The Learning Community supports engagement in shared learning and practice and to create community-driven solutions, especially for smaller organizations grassroots and community-based organizations accountable to King County communities of color.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity (COO) seeks to create a culture grounded in community-informed evaluation throughout our partnerships. The COO Evaluation Advisory Group (EAG), composed of representatives from COO’s community organizations and partnerships, was originally assembled in 2018 to support baseline evaluation and since then, has continued to meet to provide feedback on that plan, as well as guidance on partners’ evaluation needs.
Read MoreThe Best Starts for Kids (BSK) 2019 Annual Report is here! BSK supports Communities of Opportunity to build safe, healthy, thriving places for children, youth and families with $6.9M invested in 2019
Communities of Opportunity’s Governance Group members Michael Brown (Civic Commons, Seattle Foundation) and Lydia Assefa-Dawson (King County Regional Housing Authority), and COO Director Andrea Akita, spoke to the Sound Cities Association on the initiative’s commitments to racial equity and social justice.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity & Healthy and Safe Environments initiatives panel at the first annual Best Starts for Kids Summit: “Youth, Family and Community Led Movements for Systems Change: How young people and families work upstream to impact inequities by race and place”
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity Resilience and Response awards will address inequities in housing, health, and economic opportunity. Grantees will receive $1.275 million to promote change in policies and systems for communities most impacted by COVID-19 in King County.
Read MoreThe Learning Community provides funding, resources and activities to strengthen the work of our funded partners and those working in alignment with COO. We also provide opportunities to build strategic and critical relationships and connections, and the opportunity to develop and test new tools and strategies to create equity within our result areas. Learn more about what we’ve accomplished over the last year and half and what we have planned for the next.
Read MoreA Just Recovery in a Changing World: Event Recording and Future Opportunities for Training & Strategy
Best Starts for Kids Community Engagement Survey! Best Starts for Kids is community driven which means your input, as community voice, is critical. Best Starts strong commitment to equity requires participation by community members to achieve the kind of community we want to build together. Let us know your thoughts on BSK and the work for greater equity and healthier communities in King County!
The COVID-19 pandemic brings unprecedented challenges to many Best Starts partners. Some have had to discontinue, limit or substantially modify their community services. To address some these challenges, our capacity builders are producing a series of webinars to be released over the coming weeks.
Read MoreLatest news from the Food Innovation Network (week of April 3, 2020)
Read MoreNew partnerships funded by King County and Seattle Foundation will help address inequities in housing, health and economic opportunity. The 17 nonprofits that successfully competed for $4.15 million in funding will focus on policy and systems change efforts towards increased health and wellness.
Read MoreAlongside the People’s Economy Lab, COO brought Aaron Tanaka, founder of the Boston Ujima Project and Director of the Center for Economic Democracy, to a dialogue with local grassroots organizations, philanthropy, small businesses, and government about developing economic models that are rooted within our communities for greater well-being.
Read MoreThe August 2019 SCOOP newsletter is now available. Read about the work of our partners, how community-driven approaches are taking hold, and new funding opportunities.
Read the latest SCOOP here.
You can sign up for future SCOOP newsletters here.
Read MoreIn 2018, COO launched a participatory evaluation to assess existing conditions and early partner efforts toward creating racial, economic and health equity. Over 46 partners shared their perspectives through surveys, focus groups, interviews and a community workshop. Read the findings here.
Read MoreMoving into the next phase of COO, a Policy and Systems Cohort was envisioned to ensure community experts inform and guide a set of systems and policy recommendations at the intersection of community connection, economic development, health and housing.
Read MoreThis is the first blog in a three-part series that shares how On Board Othello, our partner coalition in Rainier Valley, is making a difference through neighborhood projects, coalition building and community engagement. Read more to learn how their work is transforming Southeast Seattle.
Read MoreFloribert Mubalama founded the Congolese Integration Network to strengthen cultural community connections for Congolese refugees and immigrants. Learn more about how his story drives his community organizing work.
Read MoreA parking lot may be an unexpected place to find healthy fruits and vegetables and community members connecting with one another. But that’s just what you will see when you visit the White Center Food Bank. Learn how their work in partnership with COO is improving the health and well-being of White Center.
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