wages in delivering the program to youth, staff training, program supplies (education materials, sports equipment & equipping Calming Corners/Regulation Stations with essential tools).
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity
Communities In Schools of Lakewood
Program: Integrated Student Support Site Coordination
Funds will be used for the hiring and training of more Site Coordinators to assure each student in need is provided stability and resources. All funds achieved through this grant will go to the financial support of extending these roles and securing a higher ratio of embedded supports for each student within the district.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Crystal Judson Family Justice Center
Program: Domestic Violence Victim Support
CJFJC’s purpose is to help domestic violence victims & their children create a safe, healthy environment to live and grow. By utilizing the support of a skilled advocate more victims are able to lead normal lives. Funds will be used to pay for additional hours for a domestic violence advocate at the CJFJC for services to survivors, including provision of a support group.
Category: Health Care, Children
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. EFN has a network of more than 75 partner food pantries, meal sites, and shelters. Funds will cover expenses such as utilities to keep food cold in their refrigerators and freezer, staff time so that they can procure, store, and distribute food, and maintenance for their vehicles so that they can distribute more than one million pounds of food each month.
Category: Food Insecurity
First Five Fundamentals
Program: Baby Lounges
Funds will be used to purchase baby scales for each of their 9 baby lounges to allow caregivers to check the weight of their babies. They will prioritize this funding to add two groups including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ affinity groups to pay for facilitators, supplies/refreshments for the groups, and child care stipends to reduce the barrier of paying for child care for families with siblings over the age of 1.
Category: Children, Health Care
Friends of the Children Tacoma
Program: Improving Quality of Life for Youth and Families through Professional Mentoring Services
Friends of the Children–Tacoma (Friends–Tacoma) intentionally enrolls children at highest risk of involvement in the child welfare system and provides them with consistent, highly trained professional mentorship for 12+ years. Friends plans to expand to serve a new cohort of an additional 16 children in the coming year. Funding from this grant will enhance their capacity to hire and train professional mentors/Friends to reach and serve a total of 64 children and 64 caregivers.
Category: Children, Health Care
Girls Scouts of Western Washington
Program: Pierce County Financial Assistance Program
Funds would be used in the Financial Assistance program so youth who participate in the federal assisted Free & Reduced Lunch Program and/or are in foster care can participate in the youth leadership organization as Girl Scouts. This would cover membership in the Girls Scouts national organization, troop start-up costs, supplies, uniforms, camp and event registration fees, travel and more.
Category: Children
Greentrike
Program: Play to Learn
Funds would support P2L program delivery in their 2022-2023 program year, including ongoing COVID-19 pandemic program adjustments. MultiCare funding will help support the staffing (Play to Learn teachers and assistants), contracted consulting expenses (data collection, analysis, and outcome distribution), and program materials necessary for providing the hybrid form of both in-person and virtual P2L they are currently offering.
Category: Children
The Here and Now Project
Program: Organizational Operating Support
H&NP helps the newly paralyzed and their families prepare for a healing and healthy future by providing invaluable peer connections and the crucial support of a social network built on the principle of mutual aid. Their programs assist the newly paralyzed from the beginning of their diagnosis with their care basket outreach and as they reemerge into the community by helping them emotionally through private support groups and other social activities. Funding will support this year-round program.
Category: Health Care
Hilltop Artists
Program: Hilltop Artists’ Youth Education Programs
Hilltop Artists is a youth development organization that seeks to engage youth through the medium of glass art. They teach glass blowing and related arts to 550-600 Pierce County youth, ages 12-24, each year. Funds will be applied to Hilltop Artists’ youth education programs, covering a percentage of their supplies and equipment needs and teaching artists’ salaries.
Category: Children
HopeSparks Family Services
Program: HopeSparks Behavioral Health
HopeSparks offers trauma-informed care for children who have been abused and neglected to respond to an urgent and critical need in Pierce County. Funding from the would build upon the success of their Behavioral Health counseling program, which will continue to offer therapeutic healing, enabling children and families to lead healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.
