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Crowdsource Choir

Crowdsource Choir is a drop-in choir that will meet from 8-10 p.m. the first Thursday of each month from January to June at the Hillman City Collaboratory located at 5623 Rainier Avenue South. Crowdsource Choir is actively reinventing choir for the 21st century with no tryouts, no commitments, and singing popular songs. Choir is an experience of authentic community participation. This project will be completed by July 31, 2019.

Seattle Arab Festival

The Seattle Arab Festival is scheduled for August 10-11 at Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street. This project includes the construction of a souk (market) where artists and vendors can display their goods in an authentic setting.

Garinagu Houngua

Garinagu Houngua will organize a series of weekly workshops centered on cultural exchange between the Garifuna and Panamanian communities in Seattle. The workshops will take place from September through November 2017 at Casa Latina located at 317 17th Ave S. They will feature presentations on the music, language, history, and food of each culture. The workshops will culminate in a final event on November 25, 2017 featuring historians sharing their perspectives on these rich cultures.

South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce

The South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce will plant over 12,000 daffodil and tulip bulbs in Denny Park located at 100 Dexter Ave N. This is an entirely community run event made possible by community volunteers, corporate donations and City grants. The planting will occur the first weekend in October to plant the bulbs, along with the help and partnership of the Parks Department

United Indians of All Tribes Foundation

Daybreak Star houses Indigenous Art the Sacred Circle Gallery and also hosts large community events such as Seafair Indian Days Powwow and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Daybreak Star's restrooms are not ADA-compliant. This project will develop a design to turn a closet into a universal, accessible, single restroom on the upper level of the building and modifications for the lower level restrooms to comply with current accessibility codes. This project will be completed by February 2019.

Villa Comunitaria

De Corazón program,(Spanish for From the Heart), is a community-based Spanish language Heartsaver CPR train-the-trainer program. Promotoras Comunitaria is a program located in South Seattle to address the disparity experienced by the Latinx community in CPR intervention due to linguistic and cultural barriers. In 2019 we will provide the De Corazón Spanish language CPR training to at least 45 low-income Seattle residents free of cost in South Park during two training sessions in the Fall and Winter. The first training will be on November 23, 2019 from 1-5 p.m. located at 8201 10th Avenue South. The Promotoras will also participate in community activities to raise awareness about heart health, CPR, and to promote the three upcoming opportunities to get trained in CPR in Spanish. This project will be completed by January 2020.

West Seattle Community Orchestras

We will provide free concerts for the West Seattle community in December 2024. The first concert will be held on December 9, 2024 at 6pm at Chief Sealth High School located at 2600 SW Thistle St, Seattle, WA 98126. This program promotes the arts in our community through supporting children's musical education as well as local artists conducting the ensembles.

Delridge Grocery Cooperative

The Delridge Grocery Coop (DGC) is in the planning & feasibility stage of opening a grocery coop in Delridge. This project will complete a market study to ascertain if there is a suitable market to sustain a grocery coop and to study if our business plan is viable for opening of the store.

Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association

The Delridge Neighborhods Development Association (DNDA) will along with several community partners, organize and facilitate the Delridge Neighborhoods Let's Talk Race Series. This project will produce eight events in 2017 -2018 using film, dialogue, restorative justice, and storytelling. These events are intended to transform the narrative around institutional and historic racism and build stronger relationships between community organizations, individuals and groups within Delridge and beyond.

Tasveer

Desi Girls Comedy Project will be a four-week virtual workshop series with one session per week + one-on-one mentoring to nurture participants' confidence and skills, culminating in a live comedy showcase presented within COVID-19 health guidelines. Virtual workshops and events, spearheaded by the queer South Asian comedy troupe Kutti Gang and including local guest artists from Seattle, will focus first on serving South Asian women in Seattle and will be available for free online. This project will be completed by December of 2021

Tasveer

The Desi Improv Festival will include an improv workshop and a main improv event. The project is designed to introduce participants to the art of improvisation through engaging scenes, games and exercises in a fun, supportive environment. Research shows that improv is a powerful tool for team building and community engagement. By focusing on collaboration, creativity and spontaneous thinking, this workshop aims to break down communication barriers and foster acceptance and understanding. Participants will develop skills in adaptability, active listening and effective communication. Ultimately, this workshop will empower participants to feel more confident, connected, and better equipped to navigate diverse environments.

Tasveer

Tasveer will organize a free nine-day literary and storytelling festival focusing on South Asian culture in January 2019. It will feature presentations and workshops on writing fiction, comedy, screenplays, graphic novels, and other ways of telling a story. The events will take place at Seattle Art Museum Located at 1300 1st Ave and Northwest Film Forum located at 1515 12th Ave.

Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park

This project is to plan and design an outdoor chess park, and multi-functional community space. The space would honor the work and influence of Dectective Denis `Cookie` Bouldin's decade-old chess club an its positive impact on the youth of South Seattle.

Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park

The Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Club and the Rainier Beach community will continue their work with a landscape architect to develop a site survey and 30% Street Improvement Permit (SIP) construction drawings for the 'Chess Park' located at 9100 Rainier Ave South. The work is scheduled to be completed in early 2018.

Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park

The Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Club will continue working with a landscape architect, and civil engineer to develop the 60% Street Improvement Permit (SIP) construction drawings to submit to SDOT by late Spring 2019. This phase includes the permit review by SDOT. The resulting, permitted drawings will then be ready for the next phase of construction, separate from this proposal.

Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park

The Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park is planning Phase 4 of the project. The Detective Cookie Chess Park located at 9100 Rainer Ave S envisions a inter-generational, multicultural community space where neighbors can gather and play chess while honoring Detective Cookie, a local policewoman, who started a youth Chess Club over 12 years ago in Rainier Beach. Phase 4 will focus on initial construction of the park beginning with demo, grading and drainage, and utilities. This project is expected to be completed in the late Fall of 2021.

Healthy Othello Safer Through Environmental Design (HOSTED)

Healthy Othello Safer Through Environmental Design (HOSTED) would like to make improvements in the right of way located at 3900 South Othello Street to improve everyone's safety. The project will include installing planters with colorful plants selected and maintained by the community to separate the vehicle space from pedestrian space, painting the pavement/obstructions to help pedestrians of all abilities move through safely. The project is expected to be done by September of 2020.

Cultivate South Park

Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead, Season of Life celebrates the joyful spirit of everlasting life. We honor the abundance of Harvest Time and the seasonal thinning of the veil, allowing greater connection with deceased loved ones. This year, we want Dia de los Muertos to commemorate our loved ones who have passed with a symbolic cemetery. Too many in our community have witnessed loved ones who died from COVID, war or gun violence without a funeral or burial. We wish to honor all those who passed in such a way, and recognize all our ancestors who are no longer with us in body, but present in spirit and within our hearts.

Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (MMRTI)

MMRTI's Digital Storytelling in the Time of COVID-19 (DSTC-19) project will engage eight youth interns and a variety of professional instructors to capture and document the local COVID-19 pandemic experience in the form of a one-hour documentary featuring stories from local underserved and underrepresented communities in the African American, Asian American and East African immigrant and refugee community. In addition, we will broaden the conversation through facilitated panel discussions where community members will be able to share their own stories and make connections with one another. The project will be completed by June of 2022.

Discovery Park Educational Partnership

The Discovery Park Educational Partnership will holistically present information about the rich history of Discovery Park by conducting a feasibility study and testing operations of 1-2 kiosks in the Daybreak Star Center and/or the Environmental Learning Center at Discovery Park. This project will be completed by May 31, 2019.

Discover Music in the Park

Friends of Discover Music in the Park will organize a free outdoor classical music and dance concert in Discovery Park. The event will be held on Sunday, August 20, from 1:00 to 3:00pm, at the upper field next to Daybreak Star Cultural Center, and is planned for around 500 attendees. Outreach will be done to the general public with focus on the Magnolia and Queen Anne neighborhoods, families, students, Tent City 5, Discovery Park visitors, community groups, and arts organizations that are interested in expanding music and arts performances in Seattle's parks.

Friends of Discovery Park

The Friends of Discovery Park will develop two alternatives of trail design and viewpoints for the South Beach Trail based on meetings with, Seattle Parks and Recreation and the public. The trail is periodically closed due to steep slopes and erosion. New trail design is needed to increase safety and keep the trail open. This project will be completed by May 31, 2019.

Discovery Park 50th Anniversary Partners

Discovery Park will celebrate its 50th birthday on October 1! Volunteers are planning a series of events that focus on the park's stewardship, education, and history. All of these events will culminate in a daylong celebration held at the park, located at 3801 Discovery Park Blvd Seattle WA on October 1, 2022.

Licton Springs Community Council

We are a broad coalition of community members in Seattle's District 5 who are planning a series of three election forums to connect community members with candidates running for Seattle City Council District 5. These forums are planned for: Haller Lake (13055 1st Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125) - Monday, June 5th - 7-8:30 PM Lake City (Location being finalized) - Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 7-8:30 PM Zoom - Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 7-8:30 PM We are focused on community building and education and do not and will not endorse or promote any specific candidate or candidates. Every eligible candidate will be invited to the forums. We expect to record all forums and make them widely available to community members who are not able to attend the live events. We would like to provide translation and interpretation services and security for the forums. The purpose of this grant application is to request funding for both. We hosted similar community-based election forums events in 2015 and 2019.