Alphabetical list of organizations that have been accepted into the SIFP 2011 program. Those selected to advance to the quarterfinals have been tagged with a
, and those advancing to the semifinals with a ![]()
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Angel Care volunteers are breast cancer survivors trained to provide one-on-one emotional support to the newly diagnosed, enhancing their recovery. |
Renee Olson | |||
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Arch Skills | A sustainable, prescriptive behavioral (mental) health system that reduces costs, increases administrative efficiencies, and improves patient outcomes. | Chris Leyerle | ||
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Arc Computer Co |
Wingz SMS SmartKeyboard harnessing the power of Text messaging for social good. |
David Prokop | Watch Video | |
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Art With Heart |
Investing in Art with Heart would further the impact of our innovative and proven therapeutic activity books that help at-risk kids & teens in crisis. |
Gabe Meyer | Watch Video | |
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Asian Pacific Islander Freedom School |
The API Freedom School is a groundbreaking effort to educate and train API youth to become leaders in the social justice movement. |
Lynne Nguyen | ||
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Biodiesel Cooperative |
Educating innovators for tomorrow and achieving sustainability today. |
Kathyn Cogert | ||
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BizCorps |
In a world of high unemployment and menial minimum wage jobs, BizCorps will help at-risk youth to create their own meaningful, living wage jobs. |
James Dunn | ||
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blipstreet |
blipstreet.com is a community powered education network. |
Timothy Chiu | ||
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Blue Heron Healing Arts and Education Collective |
BHC is a health and wellness community center based on the tenants of intentional sustainability, holistic health, and the healing impact of art. |
Mykol Radziszewski | ||
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BookIt2Me.com |
BookIt2Me is your Local Search tool to help you find local businesses for your needs and to simultaneously fund community projects. |
John Khrapko | ||
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Boys & Girls Club of King County | Preparing People for Life | Jennifer Gee | Watch Video | |
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Brigid Collins House |
Reducing child abuse through technology to transparently connect families and service providers. |
Byron Manering | ||
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BURN Design Lab |
Saving lives and forests in the developing world through the design and commercial distribution of cleanburning cookstoves. |
Peter Scott | Watch Video | |
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Burro, LLC |
Burro delivers affordable productivity enhancements that empower low income families to do more in their lives. |
Whit Alexander | ||
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Catholic Community Service of King County | The Groundwork Project: Wraparound with Homeless Youth Catholic Community Services of King County Discovering Strengths; Facilitating Change | Erin Maguire | Watch Video | |
| Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal | Lifelong tools to navigate uncertainity, build meaningful careers, and design courageous lives. | Carol Vecchio | Watch Video | ||
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Child Care Resources | Brain development research proves the most crucial time for learning is from birth to five, making quality child care foundational for future success. | Deeann Pufferft | ||
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Children's Music Foundation | The Children's Music Foundation was created exclusively to promote the study of music in elementary education throughout the United States. | Rourke O'Brien | ||
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CHOICES Education Group | Our cellphone texting challenge will help up to 14 million teens make more positive education-related choices and increase their engagement in school. | Leo Muller | ||
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City Year Seattle/King County- Diplomas Now | Diplomas Now increases the high school graduation rate through innovative collaboration, full-time targeted student intervention and evaluation. | Elli Koskella | ||
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CivicCal | A comprehensive community calendar of local civic engagement opportunities including politics, non-profits, charity, and volunteer opportunities. | Rob Dolin | ||
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Community Schools Collaboration | Teens Leading the Way to Support Children's Development | Amy Allison | ||
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Denise Louie Education Center (DLEC) |
Approximately 21% of our 4 year olds come to school with book knowledge and appreciation for books. With Raising a Reader we can change that number. |
Frances Lin | ||
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DiagnosTip Medical Technologies, Inc. |
Infectious disease tests that save time, money, and lives. |
Tom Sanko | ||
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Digital Progress | Digital Progress helps nonprofit organizations become IT-proficient and engage effectively with the technical volunteer community. | Sameer Siruguri | ||
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Dreams for Orphans |
Dreams For Orphans Shea Butter: Saving Babies and Empowering Mothers |
Paola Womac | ||
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Dynamic Partners |
Dynamic Labs will be the soil where seeds of innovations will be systematically planted, fertilized, pruned, and harvested. |
Jon Botten | ||
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Earthwalkers Magazine & Social Network | Earthwalkers is a next-generation media platform that uses social networking to create and cultivate a community of like-minded global citizens. | Caroline Li | ||
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Eastside Pathways | One vision + shared measurement + engaged community + collaborative action + sustained effort = EVERY CHILD A SUCCESS | Bill Henningsgaard | ||
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Eco Cafe |
Benefiting local farmers while investing in their communities. |
