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Pooled Fund Awards by Year
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2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1997 • 1996

2007 Pooled Fund Awards
(Posted on June 21, 2007)

Arts & Culture: Seattle Arts & Lectures, $60,000
To fund expansion of the Writers in the Schools program that brings professional writers into classrooms to promite literacy and creative expression through weekly instruction, mentors, teacher workshops and special projects. www.lectures.org

Education: Seattle MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), $90,000
To fund the Ninth Grade Bridge program to support 100 students of color and girls every year to achieve academic success, especially in math and sciences, during the critical freshman year of high school. www.seattlemesa.org

Environment: Puget SoundKeeper Alliance, $100,000
To fund the Stormwater Regulation and Clean Water Act Enforcement Project to protect the health of the Puget Sound by monitoring toxic runoff and working with polluters to reduce and mitigate their effects on our ecosystem. www.pugetsoundkeeper.org

Health: Youth Suicide Prevention Program, $100,000
To fund expansion of the Build Public Awareness project into 360 schools in Washington state in order to recognize and respond to depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in students, and to combat the second-leading cause of death among youth age 15-24 in our state. www.yspp.org

Social Services: Seattle Milk Fund, $100,000
To fund the Childcare Porgram that provides financial aid to low-income parents so they can complete their education full-time, and achieve economic self-sufficiency more quickly while being assured of good-quality care for their children. www.seattlemilkfund.org

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2006 Pooled Fund Awards
(Posted on 6/26/06)
On June 21, 2006, members of the Washington Women’s Foundation named five beneficiaries to receive grants from the pooled fund. Since the foundation’s inception in 1995, WWF members have invested over $6.6 million in the community through individual and pooled fund awards.

Arts & Culture: The Vera Project, $75,000
To fund operational expenses during the completion of a capital campaign for an expanded facility that will serve as an arts center and a safe, all-ages concert venue run by and for youth. www.theveraproject.org

Education: Team Read, $100,000
To fund the expansion of a reading tutoring program that matches high school-age tutors with second- and third-grade students from Seattle’s neediest public schools. www.teamread.com

Environment: EarthCorps, $75,000
To fund increased capacity to recruit and engage volunteers to perform critical environmental restoration of Puget Sound area urban forests, watersheds and shorelines. www.earthcorps.org

Health: Pike Place Market Foundation, $100,000
To fund expansion of the Senior Wellness Program that provides hot lunches, nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and mental health/social work services to seniors of the downtown and Pike Place Market area. www.pikeplacemarket.org

Social Services: Washington Women's Employment & Education, $100,000
To fund the REACH Plus program that improves computer skills, work habits and the overall employability of welfare recipients and low-income parents in King and Pierce Counties. www.wwee.org

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2005 Pooled Fund Awards
(Posted 06/23/05)
On June 22, 2005 members of the Washington Women’s Foundation named five beneficiaries to receive grants from the 2005 pooled fund. This is the tenth year awards have been made from this major philanthropic fund of women donors. In total, Washington Women's Foundation members have invested nearly $5.8 million in the community through their individual and pooled fund awards.

Arts & Culture: Academy of Children's Theatre, $50,000
To fund the phase one build-out of its newly acquired building in Richland, WA, that will house theatre art classes, outreach programs, and performance space for children in the Tri-Cities/Mid-Columbia Valley area.
www.academyofchildrenstheatre.org

Education: Community for Youth, $100,000
To fund increased capacity to strengthen and expand their programs that support underachieving, yet promising, high school students to stay in school through mentoring and after-school programs in Seattle.
www.communityforyouth.org

Environment: Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, $80,000
To fund the launch of a branding campaign to raise the profile of Skagit Valley produce and support efforts to save open farmland and sensitive ecosystems from the pressures of development.
www.skagitonians.org

Health: Okanogan Family Planning, $85,000
To fund the purchase of medical equipment, fixtures and furnishings for a new family planning clinic to be built in Omak, WA, that will allow them to serve 30% more patients annually. For more inforamtion, contact Lenore Whitecar, Executive Director at lenorew@nvinet.com.

