Major Health Impacts and Grant Partnerships
The Health Equity Fund focuses its grantmaking on improving access to health resources and on expanding the capability of the healthcare system by supporting resources that connect health services for under-served communities in King County. Here are some of our newest Major Grant programs:
Elizabeth Gregory Home
(NEW Year 1)
Project: Health Navigator to Improve Access to Health Services for Women Experiencing Homelessness
#Major Grant #In-Progress
Neighborcare Health
(NEW Year 1)
Project: Midwifery Services for Immigrants, Refugees, and Low-Income Persons
#Major Grant #In-Progress
Peer Washington
(NEW Year 1)
Project: Enhancing Health Outcomes for Justice-Involved People in South King County
#Major Grant #In-Progress
Youth Experiential Training Institute
(NEW Year 1)
#Major Grant #In-Progress
Investments in Our Region’s Health
Despite our region’s wealth, many are overlooked, underserved, and denied healthcare. Our grantees work to fill this gap. They bring a deep commitment to ensuring that those whose health and well-being are harmed by structural racism and other marginalizing forces have access to care they deserve.
Our King County region’s health equity landscape has been changing and local communities are continuing to adapt to new ways. The following projects have been instrumental in decreasing health disparities by increasing access to services and resources, and increasing the capability of the health care system.
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Washington Recovery Alliance
Nov 2020 – Jun 2021 | $20,000
The Washington Recovery Alliance (WRA) legislative advocacy work is a coordinated effort to help people in recovery across Washington engage their lawmakers and drive legislative change that addresses health disparities for individuals living with behavioral health challenges.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Sound
Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 | $18,850
The project is to purchase A1C blood analyzers and testing supplies for four Primary Care clinics, for fast point-of-care analysis and support to low-income individuals who are homeless and/or have mental health issues or substance use disorders.
Nimble Grant
Completed
HealthPoint
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $200,000
HealthPoint aims to improve healthcare access for unhoused asylum seekers in South King County by providing outreach care navigation, eliminating cost barriers, and providing essential medical, dental, and behavioral health services.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Evergreen Treatment Services
Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 | $10,000
REACH provides intensive case management to immigrants and refugees that are homeless with substance use disorder and behavioral health conditions.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Northwest Health Law Advocates (NoHLA)
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $30,000
NoHLA will advocate for equitable implementation of Washington’s new undocumented immigrant health programs launching in 2024, offering King County communities training and tools to participate in shaping the programs in this critical start-up phase.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Northwest Health Law Advocates (NoHLA)
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $198,738
NoHLA will engage in an initiative to study and propose options for Washington State and King County to address problems with access to health coverage for low-income individuals with Medicare but unable to afford costs Medicare does not cover.
Major Grant
Completed
El Centro De La Raza
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $237,124
El Centro de la Raza will hire a full-time Enrollment Navigator to help uninsured participants in its 44 programs navigate the Washington healthplanfinder.org website and enroll in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. These participants reside in marginalized and under-served populations (especially Latinos), including immigrants with language and cultural barriers.
Major Grant
Completed
Afghan Health Initiative
Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 | $320,000
AHI’s Afghan Health Coalition proposes a community asset-based approach- a convening of community members, public health officials, and healthcare providers to create solutions to barriers to accessing prenatal care.
Major Grant
In-Progress
African Community Housing & Development
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $29,724.75
Conducting a Community Needs Assessment for the King County African Diaspora immigrant and refugee community.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Country Doctor Community Health Centers
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $553,958
The CDCHC After-Hours Clinic, located on the Swedish Cherry Hill campus, will fill a gap in the health care system by maintaining an after-hours clinic that charges the uninsured on a sliding scale ($20 – $50 per visit); will reduce the burden of illness by providing early access to care; connect patients without a primary care provider with a medical home; and help uninsured patients enroll in a health insurance program.
Major Grant
Completed
Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 | $18,397
Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank (PMSC) will conduct a one-year pilot program, Alternative for Healthy Aging (AHA), to expand and evaluate the impact of providing on-site, free-of-charge acupuncture and East Asian medicine services to PMSC members.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Atlantic Street Center
Oct 2021 – Sept 2022 | $22,500
Atlantic Street Center (ASC) will reduce barriers to health information and care by holding its first agency-wide and culturally-focused Health Fair for 100 – 150 very low-income populations of color, more specifically, Black/African-American, Hispanic, and Asian families — some are non-English speaking, many are uninsured.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Southwest Youth and Family Services
Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 | $29,984.97
SWYFS will narrow the disparity in behavioral health care access for undocumented/mixed-status families through behavioral health outreach, awareness and education sessions, group counseling based on community input, and individual/family therapy.
Nimble Grant
Completed
International Community Health Services
Oct 2023 – Jul 2024 | $29,929.71
ICHS will expand mobile services at partner schools in the Bellevue School District.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Benefits Law Center
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | $15,000
BLC’s Justice Bus has served hundreds of clients with disabilities at many locations in King County. With over 392K miles, the Justice Bus needs to be replaced so that BLC can continue to serve clients from any location that is convenient to them.
