Share Fund Grantees

Anida Yoeu Ali – Atomic Shogun LLC: Anida Yoeu Ali is an artist, educator and global agitator born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Ali’s multi-disciplinary practices include performance, installation, videos, images, public encounters, and political agitation. Ali’s works have been performed and exhibited widely including at the Haus der Kunst, Palais de Tokyo, The Smithsonian, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. She is a recipient of the 2024 Arts Innovator Award, a 2020 Art Matters Fellowship and the 2015 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. She received her B.F.A. from University of Illinois and an M.F.A. in from School of the Art Institute Chicago. Currently based in Tacoma, Ali has been engaged in community building projects including the One Table Show and the ArtCity Collaborative.

Art Saves – Shantell Jackson: Shantell Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and the founder and curator of Art Saves. Her work spans visual art, spoken word, and interactive installations—each piece rooted in healing, liberation, and deep inner knowing. With a background in storytelling and community engagement, Shantell creates spaces where art becomes ritual, refuge, and resistance. Her creations have been featured across the Pacific Northwest, including the Northwest African American Museum, Terrain Gallery, and Gallery One.

Benton Franklin Legal Aid: The Benton-Franklin Legal Aid Society provides legal assistance to Qualified Low-Income individuals who would otherwise be denied access to the Justice system because of the inability to pay for the cost of counsel.

Blue Cactus Press: Blue Cactus Press is an independent publishing house crafting books that serve as community resources, by collaborators from historically marginalized groups. Blue Cactus creates books and open dialogue that move toward liberation. Their catalog includes poetry, fiction, self-help, business, sociology, memoir, and anti-racism genres.

Campfire Coffee: Campfire Coffee is a community oriented coffeeshop that works with local organizations to ger more families into nature. They believe nature and coffee are tools to push forward connection to the outdoors.

Central WA Legal Aid: Central WA Legal Aid provides free civil legal services to low-income individuals and families throughout Central WA (specifically Yakima, Grant, Adams, Kittitas, Benton and Franklin counties). Our work focuses on ensuring equal access to justice in critical areas such as housing, family law, and immigration. By offering legal advice, representation, and community outreach, we help people navigate complex legal systems and protect their rights.

Chinook Nation: The Chinook Indian Nation is made up of the five western-most Chinookan speaking tribes at the mouth of the Columbia River. Chinook is continuing to work towards establishing federal recognition for the tribe, to gain access to federal benefits like housing, utilities, food, and other basic needs — benefits that are critical to the survival of tribes.

Cierra Sisters: Cierra Sisters mission is to help break the cycle of fear and increase knowledge concerning breast cancer in the African-American and underserved communities. They offer life-saving information via presentations, consistent one-on-ones with healthcare professionals and diverse outreach efforts.

Cocoa LaBear: Cocoa LaBear creates nourishing skincare exclusively for newborns through toddlers, formulated with only certified food-grade, organic, plant-based ingredients. Every ingredient we source must meet all three standards. We hold ourselves to exceptional safety and purity standards because we believe children’s vulnerable skin deserves the gentlest possible care, giving parents true peace of mind. Our mission extends beyond our products: we’re building awareness that infant and early-childhood skincare should be recognized as its own category, one that transcends even the highest standards of conventional clean beauty. When parents choose Cocoa LaBear, they’re embracing a new benchmark for what truly safe, age-appropriate care means for their little ones.

Creole Resources: Creole Resources is dedicated to empowering and supporting the Haitian community in the Spokane County region. Our mission is to provide essential resources, promote cultural integration, and foster a sense of belonging among Haitians and French speakers. Through English Language Learning, job training, housing support, and a safe community gathering place, we strive to enhance their opportunities for success, while celebrating their unique heritage and fostering a strong sense of community.

Cynthia Cooper at Washington State University Vancouver: Using model organism zebrafish, Cynthia Cooper’s research lab investigates the biology of pigment cells, melanocytes, in vertebrate organisms. As melanocytes protect human skin from DNA damaging ultraviolet rays, their function is critical for human health. A better understanding of melanocyte biology could uncover new treatment options for melanocyte diseases and disorders, like melanoma and albinism.

Deena Bayoumi, Pullman School District 267 School Director: Deena Bayoumi ran and won her election to the Pullman School District school board District 4 in Washington. Bayoumi was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.

Domestic Violence Services of Benton and Franklin Counties: DVSBF is focused on providing the best advocacy and support services for domestic violence survivors in our community. Our mission is to create a healthy community free from all forms of domestic violence. DVSBF provides a wide array of services including 24-hour crisis line and emergency shelter, information and referrals, legal advocacy and clinics, support groups, advocacy based counseling, and community education.

Dope Culture LLC: The Community Soul Feed provides hot meals, hair cuts, hygiene packets and resources to families in need every first Sunday. The goal is to create a safe space to bring the whole family to enjoy a hot meal and be able to fellowship. The team wants the unhoused, drug addicted and anyone at all that just wants a sense of normalcy and a space to enjoy it all absolutley free.

Elect Sandra Zavala-Ortega: Sandra Zavala is a proud Vancouver Public Schools (VPS) graduate, dedicated school board director, and committed community leader.

Empowering Latina Leadership and Action: ELLA empowers emerging leaders to step boldly into civic engagement, equipping them with the skills and support they need to create lasting change in their communities. Its advocacy has already made a measurable difference—partnering with the ACLU of Washington, ELLA helped ensure that a local school district complied with the Washington Voting Rights Act, strengthening fair representation for all. ELLA also amplifies the voices of those too often overlooked, sharing the powerful stories of families living with contaminated well water and of farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides. By bringing these lived experiences to the forefront, ELLA drives public awareness, mobilizes action, and advances justice where it’s urgently needed.