Eric Harrison | ||
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Economic Opportunity Institute | This proposal eliminates tuition at public colleges while creating a funding stream to cover the full costs of tuition and public appropriations. | John Burbank | ||
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Elder and Adult Day Services | Reduce health insurance costs by creating a nonprofit cooperative plan that enables participants to better balance risks, benefits, and costs. | Jeff Bradt | ||
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Empowered.org |
In our first year of operations, we've registered more than 300 participating organizations and collectively they've raised $8.5 million dollars. |
Steven Atamian | ||
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Equal Opportunity Schools | There are more than half a million students each year stuck just across the hall from the education they deserve and need to get ready for college. | Reid Saaris | ||
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Explorations In Math | Transforming attitudes about math from boring and hard to fun and challenging. | Megan Wildenradt | ||
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Family Centered Technology Solutions |
We provide end-to-end software solutions to community organizations that enable parents to access and share information with their community. |
Frank Sanborn | ||
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Family Renewal Shelter | Providing a crucial option for women and their children fleeing extreme high-risk domestic violence and helping them become safe and successful. | Keith Galbraith | ||
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Fitness Fans of America |
Fighting childhood obesity in underserved communities with a systematic and sustainable approach for kids 8-17. |
Peter Ollodart | Watch video | |
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Flash Volunteer |
Flash Volunteer provides tools to create, discover, and easily share local service events via social media, mobile, and our unique Cause Crowd feature. |
Brad Wilke | ||
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Food N' Me | Food N' Me is an effective nutrition system that changes eating behaviors in children and families. Fighting childhood obesity with pounds of fun! | Frederic DeWulf | ||
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Foster Promise |
Strengthening youth by changing the public’s perception, understanding, and investment in foster care. |
John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas | ||
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Friends of the Cedar River Watershed | FCRW supports regional sustainability by engaging people to enhance and sustain watersheds through restoration, education, and stewardship. | Cheryl Angle | ||
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Get Schooled Foundation | Get Schooled is the only national organization using the power of media, technology, and pop culture to motivate young people and improve education. | Marie Goark | ||
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Green Plate Special | Empowering middle school youth and their familes to break the cycle of childhood obesity and health related issues through growing and cooking food. | Laura Dewell | ||
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Groundwire | Groundwire's Engagement Platform fuses innovative strategies and technology that drive large-scale social change. | Tiffany Devoy | ||
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Hand Things Down |
HAND THINGS DOWN is social trading for busy moms to give away what their kids have outgrown with their local community. |
Chreyl Marquez | ||
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Ideal Network, Inc | Ideal network is a cause marketing platform that uses the mechanisms of a daily deal to raise money for non profits. | Ronny Bell | ||
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Influ Technology | Real-time local disease tracking on mobile devices. | Jim Huang | Watch Video | |
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InstantMobile Solutions, Inc |
Insta-Pass is a closed loop donation service for tangible goods providing digital receipts to donors and capturing their contact info for the charity. |
Tom McCullough | ||
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ITEASi (IT Enterprise Architecture Solutions Inc) |
BOSS empowers project owners/managers and minority small businesses with the tools and information to create sustainable social change. |
Llewellyn Preece | Watch Video | |
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Jewish Family Services |
JFS Resource Access Project (RAP) uniquely connects Food Bank clients with a case worker for immediate assistance with housing or employment problems. |
Anson Laytner | ||
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Jolkona | Jolkona helps non-profits improve fundraising efforts by providing a simple online microgiving & reporting platform to crowdsource funds online. | Nadia Khawaja | ||
| Jr League of Seattle | See what 1,300 trained volunteers who are catalysts for lasting community change can do to eliminate childhood obesity. | Lorri Ayers | |||
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JunctionHouse | JunctionHouse sets an example of living lives that matter as we age in a stimulating and connected setting. It adds personal voices to civic dialog. | Edie Adams | ||
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Look Both Ways Foundation | Our goal is to make skills and knowledge about living safely online as ingrained in young people as looking both ways before crossing a street. | Lizanne Coker | Read their blog | |
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Mercy Housing Northwest | Mercy Housing Northwest not only believes that affordable housing and supportive programs prevent homelessness—the evidence shows that it does. | Paul Chiocco | ||
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Microryza |
Science + Fungus = People Powered Research |
Denny Luan | ||
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MIO Nonprofit Corporation |
MIO will solve the digital-divide by building technology-skills from within communities through training their youth to support existing businesses. |
Angela Wu | ||
| MoneySense |
MoneySense is working to educate students in developing communities about spending money wisely and saving money for times of hardship. |
