Past Capacity Building Award Recipients
Fall 2008 Capacity Building Awards
Bike Works: $3,000
Bike Works' mission is to build sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. Young people are taught how to fix bikes, rewarded with their own set of wheels, and in turn provide affordable bicycle services to the community. This grant will assist Bike Works in articulating a clear vision to guide its future growth and development through a comprehensive strategic planning process.
Lopez Island Family Resource Center: $3,000
Lopez Island Family Resource Center's (LIFRC) mission is to foster healthy families, and in turn a healthy community, by supporting and enhancing the security, well-being, educaiton and life success of children, families and community members. This award will allow the LIFRC staff to gather and compile information to allow staff the opportunity to identify emerging community needs. By identifying these needs early on, the LIFRC can be proactive in addressing them.
A Reason to Survive, Inc.: $3,000
A Reason to Survive (ARTS) is dedicated to healing, inspiring, and empowering children facing life challenges by providing innovative arts-based programs, education, and job opportunities. This funding will assist development of a 3 - 5 year Strategic Plan as part of comprehensive capacity building.
Seattle Youth Garden Works: $3,000
Seattle Youth Garden Works (SYGW) empowers homeless and underserved youth, ages 14 - 21, through garden-based education and employment. The goal of this capacity building effort is two-fold: to take the organization to the next level by developing a vision of where SYGW is aspiring to, and to develop a five-year strategic plan to provide a road map of how to get there.
Shunpike: $3,000
Shunpike Arts Collective (Shunpike) strengthens the Seattle arts community by partnering with small and mid-size arts groups to develop the business tools they need to succeed. This capacity endeavor is to expand the range of services to include more IT/database assistance.
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 in after-school programs. This grant will help Team Read work with a consultant to build the capacity of the Board of Directors.
Theatre Off Jackson: $3,000
The Theater Off Jackson (TOJ) ensures that a vibrant arts culture thrives in Seattle by operating a sustainable venue dedicated to performance, art, and community. This funding is to help development of a strategic plan for the management of TOJ
Spring 2008 Capacity Building Awards
Arts in Motion (AIM): $3,000
AIM, founded in 2004, is "an arts education program committed to bringing affordable,quality arts education to Seattle's diverse Rainier Valley and its surrounding area. In addition to providing a comprehensive curriculum to accommodate all skill levels and ages at our community art school, AIM offers unique arts education opportunities to schools and organizations." This award is for Planning & Fund Development to bridge the gap between current City of Seattle funding and future funding to be submitted to the City of Seattle.
Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE): $3,000
Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) is a laboratory of sound and vision. "A perfomance company and a music ensemble; the multi-faceted performers and artists brew strong hallucinatory poisons:music, butoh inspired dance theater-exploding the boundries of art. DAE aims to push the limits of composition,improvisation,collaboration and multi-art experimentation with the goal of creating refined and powerful works of art." This award is for defining a solid financial system, recruit and train new board members, and develop a five year strategic plan to guide the growth of the organization.
Global Source Education (GSE): $3,000
Global Source Education (GSE) "serves K-12 education by cultivating teacher leadership, enhancing curriculum, and building learning communities. It addresses crucial issues facing humanity related to sustainability, human rights and global understanding." This award is for installing a new accounting system and preparing an annual report with the assistance of a consultant in order to apply for larger capacity building grants.
Noel House Programs/Rose of Lima House: $3,000
Noel House Programs "provide a safe and comfortable shelter for a diverse community of homeless women, particularly those most vulnerable. Rose of Lima House affords women the opportunity to regain dignity, restore relationships, and transition from homelessness to safe, stable and permanent housing." This award is for a muti-pronged effort to attract and retain new supporters.
Jumping Mouse Children's Center (JMCC): $2,500
Jumping Mouse Children's Center (JMCC) "provides a creative therapy environment for children. The primary purpose is to provide mental health services to children and their families, particularly to those who cannot otherwise access these services in our rural area. The goal is to emphazize the critical developmental phases of the younger child, in order to reclaim aspects of self and rebuild the courage each child requires to journey into his/her world with its fears, challenges, and mysteries." This award is for adopting new and upgraded tools and methods of evaluation that will help maximize organizational potential.