Filipino American Community of Yakima Valley: Established in 1938, the Filipino Community of Yakima Valley serves as a cultural hub for Filipino Americans and diverse communities in Central Washington. Their programs include arts activities, youth programs, cross-cultural education, historical preservation, and networking.

Fire Circle Consulting: Fire Circle Consulting helps organizations grow in a way that is culturally grounded, community-centered, and guided by Indigenous wisdom. They support leaders and teams with practical strategies that build trust, strengthen relationships, and create long-lasting, positive change.

Flower Monster: Flower Monster is an LGBTQIA- and Latino-owned floral education and seed preservation company devoted to the plants and stories that shape cultural identity. By hosting DIY bouquet experiences and immersive events and offering access to culturally significant seeds, Flower Monster creates community spaces that build community and challenge outdated norms of who flowers are for—reconnecting people with the beauty, history, and power held in Latino lineage plants.

Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad (preferred name: Joy): Joy is a literary arts teaching artist, writer, filmmaker, editor, and community organizer based in Puyallup Territory (Tacoma, WA). As a writer, Joy is inspired by spirituality, everyday life, nature, music, and cinematography. She is a graduate of Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab and facilitates writing courses rooted in healing and personal development. She enjoys public speaking, on topics such as collective care, community organizing, leadership, and more.

Hanncel Studio: Hanncel Studio is rooted in storytelling, advocacy and representation. Each art print, T-shirt, accessory is created with intention, empowering the immigrant Latine community, sparking conversations, affirming identities, amplifying women’s voices, and bringing moments of joy to those who engage with Hanncel’s powerful work. Her art reflects her passion for Latinx heritage, feminism, and spirituality, offering a unique blend of bold colors, meaningful symbolism, and uplifting messages.

Indigenous Performance Productions: Indigenous Performance Productions is an Indigenous led nonprofit that supports storytelling and oral traditions through live engagements, documentaries and education. As an Indigenous led organization we can speak to the importance that stories and oral traditions have in transmitting culture and values, reciprocity and building generational cohesion.

Indigenous and Gothic – Wovokas Art Center: Wovokas art centers is centered around deconstruction racism while integrating Indigenous medicine and knowledge.

Island Soul Restaurant: Based in South Seattle, Island Soul Rum Bar & Soul Shack, is a beloved family-owned Caribbean soul food restaurant known for their signature oxtail stew and rich gumbo. Island Soul has always been more than just a place to eat—it is a space full of love, culture, and connection.

James Bee Media, LLC: Bringing humanity back into leadership by focusing on empathy, stress management, and personal development. As a keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, who has ADHD, James reminds leaders why they want to be leaders, how to show up with integrity and understanding, and balance the chaos that comes with their passions.

Kazuko LLC (DBA Kazuko Wellness): Grounded in her work as a well-being educator and collective harmony facilitator, jasmine kazuko linane-booey leads Kazuko Wellness in creating accessible, integrative pathways to rest, embodiment, and expansion. Her offerings weave together somatic and energy-based practices, breathwork, yoga, and creative expression through coaching, workshops, custom guided meditations, and public speaking. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and a trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens, Jasmine invites communities into transformation that is both sustainable and liberatory.

Kellie Richardson: Kellie Richardson is a Black, queer interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. Kellie’s work primarily explores themes of love, loss and longing, with particular attention to how those themes intersect with Black American humanity. Working primarily with poetry, mixed media and collage, Kellie’s relationship with art is defined by the metamorphosis that happens when art is a liberatory practice.

Latinos En Spokane: Latinos En Spokane is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization centered on supporting citizen participation, culturally-led community development, and empowerment of the Latino and immigrant population in Spokane County. Latinos En Spokane centers efforts on community outreach, listening to needs, building trust and providing support and wrap-around services directly to families navigating the complexities of immigration, education, health care, housing and city resources.

Lauren Du Pree/Just Du Pree Productions LLC: Lauren Du Pree is an actor, vocalist, writer, filmmaker, emcee, and eczema/TSW advocate. Inspired by her experiences as a chronically ill Black woman in the entertainment industry, her love-hate relationship with social media, and her passion for music, Du Pree believes stepping into one’s authenticity is the key to liberation, and that’s reflected in the stories she tells. She is currently fundraising for her musical film, Atopic, about a young, Black theatre artist who escapes the pain of her chronic iatrogenic skin condition through musical fantasies.

Locked In Fathers Alliance: Locked in Fathers Alliance is a community dedicated to empowering Black fathers by creating safe, supportive spaces to connect, share, and grow together.They also lead the F.L.Y. Project (Forever Loving Yourself), a youth violence and gang intervention initiative.

MAC Movement (Music, Art, Creativity Movement): MAC Movement is an All Nations grassroots style organization; dedicated to feeding starving artists and nourishing creative growth through mutual aid, activism, and community support.

MIKE Program: MIKE exists to achieve health equity and, working towards this mission through educational programming with youth. Their Mentored Health Education and Healthcare Career Exploration programs are at the core of their work.These programs take place in the communities most impacted by the social determinants of health.

Majek NW, LLC: Taro & Turtle Project: Taro and Turtle project works to grow a strong, intergenerational base of Palauan families in the U.S. by strengthening language, culture, and historical knowledge; building community leadership; and expanding opportunities for youth to engage in organizing, storytelling, and civic action — all toward growing collective and political power that advances Palauan communities in the U.S. and Palau.

Megan Ludeña Consulting and Coaching LLC: Megan Ludeña Consulting and Coaching supports nurses and healthcare organizations in building strong, inclusive, and sustainable professional development practices. Megan assists teams with assessing their current state, developing evidence-based improvements, and building sustainable systems for transitions to practice, onboarding and orientation, policies and procedures, and other key workforce needs. Grounded in equity, access, and representation, Megan is committed to supporting underrepresented nurses and partnering with communities with limited nursing resources to grow a strong, prepared, and confident nursing workforce.