Akshay Chalana | |||
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mymedicalfinder.com |
Data mining using medical & consumer (i.e. collective wisdom) databases to identify hundreds of topics for a disease linked to medical articles. |
Jan Sevcik | ||
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Northeast Seattle Living Together (NEST) | NEST provides neighbor to neighbor support so that seniors and persons with disability can continue to live gracefully in the homes they love. | Mary E. Fry | ||
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Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development |
Solarize Seattle harnesses the collective impact of community to accelerate solar energy adoption via a group purchasing program. |
Ryan Romaneski | ||
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NPower Northwest |
Deliver a database toolkit to cost effectively jump start outcomes measurement and case management for human services organizations. |
Brad Struss | ||
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On the Boards |
On the Boards, Seattle’s home for avant-garde performance, seeks funding for OntheBoards.tv, an on-demand platform for watching performances online. |
Ariel Glassman | ||
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One4All | Stealth-mode consumer giving platform | |
Jason Hausske | |
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OneWorld Now! |
OneWorld Now! is an award-winning social venture developing young global leaders through an innovative model of language, leadership, and study abroad. |
Kristin Hayden | ||
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Our Growing Village | Teaching teachers how to easily integrate cooking into their classroom curriculum. | Meredith Scherrer | ||
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Pediatric Alliance for Lifelong Support (P.A.L.S.) |
Empathetic mentoring of medically compromised children decreases isolation, fosters empowerment, and decreases depression in this subset of youth. |
Alyssa Chrobuck | ||
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Personify.IT, Inc. | "Foursquare for causes, Farmville for the real world" - An action oriented social collaborative platform for social good. | Chuks Onwumem | ||
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Phinney Neighborhood Association | The PNA Village will address the needs of elderly neighbors who want to stay active and involved, and also stay in their homes as long as they can. | Ann Bowden | ||
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Polymath Industries LLC |
Developing sensor platforms to assesses cause-effect relationships between environmental stressors and cardio-pulmonary function in real-time. |
Adam Gerson | ||
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Post-Prison Education Program |
Harnessing the power of education, we help former prisoners and their families successfully reenter society, thereby increasing community safety. |
Ari Kohn | ||
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Postcards From Farr Away | Postcards From Farr Away is an organization that utilizes random acts of kindness to create altruistic responses from its audience. | Robert Anthony | ||
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Proz, Inc | eBay for education: FindProz is the marketplace for private instruction. | Tyler Pack | Watch Video | |
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Pungle |
pungle.me is a customizable shopping tool that turns your purchases into high-impact donations. It's free, easy, and makes a difference. |
Madeline Puckett | ||
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Qualtonomy | Injecting social technology into living wills. | Jake Kraft | ||
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Reach Out |
Providing quality mentors for youth with disabilities. |
Shandra Benito | ||
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Rotary First Harvest - a program of Rotary District 503 |
Harvest Against Hunger enlists AmeriCorps VISTAs to build sustainable connections between local farmers, volunteers, & food banks for hunger relief. |
David Bobanick | ||
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Salish Sea Trading Cooperative |
Our sailors and crews work in harmony with Nature’s gifts of wind and tide to provide sustainable, petroleum-free transport for the community. |
Kathy Pelish | ||
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Seattle Biomedical Research Institute | Leveraging youth interest in mobile phone technology and global health to address community health challenges and improve student science achievement. | Theresa Britschgi | Watch Video | |
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Seattle Tilth |
Build a regional food hub to connect producers and consumers, support small farm businesses, and provide access to local, fresh and affordable food. |
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Andrea Dwyer | |
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Senior Services | Helping Businesses Reach Boomers | Dori Gillam | ||
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shiftalliance | shiftalliance helps bring companies into the 21st century by capitalizing on the next competitive key value driver in business: meaningful value. | Elizabeth Topp | ||
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Shunpike | Shunpike is the nonprofit arts agency that fuels innovation in the arts. | Michelle Chiachiere | ||
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SIFF (Sharing Interests Forming Friendships | Breaking the barriers of communication to form unexpected friendships between high school and special needs students. | Michelle Solomon | ||
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Silver Planet, Inc | Silver Planet's holistic concierge service delivers patient-centered health & wellness services to seniors aging at home. | Karen Klein | ||
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Social Moguls |
Imagine hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of youth using social networking to achieve positive social change using the power of influence. |
Sekai Senwosret | ||
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Something Real Production | Inspire youth to make a lasting impact on the world by channeling their passion towards a unified effort to save lives in third world countries. | Kevin Hoang | ||
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Southwest Youth and Family Services | White Center Promise: erasing poverty by embracing education. | Steve Daschle | ||