Category: Children, Health Care
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children
Program: Dental Care for Puget Sound Children in Need -Uncompensated Care Fund
100% of funding from the MultiCare Community Partnership Fund will be directed to their Uncompensated Care Fund which allows LDCC to provide essential dental care to children in need, along with oral hygiene education, to approximately 209 children, regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
Category: Children, Health Care
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Program: Senior Companion Program
The Senior Companion Program (SCP) helps socially isolated seniors and people with disabilities remain in their homes and live as independently as possible for as long as possible. Funding will allow them to continue recruitment and retention efforts for volunteers. As direct service providers, volunteers are essential to the program.
Category: Health Care, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Mercy Housing Northwest
Program: Resident Centered Health Support
Mercy Housing Northwest’s Resident Centered Health Support program directly addresses the urgent need for culturally competent and trauma-informed health support for low-income residents of their affordable housing communities. Funds will be used for direct program expenses, including personnel costs for MHNW Case Managers and Resident Services Coordinators, as well as supporting site-based health fairs, bringing community health resources directly to MHNW communities.
Category: Health Care
New Phoebe House Association
Program: Phoebe Family Recovery, Reunification, and Resiliency Program
This program establishes basic legal needs (SSNs, government IDs if needed), maintain mental health through in-house partner resources, learn in-home management skills (meal planning, budgeting, child routines), and get work-ready counseling lessening the need for government support. Funding will support case management efforts.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
Northwest Infant Survival & SIDS Alliance (NISSA)
Program: SUID/SIDS – Unsafe Sleep Prevention & Crib Distribution
This 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. Ninety-five percent of funds raised go directly to the purchase of new, portable, safety-approved cribs and fitted 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: Health Care, Children
Nourish Pierce County
Program: Bulk Food Procurement
Nourish Pierce County’s mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need with compassion, dignity, and respect. Funds from MultiCare’s Community Partnership Fund will be used to purchase meats and eggs, essential sources of protein.
Category: Food Insecurity
Oasis Youth Center
Program: General Operating Funds
Funds will be used for general operations. Normal day-to-day expenses include office supplies, decorations to make the space more welcoming, rent, utilities, facility maintenance, transportation, etc.
Category: Children
Our Savior Lutheran Church
Program: Backpacks 4 Kids
The purpose of the Backpacks 4 Kids program is to address hunger insecurity in the Parkland area by partnering with the Franklin Pierce School District where school counselors identify hungry children. Backpacks 4 Kids provides a food bag filled with easy to prepare meals and snacks to feed the child over the weekend, all throughout the school year. Funds will be used to purchase food to support the program.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Pierce College Foundation
Program: Legacy of Excellence Fund
The scholarships and emergency assistance fund will ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed regardless of financial resources or unexpected issues and barriers that arise in their lives. Funds will be used for scholarships, emergency funding needs, create initiatives that provide an environment of belonging, assist with food, rent, medical issues, child care, transportation and other basic needs for a healthy community.
Category: Heath Care, Children, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Pierce County AIDS Foundation
Program: HIV Prevention Program
PCAF Prevention programs empower people to make safer decisions for themselves and their communities through shame- and stigma-free, harm reduction education on decreasing rates of HIV transmission. Funding allows PCAF to keep stocked in supplies for the prevention of HIV transmission. These include safer sex materials such as hypoallergenic condoms, as well as educational materials and social media advertisements targeted at communities at higher risk of HIV transmission.
Category: Health Care
Rainbow Center
Program: Emergency Needs
Funds would be utilized to provide emergency food, food gift cards, emergency mental health, housing, and other basic needs usually to the LGBTQ community, but not always.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Raising Girls
Program: Serving Students with Basic Needs
Raising Girls is the only nonprofit organization in Pierce County solely focused on hygiene insecurity, the inability to regularly access and/or afford basic hygiene items. A $25,000 grant would enable Raising Girls to purchase items in bulk, lower the cost per bag, and distribute more bags to more girls.