Nimble Grant
Completed
South Seattle Women’s Health Foundation
Jul 2021 – Jun 2023 | $310,604.16
This project increases BIPOC workforce capacity, and access to healthcare and social support for pregnant and new families in South King County—populations that bear the highest burden of disparities in access and outcomes in their healthcare.
Major Grant
Completed
South Seattle Women’s Health Foundation
Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 | $30,000
This project seeks to increase access to natural childbirth options, including water births, for BIPOC families in South King County. This will fund 3 birthing tubs in their new Birth Center, the first women-of-color led birth center in Rainier Valley.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Global Perinatal Services
Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 | $349,495
Black Bundle of Joy is a holistic suite of free wraparound perinatal services and programs for first time Black parents in King County, including ongoing doula and education services from 28 weeks pregnancy to one year after birth.
Major Grant
In-Progress
International Community Health Services
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 | $22,500
ICHS will help bridge the digital divide by providing GrandPad tablet devices to participants in its PACE program, allowing them to access services remotely. The grant will also fund a technology coordinator to provide technical assistance.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Alefba Group
Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 | $13,000
The Kankosh committee which is a community based discussion and educational forum of AG is planning to host facilitated virtual health literacy programs to overcome the gap that exists in the Iranian immigrant and refugees community.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Mercy Housing Northwest
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $748,932
Mercy Housing Northwest will partner with King County Housing Authority, InterIm Community Development Association and Public Health – Seattle & King County to demonstrate the efficacy of Community Health Workers in facilitating access to healthcare resources and improving health outcomes for residents of affordable housing, particularly those with cultural or linguistic barriers.
Major Grant
Completed
Disability Rights Washington
Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 | Amount: $15,000
Funding will be used to train staff and develop an action plan to integrate Community and Movement Lawyering into organizational practices to more effectively address healthcare disparities and access impacting disabled people of color.
Nimble Grant
Completed
CHOOSE 180
Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 | $30,000
As part of CHOOSE 180’s free mental health counseling, the Expressive Art Therapy program will offer a non-traditional approach to healing in tandem with trauma-informed relational therapy that will guide our clients into incorporating healthy coping mechanisms that will improve their morality, mobility, life expectancy, and connection to self.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Harborview Medical Center
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $512,882
Harborview Medical Center will develop a pilot patient navigation program for African Americans with hypertension, informed and designed in collaboration with community members.
Major Grant
Completed
Living Well Kent
July 2024 – June 2024 | $200,000
Living Well Kent aims to improve behavioral health for Somali, Iraqi, Afghan, Latinx, and Ukrainian immigrants in Kent and South King County. Community navigators deliver culturally relevant prevention and early intervention services, addressing mental health and substance use challenges in these communities.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Living Well Kent Collaborative
Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 | $29,998
LWK’s Community Wellness Hub will improve health outcomes for immigrant and low-income communities, providing nutrition and health education and on-site preventative health services in a welcoming, culturally- and linguistically-appropriate setting.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 | $350,000
DESC’s ConnectCare program provides intensive medical case management, with Harborview Medical Center, to a subset of DESC clients whose combined behavioral and physical healthcare needs are complex and of the highest acuity.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Country Doctor Community Health Centers
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $509,995
Country Doctor Community Health Centers (CDCHC) provides Medical Case Management (MCM) services to support high risk People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) engage in primary care, giving them access to critical medications and adherence education to help comply with complex medication regimens.
Major Grant
Completed
Purpose. Dignity. Action.
Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 | $525,000
CoLEAD addresses social determinants of health and connects individuals to care by offering comprehensive support to those at risk of legal system involvement due to behavioral health issues, substance use disorder, and homelessness.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Korean Women’s Association
Oct 2020 – Mar 2021 | $20,000
At the community’s request, KWA will partner with APCC and churches to conduct surveys and focus groups with Pacific Islander parents, to tailor our Culturally Responsive, Integrated & Strength-Based Parenting (CRISP) program for South King County.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Powerful Voices
Jul 2021 – Jun 2023 | $318,320
Powerful Voices (PV) will hire a Healing Justice Program Manager to coordinate expansion of the trauma-informed mental health supports for youth, including access to culturally responsive BIPOC therapists, healing justice practitioners, and more.
Major Grant
Completed
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 | $524,558
The goal of the Emergency Shelter Primary Care Clinic is to provide a health home for DESC clients who would otherwise not have access to immediate services, except for a costly and probably unnecessary visit to the emergency room.