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Sperantsa |
Sperantsa distributes the products of impoverished people so that they can focus on finding empowerment and freedom through their work. |
Chelsea James | ||
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Stand for Children | Stand for Children is changing the odds and changing the lives of all public school students in Washington State. | Anne Grant-Anderson | ||
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StockBox Grocers | Stockbox Grocers is a miniature grocer that is placed throughout urban food deserts to provide access to fresh produce and essential grocery staples. | Carrie Ferrence | ||
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Student Research and Development | We inspire students to learn more about science and technology. | Edward Jiang | ||
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Summit Solutions, LLC | I want to open up a call center to provide jobs for our veterans. They have given us their time and lives and I'd like to give that back in return. | Mindy McClain | ||
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Sustainable Birth International |
Through qualitative research, we educate the public on the spectrum of normal birth and enrich current mainstream techniques for complicated labors. |
Lily Ostle | ||
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Sustainable Seattle/Happiness Initiative |
The Happiness Initiative: Measuring and Improving What Really Matters--a program of Sustainable Seattle |
John de Graaf | ||
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SwiftCylces |
SwiftCycles utilizes bike sharing as a new means of transportation to reduce carbon emissions and promote health in the city of Seattle. |
Anja Thompson | ||
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Tangerine Power | Tangerine Power makes everyone a clean energy developer through our social software platform. | Stanley Florek | ||
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Technically Learning |
Expanding access to quality STEM education in Washington State schools. |
Michelle Page | ||
| The Art Affect | Youth art, activism, and innovation united and magnified to catalyze a profound societal shift toward a thriving, just, and sustainable world. | Dan Mahle | Watch Video | ||
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The Change |
Giving youth a chance at free counseling, to express feelings through music, art, and verbal therapy sessions. |
Veronica Chernichenko | ||
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The Natural Capital Project |
Develop and apply open-source software that values nature's benefits for investment decisions to improve human development and biodiversity outcomes. |
Richard Sharp | ||
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The Nature Conservatory |
Clean up Puget Sound: Online application combines education and social networking to reduce urban water pollution. |
Jonathan Hoekstra | ||
| Thrive by Five Washington |
"Love. Talk. Play." provides diverse communities of parents of babies and toddlers with simple information to give their child a great start in life. |
Molly O'Connor | |||
| Thrive167, LLC | Thrive167 inspires people to invest in health via targeted content, interactive tools, and services that deliver a unique experience in growth & healing. | Thomas Lucking | |||
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Tom’s In-Home Cooking |
Tom's In-Home Cooking provides classes to seniors in preparing healthy, simple meals at an affordable cost. |
Thomas Rzegocki | ||
| UW Haring Center | Providing critical tools to students with neuro-developmental disabilities to improve their social and academic success in college. | Tammy Mitchel | |||
| Vietnamese Friendship Association | Bringing together youth and elders to create a new vision and direction for the Vietnamese community of Seattle. | James Hong | Watch video | ||
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Village |
An exemplary health and wellness model simultaneously stimulating healthy mothers, babies, families, providers, healthcare systems, and the planet. |
Tara Shelby | ||
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Viva Farms | Viva Farms is helping launch the next generation of organic farmers by providing land, capital, expertise, and dedicated markets. | Ethan Schaffer | ||
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Voices Education Project |
Creating Peace one story at a time. |
Marilyn Turkovich | ||
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Washington Engage, BIAT: Fair Labor | The Business Initiative Againt Trafficking works with businesses to mitigate financial, legal, and reputational risks related to human trafficking. | S. Mar Smith | ||
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West Seattle Tool Library |
The West Seattle Tool Library empowers individuals and organizations by providing easy access to a free community collection of tools and resources. |
Patrick Dunn | ||
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Women’s Sports Foundation/ GoGirlGo! Seattle |
GoGirlGo! get girls active, healthy, and confident by taking a wholistic approach to teaching them about healthy lifestyle choices. |
Sherri Gazitt | ||
| Year Up | Year Up provides urban young adults who are neither working nor in school with a year of education and training that leads to livable wage jobs. | Lisa Chin | Watch video | ||
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Yoga Empowered Students (Y.E.S.) |
Empowering youth through the teachings, practice, and embodiment of yoga |
Ellie Lightfoot | ||
| Youth Ambassadors | The mission of Youth Ambassadors is to develop learners who become leaders through compassionate service to the community. | Lori Markowitz | |||
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Youth Suicide Prevention Program |
"K-12 Lessons for Life" is a new web tool that links educators to Best Practices curricula to support school-based suicide prevention and save lives. |
Keri Healey | ||
| Youth Ultimate Project |
Investing in the community and leadership of Combodian youth by providing a positive outlet through the sport of Ultimate Frisbee. |
Chris Trinh | |||
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YWCA |
The WA YWCAs are building a statewide, interactive network that provides multi-issue grassroots education and opportunities for legislative advocacy. |
Erin Murphy |

