Past Capacity Building Award Recipients
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.
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.