Fall 2009 Grants Awarded | ||
| Programs for Youth | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| Bike Works Seattle | Youth programs: building sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. | $5,000 |
| Camp Fire, Snohomish County Everett | Self Reliance educational and development program for youth living at low-income housing sites. | $5,000 |
| Cocoon House Everett | Project SAFE teen homelessness prevention program, from a "family systems" approach. | $8,000 |
| Senior Services Seattle | Kinship Care program, providing help for people taking on the responsibility of raising children from their extended families. | $5,000 |
| Technology Access Foundation Seattle | TechStart Program, preparing underserved children of color for higher education and professional success. | $8,000 |
| Domestic Violence Services | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| Amara Parenting & Adoption Seattle | Foster and adoption services, finding homes for children living in foster care who have been neglected and/or abused. | $8,500 |
| CASA -- Washington Seattle | Providing volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children in the court system in 34 counties and three tribes. | $8,000 |
| Deaconness Children's Services Everett | IMPACT Program for parents who are prepared to make major changes in the way they parent their young children. | $8,500 |
| National Council Jewish Women Seattle | Shalom Bayit, providing furniture and household items to women transitioning from violent homes to permanent housing. | $7,000 |
| Turning Pointe DV Services Shelton | Program operations: the first-ever Mason County Domestic Violence Shelter, with capacity to house up to 54 people. | $8,500 |
| YWCA Kitsap County Bremerton | YWCA ALIVE program: Alternatives to Living In a Violent Environment, temporary emergency housing and support. | $8,500 |
| Shelter Programs | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| Friends of Youth Redmond | New Ground Transitional Living Program: enhanced residential services for formerly homeless teen moms and babies. | $8,500 |
| Holy Rosary Parish Seattle | Overnight Shelter, providing provides emergency housing for women from the downtown Noel House emergency shelter. | $4,000 |
| Interfaith Assn of NW Washington Everett | Case management and advocacy for women, children and youth in Snohomish County. | $8,500 |
| Plymouth Housing Group Seattle | Housing Support case management program targeted specifically to women-only floors of residential apartment buildings. | $10,000 |
| Services for Low Income Women | ||
| Organization | Project | Grant |
| Clemente Course, Jeff. County Port Angeles | Humanities classes for low-income and formerly homeless women in Clallam County. | $6,000 |
| Dress for Success Seattle Seattle | Promoting self-confidence for low-income women transitioning into the workplace by outfitting them with appropriate interview clothing and working attire; also ongoing career support. | $5,000 |
| First Step Family Support Center Port Angeles | Port Angeles Drop-In Center: a program of a 30-year-old family support center serving nearly 4,500 kids and parents each year. | $10,000 |
| Healthy Start Redmond | Programs in Snohomish County: voluntary, confidential and free parenting education program for young parents. | $3,000 |
| WWEE Tacoma | REACH Plus job training program for women (a "poverty reduction program") in King County. | $8,500 |