Major Grant
Completed
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 | $24,000
NCPHP will develop an online training for bi-lingual individuals to deliver timely and accurate health information, including COVID-19 information and how to access health services during the COVID pandemic, to their vulnerable relatives.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Children’s Alliance
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $240,000
This project will build capacity in the Compact of Free Association (COFA) migrant community in the Puget Sound region to engage in advocacy for institutional changes necessary to increase access to health care and reduce health disparities
Major Grant
Completed
Global Perinatal Services
Oct 2021 – Apr 2022 | $22,500
In the 2019 legislative session, Global Perinatal Services (GPS) with the Doula’s for All WA coalition successfully advocated for a statewide Medicaid reimbursable doula program. Since the passing of the bill, the Doulas for All Coalition is now working actively to develop and implement the program statewide.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Voices of Tomorrow
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $30,000
Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) will research, buy, and implement an Electronic Health Record (EHR) System for direct behavioral health services. The EHR will make it possible to communicate with patients, store patient records, bill for services, and track data.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
YMCA of Greater Seattle
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $20,000
Addressing critical health disparities impacting East African, Middle Eastern, and Black communities by operating blood pressure self-monitoring programs.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Encompass Northwest
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $85,132.53
Encompass Northwest’s Community-Based Services (CBS) project provides on-site occupational, behavioral, speech, and feeding therapy to low-income, undocumented, and refugee families at 18 daycare centers and schools in rural Snoqualmie Valley.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Encompass NW
Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 | $30,000
Encompass will pilot a program to improve maternal and infant health in the rural Snoqualmie Valley. Through outreach, support, education, connection, and therapy for mothers and babies, Encompass will improve maternal health, decrease isolation, and prevent prenatal trauma.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Hepatitis Education Project
Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 | $20,000
HEP will expand our prevention and outreach program to include safer smoking supplies as a component of our syringe services and overdose prevention activities to engage with and serve people who primarily or exclusively smoke/inhale drugs.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Peer Washington
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 | $198,764.64
Peer WA’s project enhances health outcomes for justice-involved people in municipal courts by facilitating their access to peer support services, with activities to demonstrate efficacy of the model.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Space Between
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $29,980.80
Building a student-centered plan and a safe space for elementary students to lead mindfulness practices on their own and for their peers.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Lahai Health
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $510,000
Due to unmet and rising need for access to healthcare in King County, Lahai Health seeks to expand our
medical clinic hours at the Haller Lake site to serve more low-income, uninsured, and underserved patients.
Major Grant
Completed
Wonderland Child & Family Services
Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 | $15,000
Wonderland Child & Family Services (Wonderland) will use Nimble Grant funds for a legislative initiative in 2023 that would increase access and availability for children in the Puget Sound to receive assessment and targeted interventions for prenatal substance exposure.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Living Well Kent Collaborative
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $30,000
Reinstating a Community Engagement Team, and recruiting Ukrainian and Afghan Navigators to help immigrants navigate health insurance and benefits programs.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Muslim Association of Puget Sound – Muslim Community Resource Center
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $29,979.84
MCRC will expand the capacity of its Community Health Clinic program, enabling them to support more low-income immigrant and refugee clients in need.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
RECLAIM (formerly University Beyond Bars)
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $30,000
To shift the mental health disparities that formerly incarcerated community members face, RECLAIM will pilot three projects that offer free services to individuals who have been released from prison and their loved ones.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Mercy Housing Northwest
Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 | $20,000
Addressing food insecurity among low-income residents in the Puget Sound region, with a focus on residents at our newest affordable development in Magnuson Park, building on existing efforts around food access.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Seattle Indian Health Board
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $392,628
SIHB’s Elders’ Program will provide support services, community relationships, and service linkages to American Indian/Alaska Native Elders living in King County with the goal of revitalizing cultural pride, and sustaining cognitive and physical functioning.
Major Grant
Completed
Genetic Support Foundation
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | $29,625
GSF will conduct a genetic services needs assessment and develop tailored toolkits to help Seattle-area community-based safety net providers to recognize and support marginalized patients at increased risk for genetic conditions.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Somali Health Board
Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 | $427,141.94
This project will address high rates of untreated or undiagnosed mental illness for Somalis in south King County, resulting from barriers to accessing resources and care.
Major Grant
Completed
Comunidad
Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 | $390,000
This project will address the barriers of access to mental health services for Latinos on Vashon Island to create better mental health and well-being in the community.
Major Grant
Completed
Hepatitis Education Project
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $183,895
Hepatitis Education Project (HEP) will expand on-site care at encampments and transitional housing in South King County, offering hepatitis C treatment, overdose prevention, and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) to reduce access barriers and health disparities for marginalized communities.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Global to Local
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $570,000
The Health and Housing Choice project directly addresses the many health disparities faced by low-income Somali and Latino residents of SeaTac and Tukwila. Global to Local (G2L) has been actively engaged with these communities for the past six years on issues relating to healthcare access and health outcomes.
Major Grant
Completed
Food Lifeline
Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 | $60,000
Funding will support the continuation and expansion of Food Lifeline and Sea Mar Community Health Centers Healthcare Initiative.
