Donor Name: King County
State Washington
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/11/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $2.5 million
Details:
Focus Populations
- Black Americans who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and continue to experience the ongoing and deep impacts of systemic racism in all of its all of its facets
- Indigenous Peoples directly impacted by settler colonialism within the US borders which have created the systems of institutional and structural racism perpetuated by the United States government and ongoing settler colonialism of the United States. It includes American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, American Samoa, and Pacific Islander communities.
Project Priorities
The community-driven development project types below will be prioritized for funding to start to create, construct, purchase, and/or renovate permanent physical location(s) in King County to build physical community infrastructure that promotes health, housing, and economic justice for local Black and/or Indigenous communities.
- Physical location(s) to deliver a wide range of health care and wellness services, programs, other resources, by culturally rooted providers who focus on providing services for Black and/or Indigenous communities. Ideas could look like but are not limited to:
- starting the creation of a regional hospital focused on serving local Black communities
- a community health center focused on serving Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities
- Permanently affordable social and multigenerational housing with mixed use commercial and community space that promote vibrant communities that focus on meeting housing needs for low-income Black and/or Indigenous households with incomes between 30-50% of Area Median Income
- These funds would be flexible to support the construction of both residential and non-residential components of the project.
- Development of temporary shelter and/or other temporary housing that focus on serving housing needs for no-income to very low-income Black and/or Indigenous households with incomes less than 30% of Area Median Income
Funding Information
- Maximum Amount Per Project
- Predevelopment: Up to $500,000
- Acquisition and/or Construction: Up to $2.5 million
Eligibility Requirements
- Organizations who are doing the work in the community as described and meet the minimum criteria below are eligible to apply for funding. All organizations that meet the minimum eligibility criteria are encouraged to apply.
- To be eligible, your community-led organization must be:
- Located and operating in King County
- Non-profits currently registered with Washington State,
- Non-profit developers registered with Washington State that are working in partnership with non- profit organizations registered with Washington State
AND your organization must be:
- Dismantling systemic racism and working to undo its harms to address the public health crisis;
- Able to show their deep roots in local Black and/or Indigenous communities (see focus populations) through their effective connections, partnerships and accountability within the communities;
- Reflective of the Black and/or Indigenous communities they serve as indicated by how they center their work in traditions, cultural practices, and approaches to providing services; and
- Able to advance the priorities and well-being of these communities who are most harmed by racism.
For more information, visit Physical Infrastructure Grant.
