Satterberg Foundation

Washington Courage & Renewal $4,000

Washington Courage & Renewal sustains the integrity, courage and commitment of those who nurture our children, families and communities. This grant provides administrative support and retreat scholarships.

Summer 2009 Invitational Grant Recipients

Ballard Food Bank $8,000

The Ballard Food Bank offers free food, clothing, and personal hygiene items to Ballard, Queen Anne and Magnolia families who are having trouble making ends meet, including some clients who are homeless. We also provide a basic level of emergency financial assistance. The Ballard Food Bank is a vital referral service to help those in emergency situations find the proper agency to get the help they need.

The organization is moving to a new facility. This grant is to help purchase a new walk-in cooler to store perishable foods.

The Boiler Room $2,500

The Boiler Room is a youth oriented and community-owned center providing a venue for growth, learning and the empowement of individuals in their community. The mission of the Boiler Room is to support the expression and activities of youth as a part of our larger community, in a healthy and productive way.

This grant helps with the costs of adding two full time Americorps positions starting in September, to expand the volunteer base, and do business and employment training for area youth.

Consejo Counseling & Referral Services $8,000

Consejo Counseling & Referral Services is committed to providing a continuum of behavioral health, substance abuse and domestic violence services, including prevention, treatment and housing to individuals and families across Washington.

This grant provides for a partnership with Pacific Marine Research to take 120 high risk youth out to explore Puget Sound and learn about the environment.

Enumclaw Community Enhancement Foundation $10,000

The Enumclaw Community Enhancement Foundation (ECEF) is committed to prviding leadership and service to Enumclaw businesses and community through communication, promotion, education and public service.

This grant will support the purchase f a new rapid prototyping three-dimensional printing machine and materials to operate it for one school year.

Environmental Coalition of South Seattle $10,000

The Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS) is a non profit organization working with Puget Sound businesses and neighborhoods for an environmentally responsible community. ECOSS provides environmentally-oriented education, technical resources and other services. We serve as a voice to the community on issues that encourage a clean environment and urban redevelopment.

Through improved reporting and the development of reporting, ECOSS hopes to inspire greater donor giving. This grant will help build the capacity of ECOSS's fundraising efforts by supporting this improved reporting.

Friendly Horse Acres $20,000

Friendly Horse Acres brings together horses and humans healing each other physically, emotionally and spiritually.

This grant will help with construction of a new permanent arena.

Greater West Hollywood Food Coaltion $10,000

The mission of the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition is to feed the homeless and hungry of our community a hot, fresh, and nutritious meal every night, seven nights a week, throughout the year; to do it in such a way as to give back to the people we serve a sense of their own dignity, and to restore their confidence in being able to resume their place in society.

Satterberg Foundation funding will enable us to meet the rising demands on us. It will enable us to continue serving the poor and to keep improving the ways in which we do it.

Jefferson Teen Center $1,500

The Coyote Foundation (dba The Jefferson Teen Center) seeks to provide drug and alcohol-free recreatinal activities for youth of all ages in Jefferson County. The Jefferson Teen Center provides preventative services and recreation opportunities to the youth of Jefferson County. The Teen Resource Center is a drop-in facility for youth ages 12 to 18 in rural Jefferson County.

This grant is for operating expenses, to support staff salaries, necessary supplies and space rental.

Jumping Mouse Children's Center $2,000

Jumping Mouse Chidren's Center (JMCC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a creative therapy environment for children. Our primary purpose is to provide mental health services to children and their families, particularly to those who cannot otherwise access these serices to chidren and their families, particularly to those who cannot othrwise access these services in our rural area. Our goal is to emphasize the critical developmental phases of the younger child. We are intent on reclaiming aspects of self and rebuilding the courage each child requires to journey into his own world with its fears, challenges and mysteries.

Jumping Mouse provides therapy for children ages 2 to 12 who have experienced severe trauma from neglect, abuse, loss, or as a witness to domestic violence. This grant is for operating support.

Monarch School $12,000

The mission of the Monarch School is to provide an enviroment where homeless and at-risk youth can improve their lives through education.

This grant is to help with core program support. Monarch helps homesless children break the cycle of poverty through education by providing an accredited education and enrichment programs while caring for their basic needs.

Plymouth Housing Group $5,000

Plymouth Housing Group works to eliminate homelessness and stabilize homeless and very low-income people in housing by preserving, developing and operating safe, decent, afordable housing, and by providing opportunities for homeless and very low-income people to improve their lives.

In 2009, Plymouth will be converting our 7,000 record donordatabase from Exceed, an outdated product, to a new Sage 50 Fundraising Database. The desired outcome of this software conversion is to increase our fundraising capacity and grow our donor base. Satterberg Foundation funding will help with the expenses of this project.