New Developed Nations: New Developed Nations (NDN) is an innovative organization, and Healing Through Hip Hop is a program that incorporates music as a form of therapy in a way that has never been utilized before. From lyric writing sessions, music production and poetry, NDN strives to empower individuals by providing a safe and comfortable zone for Artists to tell their story in a fun and exciting manner chosen by each individual. All genres of music are available as well as journaling, visual art, and creative writing.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education. NWIRP provides legal representation and assistance to immigrants, challenges unjust policies through high-impact lawsuits, and advocates for laws that respect the rights of immigrants. They empower immigrant communities with information about their rights and educate social service providers about immigrations protections available to the communities they serve.

Open Arms Perinatal Services: Open Arms Perinatal Services builds strong, healthy families through free, culturally responsive perinatal support. Our community-based doulas, lactation specialists, and family support staff walk alongside parents from pregnancy through baby’s second year, ensuring every family has the care, resources, and respect they deserve.

Operation Healthy Family: Operation Healthy Family (OHF) provides fitness, wellness, and dental clinic/education programs that help strengthen and uplift Spokane families. Together, we’re building a healthier community for all!

Rebel Firm, LLC: Philip “Sharp Skills” Jacobs is the founder of Rebel Firm LLC and is an award-winning hip-hop artist, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. Through his Rebel Firm imprint he has produced seven albums, five books, and a groundbreaking racial equity board game called Reveal the Elephant. He is also the founder of Fades & Finance, LLC, an initiative dedicated to educating barbers and stylists about financial literacy. He writes books that inspire and challenge readers to think critically about success, business, and racial equity.

Red Bird Camp Collective: Red Bird Camp Collective is a group of Indigenous educators based in the Pacific Northwest. The organization’s initiatives are centered around three key areas: building community between Native students and educators, supporting local land restoration and food sovereignty, and advancing small-scale mutual aid projects.

Reservation Roots: Reservation Roots promotes political and social activism across the ancestral lands of the indigenous people across the United Sates and beyond. Reservation Roots implements social programs to maintain the community’s basic needs while also ensuring the indigenous and oppressed are treated equally.

Ridgefield Multicultural Initiative: The Ridgefield Multicultural Initiative celebrates culture, educates, and creates intentional space for belonging in Southwest Washington by organizing events and an free annual festival. The main event is the Ridgefield Multicultural Festival on the first Saturday of September. The festival is in its 9th year, attracts visitors from across Oregon and Washington, and helps to preserve artistic cultural practices.

Rise Above: Rise Above is a Native-owned nonprofit dedicated to empowering Indigenous youth through culturally grounded prevention, mentorship, and wellness programming. Each year, the organization engages thousands of young people across Washington state through sports-based activities, education, and ongoing community connection. Rise Above partners with schools, tribes, and community organizations to support healthy futures and inspire Native youth to rise above adversity.

Sacred Land Collective: Sacred Land Collective works to galvanize our collective liberation by providing space to heal intergenerational trauma and build wellness through culturally relevant restorative practices.

Salish School of Spokane: The mission of the Salish School of Spokane is “Dynamic Salish Language Revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community”. This is achieved through creating a community of fluent speakers by providing immersion education for children from birth to 12th grade, and empowering families to speak the language daily. The school also focuses on creating culturally relevant academic programs, developing new language speakers, and sharing its revitalization methods with other Indigenous communities.

Salt & Lather Soaps: Salt & Lather Soaps is a Black-owned handcrafted soap and wellness brand focused on creating intentional, small-batch products for melanin-rich, sensitive, and under-served skin. We combine holistic wellness practices with modern and expressive formulation to offer inclusive, everyday care rituals that uplift individuals, families, and the broader Spokane community.

Spectrum Center: A drive for safe, intersectional, intergenerational 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Eastern Washington and North Idaho is at the core of Spectrum Center’s work. The team strives to create virtual and in-person community spaces, build a culture of care, commit to advocacy and allyship, provide education and facilitation services to organizations / individuals, and fill gaps that arise through pop up events.

Vicky Frausto for Sunnyside City Council: Vicky Frausto is a newly elected member of the Sunnyside City Council serving her first term as of January 2024. Vicky is deeply committed to bringing innovation to the council, meaningful representation that reflects our community at-large, and truly invest in the essence of this town.

War Cry Podcast: The War Cry Podcast centers around Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and community members, boarding school stories, history, personal experience and news. The show is hosted and produced by an all Indigenous team. All stories are published with the permission of the families, and honoring the culture and protocols are paramount to the narratives that are shared.

Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network: The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) strengthens the capacity and leadership of immigrants and refugees across Washington state through peaceful, community-led action grounded in dignity, respect, and autonomy for all, regardless of immigration status. As the largest immigrant-led coalition in the state, uniting over 400 organizations across 27 counties, we protect and advance the rights of immigrants and refugees through our four Deportation Defense pillars, including the Hotline, Rapid Response network, Accompaniment program, and Fair Fight Bond Fund. Together, these lifelines transform fear into resilience, ensuring that no one faces harmful systems alone.

Yakima County NAACP Branch 1140B: A cornerstone of the long-term vision of Yakima NAACP is to build sustained power within BIPOC communities across Yakima County by cultivating next-generation leadership. The team is committed to creating a future where all residents, especially historically excluded communities can live with dignity, access opportunity, and fully participate in shaping just systems and policies. Yakima NAACP has been a strong community partner, at the table willing to lead, serve and follow.

Yoyot Sp’q’n’i: Yoyot Sp’q’n’i is a Native-led, lived-experience driven organization providing crisis support, housing stability, and community care rooted in Indigenous best practices. Yoyot engages in systems challenge and systems change, advocating alongside communities to confront harmful policies, expand resources, and shift Spokane toward safety and belonging for all. The outreach team travels across Spokane County and surrounding tribal regions, meeting people where they are with transportation, emergency support, cultural connection, and survival resources.