Major Grant
Completed
Kin On
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $29,570.69
Equip low-income Asian seniors to age successfully and reduce emotional & mental stress, physical decline, and medical & legal challenges through the Aging Mastery Program, an evidence-based workshop series licensed by the National Council on Aging.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $30,000
Educating community members about existing health programs through workshops and trainings, identifying urgent gaps in care and services, and using community-identified priorities to shape policies.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Elizabeth Gregory Home
Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 | $209,305.90
To improve access to health education and resources for women experiencing homelessness, EGH will offer Health Navigation.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Renton Area Youth & Family Services
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $344,481
Renton Area Youth & Family Services’ (RAYS) program will increase the availability of primary healthcare services and health education of people in Skyway, Renton, and South Seattle.
Major Grant
Completed
Harborview Medical Center
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $200,000
Harborview Medical Center will expand its services at two shelter-based clinics for homeless youth and young adults, enhancing medical provider presence and introducing new substance abuse and mental health services. This project aims to reduce healthcare access barriers and improve care by offering primary, acute, and behavioral health services directly at shelters.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Chinese Information and Service Center
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $295,568
Increasing Health Care Access for Underserved Asian Immigrants in King County will reduce the health care disparities experienced by low-income immigrant Asian populations, many of whom do not qualify for, or cannot afford, coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Through outreach/education, direct one-on-one assistance, and financial vouchers, this project will increase clients’ knowledge about their available options for health care as well as their access to health care resources.
Major Grant
Completed
Empower Youth Network
Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 | $11,500
Community Focus Group planning and implementation for non-English speaking families in the rural Snoqualmie Valley to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate programming for parents and youth (pre-k -6th grade).
Nimble Grant
Completed
Mary’s Place Seattle
Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 | $8,000
The Health Services program is led by a pediatrician who serves as the Health Services Director and involves a Health Services Manager, Registered Nurses, a Care Coordinator, a Family Outreach Coordinator and skilled volunteers.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Living Well Kent Collaborative
Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 | $600,000
This project will support healthy childhood development and improve access to early intervention services for Somali and East African families served by linguistically and culturally attuned family childcare providers in Kent/South King County.
Major Grant
Completed
Villa Comunitaria
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $225,000
The current De Corazon project and Promotoras will continue to directly address health disparities in heart health and CPR in the Latinx community in King County, by providing free CPR and heart health trainings for low-income Spanish speakers.
Major Grant
Completed
Hepatitis Education Project
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $12,500
Increasing vaccination coverage rates amongst population groups at highest risk of Hepatitis B infection.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Entre Hermanos
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $374,561.54
This project will address the disproportionate HIV diagnosis rates among LGBTQ Latinos in King County through prevention, case management, PrEP, testing, and peer navigation.
Major Grant
Completed
Hepatitis Education Project (HEP)
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $365,000
This project aims to expand access to health care for people who inject drugs (PWID), with a focus on people experiencing homelessness and/or housing instability.
Major Grant
Completed
HopeCentral
Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 | $15,000
Funding for start-up supplies for HopeCentral’s new center that will provide a suite of targeted therapies (psychological evaluation, behavioral therapy, and speech-language pathology) to children with developmental disabilities.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative
Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 | $25,000
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative will plan, develop and pilot a human trafficking training program specifically for health, mental health and Indian health service providers throughout the Puget Sound region.
Nimble Grant
Completed
International Community Health Services
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $659,322.50
B-CAPE will improve access to health care, insurance, and resources for Bellevue-area immigrants from India, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union through culturally appropriate outreach, patient navigation, insurance enrollment, and referrals.
Major Grant
Completed
Seattle Counseling Service
Jul 2019 – Nov 2021 | $266,829
The Immigrant, Refugee, Undocumented Outreach Program is a community program working to increase and improve access to culturally and linguistically competent behavioral health services to immigrant, refugee, and undocumented community members.
Major Grant
Completed
FareStart
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $30,000
A new food voucher program will enable low-income households to redeem produce at FareStart’s MobileCommunity Market. As a result, food insecure communities in King County will gain access to healthy food, leading to improved health outcomes.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
International Community Health Services
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $599,660.47
The IACWC project will increase access to under-served populations by utilizing Community Health Workers as culturally and linguistically competent care coaches for ICHS patients.
Major Grant
Completed
Youth Experiential Training Institute (Y.E.T.I.)
Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 | $110,000
Y.E.T.I. provides outdoor programming aimed at improving mental and physical health outcomes for over 300 low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant students in underserved schools in the Highline and Tukwila School Districts.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Kindering
Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 | $15,000
This project will increase access and improve outcomes for early support for families whose preferred language is not English by translating key documents into top languages, with community review and outreach to publicize availability of programs and services.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Haborview Medical Center
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $466,079
The program combines a community health worker/ navigator model with our cultural mediator approach to support Spanish and Somali-speaking patients in managing their diabetes. The program’s bilingual navigator/ educator/ coach for each language group will work with the patient and their health care team to ensure that each patient’s treatment plan is culturally tailored and grounded within the individual’s context.
