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Artspace Committee

The Artspace Committee will host a free public event featuring games, food, art, and karaoke based on a 1980's cultural theme. It will be held at Artspace Hiawatha Lofts located at 843 Hiawatha Pl S. The event will take place on May 26, 2018 from 5 pm - 10 pm.

Ballard Public Art Committee

The Ballard Alliance, Ballard Public Art Committee, and Parks and Rec (the parties) aim to increase community ownership of Ballard Commons Park, the only open green space in the core of downtown Ballard. For years, the parties have collaborated on free park activities and have developed plans for a children's play area in the park which will break ground this year. For this grant proposal, the parties aim to conduct a community painted mural on a utility building in the NW corner of the park with a local artist during the Seattle One Day of Service. This project was originally proposed in 2020 but did not receive funding due to the pandemic. For this project, the artist will paint the outline of the mural on the utility building prior to the One Day of Service so that during the event, volunteers will fill in the mural in a paint by numbers approach. The mural, with existing park activities and future children's play area, will benefit the park and the community it serves.

Ballard Alliance

The Ballard HolidayFest is an annual tradition where community members gather at Marvin's Garden Park for free Santa photos, cider, and other treats, and this project is a significant expansion of the event's scope and scale. This year's HolidayFest will see the addition of several new programming elements, including street closure between 22nd and Market, Scandinavian activities like the Tomte Toss, candle making demos, smores, and pop-ups from Ballard retailers and restaurants. The expanded event will be on December 6, 2025, from 2pm to 8pm at Marvi’s Garden Park and Ballard Ave between 22nd and Market Street.

Friends of Ballard Parklet

Friends of Ballard Parklet would like to build the first public parklet in the Ballard neighborhood for all to enjoy. Our intent is to design, build & raise funds for the parklet with community and public support, including working with the Seattle Parks Foundation, Sustainable Ballard and other Ballard neighborhood organizations.

Sustainable Ballard

Sustainable Ballard will establish a tool library in Ballard at 7549B 15th Avenue NW by January 2018. The Tool Library will promote self-resiliency, stewardship, sustainability and fair sharing of community resources.

Ballard Public Art Committee

The Ballard Public Art Committee will incorporate more public art on the streets of Ballard through the Utility Box Beautification Project. Located between 17th Avenue NW and 24th Avenue NW, there are six Seattle Department of Transportation utility boxes on NW Market Street that the committee will cover with vinyl wrap art. This project will be completed by August 31, 2019.

Ballard Public Art Committee

The Ballard Public Art Committee will incorporate more public art on the streets of Ballard through a second utility box beautification project. Located on Market Street and 57th Ave NW there are three utility boxes the committee will cover with vinyl wrap art. This project will be completed by July 31, 2020.

Barton Place Apartments

Install a new computer mini-lab with two computers and a printer in an SHA housing building in Rainier Beach. Low-income residents will gain computer skills through drop-in sessions and instructor-led classes.

Barton Place Apartments

Upgrade the computer lab, expand technology classes that help low income residents of Barton Place gain skills, provide instruction in other languages, and build community through group projects

Barton Place Apartments

Provide open lab time for the low income residents of Jefferson Terrace and offer basic and intermediate computer instruction in multiple languages. Funds will add digital media class instruction for photography and video.

Barton Street P-Patch

Barton P- Patch located at the SW corner of Barton St SW and 34th Ave SW is well used by the growing and diverse neighborhood. This project will replace and install new gravel path that will meet the ADA standards and will upgrade the blueberry drip system. The projected project completion date is May 31, 2021.

Growing Vine Street

As part of the Belltown 20|20 Community Initiative, the Battery Block Party is an event to inspire members of the public to gather and share ideas to help shape the future of the Battery Street Corridor linking Denny Park with the Central Waterfront. The Battery Block Party will take place on September 15-16, 2018 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Battery Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues. This project will be completed by November 30, 2018.

Filipino Community of Seattle-duplicate

The Filipino Community of Seattle's (FCS) Bayanihan Empowerment Project (BEP) brings together our three most impactful signature events: Talipapa Market Cultural Festival, Community Tree Lighting & Night Market, and AANHPI Journeys: A Family Book Celebration (formerly AANHPI Family Book Event). BEP seeks to inspire, connect, and empower our multicultural and multigenerational community including seniors, youth, families, and entrepreneurs in the Rainier Valley area. These unique and creative events cultivate cultural pride, provide vital economic opportunities, and foster intergenerational bonds. The events are free and open to the public. The first event, AANHPI Journeys: A Family Book Celebration will be held on May 17, 2026, 11am to 3pm, at the Filipino Community of Seattle located at 5740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. Seattle, WA.