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA): $2,500
The Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) supports "the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed. The mission of the World Seed Fund, a program of Organic Seed Alliance is the charitable distribution of seed to community groups and organizations that meed them most and also to those who cannot afford to purchase them. In addition to seeds, educational information is also provided." This award is to establish strategies to increase OSA positive impact on World Seed Fund recipients.
Winter 2008 Capacity Building Awards
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS): $3,000
ADWAS is the only organization in the Pacific Northwest that provides services to Deaf and Deaf-Blind victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, transitional housing for these victims, Deaf community education , and training of professionals. ADWAS believes that violence is a learned behavior and cannot be tolerated. This award will assist with expanding their private funding base to support operating costs and services.
Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club (BBTC): $3,000
BBTC creates and maintains sustainable mountain biking opportunities in Washington by advocating for the protection of existing trials and the development of new trails and mountain bike parks. This award will support hiring an interim director, conducting a strategic planning process, holding a weekend retreat for staff and board, developing and implementing work plans, and training and motivating board members.
Earth Share of Washington (ESW): $3,000
ESW inspires the people of Washington to care and to provide for livable communities and a healthy planet. This award will help guide ESW staff and four board members through the Good to Great series.
Eastside Domestic Violence Program (EDVP): $2,250
EDVP works to end domestic violence by changing individual, institutional and societal beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate it. This award will be used to provide eTapestry database training for the Resource Development Department.
Homestead Community Land Trust (Homestead): $3,000
Homestead is a grassroots, membership-based non-profit organization with a mission to strengthen Seattle area neighborhoods by creating permanently affordable homeownership for low and moderate income households. This award will help with creating a business plan.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest : $3,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. This award will aid with expanding services to birth families and their children in a Parent-Child Visitation Program. This will be done by providing staff training through professional parent-coaching trainings, in-service training and supervison.
Washington Association of Local WIC Agencies (WALWICA) $3,000
WALWICA supports the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Program. It's mission is to advocate for quality WIC services for eligible women, infants, and children and to provide trainning, leadership and educational resources for local WIC staff. This award will help fund strategic planning to develop a clear vision and direction.
Westside Baby: $3,000
Westside Baby, in partnership with their community, provides essential items to local children in need by collecting and distributing diapers, clothing, toys and equipment. This award will aid with implementing their strategic plan.
Fall 2007 Capacity Building Awards
Twenty-One Acres, $3,000
This grant provides $3,000.00 for hiring a fundraising consultant and complete a fundraising plan in the first quarter of 2008 and begin implementation of the plan in April.
Bainbridge Performing Arts, $2,500
Country Doctor Community Health Centers, $3,000
Country Doctor Community Health Centers exist to improve the health of their community by providing high-quality, caring,culturally appropriate primary health care that addresses the needs of people regardlessof their ability to pay. This grant supports board development: the goal is, through training and education, to become an effective fundraising Board of Directors.
Washington Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, $3,000
The Washington Appleseed Center works "to build a just society through education, legal advocacy, community activism and policy expertise, addressing root causes and producing practical solutions. As one of the nation's largest legal pro bono networks, Appleseed Centers work both independently and collectively, bringing their own experiences to create local solutions that are nationally relevant."
Washington Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest
This grant is to hire a part-time development associate which would help take fundraising efforts to the next level, strengthening long-term success and sustainablility.
Washington Homeownership Center, $3,000
This is "an unbiased, community-sponsored, non-profit agency that knows the programs, products and people throughout Washington State that can help make your dream of homeownership a reality." Washington Homeownership Center
Fund Development: The Satterberg Foundation grant provides funding for focusing on grants, events and individual giving through work with a consultant.
Summer 2007 Capacity Building Awards
East African Community Services: $3,000
EACS is an inclusive organization that is dedicated to improving the well-being and quality of life of refugees and their families, and to preserve their diverse cultural heritage. They seek to develop and strengthen the capacity of Somalis and East Africans in King County at individual, family and community levels. This grant provides $3,000.00 for hiring a financial services professional to assist in developing the appropriate internal financial systems necessary for EACS to operate efficiently and manage anticipated growth.
Seattle Youth Garden Works: $3,000
Seattle Youth Garden Works empowers homeless and underserved youth through garden-based education and employment. SYGW promotes personal, social and environmental awareness and responsibility by providing horticulture-based education, employment and entrepreneurial activities. This grant provides $3000.00 for anti-oppression training for SYGW staff and Advisory Board.