Major Grant
Completed
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $200,000
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)’s new Induction Specialist provides personalized support to clients transitioning from fentanyl to buprenorphine, improving treatment success for individuals with opioid use disorder who are unhoused or living in shelters and supportive housing.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Planned Parenthood
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $358,000
Planned Parenthood’s project is to increase access to Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives to 274 to 341 or more uninsured, underinsured and vulnerable women through our Someone You Know Fund by covering all or part of the cost of the device and doctor visit.
Major Grant
Completed
Mary’s Place Seattle
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $25,254
Through parent education and safe equipment, Mary’s Place will build organizational capacity to better educate and serve homeless families with babies so they can improve safety, health and well-being for their young children in the long-term.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Native American Women’s Dialog on Infant Mortality (NAWDIM)
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $50,000
NAWDIM will work with Native birth workers and policymakers to address disparities in prenatal care, infant mortality, and preterm birth rates for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in King County. This project advocates for culturally responsive resources, safe sleep education, Traditional Indian Medicine, and policy changes through community engagement.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Chief Seattle Club
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $200,000
Chief Seattle Club’s Indigenous Model of Traditional Wellness combines traditional healing with clinical behavioral health to support homeless American Indians/Alaska Natives in Seattle/King County.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Chief Seattle Club
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $500,000
Cowlitz Tribal Health Seattle (CTHS) began providing on-site mental health services at the Club once a week. Funded by this grant, the CTHS Clinical Lead Therapist will expand his hours, integrating traditional wellness and work with contracted Traditional Healers.
Major Grant
Completed
Sea Mar Community Health Centers
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 | $557,486
Sea Mar will utilize funding to establish an integrated behavioral health team to serve patients coming to them through direct integration with the medical clinic or through referrals from other Sea Mar or community services.
Major Grant
Completed
Navos
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $710,000
Navos and Public Health—Seattle & King County will improve health care access and outcomes for lowincome adults with serious mental illness through integrated primary and behavioral health care, care coordination, wellness services and peer support.
Major Grant
Completed
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $30,000
WAISN will enhance their Resource Finder with an interactive map to expand usability for hotline operators and other organizations, and extend a fellowship program to build immigrant leadership, address health disparities and support resource vetting and accuracy.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Project Access Northwest
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $389,246
In partnership with Swedish Medical Center, the Seattle Specialty Dentistry Clinic and Seattle King County Dental Society, Project Access NW will provide case management services (enrollment, eligibility verification, appointing, improving health literacy, reminder phone calls, for the free dental clinic on Swedish First Hill Campus.
Major Grant
Completed
Alimentando al Pueblo
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $30,000
Alimentando al Pueblo provides increased access to fresh cultural produce during the holiday season by partnering with local Latine businesses.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Seattle-King County Dental Society
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $241,440
SKCDS will provide customized dentures and partials to low income adults who do not qualify for Medicaid (which now covers dentures). By providing dentures to these working poor patients, their overall health, well-being and employability will be enhanced.
Major Grant
Completed
Project Access Northwest
Jan 2015 – Jun 2018 | $540,000
Project Access Northwest improves access for low-income residents needing medical specialty care services including care coordination that improves patients’ health literacy and compliance while meeting specialists’ needs for well prepared patient encounters.
Major Grant
Completed
Peer Seattle
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $535,000
This project will ensure continuing access to peer services for Greater-Seattle’s LGBTQ community and their allies in recovery from behavioral health disorders and support the roll-out of Peer Seattle’s confidential digital data collection system.
Major Grant
Completed
Open Arms Perinatal Services
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $105,899.47
Open Arms will provide culturally and linguistically matched one-on-one lactation peer support services to Black/African-American and Latine communities in King County. This program addresses gaps in accessible, culturally responsive lactation support and seeks to reduce racial disparities in breastfeeding duration through individualized, low-barrier assistance.
Major Grant
In-Progress
UTOPIA Washington
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 | $174,962.50
UTOPIA’s Mapu Maia Clinic provides culturally aligned, accessible healthcare focusing on the LGBTQI Pacific Islander community, including gender affirming care, primary and urgent care, vaccinations, and health and safety resources.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Pacific Islander Community Association
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $29,970
Facilitating Marshallese youth’s understanding of health inequities experienced through Marshallese historical trauma.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Mary’s Place Seattle
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 | $25,000
Mary’s Place will expand equitable access to healthcare for families experiencing homelessness through establishing comfortable, private, and accessible Telehealth Access Rooms in each of our five shelters and one day center.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 | $15,000
DESC will purchase specific equipment and supplies for diagnosing/managing emergent or chronic medical conditions at our Drop-In Mental Health Clinic, increasing capacity to provide timely and accurate care to homeless adults at high risk of illness.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Ethiopian Community in Seattle
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $446,857
Ethiopian Community in Seattle (ECS) will design and implement the Mental Health Promotion (MHP) project to promote mental health wellness in the Ethiopian community through improved understanding and access to mental health services.