Category: Children, Health Care
Rebuilding Together South Sound
Program: Community Revitalization Partnership (CRP)
Rebuilding Together South Sound provides free home repairs for low-income homeowners who are seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, or families living with children in the home. Funds from this grant will be used to support additional staff outreach, including materials in other languages, as well as support CRP projects through the purchase of materials and/or services needed to complete repairs or modifications.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Sound Outreach
Program: General Operations
Sound Outreach is dedicated to leveraging more capital to empower families and businesses to succeed. They serve the community through the following four services 1) Financial and Employment Coaching; 2) Center for Strong Families; 3) Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) for seniors and 4) Bank On and Pierce County Asset Building Coalition. Funds would be used to support general operating costs, including staffing costs.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
St Vincent de Paul Tacoma-Pierce County
Program: St. Vinnie’s Homeless Prevention & Basic Needs Program
St. Vincent de Paul continues to focus on providing basic needs for those facing an immediate crisis to include rental assistance and deposits, emergency sheltering, gas cards, utility assistance and other needs. Funds will be used to help individuals and families facing an immediate crisis that may not receive assistance elsewhere.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity
Tacoma Boat Builders
Program: Building Resiliency and Reducing Isolation of Homeless Youth
Tacoma Boat Builders (TBB) was established to create transformational opportunities for court-involved youth through positive mentorship, woodworking, and boat building. Funds requested will support a year-long, once a week program for homeless youth referred to Tacoma Boat Builders by Coffee Oasis (serving unaccompanied homeless youth) and Tacoma Rescue Mission (serving accompanied homeless youth). Costs include staffing and materials/supplies for the program.
Category: Children
Tacoma Community House
Program: General Operations Support for TCH and REACH Programs
TCH is a community-based multiservice center providing nearly 2,300 services annually to individuals from over 100 different countries. REACH serves Pierce County youth – primarily BIPOC and/or LGBTQI+ – connecting them to housing, mental health, employment, education, and advocacy services. Funds will go to support the general operations budget of TCH and REACH.
Category: Health Care, Children, Housing/Homelessness
Tacoma Pierce County Habitat for Humanity
Program: Aging in Place Critical Home Repairs for Seniors, Veterans, and Persons with Disabilities
Tacoma Habitat’s AIP program seeks to provide healthy futures for the members of the community by ensuring their housing remains safe for them to live in as they age. Funds provided by MultiCare will help TPC Habitat continue serving clients who don’t meet the eligibility requirements of other funding streams, giving them the flexibility to serve seniors who live in mobile homes, or who need critical repairs such as roof replacements that often come with additional unforeseen expenses.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Tacoma Rescue Mission
Program: Tacoma Rescue Mission Operations
Funds from this grant will support the general operations, which include emergency shelter services, street outreach, addiction recovery, and more.
Category: Housing/Homelessness Food Insecurity, Children, Health Care
Tacoma Urban League
Program: Girls with Purpose
Girls With Purpose 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, cultural awareness, and succeed as productive citizens, 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.
Category: Children, Health Care
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center
Program: 2022 – 2023 Academy Dance Program
In the Academy Dance program, racially and socioeconomically diverse youth receive training and mentorship from accomplished local and guest artists and learn life skills that will support their dreams whether they go on to become dancers, teachers, or doctors. Funding will support the TUPAC dance instructors, as well as admin time, operational costs, lodging for new instructors and guest artists, uniforms, shoes, music license fees, costumes, costumers and costume maintenance.
Category: Children
Trinity Neighborhood Health Clinic
Program: Trinity Clinic Sports Physical & Medicaton Access
Funds will promote participation in school-based sports programs by continuing to provide sports physicals for students not able to get physicals in a timely manner and supply medications for patients who cannot afford them. Funds will also cover administrative costs of these programs: rent, insurance, and stipend for Executive Director.
