Winter 2007 Grants Awarded | ||
| Programs for Youth | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| 826 Seattle Seattle | A free, creative writing program for youth, grades 1-12. They offer writing workshops, after-school tutoring and mentoring, and field trips. | $5,000 |
| American Indian Institute | Traditional circle of Indian Elders and Youth, 2008 Gathering. 400 participants will attend the 31st gathering, hosted by the Lake Superior Ojibwe Indians. | $5,000 |
| Catholic Community Services Seattle | Youth Tutoring Program for 1-12 graders living in five Seattle public housing communities. Students are tutored in a 1-to-1 setting two to four evenings a week. | $10,000 |
| Family Planning of Clallam County Port Angeles | Youth Education Program. The goal is to improve health by reducing risky behaviors and unintended pregnancies. They provide fact-based information through presentations and support groups | $10,000 |
| Friends of Youth Redmond | New Ground program, a transitional living program for formerly homeless young women and their babies: programs in health, education, employment, stable housing, and financial stability through both individual and group meetings. | $10,000 |
| Mockingbird Society Seattle | Youth LEAD (Leadership, Employment/Education and Advocacy Development) is working to help foster youth individually to maneuver the Child Welfare System, develop employment skills, build literacy and develop self confidence. | $8,000 |
| SouthEast Effective Development Seattle | Youth arts and drama program for Southeast Seattle. Summer STAGE teen drama production, a Young Playwrights Festival, designing and fabricating artwork for public spaces. | $5,000 |
| Treehouse Seattle | Tutoring Program for youth in the state's foster care system. They place certified teachers in six schools during school hours and at an after-school program in the Rainer Valley. | $10,000 |
| YouthCare Seattle | Occupational Skills Center: the goal is to work with homeless youth and get 75% to enroll in post-secondary education or obtain unsubsidized employment. | $12,000 |
| Programs for Women in Need | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| HopeLink Redmond | Family Development Program: building existing family systems, most headed by single mothers. They provide long-term intensive case management, employment services, and parenting and life skills. | $12,000 |
| Operation Nightwatch Seattle | Women's emergency shelter for 25 homeless women, under contract to Salvation Army. Named "Tonya's Room" after a woman who was murdered after being turned away from a shelter because of lack of space. | $12,000 |
| Providence Hospitality House Seattle | General shelter operations: founded in 1979, providing shelter, counseling, food, and childcare for abused women and children. | $10,000 |
| Seattle Goodwill Seattle | Case management provided to students in the job training and education programs. They help students access support in nutrition, healthcare, housing, counseling and transportation. | $10,000 |
| Domestic Violence Services | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| Center for Battered Women Everett | The only confidential shelter for abused women in Snohomish County: a 15 bed confidential shelter, 20 transitional housing units, a children's program, legal advocacy and referral services. | $8,000 |
| Eastside Domestic Violence Program Bellevue | General operations: includes shelter and safety programs, a motel voucher program, a Latina outreach program, a rent assistance program, and a "coming home program" that's a collaboration with other agencies to help battered women transition to permanent housing. | $10,000 |
| Jumping Mouse Children's Center Port Townsend | General operations: through long-term, intensive play therapy and social advocacy, they resolve barriers to children's healthy development. They provide long-term, parent education, and advocacy in courts and the schools. | $8,000 |
| Capital Requests | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| DVSA Port Townsend | Capital funding towards the $1.85 million capital campaign to build Dove House, providing transitional shelter for women and children, counseling sessions, children's programming, and administrative offices. It will be the only transitional residence for survivors of domestic violence in Jefferson County. | $25,000 |