Major Grant
Completed
Neighborcare Health
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 | $155,000
Neighborcare Health’s Midwifery Program will address disparities in maternal health by providing culturally sensitive care in five Seattle clinics for low-income immigrants and refugees, regardless of their ability to pay.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Medical Teams International
Oct 2024 – Dec 2024 | $15,000
Medical Teams International will purchase 3 new Clio Digital X-Ray Sensors to replace 3 sensors currently in use in their mobile dental clinic vehicles.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Medical Teams International
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $15,000
Medical Teams proposes to participate in monthly health fairs held by the Iraqi Arab Health Board (IAHB) to provide free oral health care to Iraqi and Arab immigrants and refugees living in King County. The health fairs are a pilot project of IAHB
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Encompass Northwest
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $150,000
The Mobile Therapy Unit program will provide therapies for children and families in rural areas and other underserved locations throughout King County.
Major Grant
Completed
Compass Housing Alliance
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $30,000
People experiencing homelessness have acute health disparities and significant barriers to accessing healthcare. Compass proposes a Virtual Nurse Triage system to make basic health information
and assessment available on-demand 24/7 at their shelters.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Open Arms Perinatal Services
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 | $285,000
Open Arms’ project will train and hire new doulas from the African American and Native communities to meet demand from these two communities and serve at least 32 more Native and African American pregnant clients with doulas from their communities, to help address stark disparities in birth outcomes.
Major Grant
Completed
The International Medical Graduates Academy
Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 | $27,258
Nimble Grant funding will be used to advocate and prepare for the 2024 Washington Legislative session, where TIMGA will make presentations to state legislators to inform the development of a state-wide Hardship Waiver.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $510,000
Medically-compromised DESC clients in permanent supportive housing, who are unable to be served through existing healthcare resources, will receive individualized healthcare advocacy and coordination by two new Health Navigators.
Major Grant
Completed
Elizabeth Gregory Home
Oct 2022 – Sept 2023 | $30,000
Elizabeth Gregory Home will plan and pilot a new service to address mental health needs for women experiencing homelessness through an on-site licensed counselor working within their supportive Day Center environment.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Voices of Tomorrow
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | $30,000
Voices of Tomorrow (VOT) will use Nimble Grant funds to prepare the agency to become a DOH-licensed behavioral health agency so they can deliver behavioral health care services to East African immigrant and refugee children and families.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Seattle Indian Health Board
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $600,000
This project aims to address the absence of third-party reimbursement or other funding mechanism, a primary barrier to AI/ANs accessing culturally-attuned Traditional Indian Medicine (TIM) by working toward policy changes that will create sustainable funding streams for TIM service delivery and achieving long-term health and wellbeing impact for AI/ANs.
Major Grant
Completed
Washington West African Center
Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 | $23,000
Washington West African Center (WAWAC) will buy a community van that they will use to expand their services in King County. WAWAC will use the van to provide transportation for their community members to medical appointments, health outreach and education services, food distribution etc.
Nimble Grant
Completed
YouthCare
Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 | $14,974.73
YouthCare has relocated its shelter to a permanent location in Rainier Beach, which will include installing a physical and behavioral health clinic pod. A logistical planning process with project partners will ensure the clinic’s success.
Nimble Grant
Completed
King County Play Equity Coalition
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $29,700
King County Play Equity Coalition (KCPEC) will conduct a series of four trainings to youth sports coaches and outdoor recreation instructors across King County, focusing on trauma-informed practices, anti-racism training, and inclusion.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Kindering
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 | $29,951.33
Reducing disparities in autism diagnosis and access to support services for Asian children through training Community Health Workers.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Akin
Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 | $390,000
Akin & Sea Mar Community Health Centers partner to reduce disparities in diagnosis of Developmental Delays and access to support services for young Latinx children in South King County with bilingual, culturally responsive Family Navigators.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Kindering
Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 | $15,000
By establishing critical relationships between a child and key people involved in their life, CHERISH Therapists work to minimize trauma, stabilize placements, and facilitate healthy placement transitions when necessary.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation)
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $300,000
The 6-week mindfulness course, “Finding Your Way” targets the intermediate outcomes of parent resilience, responsive and mindful parenting, and nurturing parent-child relationships, which are linked to child well-being.
Major Grant
Completed
Economic Opportunity Institute
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $300,000
Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI) will convene one-on-one meetings to develop preliminary policy models that address current cost, affordability, and accessibility barriers that remain in Washington state and threaten to further prevent health coverage with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Major Grant
Completed
Boyer Children’s Clinic
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $425,000
Funding from PHPDA will implement the planning and innovation work that Boyer has led over the past year to bridge gaps in service coordination among family homeless services and early intervention services. By implementing a multi-system intervention, the project will address access barriers and health outcome disparities for children who are homeless.
Major Grant
Completed
YMCA of Greater Seattle
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $224,999.41
Target disparities in obesity/diabetes in communities of color and newcomer populations in south Seattle/King County through creating a community-led infrastructure that renders YMCA evidence-based programs more accessible, meaningful, and effective.
