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Apply Now for Medina Foundation Grant Program – Washington

The Medina Foundation aspires to improve lives by funding human service organizations that provide direct support to Puget Sound residents.

Donor Name: Medina Foundation

State: Washington

County: Selected Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: Ongoing

Details:

Funding Areas

The Medina Foundation funds in the following focus areas:

  • Positive Pathways for Youth: Helping youth achieve positive outcomes. They support organizations that:
    • Ensure that young people’s basic needs such as safe, stable housing are met
    • Mentor, tutor, and support youth as they find their own voice, achieve their own goals, and build new skills
    • Support transition points through school, from early education through postsecondary, including job training
  • Stabilization for Families and Individuals: Ensuring basic needs are met. They support organizations that:
    • Alleviate hunger, primarily through larger food distribution networks or rural food banks that are also a hub of additional services
    • Prevent homelessness or quickly stabilize people who are experiencing homelessness
    • Offer programs that prevent or reduce the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma, and abuse
  • Economic Opportunities: Helping people secure employment, increase income, and build assets. They support organizations that:
    • Offer job training and entrepreneurship opportunities
    • Teach skills and assist with obtaining credentials needed for career advancement
    • Provide financial education.

Eligibility Criteria

  • ​The Foundation makes grants to organizations qualified under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and classified as public charities (not private foundations) under Section 509(a). No grants are made to environmental, arts, healthcare-related or political programs, or to religious institutions for religious purposes.
  • The Medina Foundation funds in the following fourteen Greater Puget Sound counties of Washington State: Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, and Whatcom.

For more information, visit Medina Foundation.

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