Category: Children, Health Care
University of Puget Sound
Program: University of Puget Sound Access Programs and Summer Academic Challenge
University of Puget Sound’s Access Programs is designed to promote academic excellence and expand college opportunities for local middle and high school students from traditionally underrepresented groups in higher education. Funds will allow Puget Sound to increase Access Programs’ ability to hold student events, provide mentorship, and offer financial support to participants in the Summer Academic Challenge program.
Category: Children
YWCA of Pierce County
Program: Relationship Violence Educaton & Prevention
YWCA’s services help to foster healing and create a healthy future by providing youth with the tools they need to avoid abusive or unhealthy relationships. Funds will be used to support staff time and acquire physical resources for implementation such as supplies and administrative costs.
Category: Children, Health Care
East Pierce County
Bonney Lake Food Bank
Program: The Market: Health Equity through Food Access
Bonney Lake Food Bank’s flagship program is the Market, a food pantry that is clean, organized, and an inviting storefront that is styled to look like a metropolitan market. Bonney Lake Food Bank provides food to those experiencing food insecurity through the lens of dignity-first in every decision made. Funds will be used to purchase high-quality, nutritious foods from local farmers and food producers.
Category: Food Insecurity
Communities In Schools of Puyallup
Program: Site Coordination Expansion
Funds from this grant will be used to help fund the implementation of the CIS unique model of site coordination in Puyallup School District elementary schools. The majority of funds go to support our staff’s time coordinating programs, volunteers and services.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Eatonville Area Council dba Eatonville Family Agency
Program: Food Bank Support
Funds will support the needed food and packing supplies for children in our Backpack Program, purchases of fresh food to fill health gaps and dietary needs of clients all ages, support costs of delivery program supplying food, and extend hours and employ staff to handle case loads and food distribution.
Category: Food Insecurity, Children
Mountain View Community Center
Program: Senior Programs
Mountain View Community Center is focused on senior connections as well as meeting seniors’ basic needs in the community. Funds would be used specifically for senior programs; senior garden project, lunch and activity-based senior programs to purchase supplies and keep programs running.
Category: Food Insecurity, Health Care
Parents and Students in Action dba Adventures
Program: Adventures Program Support-Strengthening Pierce County Youth
Funding will support the needs of their youth programs; After School Program, Summer Program, Teen Connection Programs. Specifically, this grant would assist in the purchase of supplied and food for each program and event areas, development and improvement of programs, and meeting staffing needs to provide adequate adult to child ratios, oversight and protection of these youth.
Category: Health Care, Children
Puyallup Main Street Association
Program: Double Up bucks
Funds would be used to match (with a cap) the SNAP/EBT funds distributed at the Puyallup Farmers’ Market for low-income families. Funds would also be used for administrative costs incurred with the distribution and redemption of the tokens/vouchers that support this effort.
Category: Food Insecurity
Puyallup Valley St Francis House
Program: Emergency Assistance/Homelessness Prevention Program
Funds will be used to pay for portions of rent and utilities for up to 20 needy households.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Step By Step Family Support Center
Program: Maternity Support Services
One hundred percent of the funds will assist in their efforts to address the emerging and ongoing needs of families. This funding will help support families by allowing Step By Step to extend visits to high-risk clients beyond what First Steps funds provide. Additional home visits will help the case managers to identify and address emerging risk factors that can surface such as gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and/or prenatal mood disorders, and/or the use of alcohol or drugs.
Category: Health Care
The TEARS Foundation
Program: Infant Funeral Expenses & Ongoing Grief Support to the Impacted Families
Funds will be used to pay for funeral expenses for families who cannot afford to memorialize their infant child.
Category: Health Care
West Pierce County
Children’s Home Society of WA
Program: Success in School Program
The Success in School program – 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 consistently. Funding will go towards staff salaries and benefits, program supplies and materials, building rent, and utilities.