Major Grant
Completed
Asian Counseling & Referral Service
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 | $25,000
ACRS’s Queer Vision Access Program (QVAP) has been successful in raising awareness across the agency on important issues of gender identity and LGBTQ inclusion, resulting in knowledgeable staff who then delivered services with a greater understanding of LGBTQ community needs.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Recovery Café
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 | $15,000
Pop-up Cafés, strategically placed in outdoor and public spaces, bring our model of loving community, radical hospitality, critical services, and recovery support in a safe and healthy way to new individuals during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Recovery Café
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 | $375,000
This project is to provide a .8 FTE nurse and 1.0 FTE receptionist/certified healthcare navigator that will serve the SODO community with rudimentary healthcare at the Recovery Café SODO location. Coupling basic medical care with a community based long-term recovery support program will lead to lower access barriers for those living unsheltered.
Major Grant
Completed
Sound Generations
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 | $15,000
This project seeks to meet the demand for effective fall prevention program training and workshops from partner organizations serving older adults in King Co. communities who navigate the highest barriers to accessing prevention programming.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Washington Association for Infant Mental Health
Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 | $10,000
This project creates opportunities for non-white knowledge and expertise to impact the early childhood mental health field and the children we serve.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $439,662
Through its Asylum Assistance Program (AAP), Lutheran Community Services Northwest (LCSNW) helps asylum seekers and those granted asylum to connect to medical and mental health care, as well as basic needs that improve well-being.
Major Grant
Completed
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 | $349,999
Asylum seekers and humanitarian migrants in the King and Pierce County region will benefit from enhanced mental health services and/or increasing access to intensive case management services.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST)
Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | $310,000
The REST Integrated Health Clinic is a low-barrier, in-house clinic offering mental health therapy, medical services, spiritual support, and peer engagement to survivors in need of critical health services and nonjudgmental, trauma-informed care.
Major Grant
Completed
Ryther
Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 | $486,347
Ryther is partnering with YouthCare to improve the outcomes for homeless teens and young adults. Together, the two organizations will provide behavioral care that is easily accessed, in order to serve the homeless youth population and improve their outcomes.
Major Grant
Completed
Aurora Commons
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $465,933.40
A Kind, Non-Judgmental, Accessible and Comprehensive Healthcare Delivery Model for Street Based Sex Workers (SBSW’s) on Aurora Avenue. The SHE Clinic was designed to address the barriers to access and to provide the SBSW community innovative, accessible, and non-judgmental healthcare.
Major Grant
Completed
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 | $15,000
DESC is purchasing laptops and associated equipment for the Intake Specialists in their SAGE Program, which will increase access to health care for approximately 25% more new clients than the 400 currently enrolled annually.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Solid Ground
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 | $22,500
Assessment of behavioral health needs and development of strategic workplan to narrow gaps in equitable health access for Sand Point Housing residents recovering from homelessness and other compounding barriers, further exacerbated by COVID-19.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 | $519,977
The multidisciplinary gender clinic at Seattle Children’s will include coordinated services delivered by healthcare providers from multiple disciplines with support from a dedicated Care Navigator, as well as training to staff and community providers.
Major Grant
Completed
Neighborcare Health
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 | $416,048
Neighborcare Health is requesting funding to support 2.0FTE Community Health Workers and a .50FTE Eligibility Specialist for insurance enrollment to better serve the highly diverse Yesler Terrace Neighborhood.
Major Grant
Completed
Generations Aging With Pride (GenPride)
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 | $30,000
Funds will be used to develop a business and community engagement plan to ensure the GenPRIDE Senior Center health services are ready when the building opens in late 2022.
Nimble Grant
Completed
University of Washington Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 | $22,000
The University of Washington Health Sciences (UWHS) Mobile Health and Outreach Van is an interprofessional community engagement project that addresses critical gaps in health access, and partners with student and local organizations to provide basic preventive health and street medicine services for people experiencing homelessness, and housing insecurity.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Snoqualmie Valley Health
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 | $24,540.87
Snoqualmie Valley Health is establishing a new forensic medicine and sexual assault treatment center to support underserved populations in rural East King County. This grant will fund needed equipment and supplies to help get the program started.
Nimble Grant
In-Progress
Somali Family Safety Task Force
Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 | $15,000
Somali Family Safety Task Force (SFSTF) will engage, inform and communicate directly with the community through a series of six health access workshops in 2020.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Somali Family Safety Task Force
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | Amount: $30,000
The Somali Women’s Health Project (SFSTF) will work to address the disparity of Somali women that utilize and understand the importance of regular health screenings and develop a culturally informed and led women group to address FGM’s health impacts.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Friends of Youth
Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 | $15,000
Licensed clinical counselors become certified in providing evidence-based modalities that will increase the effectiveness of behavioral health treatment, particularly for clients of color.
Nimble Grant
Completed
HealthPoint
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $370,000
The Supportive Health Care for Non-English and Non-Spanish Speaking Patients project will focus on services to the diverse client population at HealthPoint’s SeaTac community health center.
