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Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Funding supports maintenance and renovation of trails that provide a "backcountry experience," for both motorized and non -motorized trail users. Education projects are also eligible.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Funding supports maintenance and renovation of trails that provide a "backcountry experience," for both motorized and non -motorized trail users. Education projects are also eligible.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Funding supports maintenance and renovation of trails that provide a "backcountry experience," for both motorized and non -motorized trail users. Education projects are also eligible.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Funding supports maintenance and renovation of trails that provide a "backcountry experience," for both motorized and non -motorized trail users. Education projects are also eligible.

CID-CD

The CID-CD Neighbors propose to develop and test Redlining History and Culture Trail Walks linking the Chinatown International District, First Hill, and Central District, launch free guided walks, and produce lasting interpretive display panels, outreach materials, brochures, and a webpage.

Tasveer

Reflections through HEART - a CommUNITY Open Mic Event will delight audiences with South Asian artists presenting prose, poetry, comedy, music, performance art, improv, or other forms of artistic expression. The open mic event will have curated segments and non-curated segments which will give the mic to established artists, while encouraging and inspiring new artists to step up to participate. The event will be at the Broadway Performance Hall,1625 Broadway Avenue, on September 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. This project will be completed by December 30, 2022.

Refugee Artisan Initiative

Refugee Artisans Connect is a community arts project consisting of 10 free public workshops on upcycled crafts led by 38 refugee women artisans. The project also includes the creation of a 6-feet-long Peace Dove Sculpture, which will be designed and constructed by a lead artist and a team of artisans, and covered with 1,000 peace-message-feathers made by community members. The project will take place between December 2024 and October 2025 at the RAI Maker Space, and the completed Peace Dove Sculpture will debut in late 2025 at the grand opening of RAI's Arts + Cultural Center, an expansion of the Maker Space which is ready for renovation, and which will also serve as the first refugee arts and cultural center in the State of Washington. The primary purpose of our project is to increase public appreciation of the arts and cultural heritage of their refugee neighbors, while providing equitable and sustainable income for our artisans' unique talents and skill sets.

Black Farmers Collective

The Black Farmers Collective aims to reimagine an urban landscape located at 715 Yesler Way that serves as an Urban Farm and Forestry in the Heart of Seattle that embodies inclusivity by dreaming-into-being a space for all to benefit from. This will be accomplished by advancing Civic Engagement, Socioeconomic Mixing, Environmental Sustainability and Value Creation. The project is free and open to community participation. The project will be completed in the fall of 2026.

Phinney Neighborhood Association

The Phinney Neighborhood Association's `Artistic Signal Box` aims to strengthen community identity and provide shared cultural landmarks by transforming functional infrastructure into compelling public art, celebrating diversity and enriching the urban environment in the PhinneyWood area (i.e. Phinney Ridge and Greenwood). The project will also provide visibility for emerging and BIPOC artists to showcase their talents and connect with the community. Nineteen artists, selected through a juried process with community input, will design artwork for 19 SDOT signal boxes. The theme, `Wander PhinneyWood,` invites artists to explore the area's uniqueness, highlighting personal and collective connections. The completed artworks will create a connected experience, encouraging exploration of local landmarks, green spaces, and businesses along the route.

Pacific Northwest Black Pioneers

In the early 1970's a dinner invitation went out from long time Black Seattle residents Arline and Letcher Yarbrough to eight couples who had been close friends thirty and forty years before, seeing each other frequently and sharing many interests. The more recent years found them scattered and out of touch. The response to the invitation was excellent. All who were still living in the Seattle area accepted; eager to see old friends again. The result of that gathering was the foundation for Relative of Old Timers (ROOTS) Celebration. This year, ROOTS is celebrating 52 years on Sunday, September 1, 2024 from 10am-6pm. The committee has decided that 2024 will be the last year that we will host this large public celebration. We plan to sunset this event by honoring our elder leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the Pacific Northwest as well as the sense of community this celebration has meant to Black Seattleites over the years. We are seeking NMF funding to do just that.

Seattle Polish Foundation

This project is a replacement of the HVAC system at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski located at 1714 18th Avenue. The existing HVAC system has stopped working properly causing the rooms to remain cold in winter and without adequate ventilation during the summer. The replacement of the HVAC system will allow the community to continue to use this special space for Polish cultural events and events for the local community like the National Night Out, Neighborhood Block Parties, and other programs. This project will be completed by March 31, 2023.

Republican P-Patch

The awarded funds will be used by Republican P-Patch to build a new fence, repair the leaky shed, replace broken garden tools, design educational signage, and rebuild the dilapidated compost bins. These improvements will make the P-Patch better neighbors, better stewards of the soil, and create a more welcoming space for the community. This project is located at 503 20th Ave E and will be completd by July 31, 2020.

Republican P-Patch

The Republican P-Patch will use the awarded funds to purchase items for phase 2 of the Republican P-Patch site improvements project. This includes purchasing a new picnic table for our gathering area, creating new signage, hosting an open house community gathering, replacing broken tools, purchasing new soil for community demonstration beds and replacing cedar play chips in the community paths to ensure easy accessibility by all. This project will be completed by July 29, 2022.