Political Contributions

For the 2024 grant cycle, the funding group decided to allocate a portion of the grants towards political impact in Washington. The grantees are compromised below, and consist of political candidates and organizations that align with The Share Fund’s values.

• Natasha Hill  – Spokane, WA – State Representative, Legislative District 3
• Blanche Barajas – Pasco, WA –  Franklin County Commissioner, District 2
• Chelsea Dimas – Sunnyside, WA – State Representative, Legislative District 14
• Davida Haygood – Puyallup, WA – Pierce County Council, Position 2 (D)
• Rosie Ayala – Tacoma, WA – Pierce County Council, Position 4 (D)
• Maria Beltran – Yakima, WA – State Senate, Legislative District 14
• Nate Tyler – Port Angeles, WA –  State Representative, Legislative District 24, Position 1
• Patrick DePoe – Seattle, WA – Commissioner of Public Lands
• T’wina Nobles  – University Place, WA – State Senator, Legislative District 28
• Manka Dinghra – Redmond, WA – Attorney General (D)
• Nick Brown – Seattle, WA – Attorney General (D)
• Native Vote WA PAC – Statewide Political Action Committee 

General Grants

A Resting Place: A Resting Place is a grief and loss cultural resource center that provides a space to explore grief through cultural work and resources. Drawing on aspects of Filipino culture and identity, The Resting Place brings comfort and connection to all people in their path of loss, as they believe grief is a sacred and dignified right to all beings.

Alimentando al Pueblo: Based in Burien, Washington, Alimentando al Pueblo serves Latinx and immigrant populations and focuses on healing through community, food, and celebration. The organization coordinates a culturally relevant food bank, hosts cultural gatherings, and leads art and music events open to community members.

American Indian Community Center: The AICC supports Native community members with basic needs such as meals, food banks, clothing, and much more. AICC’s most valuable resource is its relationships. The staff, clients, partners, volunteers, and other supporters are the foundation of the Center’s work. Together, these relationships create a sense of belonging for urban-based Native people living in the greater Spokane area.

Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP): Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP) was formed to fill the gap of Asian representation surrounding historical and heritage preservation at the state and national level. They focus on information-sharing to help build networks, offer educational programs and technical services, and advocate for historic preservation at all levels. APIAHiP is the only national organization dedicated to protecting historic places and cultural resources significant to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Big Bro Joe Foundation: The Big Bro Joe Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization in the Tri-Cities, Washington, that supports the healthy socio-emotional development of young males. Big Bro Joe facilitates mentor relationships, activities and programs, sports and team-building activities, and introductions to educational and personal development resources. The goal is to equip young men throughout the communities with the mental, emotional, physical, and educational tools needed to become well-adjusted members of society.

Black Women Write Seattle: Black Women Write is a group of Black female identifying writers that gather monthly to support and empower writers that are cultivating their voice and working towards publishing their work.

Boys & Girls Club of Yakama Nation: The Boys & Girls Club of the Yakama Nation is a nonprofit organization that works with youth ages 5-18 living on and around The Yakama Nation Reservation. Residing on tribal lands, the organization works towards carrying traditions of Yakama Ancestors to contribute to the betterment for the lifelong success, enrichment, and wellness of Yakama Nation youth and future generations.

Boys and Girls Club of Makah Nation: The Boys & Girls Club of the Makah Tribe aims to serve the youth of Neah Bay and instill a positive self-image that builds character through organized sports, cultural activities, clubs, and community service projects. Opened in 2022, this is the first ever Boys and Girls Club on the Makah Reservation.

Cafe Con Arte: Cafe Con Arte is an inclusive coffee shop and art gallery in Pasco, Washington. It is a community space that fosters engagement with the arts, and a sense of belonging. The space centers the most marginalized communities in the area, while also providing intentional curation of music, visual arts, and a literary archive that fully represents the diverse cultures in the city.

Elijah Family Homes: Based in Benton and Franklin counties, Elijah Family Homes provides comprehensive support to low-income families in recovery, ensuring they are given the opportunity to make unique and valuable contributions to the community. They ensure housing is accessible to all, regardless of substance abuse or criminal background. Elijah Family Homes supports self-sufficiency through stable-housing and case management services.

Glos Creative Studio: Glos Creative Studio is a Black women led marketing firm that specializes in blending creativity with cultural insights to help build strong branding. Glos mission is to bring businesses the creative marketing they need to stand out, reach their target market and audience, and get the representation they deserve.

Imagine YOUinversity: Imagine YOUniversity empowers BIPOC students by positioning them to thrive in academia and beyond, providing them with comprehensive guidance while navigating the K-12 to college transition. Imagine YOUniversity’s programs equip students with resources and opportunities needed to make informed decisions about their futures through personalized advising, college preparation, campus and industry tours. The aim is to inspire confidence in BIPOC students by fostering a supportive community and educating youth on the multiple pathways available to them.

Indigenous Roots and Reperation Foundation: IRRF is an Indigenous-led team of grassroots organizers, practitioners, community builders, and media-based strategists from diverse Nations throughout Turtle Island. IRRF works to preserve history, culture, traditions and language through education and advocacy.

Jubilee House Ministries: Jubilee House Ministries’ main goal is to support faith-based leaders and behavioral health providers in aligning and expanding spiritual wellness and mental health in our community. These efforts are meant to strengthen the individuals in the community to thrive and “Live Well.”

Keep Goin’ Foundation: Keep Going Foundation’s ultimate goal is to incorporate values, morals and self-respect in the minds of the young people by providing resources along with teaching all that life has to offer.