Major Grant
Completed
Seattle Veterinary Outreach
Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 | $27,360
Seattle Veterinary Outreach (SVO) will use Nimble funding to expand their social service resource navigation capacity. This will improve follow up with clients in order to ensure that people living homeless in King County, WA can access basic needs.
Nimble Grant
Completed
South Seattle Women’s Health Foundation
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 | $29,325
Rainier Valley Midwives (RVM) will implement Project TIDE (Tech Infrastructure Development for Equity) to introduce key technology infrastructure improvements to increase its capacity to provide maternity care for families of color in south King County.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
Nov 2020 – May 2021 | $20,000
Started as a community response to COVID-19 in March 2020, the Tesfa Program provides regular culturally appropriate, and accessible health information to the local Ethiopian community.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Telehealth Access for Seniors, Inc
Oct 2020 – Mar 2021 | $4,885
This project brings telehealth access to elderly and disadvantaged patients served by International Community Health Services, including residents at Legacy House, an assisted living facility, by providing video-enabled devices and technical support.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Tubman Center for Health & Freedom
Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 | $400,000
The Freedom Clinic is a new community-designed school-based health center offering primary care and health promotion and health career pathway programs. The Freedom Clinic is also a pilot for Tubman Health’s transformative healthcare model.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Country Doctor Community Health Centers
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $587,978
CDCHC will expand and strengthen healthcare services for transgender and gender nonconforming patients who are on Medicaid or uninsured, and will extend the gender care referral network throughout the region together with other community partners.
Major Grant
Completed
Ingersoll Gender Center
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 | $25,000
Ingersoll planned to create a detailed Health Guide for healthcare and community partners to disseminate to their patients and communities in person and online, a how-to video as part of the healthcare access educational video series, a comprehensive outreach effort and open enrollment event that will direct our community members to these resources.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Evergreen Treatment Services
Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 | $580,050.75
Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS)’s Treatment In Motion (TIM) project provides community-based, low-barrier, rapid-access Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment to individuals in King County who are actively using opioids, targeting those experiencing homelessness, members of communities of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, those involved in the criminal justice system, and others in underserved communities with limited access to MOUD.
Major Grant
In-Progress
East African Community Services
Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 | $499,526
Ubuntu Wellness Project is a community strategy to educate and empower low-income, English Language-Limited, Black immigrants and refugees in South King County on the community impacts of diabetes, obesity and stigmas around mental health and autism.
Major Grant
Completed
Somali Health Board
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 | $450,000
Somali Health Board is the Fiscal Sponsor for Community Health Board Coalition (CHBC). The CHBC will conduct an asset-based, community-led assessment of the health priorities of eleven communities of color. This will lay the groundwork for building a comprehensive workplan and policy agenda.
Major Grant
Completed
South Park Senior Citizens
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $131,457
South Park Senior Citizens supports low-income seniors from BIPOC, immigrant, refugee, and undocumented communities by addressing barriers like language, culture, and transportation. This project provides personalized care plans, financial aid, interpretation services, and education to improve access to medical, dental, and mental health services.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Chief Seattle Club
Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 | $428,000
The Chief Seattle Club will expand its service hours to include two more days, from 7am to 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Major Grant
Completed
Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $335,000
The goal of the Wellness for Asian Pacific Americans (WAPA) program is to improve the overall wellness and physical health status of low income, limited English proficient AAPI immigrants and refugees living with severe mental illness.
Major Grant
Completed
Asian Counseling & Referral Service
Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 | $380,000
The WAPA Nurse Project promotes health equity and eliminates disparities by providing needed primary health education and resources and increasing healthcare literacy for low-income Asian Pacific Islanders with serious mental illness (SMI).
Major Grant
Completed
Somali Family Safety Task Force
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 | $146,035
Somali Family Safety Task Force will expand efforts to combat Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by raising community awareness, supporting affected individuals, and educating healthcare providers on its severe health risks. Targeting Somali and Gambian refugee and immigrant women, the Task Force aims to address FGM-related health disparities and enhance local support systems.
Major Grant
In-Progress
Washington Recovery Alliance
Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 | $29,958
Through this project WRA proposes to expand the Elevate program to engage Latinx advocates, cross-training Early Support staff to create stronger outcomes for foster children and children with prenatal substance exposure.
Nimble Grant
Completed
Teen Feed
Jul 2014 – Jun 2016 | $215,000
Teen Feed develops the Youth Access to Care (YAC) project, a team of Youth Care Coordinators who would assist homeless youth and young adults ages
13-25 in choosing the best health insurance plan and network provider for their unique health needs, provide a warm hand-off during the youth’s first office visit, and engage in appropriate follow-up activities.
Major Grant
Completed
YWCA
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018 | $299,647.50
YWCA Healthy Birth Outcomes works to reduce poor birth outcomes among low income women, specifically women of color and women experiencing homelessness. We seek to expand our program to South King County to increase access to health care services.
Major Grant
Completed
YWCA
Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 | $144,164
The Passage Point Health Coordination program, a component of the Health Access Department, will serve persons facing homelessness working to regain custody of their children upon exiting the corrections system.
Major Grant
Completed