Social Services: Jubilee Women's Center, $85,000
To fund general operations to provide safe, affordable and supportive long-term housing in Seattle to women who are homeless or in economic crisis.
www.jwcenter.org

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2004 Pooled Fund Awards
Arts & Culture: Arts Corps, $65,000
To support the capacity building, program enhancements, and evaluation for the Strategic Plan of the agency’s work in providing free arts education opportunities through after-school programs in King County’s most economically distressed neighborhoods. www.artscorps.org

Education: The New School Foundation, $65,000
To fund the launch of the Parent-Child Home Program, a home-based literacy and school readiness program serving at-risk families with two- and three year-olds, to promote language and early literacy skills. www.seattleschools.org/schools/southshore/foundation.html

Environment: Washington Toxics Coalition, $50,000
To fund the Toxic Free Legacy Campaign, a statewide effort to protect the health of the environment and citizens through the phase-out of the use of persistent toxic chemicals. www.watoxics.org

Health: Northwest Medical Teams, $100,000
To support the Mobile Dental Clinics program, which will provide free dental services (both preventive and therapeutic) to low-income, homeless, and migrant people in South Puget Sound. www.nwmti.org

Social Services: Children’s Home Society, $100,000
During treatment at the Cobb Center for Boys in Seattle, funding is being provided to increase and enhance therapeutic services to serverely abused young boys and their families. Piloting of post-treatment was also funded. www.chs-wa.org


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2003 Pooled Fund Awards
Arts & Culture: Town Hall Seattle, $60,000
To aid in the restoration of its elegant historic 1922 building, which provides small- to mid-size arts, literary and community organizations with a practice and performance space as well as shared marketing costs, affordable rents and audience development. www.townhallseattle.org

Education: Rainier Scholars, $100,000
To give academic, social and psychological support to children of color with high academic potential, from the critical juncture in 5th grade through opportunities in independent schools or advanced placement classes, to the goal of college graduation, so that they may join the nation's leadership pool. www.rainierscholars.org

Environment: Bike Works, $60,000
To expand the facility and program that teach Rainier Valley youth to fix bicycles, thereby clocking hours to earn their own bicycles. This fosters responsibility, encourages cycling as a transportation alternative, and models a recycle rather than throw-away community. www.bikeworks.org

Health: Center For Women's Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness (UW), $60,000
To support medical research which seeks to prove that use of a known bone-growing method will prevent, not simply retard, osteoporosis, leading to a "lifetime fix" for this crippling and often life-threatening disease experienced by 55% of women over fifty.

Social Service: First Avenue Family Service Center, $100,000
To move into and furnish a larger facility, where homeless families can be kept intact, supplied with food, showers, laundry, transportation; provided with parenting skills, job counseling; placed in transitional or permanent housing secured by follow-up visits. www.fasconline.org


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2002 Pooled Fund Awards
Arts & Culture: Friends of Washington Music - Building Harmony, $50,000
Made up of parents, teachers and volunteers, Friends of Washington Music was founded to expand student participation in Washington Middle School's award-winning music education program. The grant will purchase musical instruments and repair others, thereby providing loan instruments for 5,400 students over the next 30 years. Study after study has shown that students who participate in music over a sustained period of time score higher on academic tests and are less likely to drop out of school. For more info, contact WWF at info@wawomensfoundation.org

Education: Daniel Bagley Elementary School, $50,000
Daniel Bagley Elementary School is a K-5 Seattle Public School that offers a dual Traditional and Montessori program for its students. The success of this program has been phenomenal. This grant will create one additional Montessori classroom per year for the next three years to extend its program through 5th grade. www.seattleschools.org/schools/bagley

Environment: Futurewise (formerly 1000 Friends of Washington), $50,000
1000 Friends of Washington is a statewide group to assist and educate citizens on how to use the legal system to enforce growth-management laws. This grant will support a pilot program on the Olympic Peninsula to protect environmentally sensitive areas. www.1000friends.org

Health: Pediatric Interim Care Center, $100,000
PICC is a non-profit 24-hour medical facility for newborns suffering from prenatal drug exposure providing short-term care during the withdrawal process. www.picc.net

Social Services: Child Care Resources - Child Careers Program, $100,000
CCR provides technical support and training for welfare recipients to begin careers in child care, either as teachers in child care centers or as owners of home-based child care businesses. The Child Care Careers Program enables welfare women to fulfill the requirement of going back to work while allowing them to stay with their children and increase the supply of quality care for other women who are low income, refugee or recent immigrants. www.childcare.org


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2001 Pooled Fund Awards
Arts & Culture: Rotary Boys & Girls Club - Innovative Arts Program, $50,000
To add an innovative arts program to the club's already excellent educational assistance, computer and sports programs as one more powerful way of motivating kids to realize their full potential and connect in positive ways to their community. Contact Patrick Carter pcarter@positiveplace.org for more information.

Education: Powerful Voices - MAPS Program (Making a Positive Step), $100,000
For a program to reduce recidivism among adolescent girls released from juvenile detention by providing them with an adult mentor and training them to be a part of a network of peer educators who conduct workshops for girls who are not yet offenders. www.powerfulvoices.org

Environment: People for Puget Sound - Saving Puget Sound's Shoreline, $50,000
For an innovative campaign to reverse the decline of our shoreline by engaging the owners of shoreline property, as well as the general public, in a stewardship program based on the successful block watch model.www.pugetsound.org

Health: Pregnancy and the Female Bias in Autoimmune Disease, $50,000
To Dr. Judith Lee Nelson, medical researcher, to research the hypothesis that retained fetal cells from prior pregnancies contribute to the risk of developing autoimmune disease which so disproportionately effects women. Contact J. Bracken jbracken@fhcrc.org for more information.

