Satterberg Foundation

Fall 2009 Capacity Building Awards

Explorations in Math:$3,000

Explorations in Math is an organization dedicated to helping elementery students succeed in math with a clear focus on students in economically challenged and racially diverse comunities. This award is for the investment in human resources infrastructure and staff development with the goal of improving employee communication, collaboration and satisfaction through tools, technology, and training.

Freehold Studio Lab Theatre:$3,000

As a center for  the practice of theatre, Freehold engages artists of all levels in training and experimentation so that they may become more innovative and heartfelt in generating theatre that has a lasting impact on the community we serve. This award is for strengthening fundraising capacity in order to grow and provide sustained support for the wholly subsidized  Engaged Theatre progam by formalizing the role of a part-time grant writer.

Jefferson County Community Foundation:$2.950

The missison if the  Jefferson County Community Foundation (JCCF) is to inspire donors to invest in Jefferson County and to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation through grant making, enlightened civic leadership, and strategic investments.  This award is to assist JCCF in achieving organizational excellence through the national standards process  and receive the National Standards Seal.

Refugee Support Network:$3,000

The mission of the Refugee Support Network is to increase services for refugees in King County through capacity and sustainability building in community based organizations.  This award is to assist  with development training  of our Americorp and  Vista members.

Seattle Center Foundation:$3,000

The mission of the Seattle Center Foundation is to support Seattle Center in funding quality facilities and experiences that educate, connect and entertain.  This award is to assist in increasing the ability to recruit, engage and retain volunteers to support our ongoing programs and the 50th Anniversary celebration.

Team Read:$3,000

Team Read's mission is to deliver a proven, replicable K-12 model to ensure reading success for struggling readers through the use of peer tutors.  Team Read helps Seattle's neediest public elementary school students achieve reading success.  This award will provide funds for hiring a consultant to oversee and manage the board's strategic planning process over a six month period.

Theatre Off Jackson:$3,000

Theatre Off Jackson (TOJ) ensures that a vibrant arts culture thrives in Seattle by operating a sustainable venue dedicated to performance, art, and community.  This award will assist in funding a full day board and staff retreat  designed to reach a shared understanding of the core stragegic  priorities and develop a clear path of implementation with action items to assign to board and staff members.

Summer 2009 Capacity Building Awards

Art Collective Issaquah dba ArtEAST: $3,000

ArtEAST is dedicated to making the arts an integral part of life in our community through teaching, exhibiting, and creating.  This grant is for development (with the assistance of Shunpike's Sustainable Organizations Services) to continue board recruitment and development, develop a fundraising plan and begin development of a strategic plan. 

Family Works: $2,500

Family Works is a family resource center and food bank that nourishes and strengthens families, by providing support and information in the areas of nutrition, parenting, employment, literacy, household management, and parent/child activities.  This grant is to support a one day board and staff retreat with the services of a facilitator who will guide us in the development of a plan that we can use for the next two years to accomplish our goals.

Giddens School: $2,819

Giddens School provides an academically excellent curriculum enriched with a commitment to critical thinking and social responsibility. Staff and families create a community that nourishes diversity, sense of self, and love of learning.  This grant shall support one early learning teacher to  attend the NAEYC conference, and will support one 90 minute session for the early learning staff.

Issaquah Schools Foundation: $3,000

The mission of the Issaquah Schools Foundation, in partnership with the Issaquah School District, is to drive resources so that all students can achieve the promise of their academic potential.  This award shall support improving board skills in fundraising, increase  donor retention rates, and improve donor record tracking.

Little Bit Therapetic Riding Center: $1,600

Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center's mission is to improve the bodies, minds and spirits of children and adults with disabilities through the use of the horse (of course) in therapy and to be an inspiration and educational resource to the therapeutic riding profession, both regionally and nationally.  This award supports  the hiring of an Executive Coach for four months of coaching of the executive director, leading to charting the transition course for Little Bit, while maintaing its current viability as an organization.

Restorative Justice Mediation Program: $3,000

The San Diego Resorative Justice Mediation Program (RJMP) seeks to prevent the spiral of crime by bringing healing to communities. This award will go toward the planning, implementation and follow-up associated with each of the two community forums scheduled for summer 2009, one in July and near Labor Day.