Friends of Republican P-Patch

We will use the awarded funds to purchase items for phase 3 of the Republican P-Patch site improvements project. This includes building additional dahlia beds for our communal flower garden, purchasing dahlias, purchasing additional plants for our existing communal / demo beds, creating new signage, hosting an open house / community gathering, replacing broken tools, purchasing new soil for community / demo beds and pruning of our large garden trees to enhance community picnic table seating area. The anticipated project completion date is May 31, 2025.

JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF.FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM / BUREAU OF PRISONS.RESIDENTIAL REENTRY - CO

Residential Reentry Center (RRC) Services and Home Confinement Services Located Within King County, Washington

Restaurant 2 Garden

Restaurant 2 Garden is a composting and vermiculture project in the Nihonmachi (Japantown) region of the Chinatown International District (C-ID). We are transforming local restaurant food waste into safe, healthy, usable compost for the gardeners in the Danny Woo Community Garden located at 620 South Main Street. The restaurants currently involved are Itsumono and Panama Cafe, both located in the block immediately south of the Danny Woo Community Garden. By making the process easy and convenient for restaurant owners, and by providing high quality fertilizer for the gardeners, we are decreasing our neighborhood's ecological footprint, increasing food security, educating youth and the greater public about food waste and nutrient cycling, and strengthening neighborhood relationships. This project will be completed by July 29,2022.

Paisley Place Homeowners Association

Our project will revitalize the medians on Paisley Pl NE and the associated parking strips on Paisley Dr NE, all owned by the Paisley Pl NE Home Owners Association. This grant proposal asks for funding for Phase 1 of that effort, the partial restoration of the north and center medians on Paisley Pl. Several factors have contributed to make these measures necessary. (1) Birch trees were originally planted in the center median; they succumbed to birch borer damage, died and were consequently removed. The median is now barren. (2) The north median isn't as barren, but still needs additional landscaping. (3) Both medians require soil supplements to improve nutrition and drainage.

Paisley Place Association

Thie Paisley Place Homeowners Association will continue the restoration of two of the medians on Paisley Pl NE. This phase will (1) add mulch to prevent weed seeds from growing and that will eventually improve both drainage and nutrition; (2) continue the planting of ground cover and Trees for Neighborhoods trees, plus additional plants; and (3) incorporate a path through the larger of the two medians. This project will be completed by June 30, 2025.

South End Seattle Arts Center dba ReVision Arts

ReVision Arts wants to make accessible our Rainier Valley Neighborhood Art Grant Projects and ReVision Arts Annual Please Touch Tactile Exhibit. This will include: 1) Translation and Interpretation of Neighborhood Art Grant Projects as needed. Public sub grantee events will be April to Sept. To create an accessible projects meeting ADA, we need $$ for Sign Language Interpreters for sub grantee events in the Rainier Valley. 2) Orientation on April 4th a) Provision of Interpreters for sub grantee Orientation b) Presentation regarding access and event planning 3) ReVision Arts will bring Please Touch Tactile Art Exhibit to Rainier Valley to celebrate the ADA Anniversary 2023. Attendance is free and open to all. For above events: Subgrantees mother tongue may not be English, we will provide language interpretation as requested. We want to close caption digital presentations. Digital translation is not always accurate, we need an editor /proof reader.

Kirke P-Patch

Kirke P-Patch, located at 7028 9th Ave NW Seattle WA, was built in 2012 with 38 garden plots. We have a wonderful group of gardeners who support each other, the community including Ballard Food Bank, and help maintain Kirke Park. Since 2012, the wood around the P-Patch raised beds has deteriorated badly. We have many spots of rotting wood and a few places where the boards are ready to give way, posing a safety hazard for children as they walk on the unstable wood edges. This grant will support the purchase of new lumber and materials to replace the boards. We believe this project will contribute to the revitalization of Kirke Park P-Patch for many years to come. The anticipated project completion date is April 30, 2026.

Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA)

Refugee Women's Alliance will host a community carnival on April 27, 2019 from 3 pm - 6 pm at 4008 Martin Luther King Jr. Wy S. The event will showcase the creative contributions of refugee and immigrant youth and will include performances, art, and food.

Rewild Eastlake

Launch Rewild Eastlake’s efforts to enhance local habitat with new native plants, as well as to assist with organizational development and community engagement. We propose to host a native plant sale in October 2025, to engage residents and disperse new native plants into neighborhood yards. Separate from the plant sale, we will purchase native plants with NMF grant funds to be planted by volunteers in Fairview Park and other areas in the neighborhood. The project will increase community engagement in addition to improving native plant habitat in the neighborhood. The anticipated project completion date is March 31, 2026.

Community Arts Create

Rhapsody Project instructors will collaborate with a diverse set of Seattle musicians and educators to design curriculum and deliver a weekly roots music class to 30 youth during a 10 week period between September and December of 2018 at the Hillman City Collaboratory. The project will culminate in a free community concert in December. Students will be offered a stipend for attending the classes, completing a guided independent study in the spring of 2019 and for their participation in the concert.

Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association

Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association (SRDA) is organizing a Rideshare Drivers and Riders Appreciation Day at Judkins Park 2150 S. Norman Street on April 15, 2022, 12-6 pm. The event will bring together Uber and Lyft Drivers and Riders to appreciate one another and forge a path back to normality following the severe disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Project Goals: Build relationships and community among rideshare drivers, their families and riders, Provide resources and information to drivers about local services, e.g. subsidized housing, health insurance, and training programs to learn various skills, Hear drivers' ideas for future work we can do together as SRDA. This project will be completed by June 30, 2022.