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May 05, 2020
Oregon Community Foundation
The Pacific Northwest Resilient Landscapes Initiative, a partnership of the Land Trust Alliance, Oregon Community Foundation, Seattle Foundation and Idaho Community Foundation, today announced its first projects to conserve essential lands.
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April 29, 2020
Forbes
Community-led funds, including one being administered by the Seattle Foundation, have launched all over the country, focused on helping those most affected by this crisis.
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April 17, 2020
Fotune
When the city became the first U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Costco, and others found themselves on the frontlines.
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April 16, 2020
The Seattle Times
Help from neighbors, including support from local businesses and organizations like the COVID-19 Response Fund, managed by Seattle Foundation, is already making a difference.
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April 15, 2020
King 5
The Plate Fund, an initiative to provide financial assistance to King County restaurant and food service workers who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, has raised a total of $6 million.
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April 08, 2020
Microsoft Alumni Network
Tony Mestres, a Microsoft alumni, shares some of the lessons he’s learned as we all deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak and its aftermath.
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April 06, 2020
Eater Seattle
The former Starbucks CEO joins forces with major Seattle chefs and organizations for The Plate Fund, which will provide one-time payments to workers in King County.
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March 31, 2020
KNKX
Seattle Foundation recently awarded grants to groups that help immigrants through its COVID-19 Response Fund, including $100,000 for Casa Latina.
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March 30, 2020
Puget Sound Business Journal
The COVID-19 Response Fund operated by The Seattle Foundation dished out just under $10.2 million in grants after raising $15.7 million in donations.
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March 30, 2020
Seattle Business magazine
The new fund is backed by dozens of philanthropic, business and government partners and also supported by 2,000 online donors to date.
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March 27, 2020
The New York Times
Upended by the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits are laying off workers and seeking help from stretched donors.
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March 27, 2020
The New York Times
Their strategies could inspire other donors who want to know the quickest ways to ensure their dollars have the biggest impact.
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March 24, 2020
Seattle Times
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday it’s planning to donate $3.7 million to support various response efforts to the novel coronavirus pandemic in the greater Seattle area.
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March 20, 2020
Puget Sound Business Journal
Funds are pouring into a philanthropy fund that the Seattle Foundation started early this month to help ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Puget Sound region.
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March 12, 2020
Inside Philanthropy
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Gates Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are among some of the big givers that have committed tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to coronavirus-related needs at the national and global levels.
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March 12, 2020
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Foundations and other organizations have started setting up "rapid response" funds to help nonprofits deal with the fallout from the coronavirus.
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March 10, 2020
The NonProfit Times
A coalition of philanthropy, government, and business partners in Seattle, Wash., have joined together to create a COVID-19 Response Fund that will rapidly deploy resources to community-based organizations at the front lines of the region’s coronavirus outbreak.
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March 09, 2020
Business Insider
Microsoft and Amazon, two major Seattle-based tech companies, are giving $1 million each to a fund designed to mitigate the economic loss felt in the local area in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
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March 09, 2020
GeekWire
Microsoft, Amazon, and other Seattle-area companies are partnering with nonprofits and governments to launch a relief fund in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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March 09, 2020
Seattle Times
A coalition of philanthropic groups and major corporations in the Seattle area is launching a $2 million-plus campaign to help people disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus outbreak’s disruption of the economy.
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February 12, 2020
King County
New partnerships funded by King County and Seattle Foundation will help address inequities in housing, health and economic opportunity.
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January 28, 2020
The Kresge Foundation
$33.1 million in commitments from 11 organizations will unlock more than $150 million in new investments
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January 15, 2020
blogs.microsoft.com
Microsoft will contribute $50 million to the Evergreen Impact Housing Fund (EIHF) to promote the development of approximately 1,250 low-income housing units on the eastside of King County, with support from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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December 30, 2019
Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
From a green initiative, to census 2020 work, to an increasing emphasis on STEM, there is a lot on KCLS’s horizon.
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December 30, 2019
The International Examiner
The Internatinal Examiner enters it’s third year of the Advocacy Journalism Fellowship Program, made possible by a grant from the Seattle Foundation.
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December 26, 2019
Seahawks
This month, the Seahawks Players Equality & Justice for All Action Fund awarded its third round of grants.
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October 17, 2019
seattlechannel.org
It's a defining principle of democracy - the right to vote. Unfortunately, in many underserved communities of Seattle and King County, that right is not being exercised. But the effort to turn out the vote is getting substantial help.
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October 10, 2019
Microsoft Alumni Podcast
In Episode 6 of Beyond the Blue Badge’s second season, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Microsoft alumnus Tony Mestres about the “moment of truth” that society is facing regarding social inequities, the changes that need to happen and the urgency: “We’ve got a generation tops to turn this around.”
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October 04, 2019
Bellevue Reporter
On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Bellevue Public Library hosted “More Than a Headcount: Activating Communities for Census 2020,” a panel discussion organized by the Seattle Foundation.
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October 04, 2019
GeekWire
While the local economy is booming, Seattle is struggling with a homelessness crisis and a shortage of affordable housing. But is the situation starting to improve? How does it compare to five or 10 years ago? As one data point goes up, does the other drop? And are there bright points in the data capturing the region’s livability?