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Wedgwood Community Council

The Wedgwood Community Council will host a community picnic on September 15, 2018 from 3pm - 7pm at 7744 35th Ave NE. The free event will feature entertainment, food, family activities, and information about civic engagement.

Wedgwood Community Council

The Wedgwood Community Council will host a community-wide summer picnic on September 13, 2025. The picnic is free and open to everyone and is located at the Hunter Farm Gathering Place 7744 35th Ave NE. The picnic is an annual event in Wedgwood that brings people together around food, music, and shared community. The event provides opportunities for sponsors and community groups to host booths to share information useful for the community. This project will be completed by October 31, 2025.

Southwest Seattle Historical Society

The West Duwamish Greenbelt Stories program is a partnership between the West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails Group and the Southwest Seattle Historical Society. The program will include guided hikes through the Greenbelt followed by an oral history panel at the Duwamish Tribe Longhouse and Cultural Center. The program seeks to capture and share the tribal, residential, political, industrial and ecological history of Seattle's largest contiguous forest.

Magnolia Chamber of Commerce

In an effort to create welcoming and sustainable gathering places in the heart of Magnolia's retail core, the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce will facilitate several streetscape improvements. Planned improvements include new seating and lighting and maintenance and restoration of the historic Magnolia trees that line the area. The anticipated project end date is June 30, 2020.

West Seattle Be Prepared

West Seattle Be Prepared will organize two disaster preparedness events for community members of various cultural and language backgrounds. The first event will take place on October 7, 2018 from 2pm - 5pm at High Point Community Center located at 6920 34th Ave SW. The second event will take place on November 3, 2018 from 9am - 12pm at Hiawatha Community Center located at 2700 California Ave SW.

Senior Center of West Seattle

Upgrade an existing 11-station computer lab to better meet the needs of students by upgrading hardware, purchasing new equipment, and upgrading all class materials for application to current software versions.

West Seattle Time Bank

West Seattle Timebank plans to hold a strategic planning workshop at Providence Mt St Vincent located at 4831 35th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98126 in September 2020. The workshop is to learn components of a strategic plan, how to develop the plan to improve and deepen relationships with community partners, learn how the agency's mission, vision, priorities and objectives fit into a strategic plan, how a planning team is built and how to implement the strategic plan and evaluate success.

The Common Acre

The Wetmore Community Garden will transform a quarter acre of overgrown, SDOT Right of Way into a community space providing neighbors a safe, clean environment to walk, gather, and grow food. The garden will increase food security in the area through education and volunteerism, encouraging community members to grow their own food. Produce will be donated to the Rainier Valley Food Bank that will serve individuals unable to directly participate in the garden.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.