Category: Children
Communities In Schools of Peninsula
Program: Tutors with Tails
Tutors with Tails is a reading program. CIS Peninsula found kids who get anxious about reading are able to calm down and relax with a furry friend by their side, This grant will be used to purchase books for students to build their personal libraries, provide books for the school libraries, materials, collateral, promotional video, and thank you gifts for their dog teams.
Category: Children
The Mustard Seed Project of Key Peninsula, The
Program: Providing Fragile Elders with Essential Services
The Mustard Seed Project addresses health issues by working with volunteers to provide transportation and opportunities for engagement to seniors on the Key Peninsula. Funds will be used for essential services, transportation, community volunteers, information an referral services, access to health, classes, education, gatherings and support groups, assisted living and memory care homes.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
King County
Ashley House – Bridges to Home
Program: Bridges to Home
At Bridges to Home, a child will 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. Bridges to Home will provide additional support for the family, in a Skilled Pediatric Nursing Facility (the first in Washington) with social workers and medical staff helping to ensure that children are receiving the care they need while parents get the support and training they need to care for their child at home. Funds will help with first year operations.
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 requested would go to help cover uncompensated medical care and ensure the ability to continue serving children and their families.
Category: Children, Health Care
Bike Works
Program: Bike Works Youth Programs
Funds will be used to support the labor and costs associated with running the cycling, mechanics, & leadership programs for BIPOC youth in Southeast Seattle/South King County in 2022. $6,500 of these funds will go towards the salaries of four full-time staff members who lead rides, teach classes, build bikes for giveaways, and facilitate conversations for youth participants. $3,500 will go towards other costs associated with the programs including new bike parts (tubes and tires used to refurbish bikes for the giveaway program), helmets, snacks and activity fees for camps, marketing and outreach costs to recruit and target communities for participation (program flyers and posters).
Category: Children
Cancer Pathways
Program: Camp Sparkle
At Camp Sparkle, children receive support from other children experiencing cancer, often for the first time, and build strong friendships.
They acquire lifelong tools enabling them to cope with the social and emotional effects of cancer (e.g., anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms) and strengthen relationships with others. Funds would be used to support expenses for Camp Sparkle locations in Tacoma, Seattle and Bellevue.
Category: Children, Health Care
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington – Kent CEC
Program: Kent Community Engagement Center (CEC)
Funding from the MCPF will help offset the ~ $374,000 in Community Engagement Center expenses accrued each year. This operating support enables the CEC to provide uninterrupted hygienic services, case managers and welcoming community spaces for individuals in need. This support also aids the center’s operating schedule.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Christ Community Free Clinic
Program: Weekly Saturday Walk-In Free Medical Clinic
Program will add an additional weekly clinic day to provide free medical care to the uninsured and underinsured. Funds will help underwrite the cost of disposable medical supplies and the purchase of diagnostic equipment to expand their capability to evaluate and treat patients and help pay for additional overhead operating cost due to the additional clinic day opening.
Category: Health Care
East African Community Services
Program: Perinatal Family Health Support
The Home Health Support Program was developed by and for the community to meet the perinatal needs of both children and parents negotiating these circumstances. Funds will be used to increase available staff time devoted to the prenatal and perinatal education and home visitation program. Their overall goal is to increase both of their home visitors’ hours to full time in order to meet community need.
Category: Children, Health Care
Entre Hermanos
Program: HIV Care and Support for LGBTQ+ Latinos
Entre Hermanos is focused on the health needs of two marginalized groups: the Latino and LGBTQ+ communities. Funds will be used for community health services targeted at linking Latino clients to HIV care and clinical services. The primary use of funds will be their HIV Peer Navigator and Medical and non-Medical Case Managers.
