Satterberg Foundation

Summer 2011 Capacity Building Awards

Arts Ed Washington: $5,000

Arts Ed Washington (ArtsEd WA) works to advance arts education for all students through leadership, partnership and communication. Satterberg Foundation funding will allow ArtsEd WA to hire a consultant to improve the functionality of the organization's individual giving processes and increase the skills of staff through mentorship.

Arts In Motion: $5,000

Arts In Motion (AIM) is a non-profit arts education program committed to bringing affordable, quality arts education to Seattle's diverse Rainier Valley and its surrounding area. This award will help AIM to produce a manual for use in their fund development, and provide training for board and staff.

Global Visionaries: $5,000

Global Visionaries' mission is to educate and empower youth from diverse socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, and geographic backgrounds to become active leaders and global citizens who promote social and environmental justice education and community service at home and abroad. Satterberg Foundation funding will help to create additional curriculum, to strengthen current evaluation support and to train additional teachers.

Prospect Enrichment Preschool: $4,000

Prospect Enrichment Preschool (PEP) welcomes all children and families into our diverse environment without discrimination and regardless of ability to pay. PEP is a unique and treasured resource for Central District families, and has been educating economically disadvantaged children for over 30 years. This award will assist PEP by funding succession planning and leadership development opportunities.

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: $5,000

The mission of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance is to protect and preserve the waters of Puget Sound by tracking down and stopping the discharge of pollutants into the waters of Puget Sound. Satterberg Foundation funding will pay for a portion of a strategic planning consultant's work in the second stage of an 8-month strategic planning process.

Veggielution: $5,000

Veggielution empowers youth and adults from diverse backgrounds to create a sustainable food system in San Jose, CA. With Satterberg Foundation funding Veggielution will execute a strategic planning process, ensuring their viability and sustainability into the future.

Winter 2011 Capacity Building Awards

Helping Link: $5,000 

The mission of Helping Link is to empower Vietnamese-American refugees and immigrants to achieve personal and family acculturation and self-sufficiency while nurturing community service and youth leadership. This award will help provide financial management assistance to revitalize Helping Link's in-house fiscal knowledge, update systems and adapt their fiscal controls to comply with new rules and regulations.

 Jefferson Land Trust: $5,000

The mission of Jefferson Land Trust is 'helping the community preserve open space, working lands and habitat forever'. It is their aim to help the community meet its needs in terms of land protection. They collaborate with partners at all levels in the community, from individuals to groups of citizens and from other non-profit organizations to public agencies. This award will help fund a comprehensive internal organizational strategic planning process for the development of a 5-10 year organizational strategic plan.

Rolling Readers: $4,000

Rolling Readers' mission is to prevent the devastating consequences of illiteracy among the children of San Diego. Their goal is to inspire children, with less opportunity, to love reading through read aloud volunteers and new book ownership. This award will allow Rolling Readers to hire a consultant to work with their Board of Directors and Executive Director on an assessment and sustainability, board, and resource development plan and implementation.

Vida Verde: $5,000

Vida Verde Nature Education is a non-profit that promotes educational equity by providing free, overnight, environmental learning experiences for students who don't otherwise get the opportunity. This award will help Vida Verde to create a comprehensive best-practices 'Operations Manual' for use in future administrative personnel changes and future growth and expansion of their mission and programs.

Whatcom Literacy Council: $5,000

Whatcom Literacy Council(WLC)'s mission is to empower adults to achieve their goals and change their lives through literacy. WLC tutors work with learners in a variety of tutorial formats including one-to-one tutoring, small groups, in classrooms as instructional aides, and in Communication Skills classes. With the help of this award, WLC will hire consultants in fund development and technology to help map out WLC's strategies in those two key areas.

Summer 2010 Capacity Building Awards

Amara: $3,000

Amara Parenting & Adoption Services is committed to finding stable and nurturing families for children. They say "We believe all are entitled to be raised in stable and nurturing families. Working toward this goal , we begin with an inclusive philosophy toward prospective parents, with our primary consideration being what they have to offer a child." This award was given to help support two full-day, off-site retreats for the Amara strategic planning task force.

Bike Works:  $3,000

The mission of Bike Works is to build sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. The Satterberg award will allow Bike Works to dedicate staff and consultant resources to the improvement efforts in financial management.

Bird Note:  $3,000

Bird Note educates and inspires people to care about the future of the natural world, by producing and distributing BirdNote - remarkable stories about the lives of birds. (They) focus on birds as the harbingers of environmental change and how, if we (the listeners) understand, feel connected to, and help them, we contribute to our own environmental health.  This award will help fund formal board and fundraising raining for new and existing members to integrate and plan for future board recruitment, and to advance the strategic plan.

Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum):  $3,000

The CD Forum presents and produces African-American cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area. (The) vision is to inspire new thoughts and to challenge assumptions about African-American culture. This award will enable CD Forum  to contract the services of an experienced marketing consultant to guide them through the analysis and planning activities and deliver a comprehensive media plan.

Longhouse Media: $3,000

The mission of Longhouse Media is to catalyze Indigenous people and communities to use media as a tool for self-expression, cultural preservation, and social change. Our primary youth program, Native Lens, supports the growth and expression of Native youth through digital media making.  This award will help fund a qualified facilitator for board training, focused in the areas of finance, governance, and marketing.

Youth Media Institute (YMI): $3,000

Youth Media Institute is an organization that strives to empower youth to become powerful leaders and artists by using media technologies to transform images about their communities, cultures, and themselves. The Satterberg award will provide YMI with the funds to work with an experienced consultant to strategize continued growth and development.