Kimora Garden: Kimora Garden is a women of color owned online consignment shop looking to develop a retail space that would support economic opportunities for artists, thrifters and upcyclers. They work supports collective access to the economy with a focus of sustainable and reused products to address the exploitation of the planet.

Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center: Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center (KIAC) works for the well-being and empowerment of immigrants through education, advocacy and social justice. They work to support newcomers with family services, immigration legal services, and business and tax services.

Maji Rising: Maji Rising is based in Spokane, Washington, with a mission to cultivate a community of holistic care that empowers individuals to seek better outcomes for themselves. With a vision firmly set on creating a more equitable future, Maji Rising aims to foster the traditions of lineage-based health care, establishing a transformative community dedicated to healing and promoting overall well-being.

Mother Nation: Mother Nation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that delivers social and cultural healing services for Native women that nurture, create stability, and inspire growth through sisterhood. Mother Nation provides cultural healing circles, housing services, mentorship, workshops, and training to transform the journey of Native women into natural leadership and restore the cultural strength of Native people in the world.

Mujeres in Action (M.i.A.): Mujeres in Action is an organization that supports survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in a culturally responsive way. The organization provides a variety of services to support survivors, including counseling or advocacy, housing support, emergency shelter, among others.

Operation Healthy Family: Operation Healthy Family (OHF) serves people experiencing poverty, with an emphasis on people of color and immigrants, in Spokane, WA. OHF is a grassroots cross-racial group of people, founded by a biracial couple, (CEO) Tommy Williams and (COO) Paula Williams, who have deep relationships in Spokane’s African-American community and the South Perry neighborhood. OHF works towards akign Spokane a diverse and inclusive city.

Pan African Community Services: Pan-African Community Services’ (PACS) programs focus on health advocacy and providing wellness activities for disadvantaged families and seniors facing existing health disparities. PACS is working to break the cycle of health and socioeconomic disparities among African immigrants in King County.

Poder Latinx: Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization dedicated to building and strengthening the political power of the Latinx community in key battleground states and nationwide. Poder leads a voter-integrated engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform, and protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political consciousness. Through this work, Poder empowers and equips the Latinx community to become agents of change.

Project Girl Mentoring Program: The Mission of Project Girl Mentoring Program is to foster the advancement of young women of color to make positive life choices and to maximize their authentic potential. Programs include: Counseling, After-School Immersion Lab, Level Up Scholarship Program, Embracing Wellness.

Shades of Motherhood Network: Shades of Motherhood Network works to ensure Black mothers and women of color in the U.S. have a high-quality, culturally relevant childbirth experience through resources like peer support groups, empowering community workshops, and comprehensive doula care.

Skyway Tutoring and Rites of Passage: Skyway Tutoring and Rites of Passage program enhances and supports academic and educational pursuits for primarily underserved youth of the greater Skyway and South Seattle communities. Their programs provide direct services to children and youth ages 5-18, including assisting their families where possible. They have collaborative relationships with public and private schools based on where our students attend.

Spokane Tribal Network: The Spokane Tribal Network (STN) was formed in 2012 and is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves a valuable role for the Spokane Tribal community. The Spokane Tribal Network’s mission is to provide system resource collaboration, and generate hope along with the Spokane Tribal Community and surrounding communities by nurturing intergenerational wellbeing and healing centered engagement.

TCW Essential Services: TCW Essential Services is a Black woman operated LLC that provides organizations and programs support in administrative services, project management, program and event planning, accounting and bookkeeping. TCW assists many BIPOC led start up businesses, providing comprehensive services to ensure their development and success.

The Tubman Center for Health & Freedom: The Tubman Center for Health & Freedom is a Black led organization that addresses health and wellness from both systemic and clinical approaches. By practicing medicine from the intersection of health and freedom, the organization addresses both the health of patients as well as the factors that determine their health. Tubman Health provides primary and preventative care, community resources, social services, political education and advocacy.

The Way to Justice: The Way to Justice is a community-based law firm led and created by women of color. Through direct representation, impact litigation, policy reform, and advocacy work, the firm addresses the barriers facing individuals who have been negatively impacted by our justice system.

United Indians of All Tribes: For over half a century, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation has worked to revitalize PNW canoe culture. In 1970, Bernie Whitebear, the founder, together with the original activists who fought for waterfront access and a gathering space to learn about carving, canoe culture, and celebrate with others. The organization continues to provide an array of culturally responsive services and programs to King County’s urban Native community, including art exhibits, foster care support, pre-school, housing assistance, elder care and more.

We Fear Not – Yakama: We Fear NOT–Yakama’s focus is to create strength and unity within the community of the Yakama Nation Reservation through the use of spiritual, physical, and agricultural reciprocation.

Black Coffee Northwest Grounded: Black Coffee Northwest is a Black-owned coffee restaurant business serving the greater King County area while supporting local youth and young adults with employment and training opportunities, after-school enrichment activities, and mental health support.

Ceatl Tonalli Danza Azteca: Ceatl Tonalli is a traditional Aztec dance group that have been dancing in the Northwest since 2004. They organize ceremonies, Danza presentations, historical and cultural workshops, artistic projects and community engagement. Teachers are brought from Mexico to Seattle to continue the legacy of sharing teachings and culture. Ceatl Tonalli hosts the Yankuik Xihuitl/Mexica New year ceremony each year in March.

Cierra Sisters: Cierra Sisters mission is to help break the cycle of fear and increase knowledge concerning breast cancer in the African-American and underserved communities. They offer life-saving information via presentations, consistent one-on-ones with healthcare professionals and diverse outreach efforts.

Columbia RiverKeeper: Columbia Riverkeeper collaborates with diverse communities to protect and restore the water quality of the Columbia River. Columbia Riverkeeper helps enforce environmental laws to stop illegal pollution, protect salmon habitat and challenge harmful fossil fuel terminals.

