King County Executive Dow Constantine has announced his plan for the six-year Best Starts for Kids levy renewal to continue building toward our long-term vision for King County’s children, youth, and families. Hear what our community has to say about Best Starts for Kids and Communities of Opportunity:
Read MoreLearn about PLN’s path to now and how Para Los Niños is meeting community needs and strengthening community connections in this new video.
Read MoreNew works by seven local artists and community creatives offer fresh ways of understanding the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic with race, bias and culture.
Read More“Listen and be ready to shift”. These were the words of now Communities of Opportunity (COO) Governance Group member and Executive Director of the White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA) at the nascent stages of the formation of COO. Read more about the beginnings of COO and how community partners pushed the initiative to do things differently.
Read MoreThrough the Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits Collaborative (SUNN), 14 organizations are working in partnership to improve the health and well-being of the urban Native community across King County. Read more about the work and vision of the Collaborative…
Read MoreThe White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA) has deep roots in the community, embodied in their ability to organize and implement community vision.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity (COO) announces commitments to five organizations to document impacts, uplift stories of resilience in communities significantly impacted by COVID-19.
Read MoreThe 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
