Past Capacity Building Award Recipients
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.
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.