Elementals Healing: Based in Seattle, Elementals Healing Boutique a Black-owned holistic health, wellness and metaphysical retail store. They provide all-natural, handcrafted local products and services, for the mind, body & spirit. Elementals takes pride in being a safe place for the natural healing arts and providing a space for community healing.

Friends of Little Saigon: Friends of Little Saigon mission is to preserve and enhance the cultural, economic and historic vitality of the Little Saigon neighborhood in Seattle.  Friends of Little Saigon leads advocacy, local economic development projects, and promotes cultural and arts celebrations that enrich the neighborhood.

Indigenous Vision: MMIWarriors Program in WA: Indigenous Vision is a nonprofit organizaton that works to revitalize Indigenous communities – culture, people, and land – by providing educational resources through quality programs that promote well-being.Their program includes girls emporment, building emergency water systems, and events and workshops that center cultural practices and building a collective justice analysis.

Intentionalist, SPC: Intentionalist is an online guide to intentional spending that supports small businesses and diverse local communities. Beyond serving as a directory, Intentionalist supports community connection through business profiles based on interviews with local business owners and meet-ups that provide the opportunity to meet them and learn about the stories behind their businesses.

Keep Goin Foundation: Keep Going Foundation’s ultimate goal is to incorporate values, morals and self-respect in the mind of the young people by providing resources along with teaching all that like has to offer.

Mother Yoga: Located in the historical International District in Seattle, Mother Yoga believes in the power of community. They provide yoga classes at sliding scales so that yoga can be accessible and affordable to everyone. In addition, Mother Yoga offers yoga training for those who want to deepen their practice as teachers.

Native Anthropological Services: Native Anthropological Services (NAS) is a Native-owned and operated cultural resources group focused on protecting and preserving Washington States cultural heritage resources for the benefit of those not yet born. Based on the Yakama Reservation, NAS conducts cultural resource investigations, provides technical training and applies state of the art technologies towards resolving tribal, public and private cultural resource issues. NAS is one of two, privately owned, Native cultural resource firms in Washington and is the only Native-owned in the Pacific Northwest to offer Ground Penetrating Radar services for cultural resource investigations.

Native Friends: Native Friends is a Native lifestyle empowerment brand with a focus on history and culture. They organize events and programs to build understanding and support for Native Americans through film, writing, speaking and exhibits.

Native Vote Washington PAC: Native Vote’s goal is to empower Native voters to find their political voice and realize their potential impact in local, state, and national elections by offering tools, education, and information on candidates, political issues, and voter suppression to increase Native voter turnout.

Relevant Engagement: Relevant Engagement Consulting LLC focus is empowering youth, leading professionals, and connecting communities. They provide youth across Washington state with indivudal mentoring and engage youth in conversations and activities that support the development of a new personal awareness and confidence.

Sacred Land Collective: Sacred Land Collective works to galvanize our collective liberation by providing space to heal intergenerational trauma and build wellness through culturally relevant restorative practices.

Sankofa Theater, Spirit of Ire: Sankofa Theater has established relationships with many network of creatives who collaborate, curate and produce high quality experiences for its communities locally, nationally and internationally. Sankofa Theater has successfully partnered with community orgs and businesses in Seattle,WA to curate local, innovative, culturally relevant, high engagement arts events. Sankofa works tp provide an accessible space for the next generation of artists and activists to germinate and nurture their skills.

Seattle Black Panthers Fight for Justice & Freedom–documentary: Seattle Black Panthers Fight for Justice & Freedom is a documentary based on the experiences of the founders, brothers Aaron and Elmer Dixon, and their comrades of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This project preserves the legacy and impact of the Black Panthers in Seattle.

Seattle C-ID Community Watch: Seattle C-ID Community Watch helps plan, organize, and support different initiatives that provide a positive impact to the community. Projects include care packages for the less fortunate and clean up days, and other projects based on community input.

Women of Color Legal Education Fund: The WWL Yakima Women of  Color Legal Education Fund aims to support women of color from the Yakima Valley who seek to join the legal profession by facilitating professional development, encouraging academic achievement, and providing direct financial support.

Youth Speaks Seattle: Youth Speaks Seattle (YSS) is a youth-serving poetry collective with a focus on making programs accessible to Queer / BIPOC youth, or anyone who finds their story pushed into the margins.This organization uses creative writing and performance arts to develop identity, build community, and celebrate each youth stories out loud.

A Sacred Passing: A Sacred Passing guides and assist people towards a more conscious dying experience while honoring individual autonomy. They work to actively dismantle systems of oppression as they present in death and dying through education, care, and advocacy. A Sacred Passing offers death and dying education to individuals, community associations, and medical organizations. A Sacred Passing educates, collaborates, and shares ways to be supportive nonmedical companions.

ASHHO: ASHHO is a cultural community and job training center that is transforming lives by uniting people through food, education, and community gatherings. ASHHO means to instruct or call someone to “COME JOIN” in Bengali language and is an acronym for Advocate, Serve, Honor Humanity, and Organize.

Bridging Cultural Gaps: Bridging Cultural Gaps is a Washington based nonprofit organization that was established by a group of local immigrants. BCG serves low-income, disadvantaged and marginalized immigrant/refugee populations in the King County area, their board and staff reflect the populations they serve. BCG envisions East African immigrants and refugees as thriving and empowered, politically engaged and educationally successful community members who make meaningful contributions to the well-being of King County.

Ceatl Tonalli Donza Azteca: Ceatl Tonalli is a traditional Aztec dance group that have been dancing in the Northwest since 2004. They organize ceremonies, Danza presentations, historical and cultural workshops, artistic projects and community engagement. Teachers are brought from Mexico to Seattle to continue the legacy of sharing teachings and culture. Ceatl Tonalli hosts the Yankuik Xihuitl/Mexica New year ceremony each year in March.