Social Services: Childhaven - WWF Play Therapy Center, $100,000
For a state-of-the-art play therapy center for healing neglected and abused pre-school children in Childhaven's new $15M facility. The center will also be used as a model to other agencies and as a training facility for medical and psychology professionals.
www.childhaven.org


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2000 Pooled Fund Awards
Education: City Year/Treehouse - Teentime, $100,000
To target Treehouse's foster youth of middle school age, pairing them with young adult mentors from City Year, and engaging them in specially designed after-school and weekend activities.The goal is to structure the after-school hours of foster teens while they develop a one-on-one relationship with a role model.   www.cityyear.org

Health: Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers - Children's Dental Outreach Project, $50,000
To hire a full-time community health coordinator, whose responsibility it is to connect the children of a low-income, ethnically diverse population, with low- or no-cost dental services. In addition, education programs will familiarize families with the concept and practice of preventive oral health.   For more information, please Email Susan Odell at odells@psnhc.org

Health: Planned Parenthood - Checkpoint, $50,000
To prevent premature pregnancy by helping middle school boys develop positive concepts of masculinity that preclude teen fatherhood. The program is proactive, helping teens build strong personal skills to help them make important judgements and decisions.   www.ppww.org

Social Services: Medina Children's Service - Family Connections, $100,000
To hire a full-time staff person dedicated to dramatically increasing the pool of prospective adoptive families for older foster children who are waiting for adoption in King County. The goal is the adoption of at least seventy older children over the two-year period of the grant.  www.medinachild.org


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1999 Pooled Fund Awards
Health: Country Doctor Community Health Centers, $75,000
To provide a 30%-time psychiatrist for three years. The Country Doctor provides primary health care to low-income residents in Seattle's Capitol Hill and Central Areas. More than half its patients require mental health treatment. An estimated 1000 patients are served annually by the expanded mental health team. For more information, please Email Henrietta Taylor-Knight at hknight@cdchc.org

Social Services: Seattle Children's Home - The Center for Improving Futures, $75,000
To provide comprehensive care for children and families with emotional and behavioral disorders, mental illness and/or a history of abuse and neglect. By linking the various service providers, SCH prevents families from getting lost in the system.  www.seattlechildrenshome.org

Social Services: STARS: Structured Treatment Alternative Restorative Services, $100,000
To target first-time and repeat offenders between the age of 13-15 with an intervention and rehabilitative program to prevent re-offence. STARS coordinates academic, mental health and juvenile justice components in a unique collaboration with other local agencies.   For more information, please email Pam Jones at pam.jones@metrokc.gov


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1998 Pooled Fund Awards
Environment: The Nature Conservancy of Washington, $50,000
To purchase timberland which is a critical habitat/watershed for native salmon runs. The grant enables the NCW to partner with Seattle City Light to connect several pieces of the Skagit preserve into a contiguous habitat/watershed and to qualify for a challenge grant from Paul Allen. www.tnc.org

Health: Children's Hospital's Brain Tumor Research Project, $50,000
To increase understanding of the origins of childhood brain tumors and develop therapies that are less toxic and more effective than current approaches. The ultimate goal is to increase the survival rate and quality of life of children with brain tumors.  www.seattlechildrens.org

Social Services: Farestart, $100,000
In support of Farestart's mission to understand the reasons people become homeless and to transform their lives by providing job training and placement in the food industry. A particular focus of this grant is to bring more women into the program by offering shelter and childcare.  www.farestart.org


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1997 Pooled Fund Awards
Education: Alliance for Education, $100,00
To launch the program for integration of the arts with the core academic curriculum in the Seattle Public Schools. John Stanford, the late Seattle Schools superintendent, characterized this program as representing the best of two worlds: the revitalization of the arts and the systematic reform of the way basic subjects are taught.  www.alliance4ed.org

Social Services: Washington Works, $60,000
For the implementation and development of the program to meet the "work first" mandates of welfare reform. The project supports welfare recipients transitioning into the labor force and "reimburses" employers for their commitment to hiring workers from this population.  www.waworks.org


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1996 Pooled Fund Awards
Social Services: MAVIA - Mothers Against Violence in America, $100,000
In support of MAVIA's Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) program, an anti-violence program for children and youth now operating in twenty-seven schools and communities in the Puget Sound Region. www.mavia.org