Beacon Hill Hub

The Beacon Hill Hub will host a Business Fair on Saturday, November 9, 2019, from 12 noon to 4:00 PM at 6020 Beacon Avenue South. The goal of the project is to showcase the diversity of goods and services available on Beacon Hill. There will be activities for participants of all ages.

Safety and Community at Hanford and 16th

The community group Safety and Community at Hanford and 16th wants to make pedestrian improvements at 16th Ave. S. and S. Hanford Street. The improvements will improve safety for pedestrians in this high traffic non-arterial street. The project will install painted curb bulbs, tough posts to provide vertical definition to the space. The project will also include community outreach in the vicinity of the project, and a neighborhood gathering and celebration at the conclusion of the project. The project will be completed by early Summer. The project is free and open to public participation.

Beacon Hill Council of Seattle

North Beacon Hill Council and partner organizations are developing an online survey to poll residents regarding: a) the proposal to double the Beacon Hill urban village size in the Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan Update, b) the continued commitment to the 2010 Neighborhood Plan goals and c) other local issues. The DON Small and Simple grant will fund the translation, distribution and associated events to reach the 44% foreign born population who are non-English or limited English speaking.

Beacon Vision

Beacon Vision works to share the community's vision of the future Beacon Town Center with property owners and developers to create a more livable, walkable, equitable, and charming business district. During this project, Beacon Vision will work with UW students to conduct an assessment of our town center's needs, which we will then present to people who care about Beacon Hill, gather their input, and then share it with developers and other decision makers. This project will be completed by July 2018.

Friends of Broadview Thomson

Friends of Broadview Thomson will hire a landscape architecture firm to lead a design process with community input and develop a schematic design for an improved school front by July 2018. Possible improvements include brightening the face of the school building with art or murals, adding benches to the front grounds, improving walkways and pedestrian connections, and constructing a safe, efficient drop-off/pick-up area.

Friends of Broadview Thomson

Over the next several months the Friends of Broadview Thompson will engage the broader community in a project to design and hang banners on the school frontage that reflect the diverse population of the school. This neighborhood driven effort also includes a clean up of the school grounds. This effort will be completed by December.

Friends of Broadview Thomson

Friends of Broadview Thomson will work with the design firm from the earlier phase to prepare construction documents for community-prioritized improvements at the front of the school site (13052 Greenwood Ave N). Improvements to be implemented with subsequent funding would include low-maintenance landscaping, benches in plaza, banners mounted to the building to reflect school diversity, pedestrian path improvements, and a readerboard for school and community information. There will be opportunities for informal community review during this phase. Construction documents will be prepared by mid-September 2018.

Beaver Pond Friends and Neighbors

This project is a community-led effort to document neighborhood concerns about localized flooding, pedestrian accessibility, traffic congestion, and the integrity of the Beaver Pond Natural Area located at 8th Ave NE & NE 105th St. Our intent is to help the City to be responsive to the community in planning next steps.

Rainier Beach Link2Lake Open Space Steering Committee

The Rainier Beach Link2Lake Open Space Steering Committee will create a schematic design for improvements at Beer Sheva Park. Possible improvements to the park's lakeside end of the S. Henderson Street corridor include greater shoreline access, walkways, and art installations. The Steering Committee will hire a landscape architect to facilitate a community engagement process, develop the schematic design and investigate feasibility and permitting requirements.

HomeSight

Beet Box at Othello Summer Celebration will be on Saturday June 8, 2019 from 10am to 2pm at 6901 MLK Jr. Way S. The Beet Box is a pop-up space for community gathering in the Othello neighborhood providing free urban gardening and health and wellness education and resources. Homesight will host an open house to kick off summer which will be free to all with musical entertainment, crafts, and food. There will also be some horticultural exercises and nutrition education. This project will be completed by July 31, 2019.

USDA — NIFA

Grants for education, mentoring, and technical assistance programs for beginning farmers and ranchers, with emphasis on limited-resource and socially disadvantaged populations.