Salish Sea Expeditions: $3,000

Salish Sea Expediton's mission is to inspire a passion for exploring, understanding and respecting the marine environment through hands-on scientific inquiry on Puget Sound.  We offer hands-on learning experiences that weave together boat-based scientific field research and classroom study.  This grant shall support stragegic planning. Success will be measured by the production of a final 2010-2014 strategic plan document, and ratification of this plan by the board of directors.

Spring 2009 Capacity Building Awards

Center for Wooden Boats: $3,000

The mission of the Center for Wooden Boats is to provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed,preserved and passed along to future generations.  This grant is for a fundraising consultant; our goals are to  build long term financial stability, improve stewardship of donors, and increase fundraising efficiency.

CD Forum for Arts and Ideas: $3,000

Founded in 1999, the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas' (CD Forum) mission is to present and produce African-American cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area. Our vision is to inspire new thoughts and challenge assumptions about African-American culture.  This grant is for (with the help of a consultant) analyzing and evaluating CD Forum's current development infrastructure, provide skill-building workshops for staff and  board and help the organization build a calendar of fundraising activities for its next fiscal year.

Community Alliance for Global Justice: $2,400

Community Alliance for Global Justice is an alliance of individuals and organizations working  in Seattle and the region who believe the global economy should embody the core values of social justice, environmental sustainability, democracy and self-determination. This grant is for a consultant to help assess our fundraising strengths and needs, and then to conduct a training to provide us with the skills to lead fundraising.

Children's Discovery Foundation dba The Funhouse: $3,000

The mission of The Funhouse is to serve the urgent needs of young people by strengthening community bonds and providing a safe, stimulating environment where all can learn, discover, create, socialize and be heard.  The grant is to fund a part-time consultant for grant research and writing.

Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB): $3,000

Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB) is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicted to nourishing a strong community by empowering people to grow good food.  We grow inspired, self-confident and community minded youth through educational and employment opportunities.  This grant is for funding a business coach to increae our organizational capacity.

Port Townsend Public Library Foundation: $3,000

The Port Townsend Public Library Foundation encourages a lifelong love of reading and learning and supports the quest for knowledge, creativity, and adventure by providing free and open access to information and ideas.  This grant is for funding a consultant who will train and lead us through the process of developing a feasibility study and solicitation plan to successfully execute our fundraising goals.

Vashon Allied Arts: $3,000

Vashon Allied Arts' mission is to serve as a center for the arts on Vashon-Maury Island with programs and activities that are presented in a community context that honors and supports artists, audiences, patrons, learners of all ages and families.  This grant is to fulfill our goal to put into place an operational grant writing program that relies on a written plan and calendar in order to increase our organizational health and capacity to deliver arts services.

Winter 2009 Capacity Building Awards

City Club: $3,000

Funding to support a comprehensive four-month impact study consisting of a refinement of  sample metrics, data collection, and analysis to be reported to the city club board and other key constituents. 

Learning Disabilities Association of Washington (LDA):$3,000

Funding to assist in the development of a Fundraising strategy in order to increase  financial sustainability and organizational impact.

New futures: $3,000

Funding for Cultural Compentency Training in order to focus on strengthening New Futures' leadership as a culturally competent organization - one of  our core values and an area  that touches all three of the primary strategies  of our strategic plan.

Washington Alliance for Arts (ArtsEd Washington):$3,000

ArtsEd Washington's mission is to advance arts education through leadership, partnership and communication. Our goal is to see that every child has access to the best possible education, one in which the arts are fully integrated into the regular curriculum.

By combining a facilitated research process and and a strategic planning retreat, we plan to develop ways to collarboratively and strategically move the arts education agenda forward in partnership with the other major arts and education agencies in our state.

Way Back Inn: $700.00

Way Back Inn's mission is to return dignity to people by providing 90 day transitional housing for homeless families having at least one child  under 15 years of age.  This grant is to support one of two retreats in 2009 which will focus on strategic planning.