Community Credit Lab: Community Credit Lab facilitates lending programs that increase affordability, increase access, and shift power. These lending programs reverse traditional financial risk/return analysis to support people with affordable credit. Community Credit Lab shifts power by enabling access to credit using non-traditional qualification criteria at the direction of partners who know their communities best.

Creative Justice: Creative Justice builds community with youth most impacted by the school-to-prison-(to-deportation) pipeline. Participants and mentor artists work together to examine the root causes of incarceration, like systemic racism and other forms of oppression, creating art that articulates the power and potential of our communities. By responding to personal and social issues through the creative process, youth and mentor artists engaged in Creative Justice attack systemic issue that contribute to our oppression, while building healing-centered spaces that strengthen the protective factors that help us all to thrive.

ECANA (Endometrial cancer action network for African-Americans): ECANA is made up of a group of women that know that reproductive health care for Black people is not as it should be. This group of doctors, patients, survivors, community activists, and professional leaders are all committed to one purpose- improving the lives of African-Americans affected by endometrial cancer. They hope to bridge the gap in care through support, community, and empowerment for any African-American affected by this disease.

Indigenize Productions: Indigenize Productions is a collective of Indigenous performers, curators and producers based in Seattle, Washington. Indigenize Productions was founded after a group of Indigenous talents met through “Dear White People”, an all-BIPOC burlesque and variety show.

Liberation Strategies: Liberation Strategies is for people moving toward liberation wherever they find themselves as individuals, dyads, collaborators, partners, and organizations. Liberation Strategies uses Black diasporic and indigenous healing practices, wisdom, and strategies to empower and heal.

Muslim American Youth Foundation: Muslim American Youth’s primary focus is educating and empowering Muslim American youth to play a positive role in the greater Ummah and American/Western society. Similar to youth of other cultures, Muslim youth are facing modern day challenges and struggling to deal with a range of issues including; drugs, crime, zinah, and academia. MAYF has programs that attempt to address those challenges through Education, Counseling, Athletics, One-on-One Interactions, Community Events, Seminars, Field Trips and more.

Na’ah Illahee: Na’ah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous women-led organization dedicated to the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities. Through grantmaking, capacity-building and community-based intergenerational programming, Na’ah Illahee Fund seeks transformative change by supporting culturally grounded leadership and organizing. Focused on Indigenous Ecology, Food Sovereignty, and Wise Action, Na’ah Illahee Fund works to advance climate and gender justice, while creating healthy pathways towards self-determination and movement-building.

Nurturing Roots: Founded in 2016, Nurturing Roots is a community farming program focused on healthy food choices. Nurturing Roots focuses on sharing the truth about systematic oppression with an emphasis on food and environmental justice. Their farm is also about access, education, and re-engaging folks with their environment.

Relevant Engagement LLC: Relevant Engagment engages youth, adults, institutions and community organizations with DEI advancing conversations and by creating activities that encourage all to achieve a new personal awareness.

South Seattle Emerald: The South Seattle Emerald amplifies the authentic narratives of South Seattle. Founded as a platform that authentically depicts the dynamic voices, culture, arts, ideas, and businesses that fall within South Seattle’s borders, the Emerald is news as it was originally intended to be: not as business, nor as a forum for propaganda, but as a service to the community it chronicles.

Surge Reproductive Justice: Surge Reproductive Justice mobilizes communities to build a world where all people can make powerful, self-determined choices for their bodies and the future of their families and communities. Surge’s work centers Black women, women of color, and queer and trans people of color for a movement that rises from the bottom up.

Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank: Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank assists the needy in acquiring the basics of food, clothing and shelter through its food and clothing bank and referrals to area programs and services. Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank is expanding its work to include a women-led cohort that will work with a nutritionist to co-create culturally relevant diabetic and other healthy recipes from ingredients distributed by the Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank.

We Fear NOT–Yakama: We Fear NOT–Yakama’s focus is to create strength and unity within the community of the Yakama Nation Reservation through the use of spiritual, physical, and agricultural reciprocation.

West Hill Association: Since 1991, West Hill Community Association has worked tirelessly for the community as an advocate and conduit to their elected representatives, holding regular public open meetings, sharing important information and getting the tough questions answered. WHCA serves the Unincorporated King County, Washington neighborhoods known collectively as “West Hill”.

Withinsight Consulting: Mariela Barriga launched Withinsight consulting to support those ready to advance their racial equity work by shepherding change management processes, programmatic evaluations, and strategic planning using innovation, design, and coaching techniques. Withinsight consulting offers insightful, engaging, and relevant workshop facilitation for various groups on an array of helpful topics. In addition, leaders can receive monthly professional coaching sessions to develop and reach personal goals.

Yakama Women Lawyers: Yakima Women Lawyers is a new Yakima chapter of the statewide Washington Women Lawyers Association. A selection panel made up entirely of women of color will award grants to individual women of color in central Washington state. The goal is to create a flexible enough process to remove real financial and cultural barriers to attending law school. The program will create a supportive local cheerleading squad of women lawyers to help remove some barriers and remind aspiring women lawyers of color that they can succeed.

Yakama Women in Trades: Yakama Women in Trades is a new Yakima chapter of the statewide Washington Women in Trades. The goal of this chapter is to focus on recruiting Native, LatinX, and Black women from the Valley into trade programs. Yakama Women in Trades receives support from Native Friends, a Native lifestyle empowerment brand with a focus on history and culture.

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ASHHO: ASHHO is a cultural community and job training center that is transforming lives by uniting people through food, education, and community gatherings. ASHHO means to instruct or call someone to “COME JOIN” in Bengali language and is an acronym for Advocate, Serve, Honor Humanity, and Organize.

