2020 Grantee Partners






  Community Passageways
  2020 Recipient of $25,000

  


Community Passageways creates alternatives to incarceration for youth and young adults by rebuilding our communities through committed relationships centered on love, compassion, and consistency. 

www.communitypassageways.org




  East African Community Services
  2020 Recipient of $25,000

   


East African Community Services inspires East African immigrant and refugee families to achieve cradle to career success.

www.eastafricancs.org




  Young Women Empowered (Y-WE)
  2020 Recipient of $25,000

   


Young Women Empowered (Y-WE). cultivates the power of diverse young women to be creative leaders and courageous changemakers through transformative programs within a collaborative community of belonging. 

www.youngwomenempowered.org




  Para Los Niños
  2020 Recipient of $12,500


From birth and beyond, Para Los Niños (For the Children, or PLN) supports and empowers the entire Latino family through early learning and kindergarten readiness, literacy and academic skills development, summer enrichment, parent leadership and advocacy programs. PLN believes that all Latino children are capable of excellence and we achieve that goal by building culturally relevant programs upon a foundation of love and respect, supported by a community leadership model that recognizes the talents and skills of each person.

www.plnwa.org



  Somali Family Safety Task Force
  2020 Recipient of $12,500


The Somali Family Safety Task Force is a nonprofit community-based-organization located in the New Holly neighborhood in Seattle, WA that serves refugee and immigrant women and their families. Not only are we community-based but we are also community driven. Our founders as well as the majority of our staff and volunteers are Somali and/or East African. Our programs are created with input from our community and are often at their request. Programs range from computer literacy training to combating and preventing gender-based-violence. We pride ourselves in being an organization by-and-for our community.

www.somalifamilysafetytaskforce.org