Solid Ground $20,000

Solid Ground, building community to end poverty. Solid Ground is dedicated to achieving a just and caring community, free from poverty, abuse and neglect. Our mission is to develop and provide creative, comprehensive and effective responses to our community's needs; to offer quality human services in a manner that promotes dignity; to avocate for policies and initiatives that give all people equal access and resources; and to support the efforts of others who share our vision of community.

This grant will help with funding Apple Corps: to fight malnutrition in underserved communities by educating children about nutrition and physical activity, connecting fammilies to resources, and increasing access to fresh food.

Sunnyvale Community Services $14,000

Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) is an emergency assistance agency.

This grant will support the "Feeding the Hungry" program by providing a three to five day supply of well-balanced nutritious food every month for low-income residents of Sunnyvale, CA.

Technology Access Foundation $10,000

Technology Access Foundation's (TAF)mission is to prepare underserved children of color for higher education and professional success by providing a rigorous and relevant K-12 curriculum.

This operating support grant is for the organizational expenses that will enable TAF to continue delivering TechStart and expanding TAF Academy programs in the 2009-10 academlc year.

Washington Lawyers for the Arts $3,000

Washington Lawyers For the Arts (WLA) makes legal resources accessible to artists and arts organizations of all disciplines.

This funding is to support the salary of the Administrative Director who administers all programs and manages and coordinates all volunteer efforts.

Spring 2009 Invitational Grant Recipients

Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation $7,000

Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation educates urban youth about science, the ocean and nature through tuition-free programs, creating the next generation of scientific and environmental leaders. This grant funds their Science Explorers program.

Fremont Union High Schools Foundation $10,000

Fremont Union High Schools Foundation's mission is to develop resources and community relationships for the advancement of quality education in the Fremont Union School District. This grant funds a program that teaches high school students about state-of-the-art solar energy use.

Jefferson Community School $1,500

Jefferson Community School's (JCS) mission is to establish thriving learning communities with a common purpose- to forge connections. This grants funds a boat-building class that will build two boats over the course of eight weeks.

Jefferson County Education Foundation $2,500

Jefferson County Education Foundation, through the Clemente Course, offers a free, accredited college-level humanities course to adults living in poverty. This grant funds the operating costs of that program.

One Voice $10,000

One Voice provides goods, services and opportunities to the underprivileged, including everything from crisis intervention to long-term programming designed to lift them out of poverty. This grant funds One Voice's Family Assistance Program.

Phinney Neighborhood Association $16,000

The Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA) was organized in 1980 to foster a sense of community and to assist North Seattle residents in enhancing the quality of their lives. This grant funds the Greenwood Senior Center's caregiving resources.

Port Townsend Aero Museum $2,000

The Port Townsend Aero Museum is dedicated to serving youth and families by developing a center for interpretation and education of historic aviation in the Pacific Northwest. This grant helps the museum retire debt incurred during its construction.

Seattle Center for Book Arts $5,000

Seattle Center for Book Arts (SCBA) provides educational, technical and creative resources for a community of individuals in the pursuit of book arts. This grant funds SCBA's strategic planning with Shunpike.

Sound Experience $2,500

Sound Experience sails the historic schooner Adventuress to help people discover Puget Sound and learn from its majesty and vulnerability. This grants funds staff time.

The Washington Bus Education Fund $10,000

The Washington Bus Educational Fund is catalyzing the energy, enthusiasm and intellect of young people to create sustainable, positive change. They are striving to become Washington's largest youth vote mobilization force. This grant funds the PowerCorp Program; a ten week political boot camp for under-25-year-olds to build political organizing skills.

Winter 2009 Invitational Grant Recipients

Ballard Food Bank

Nominated for a Family Award - $1,000

The Ballard Food Bank offers free food, clothing, and personal hygiene items to Ballard, Queen Anne and Magnolia Families who are having trouble making ends meet, including some clients who are homeless. They also provide a basic level of emergency financial assistance. This grant provides general operating support.

Global Deaf Connection $7,000

Global Deaf Connection's (GDC) mission is to develop self-sustaining cycles of Deaf education and leadership through advocacy, multicultural exchange, college/university scholarships and mentor/tutoring support. This grants funds an IT upgrade of GDC's computers and software.

Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation $10,000

The Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation is a center for maritime education dedicated to the preservation and celebration of traditional maritime skills, culture and heritage. This grant funds the Puget Sound Explorers Alpha/Bravo Team & Discovery, which provide on-the-water classes for junior high and high school students.

Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding $2,500

The Northwest School of Wooden BoatBuilding is committed to providing men and women of all ages a quality education in traditional wooden boatbuilding and fine woodworking. This grant funds the Port Townsend Community Boat Project, which will bring together students, Master Craftsmen and other community members as they build a 24' wooden rowing/sailing vessel.