Category: Health Care
Global to Local
Program: Increasing Cultural Food Access for Low-Income Immigrants and Refugees in South King County
Global to Local’s mission is to address racial inequity in the food system by creating a farm-to-fork distribution channel and connecting people to healthy, affordable, and culturally-relevant food. This project will increase access to affordable and nutritious food for people of color, immigrants, and refugees in Tukwila and south King County while supporting local immigrant and refugee growing culturally relevant produce for their communities. Funds will support program costs including staff time, stipends for outreach and market support by community members, and supplies associated with running the Tukwila Village Farmers Market for the 2023 season (June-October).
Category: Food Insecurity
King County Library System Foundation
Program: Homelessness Programs
KCLS staff across all 50 libraries identify gaps in services in their community through witnessing a need, watching trends, and through talking and interacting with patrons daily. KCLS staff have developed programs to meet the needs of houseless community members and those living in extreme poverty. KCLS Foundation will use funds from MultiCare Community Partnership Fund to provide funds where they are needed within the homelessness initiatives in 2022.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Program: Therapy & Family Services for Child and Youth Victims of Sexual Abuse and their Families
Funds will support KCSARC in providing trauma-specific therapy to 200 child and youth victims of sexual abuse and parent education through the Family Services program to the parents/caregivers of 300 child and youth victims of sexual abuse.
Category: Health Care, Children
Living Well Kent
Program: Culturally Relevant Food Hub
Funds will increase Kent immigrants and refugees’ access to culturally relevant food. The funds will augment donated food received will ensure the food distributed is culturally relevant and nutritious. Support will assist in keeping shelves stocked and mitigate food fluctuations.
Category: Food Insecurity
Mother Africa
Program: Flourishing & Resilient Children
Mother Africa and the F&RC program work to provide services which align closely with the priorities of parents in their communities. They provide them with information about early childhood development, experienced advocates and advocacy support when working with schools and behavioral health providers, and ASQ-3 screeners who speak their language and share their cultural background. Funding will go primarily to expand their capacity to provide screenings, learning books and toys, a relevant $25 gift card for every screening participated in, and support program costs such as staff salaries and materials.
Category: Children, Health Care
Olive Crest
Program: Child Abuse Prevention in Puget Sound Region
Olive Crest supports and strengthens families going through crises that make it impossible for parents to care for their children. Funding will be used for the following program activities: Place children of families in crisis into screened safe homes, connect struggling moms and their children with volunteer safe families and friends, provide moms and kids assistance, peer support and social activities that instill family strength and help achieve stability, refer and link single mothers to community resources, screen, assess, and approve families and homes of applicant volunteers in which children are hosted.
Category: Children, Health Care
Prescription Drug Assistance Foundation
Program: Prescription Drug Assistance Network
PDAF provides personalized prescription assistance to low and moderate-income individuals. Funding will support the ongoing one-on-one assistance services provided to patients and training for care managers and providers.
Category: Health Care
Roots Young Adult Shelter
Program: Supporting Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Seattle
Grant funds would be used to continue to provide the following high-quality, low-barrier programs and services for young adults ages 18-25 experiencing homelessness in King County: emergency overnight shelter, meals, specialized case management services, hygiene and laundry facilities, guest computer lab, non-emergent healthcare, clothing distribution, facilitated peer support, and related services.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Food Insecurity, Health Care
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. Funding will support the grief support services that the Safe Crossings Program provides in King County.
Category: Children, Health Care
Sea Potential
Program: BIPOC Youth Environmental Education
Sea Potential is committed to reducing systemic barriers and empowering BIPOC youth to establish and strengthen their connection to water systems. Through healing activities and ocean justice conversations, our work supports community safety by fostering youth appreciation, connection to, and career prospects with marine ecosystems. Funds would be used for program staff and administrative overhead.
Category: Children, Health Care
Seattle CARES Mentoring Movement
Program: “Rising” Mentorship program serving Black Boys and Girls
Seattle Cares operates a mentoring program which serve black boys and girls in middle and high school. This program provides the cultural, academic and social underpinnings young people need to believe in themselves, succeed in school and prosper in life. Participating students learn social and emotional skills, discover racial pride, witness healthy behaviors modeled by mentors, and share triumphs and challenges with their peers. Funding will be used for the direct costs of organizing and operating our weekly mentorship meetings.