University District Service Providers Alliance:$3,000
USPD Alliance is a formal alliance of non-profit human service agencies working together to create a comprehensive continuum of care for homeless an street-involved youth. This grant provides $3,000.00 for strategic planning and board and staff training.
Washington Alliance for Arts Education dba ArtsEd Washington: $3,000
ArtsEd Washington’s mission is to advance arts education through leadership, partnership and communication. They want to see every child in Washington State has access to the best possible education, one in which the arts are fully integrated into the regular curriculum. This grant provides $3,000.00 for a resource development plan with the goal to increase total membership from 178 to 312 individuals and institutions within the next year.
Wing It Productions (WIP) is dedicated to producing theatrical events to enlighten and entertain audiences of all ages using all mediums of theater and multimedia. WIP’s primary goal is to create improvisational-based theatre and bring the art of improvisation into the mainstream of awareness in our culture. This grant provides $2,000.00 for board development and fund development work with a consultant.
Spring 2007 Capacity Building Awards
Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation $2,800.00
The mission of Aquatic Adventures is to educate urban youth science, the ocean and nature through tuition-free programs, creating the next generation of scientific and community leaders. This grant provides funds for Development of Internal Systems. Through developing technology and expertise, an internal system will be created so that Aquatic Adventures can dramatically improve their ability to obtain and organize relevant information on their clients, supporters, staff, donors and others involved in the work of the organization.
The mission of the ACLF is to build individual and community leadership which: promotes greater economic, social and political justice; develops and mentors ethical, highly skilled and caring Asian and Pacific Islander (API) leaders who are committed to the API community and; strengthens the unique and diverse voices of the united API community in the democratic process. This grant provides funds for Strategic and Operational Planning. ACLF will clarify and gain consensus about eh future direction the their organization and create a fundraising and operational plan that will guide them.
Elizabeth Gregory Home $3,000.00
The mission of Elizabeth Gregory Home is to serve women who are recovering from homelessness by providing transitional supportive housing and hospitality that will help them move towards an enriched life within the community. Hosting up to nine women at a time, they offer 24-hour care and support services for six months to two years to prepare their guests to live independently. This grant provides funds for Personnel and Policy Manuals provided by consultant Seth Rosenberg.
Helping Link $3,000.00
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 grant provides funds for Strategic and Fund Development Planning.
LATCH is a grass-roots coalition of Puget Sound area congregations dedicated to increasing the supply of affordable housing for low-income families and people with special needs. This grant provides funds for work with consultant Melora Hiller to frame and develop a Strategic Decision Making process.
Washington CASH is a micro-enterprise development organization that provides individuals with low incomes and those with disabilities access to capital and business development training. This grant provides funds for two staff members to attend the Association for Enterprise Opportunity Annual Conference.
Winter 2007 Capacity Building Awards
826 Seattle $2,635.00
The mission of the Center for Wooden Boats is to provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved and passed along to future generations. This grant provides funds for their Best Practices in Risk Management Project. They will write a Risk Management handbook for use by the Center, by working with other experiential maritime educators, piloting a collaborative methodology that could be used by other groups in the future.
Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB) is a grass-roots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing a strong community by empowering people to grow food. They grow inspired, self-confident and community-minded youth through educational and employment opportunities. This grant provides funds for leadership development and management skill development. GruB is investing in their long-term efficacy by engaging in organizational training.
The mission of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) is to foster respect for the natural world and encourage environmental stewardship through interactive exhibits for the public, training and support of teachers and students, and cooperative partnerships with other agencies to promote the scientific study of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits. This grant provides funds for strategic planning. Strategic planning is a component of a major effort in the part of PTMSC to build its capacity including the hiring of a development director, upgrading technology and training their Board in fundraising.
The Port Townsend Public Library encourages the 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 provides funds for professional training and follow-up. KLMayer Consulting Group will be engaged to conduct training for the library director and volunteer support groups to develop a fund development plan that will focus on a set of collective goals for library improvement.
