Seattle Foundation builds partnerships and uses innovative tools to drive change in our community.
Strengthening Nonprofits and Incubating Solutions
Seattle Foundation builds and invests in strategic partnerships to increase racial equity and opportunity, making our community healthier and stronger for all. We harness public, private, and nonprofit partnerships to leverage resources and address our community’s complex challenges. We take this collective approach as a convener because we believe we’re more powerful together. By collaborating and learning with others, we incubate new solutions, ideas, and organizations that drive change in our community.
How We Partner and Innovate to Create New Solutions
Explore three ways we increase nonprofit effectiveness, partner with others, and incube new solutions
Increasing Nonprofit Effectiveness
We support efforts to strengthen nonprofits and increase their effectiveness
Funding Change Through Collaboratives
We pool funds with partners to advance shared goals and drive collective impact.
Incubating Solutions and Organizations
We incubate new solutions to drive big, bold change in our community.
Impact
The Voice of Philanthropy in Our Community
- Turning the Page Together
By Alesha Washington // This month marks my one-year anniversary as Seattle Foundation’s President and CEO. As I reflect on the past year, some themes come to mind. - Multigenerational Philanthropy: Aligning Family Values for Impact
By Crystal Thompkins // Families should consider their philanthropic values as part of their overall wealth plan and focus on shared values instead of generational differences. - Year-end 2022 Through a Philanthropic Lens
Those who work with donors must be ever mindful that their hearts don’t take a day off. Still, the head has a critical role to… Read more: Year-end 2022 Through a Philanthropic Lens