Category: Children
Seattle Center Foundation
Program: 2022 Seattle/King County Clinic
Seattle/King County Clinic will bring together healthcare organizations, civic agencies, non-profits, private businesses and volunteers from across the state to produce a free vision clinic at Seattle Center. 100% of the funds go to directly support the clinic.
Category: Health Care
Somali Health Board
Program: Somali Health Board Health Equity Services
Somali Health Board (SHB) exists to reduce health disparities by filling the health care service gap for Somalis in King County. Funding will equip SHB to increase access to low-cost, culturally-relevant, high-quality health care and health information for the Somali community in King County.
Category: Health Care
St Vincent de Paul Seattle/King County
Program: Emergency Assistance for Essential Needs
All funds will be used to provide emergency assistance in the Kent/Covington/Maple Valley area to serve families who request essential needs such as rent, utilities, food clothing and more.
Category: Food Insecurity, Housing/Homelessness
Vine Maple Place
Program: Stable Families
Stable Families Programs work 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. This grant will increase the number of additional families that will be helped (155 adults and children) and scale-up Stable Families to reduce the service gap.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Wonderland Child & Family Services
Program: Hope RISING Clinic
Wonderland’s Hope RISING Clinic (HRC) provides both assessment and treatment for children from birth through age 12 with prenatal substance exposure
(PSE) and evaluation and diagnosis for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Funds will support Wonderland’s work with families regardless of their ability to pay. They will use funds 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: Continuing Support for Families
This program will provide grocery store gift cards for approximately 300 households to address the continuing food insecurity that was exacerbated during the pandemic. Funds would be used would be used to purchase grocery store gift cards for families at YWCA locations in Central Seattle and in South and East King County.
Category: Food Insecurity
Thurston County
Big Brothers Big Sisters of SW Washington
Program: Career Connections
The Career Connections program is a year-long program that aims to provide traditionally underserved high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to shadow professionals in a variety of fields via one-to-one mentorship. Funds will be used to expand the Career Connections programs to serve more underrepresented high school students and offer them the opportunity to explore more career fields, including medical equipment manufacturing, healthcare, forestry and more.
Category: Children
Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB)
Program: GRuB Garden Project
Each season, Garden-Raised Bounty brings home gardens, training, and resources to anywhere between 50-150 low-income households (funding dependent). Each garden is filled with weed-free, high organic-content soil, and distribute seeds, vegetable starts, gardening guides and provide one-on-one monthly gardening mentorship. 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
Funding will be used to support staff and materials for the Museum’s Sensory Friendly Room, available on busy weekends to give children with sensory sensitivities a quiet space to retreat when they are becoming overstimulated. This space will feature inclusive arts experiences, sensory activities, yoga mats, books, social stories, and various other resources for children and their families.
Category: Children
Homes First
Program: Tenant Services Team
A grant of $5,000 from MultiCare will support Homes First’s Tenant Services Team to empower their residents to maintain safe, stable, budget-friendly housing and in getting what they need to thrive.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative
Program: IHTC General Operations
IHTC’s mission is to engage first responders, Tribes, and other stakeholders in eliminating human trafficking through solution-based knowledge and trauma-informed strategies, and to empower survivors to heal and build self-sufficient, affirming lives. Funds will be used for general operating support.
Category: Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
Interfaith Works
Program: Interfaith Works Homeless Services
Funds will support the general operations of Interfaith Works Homeless Services, including their Supportive Shelter Program and Navigation Team.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
The Olympia Free Clinic
Program: General Operating Funds
The Olympia Free Clinic (TOFC) exists as a safety net to ensure that uninsured and underinsured adults have access to quality health care services and linkages to community resources. This grant will be used to fund general operations at The Olympia Free Clinic (TOFC). Currently, services at TOFC include general medical care, mental health counseling, psychiatric medication management, reproductive health care, gender-affirming health care, physical therapy, and chiropractic care.