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas $2,000.00
The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas’ (CD Forum) mission is to present and produce African-American cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area. Their vision is to inspire new thoughts and challenge assumptions about African-American culture. This grant provides funds for a systems audit. CD Forum will perform a preliminary audit of the organization’s internal controls and financial procedures to identify practices and procedures that can be improved.
Museum of History & Industry $2,000.00
The Museum of History & Industry’s (MOHAI) primary purpose is to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Seattle, King County, Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest for the benefit of present and future generations. This grant provides funds for a feasibility study. MOHAI will contract with a local Seattle development consulting firm (the Alford Group) to explore the feasibility of building a new MOHAI museum in the former Naval Reserve Armory building on South Lake Union in Seattle.
Museum Without Walls $2,000.00
Museum Without Walls, a unique non-profit project introducing students to historical instances of intolerance and racism through the voices of individuals who experienced them. This grant provides funds for training of 20 volunteers to facilitate anti-intolerance, anti-bias workshops for middle and high school students.
Northwest Natural Resources Group $2,000.00
The Northwest Natural Resources Group is a non-profit conservation organization that promotes innovative forest management strategies that improve the health of forest and freshwater ecosystems while increasing economic development in rural communities. This grant provides funds for the implementation of NNRG’s new 5-year plan through a weekend board retreat in April 2007 to establish “nest steps” and discuss new roles for the board.
Passages Northwest $2,000.00
Passages Northwest inspires courage and leadership in girls through the integrated exploration of the arts and the natural environment. This grant provides funds for office relocation.
Sharehouse $2,000.00
The Sharehouse serves people who have been homeless by providing them with their choice of donated furniture and household goods. This grant provides funds for fundraising work with a consultant who will help analyze their current funding status and help create a detailed resource development plan to achieve their financial goals and make Sharehouse sustainable.
The Shunpike $2,000.00
Shunpike Arts Collective (The Shunpike) strengthens the Seattle arts community by partnering with artists to more effectively present and distribute their work. This grant provides funds for branding and identity development. Shunpike will work with Pyramid Communications to collaborate on a project that will include new messaging, a new “look and feel” for their communications, and the development of those communications materials.
Team Read $1,920.00
Team Read helps Seattle’s neediest public elementary school students achieve reading success. Team Read is an innovative after-school tutoring program aligned with Seattle Public Schools that develops the reading skills of at-risk 2nd and 3rd grade students through yearlong tutoring by high school tutors. This grant provides funds for the design and production of marketing materials to reach and inform a wider community audience about the program and its results.
Summer 2006 Capacity Building Awards
Amara: $2,000.00
Amara is committed to finding stable and nurturing families for children. We believe all are entitled to be raised in stable and nurturing families. Working toward this goal, we begin with an inclusive philosophy prospective parents, with our primary consideration being what they have to offer a child. This grant provides funds for strategic planning activities that will generate a 5-year plan to support agency growth.
Bike Works: $2,000.00
Bike Works mission is to build sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. Bike Works teaches young people how to fix bikes, rewards them with their own set of wheels and provides affordable bicycle service in the Rainier Valley community. This grant provides funds to hire an accountant and an intern to complete a well-developed financial work plan, which involves restructuring their financial records in QuickBooks and updating and cleaning up donation information from the past two years.
Master Chorus Eastside: $2,000.00
Master Chorus Eastside (MCE) exists to share the power of choral music to unite, inspire and bring joy. This grant funds board development work with Susan Howlett to increase the skills of members of the Board of Directors and to clarify their responsibilities.
Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project: $2,000.00
Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project (RCHEP) is the non-profit affiliate of the Real Change homeless newspaper. RCHEP programs confront stereotypes of the poor by providing forums for very low-income people to speak for themselves and creating opportunities for their members to draw support from their communities. Real Change exists to provide a voice for poor people. This grant provides funds for work in consultation with Bonnie Olson to develop a five-year strategic plan, following on the completion of the 2003-2006 plan.
SCAN Community Media: $2,000.00
SCAN Community Media provides training and tools to support media distribution options for independent and organizational producers of video programming. SCAN supports the development of content targeted to residents of King County and communities of interest throughout the world with an emphasis on supporting access to media for local voices, diverse ideas and alternative information and entertainment. This grant provides funds for a day-long workshop for staff and board members on business planning.