The Colorization Collective: The Colorization Collective is an organization by teens of color, for teens of color. By providing teens with free professional and peer-to-peer connections, as well as validation of their artistic practices, The Colorization Collective believes that participants and viewers will be more inclined to stay in the arts. By providing more teens of color with resources in the art world, their hope is that these teens will move forward and become the needed representation for future aspiring artists of color.

Community Credit Lab: Community Credit Lab facilitates lending programs that increase affordability, increase access, and shift power. These lending programs reverse traditional financial risk/return analysis to support people with affordable credit. Community Credit Lab shifts power by enabling access to credit using non-traditional qualification criteria at the direction of partners who know their communities best.

Creative Justice: Creative Justice builds community with youth most impacted by the school-to-prison-(to-deportation) pipeline. Participants and mentor artists work together to examine the root causes of incarceration, like systemic racism and other forms of oppression, creating art that articulates the power and potential of our communities. By responding to personal and social issues through the creative process, youth and mentor artists engaged in Creative Justice attack systemic issue that contribute to our oppression, while building healing-centered spaces that strengthen the protective factors that help us all to thrive.

ECANA (Endometrial cancer action network for African-Americans): ECANA is made up of a group of women that know that reproductive health care for Black people is not as it should be. This group of doctors, patients, survivors, community activists, and professional leaders are all committed to one purpose- improving the lives of African-Americans affected by endometrial cancer. They hope to bridge the gap in care through support, community, and empowerment for any African-American affected by this disease.

MAS (Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle): The Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MÁS) activates and empowers communities through art, raising awareness about the history and cultural contributions of Latinos of African descent for social change and racial equity. The Afro-Latinx community is a historically neglected and invisible minority within a minority (Latinx). MÁS wants to ensure equitable share of available resources.

PACE (Pan African Center for Empowerment): Pan African Center for Empowerment works to improve the lives of African people globally as a nonpartisan nonprofit. PACE aids in the economic development of resource-poor and marginalized global African communities with foundational services that seek to empower primarily through economic and workforce development. PACE is built on a modern mission of community and workforce development with a focus on science, technology, entrepreneurship, arts, and media (also referred to as their S.T.E.A.M. engine); which is well positioned to empower Africans into the 4th industrial revolution (Tech, Data, AI, & Surveillance Capitalism).

ROG (Reclaiming our Greatness): Reclaiming our Greatness (ROG) aims to provide culturally appropriate support to communities of color who are experiencing housing and food insecurity, and need assistance navigating healthcare, education, and justice systems. ROG strives to compassionately serve high barrier and high needs communities of color who are often shut out of traditional access points.

Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank: Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank assists the needy in acquiring the basics of food, clothing and shelter through its food and clothing bank and referrals to area programs and services. Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank is expanding its work to include a women-led cohort that will work with a nutritionist to co-create culturally relevant diabetic and other healthy recipes from ingredients distributed by the Toppenish Community Chest Food Bank.

TPA (The People’s Assembly): The People’s Assembly (TPA) was formed in response to a call for solidarity with organizers in Ferguson following the shooting of Michael Brown. TPA’s first action involved organizing a demonstration in downtown Tacoma to protest police brutality and anti-Black violence, which sparked a series of ongoing efforts ranging from vigils, community forums, arts and advocacy events, to a summer-long campaign of marches . These efforts have culminated in an ongoing movement of creative resistance and community power-building for justice and freedom.

Urban Native Education Alliance: Urban Native Education Alliance provides community support and outreach through providing food, supplies, winter coats, traditional medicine and food gift cards to their community. They also provide emotional support services, academic tutoring, leadership and cultural programming.

Yakama Women Lawyers: Yakima Women Lawyers is a new Yakima chapter of the statewide Washington Women Lawyers Association. A selection panel made up entirely of women of color will award grants to individual women of color in central Washington state. The goal is to create a flexible enough process to remove real financial and cultural barriers to attending law school. The program will create a supportive local cheerleading squad of women lawyers to help remove some barriers and remind aspiring women lawyers of color that they can succeed.

Yakama Women in Trades: Yakama Women in Trades is a new Yakima chapter of the statewide Washington Women in Trades. The goal of this chapter is to focus on recruiting Native, LatinX, and Black women from the Valley into trade programs. Yakama Women in Trades receives support from Native Friends, a Native lifestyle empowerment brand with a focus on history and culture.

WA Indian Civil Rights Commission: The WA Indian Civil Rights Commission assists our Native relatives by helping to offset household costs for groceries and other basic necessities.

We Fear NOT–Yakama: We Fear NOT–Yakama’s focus is to create strength and unity within the community of the Yakama Nation Reservation through the use of spiritual, physical, and agricultural reciprocation.

Withinsight Consulting: Mariela Barriga launched Withinsight consulting to support those ready to advance their racial equity work by shepherding change management processes, programmatic evaluations, and strategic planning using innovation, design, and coaching techniques. Withinsight consulting offers insightful, engaging, and relevant workshop facilitation for various groups on an array of helpful topics. In addition, leaders can receive monthly professional coaching sessions to develop and reach personal goals.

Wonder of Women: Wonder of Women International is a movement organized to inspire Black women and girls to find their voice; stand in their truth and celebrate their wonder by telling their story. Wonder of Women aims to restore and empower Black people by creating a beautiful black love art sanctuary and cultural institute where hospitality, renewal, holistic healing, agricultural and lifelong learning space is created for Black people.

In addition to the grants above, each Share Fund member is invited to make a personal grant recommendation without consulting the rest of the group. These organizations were awarded their grants in October 2021:

• Ceatl Tonalli Danza Azteca
• ECANA (Endometrial cancer action network for African-Americans)
• Nurturing Roots
• The Denkyem Loan
• WaNaWari