Category: Health Care
Rebuilding Together Thurston County
Program: Critical Repairs Program
RTTC requests $12,000 from the MultiCare Community Partnership Fund to help fund their Critical Repairs Program and provide emergency repairs for homeowners in need. $10,000 of grant funds will go to purchasing building materials, hiring skilled contractors, and paying necessary fees. The remaining $2,000 will go towards personnel costs for the Critical Repairs Program Coordinator. The Coordinator completes site inspections, manages timelines, volunteers, contractors, and completes some repairs.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
Saint Martin’s University
Program: Saints Nursing Student Emergency Fund
This grant will be used to establish the Nursing Student Emergency Fund which will provide short-term emergency funding for nursing student financial emergencies; short-term childcare, gas gift cards, basic laptops, food, utilities to prevent students from becoming homeless.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity
Program: Critical Home Repairs Program
The core objective for the Critical Home Repair (CHR) Program 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 2023, helping residents avoid displacement and homelessness.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
South Sound Parent to Parent
Program: Growing Learners Transitional Preschool
The funds will be earmarked to direct services via preschool staff, which also allows SSP2P to leverage their fundraising income to purchase classroom materials, allergen safe snack foods and beverages, digestive needs alternatives, art materials, therapeutic and adaptive toys, and tools.
Category: Children
TOGETHER! – Club House
Program: Club House Before and After School & Summer Programming
Club House delivers high-quality, before- and after-school, as well as summertime academic support, enrichment, and social-emotional development in partnership with elementary and middle school students and families at the four highest-need school sites in North Thurston Public Schools (NTPS). Funds will support TOGETHER!’s Club House program operations including helping purchase materials and supplies that support and enhance each student’s health, safety, and nutrition.
Category: Children, Health Care, Food Insecurity
TOGETHER! – Tumwater Schools
Program: Tumwater Community Schools
The work of the Tumwater Community Schools program improves attendance and graduation rates among vulnerable, high-risk student populations, improves food and housing security, and helps young people and families to thrive. Funding will support operating expenses such as staffing; technology to support their work; materials and supplies; emergency basic needs assistance; and more.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Housing/Homlessness
Kitsap County
North Kitsap Fishline
Program: Fishline Counseling Services
Fishline respectfully requests funding to continue providing professional mental health counseling services for their clients and residents of the North Kitsap community for 2023.
Category: Health Care
Peninsula Community Health Services
Program: Improving Health Outcomes Through Medical Legal Partnership (IHOP)
The purpose of this project is to expand PCHS’ Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) to rural Pierce County and to increase the MLP capacity and scope of services offered to their patients. Funds will be used to pay a percentage of an in-house attorney’s salary to implement the three MLP expansion pillars.
Category: Health Care
Scarlet Road
Program: Aftercare Wraparound Recovery and Housing Support
Scarlet Road is the only provider of services for survivors of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in Kitsap County. Their continuum of care includes direct outreach, crisis services, stabilization, economic empowerment, and long-term recovery support.
This project will support survivors to attain healing and long-term success by providing critical crisis services and connecting them with safe and stable housing. Funds will support the Aftercare program operations.
Category: Housing/Homelessness
South Kitsap Helpline
Program: Community-Centered Food Distribution
South Kitsap Helpline helps their guests meet emergency needs and achieve better health and stability by providing nutritious food, direct emergency assistance, and connection to other vital services and resources in the community. Grant funding will be used for staffing, supplies, food purchase and procurement, and other essential expenses for maintaining their core programs.
Category: Food Insecurity, Health Care
YWCA of Kitsap County
Program: Wrap Around Services for Domestic Violence and Homeless Survivors
Funding will help get staffing levels back to where there were before the pandemic and enable YWCA of Kitsap County to expand their YWCA Survivor Therapy Program.
Category: Housing/Homelessness, Health Care, Food Insecurity