A roundup of community partner news and stories of impact in the media for July 2023! Queer the Land, Front & Centered, Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC), Restaurant 2 Garden, People’s Economy Lab (PEL), Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services, UTOPIA WA, and more…
Read MoreCOO in the 2022 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report - highlighting just some of the accomplishments of COO community partners in 2022 across all strategies and the findings from the Commercial Affordability Pilot Project evaluation report.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity (COO) is excited to share some of the highlights from the COO All-Partner Convening held on May 10, 2023 with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. This event brought together individuals and organizations driven by a shared commitment to equity, justice, collaboration and positive change.
Read MoreThis learning session, geared towards others working on collective impact projects, discussed key community-centered capacity building activities, impacts, learnings and contributions to community power building and systems and policy change outcomes and progress.
Read MoreRegularly updated news and happenings from COO community and aligned partners.
Read MoreSeattle Foundation and King County recently awarded grants to 18 community partners to advance systems and policy change to improve health, social, and economic outcomes in the region. This $2.8 million in funding is made through Communities of Opportunity’s Systems and Policy Change strategy.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity is seeking individuals interested in serving on the Governance Group (GG)/Advisory Board beginning in early 2022. The Communities of Opportunity GG/Advisory Board will guide the implementation of the COO activities and serve in an advisory role for the COO elements of the Best Starts for Kids levy. Learn more..
Read MoreThe Tesfa Program developed this web-based toolkit to increase the capacity of providers, organizations, and decision-makers to better connect and serve local Ethiopian communities. Check out the toolkit, accompanying podcast and ways to get involved here!
Read MoreThis conversation with youth leaders and staff from Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) explored how to create supportive and healthy spaces for youth leadership and development — and youth ownership of transformative organizing work.
Read MoreThis workshop focuses on basic fundamentals of what fiscal sponsorship is - including a particular focus on exploring how to best support youth-led groups who are interested in being fiscally sponsored and working with youth-driven projects.This panel included, youth and community leaders who have had successful experiences as a fiscal sponsor and/or as a fiscally sponsored group and what contributed to a healthy relationship.
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