Seattle Conservatory of Music: $2,000.00
Founded in 1994 as the Pacific Northwest’s first music conservatory, SCM has focused on educating aspiring classical music pre-college students to be confident and seasoned performers, to be prepared for college application procedures and audition tours, to be accepted into college music schools of choice, to pass collegiate music academies' academic requirements, to be musical leaders and to find friends of like mind. This grant provides funds for board training and strategic planning.
Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation: $2000.00
Aquatic Adventures’ mission is to create living labs that connect underserved youth in San Diego County to science, inspire environmental action and increase exposure to marine habitats. This grant provides funds for four staff members to attend the annual meeting and conference of Restore America’s Estuaries. This conference will offer an extraordinary array of learning opportunities for their staff as they seek to strengthen their education programming and volunteer-based wetland restoration events.
Chaya: $2000.00
Chaya’s mission is twofold: to serve East Asian women experiencing domestic violence and abuse, and to ultimately end domestic violence by educating and mobilizing individuals and families within the South Asian community to address domestic violence issues. This grant provides funds for the development of a strategic plan. The plan will provide an important roadmap as the organization builds its programmatic and administrative soundness, helping to ensure the continuation of quality services to South Asian women, and their children who are experiencing domestic violence.
Consolidated Works: $2000.00
Consolidated Works’ (ConWorks) mission is to create and support a pan-arts audience, by supporting various arts disciplines with equal vigor. ConWorks uses its programs and its facility to encourage artists, audiences and community partners in the process of multi-disciplinary discovery. This grant provides funds for strategic planning to identify and implement productive and practical growth scenarios to support ConWorks’ multi-disciplinary organizational structure and mission. Unfortunately,Conworks has closed.
Megawatt: $1980.00
Megawatt creates innovative ways to maximize community resources and increase civic participation. Megawatt’s mission is to energize people and community to improve the quality of life in West Seattle. This grant funds development training for Megawatt’s Board of Directors. Individual members will be trained in financial management, major donor solicitation and stewardship, and in strategic plan implementation oversight. All members will be equipped with the resources to better the organization and further its mission.
YouthForce: $2000.00
YouthForce advances academic and career opportunities of low income and minority teens through coaching, mentoring and year-round paid internships with Seattle’s leading employers. This grant funds program evaluation. YouthForce will be able to formally plan, develop and implement an outcome-based program evaluation.
Winter 2006 Capacity Building Awards
Gilda’s Club Seattle: $2000.00
The mission of Gilda’s Club Seattle is to provide a meeting place where people with cancer, their families and friends join with others to build social, emotional and educational support as a supplement to medical care. Gilda’s Club of Seattle offers support and networking groups, educational lectures, workshops and social events free of charge. This grant funds the hiring of a consultant to facilitate a growth plan, including Board development, strategic planning, fundraising and staff development.
Jefferson County Education Foundation/Clemente Course: $2000.00
The mission of the Jefferson County Clemente Course is to support increased involvement and civic participation of low-income adults in their communities by offering a free, fully accredited college humanities course and to remove access barriers by providing free books, childcare, transportation and resource referral services. This grant funds the hiring of a consultant who will work with the Academic Director and current volunteers in organizing board development, strategic planning and fundraising/awareness raising efforts.
Pacific Marine Research (PMR): $2000.00
The mission of Pacific Marine Research is to offer academically challenging, financially affordable marine science instruction to all Washington State elementary and secondary students. The work of Pacific Marine Research is designed to provide a unique opportunity to enrich children’s lives through hands-on participation in marine environmental stewardship. This grant funds a Board Leadership Retreat to work on Board development, organizational development and exploration of means for engaging the Puget Sound maritime and media communities in the PMR vision.
Teens in Public Service (TIPS): $2000.00
Teens in Public Service is dedicated to producing future leaders committed to their communities. TIPS selects teenage leaders for paid community service internships and places them in charitable organizations for the summer. This grant funds a Board and staff retreat to strategically plan for the future of the TIPS program.
Vashon Youth & Family Service (VY&FS): $2000.00
The mission of Vashon Youth & Family Service is to provide Islanders with services that support healthy youth and family functioning. VY&FS provides free and affordable services that support youth and families through counseling, prevention, and career development and emergency assistance programs. This grant provides funds for strategic planning wrap-up.