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Alleycat Acres

The Wetmore Community Garden located on Wetmore Ave S and South Estelle St will complete phase II of the ongoing garden construction. Transforming a neglected quarter acre lot of a SDOT ROW into a space providing neighbors a safe clean environment to gather, build community, and grow food. Once completed there will be a Grand Opening community event in late fall.

Hillman City Neighborhood Association

On Saturday, August 9, 2025 from 10am to 8pm the Hillman City Neighborhood Association will be hosting The Hillman City Block Party located in the Hillman City business district on Rainier Ave S between Mead St and Findley St. The block Party will have live music, food and drink and other family friendly activities. The block party's goal is to promote local businesses and foster community togetherness. The event is free and open to the public

Community for Youth

Community for Youth will organize a free resource fair for high school students to explore opportunities for their futures following high school. The event will feature speakers, mock interviews, financial literacy resources, resume writing, and information about work and internship opportunities. It will be held in late February 23, 2019 from 10 am - 2 pm at a Seattle location to be determined.

Whatcom Community Foundation

Whatcom Community Foundation ($100M in assets) supports nonprofits in WA through grants focused on education, environment, community development, arts. Awards range from $1,000 to $50,000.

Whimsy Walks

Whimsy Walks is a curated list of interesting human-made and natural features, compiled on a website as a free service, intended to encourage people to get out and discover imaginative, inspiring, beautiful places in their communities, in the process benefiting from the exercise. Since we launched the Whimsy Walks website last year we have focused on the Ravenna, Maple Leaf, University, Roosevelt and Green Lake and West Seattle neighborhoods. Over the past months, connecting with community leaders in the C.D. and Ballard we have identified several dozen new sites in these neighborhoods, which we need to add to the website.

Seattle Indian Health Board

This project consists of conveying a story of learning, healing, and peacekeeping. To honor the life of Mr. John T. Williams, the Native American carver who died on the corner Boren and Howell. Expressed by a plaque, a painted crosswalk, and a healing ceremony.

WIBEG Leadership Luncheon Commitee

The WIBEG Leadership Luncheon will be held on April 5th, 2025 from 11am to 3pm at the Rainier Valley Leadership Academy located at 6020 Rainier Ave South. The luncheon will be an engaging event where our focus of discussion will be how do small business owners and leaders increase visibility while inspiring and transforming the lives of our youth to becoming leaders in our community. We will have a keynote speaker, and a panel discussion.There will be food, networking, raffles, and fun! This event is designed for individuals age 16 and older, men, and women who are seeking to connect with the small business community and those that have a heart for empowering the youth in our community. This project will be completed by May 31, 2025.

Austin Foundation

The Austin Foundation is celebrating and remembering the legacy of its beloved founder Willie Austin with the 6th Annual Willie Austin Day. The celebration will be at the Rainier Community Center located at 4600 38th Avenue South on April 27, 2019 from 2-4:30pm. The day is a celebration of health, fitness, and youth mentoring, celebrating the legacy of our founder who was a leader and Seattle fitness legend. Both the City of Seattle and King County proclaimed Willie Austin Day on April 27, 2013. This year Willie Austin Day will be a day for families to come together for fun, fitness activities, a healthy meal, and a mini health fair. This project will be completed by June 2019.

Friends of the Jackson Building

Public safety has been an issue in the Chinatown International District. This winter lighting project is to provide temporary holiday lighting during the winter season for the Jackson building. The project goals include providing more visibility, increasing ambient light in public spaces for safety, crime deterrent, and public space beautification over the winter holiday season. The anticipated project completion date is February 28, 2025.

Seattle Sensory Garden

While the Seattle Sensory Garden is open year-round, its current state lacks features that might engage and draw visitors to the garden during the time of year Seattleites need it most: the long gray winter. We wish to enrich the garden's offerings by adding plant material that will bring seasonal interest to the garden: winter-blooming flowers, fragrant shrubs, and trees with bold winter coloring. We also wish to refresh the vibrant blue entryway with fresh paint. Plant installation will be in partnership with the Woodland Park Zoo's Department of Horticulture, which will offer guidance and supervision around the selection and placement of plants. The infusion of new plant material and vibrant entryway color will support the Sensory Garden's mission to invite and engage community members of all abilities year-round with a beautiful, accessible space for all.

Cascade Bicycle Club

The mission of the Women and Non-Binary Community is to grow bicycling among women and non-binary folks by providing a welcoming, encouraging, and safe bicycling experience for all self-identifying women and all non-binary bicyclists of every riding ability. We accomplish this through Cascade Bike Club’s robust Free Group Rides Program educational, and social opportunities. The Women and Non-Binary group welcomes participation from individuals who identify as a woman or non-binary, including transgender women and cisgender women. The Women and Non-Binary Program is run by a seven-member committee, which consists of two stipends for Cascade Bike Club staff and five volunteer Ride Leaders. This funding from the Neighborhood Matching Fund will cover key costs to host socials and maintenance classes for Women and Non-Binary riders at the Cascade Bike Club's office located at 7787 62nd Ave NE. This work will reach approximately 350 participants. This project will be completed by 4/30/26.

Ethiopian Women Mothers & Family

We will host the Women Coming OUT: A Post COVID-19 Celebration on September 4, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. at Seward Park located at 5900 Lake Washington Blvd S. We will celebrate the resilience of Ethiopian women who withered through COVID-19 and remember the loved ones lost. This project will be completed by October 29, 2021.

Au New You

On December 4, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., we will hold Women's Empowerment Luncheon at Hilton Gardens located at 1821 Boren Ave Seattle, WA. We will continue our mission to empower our community by providing important information to help encourage, motivate, provide therapists, information, and to help immediately maneuver through these unusual times created by the Pandemic and successfully overcome the obstacles/challenges presented as a result.

Friends of Woodland Park Avenue

We are seeking funds to make SDOT approved street modifications for improving safety and calming traffic on the stretch of Woodland Park Avenue North between 41st and 42nd streets in the Fremont/Wallingford neighborhood.

Literacy Source

Literacy Source is partnering with several organizations in the Lake City neighborhood to offer a World Dance Party event showcasing cultures around the world. Literacy Source will work with Hunger Intervention Program (HIP), Akin Family, and North Helpline to create this event. We will have food catered by small businesses in the area, local dancers who will showcase dances from various cultures, and resource booths. The World Dance Party will be a multicultural, multigenerational environment that is free of charge. This event will bring the community together by sharing the diversity of cultures, languages, and experiences within the community. Between a multitude of cultures, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds, people of shared and different identities can create meaningful connections and access essential resources.

South Park Community Center Greenhouse

The South Park Community Greenhouse will install mobile vertical hydroponic systems, (growing walls), at the South Park Community Center. Our mission is to provide the local residents in the South Park area access to healthy, nutritious, fresh food by giving them the means to grow their own leafy greens year-round. Training and maintenance for the growing walls will be provided by volunteers. This project will be completed by July 31, 2019.

Seattle Housing Authority

The Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and Urban ArtWorks will recruit and organize Yesler Terrace youth to create a community mural on the back wall of the Yesler Terrace Community Center, 917 E Yesler Way. Youth will gather mural themes from the Yesler Terrace Community Council and other community groups. They will prepare the mural by the end of the summer. A community celebration of the mural will be held at the Yesler Terrace Park grand opening in October 2018.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to buy land and develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to buy land and develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to buy land and develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to buy land and develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to buy land and develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.

Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office

Provides grants to develop or renovate outdoor athletic facilities serving youth.