GRANTS AWARDED ALL

2025 Fall

• LISO Legal Immigration Services of Olympia | Stipend for legal staff of LISO | $1000
• Sleep in Heavenly Peace | South Puget Sound 2025-26 Mattress & Lumber Buy | $1000
• Women in Dignity School | Lead with Dignity: Immigrant Women’s Leadership Circles of Thurston County | $700
• Olympia Family Theater | Magic Curtain Morning at OFT | $500
• New Horizons Community–Quixote Village | Art therapy classes for residents of Quixote Village | $500
• Community Print | Weirdo Collage public art sessions | $300

2025 Spring

• Salish Sea Action Collective | climate leadership regional support training | $1350
• SWONA (SouthWest Olympia Neighborhood Association) | equipment for building community resilience | $750
• Haki Farmers Collective | re-establishing community farm in new location | $1000
• DERT (Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team) | capacity building technology | $400
• Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural | research local history for multi-media exhibit | $500

2024 Fall

• Thurston Housing Land Trust | THLT Digital Toolkit | $1500
• The JOLT News Organization | help support editor resources | $1500
•  Nisqually Reach Nature Center | Retaining Wall Mural Project | $1000
• Window Seat Media | Pride Storytelling Project | $1000
• LGBTQ+ Disability Justice, J.M. Lynch-Thomason | Scholarships for Trans-NeuroDivergent Support Group | $675

2024 Spring

• Triceratops Technology Resources | South Sound Resource Guide | $1000
• Restoring Earth Connection (REConnect) | 2024 Events and Outreach Campaigns | $1000
• Thurston County Inclusion | Summer Camp Program | $680
• Puget Sound Estuarium | Regional Aquatics Workshop | $660
• Multicultural Service Center of South Sound | Refugee Job Fair | $1150
• Vanessa LaValle | Mapping Regional Wildlife Connectivity | $500
• Olympia Bupe Clinic | Incentive Hep C Testing | $1000

2023  Fall

• Marja Eloheimo | s̓uləx: Gifts of the Land Ethnobotanical Garden  | $1500
• Christen Greene, Team-tomorrow, LLC | South Sound Music Summit | $1000
• Community Farm Land Trust | Fresh-from-the-Farm Guides | $1000

2023 Spring

• Black Power Initiative | small grants to strengthen financial safety net for black community members | $600
• Love Abounds | supplies & laundry services for those experiencing homelessness in Yelm | $600
• Our Ark | food distributed to young people experiencing homelessness | $600
• Restoring Earth Connections | raise awareness on symbiosis between people, trees & the Earth | $600
• Thurston Housing Land Trust | educational events re: affordable housing | $600
• Treble Voices for Peace-Olympia Peace Choir | singers & music by women &/or gender minorities | $600

2022 Fall

• Community Farmland Trust | Migrate & update IT services from subscription to their own IT service | $750
• Jolt News | stipends for news writers, editor, reporters and researchers | $1500
• Community Nature Foundation | Save Ferngully Forest campaign | $750
• Nisqually Reach Nature Center | Forage Fish Citizen Science Surveys Project |

2022 Spring

• Restoring Earth Connection | Protecting the Giants tree education campaign | $1000
• The Bridge Music Project | Olympia Community Songwriting Workshops | $1650
• Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team | Deschutes Watershed Riparian Outreach Program | $1300
• Olympia Kiwanis Food Bank Garden | summer intern position | $1000
• Puget Sound Estuarium | low-income discount for admissions & registrations | $1000
• Olympia Arts Alliance | art in Olympia storefronts | $1000
• Youth Paradigm | OAKS Outdoor After School Program | $1000

2021 Fall

• Community Farm Land Trust | 2022 Fresh-from-the-Farm: South Sound Food & Farm Resource Guide | $1000
• Bill Lange | Sea Level Rise Flooding Video Series | $1000
• Kellie Mae Willis | prenatal yoga teacher training development | $1000

2021 Spring

• Helsing Junction Farm (Sue Lundy Fund) | farm succession | $1000
• Puget Sound Estuarium | Meet the Beach | $1000
• Alamere Herbs (Sue Lundy Fund) | heated cold frames | $808
• Metamimicry | using myco-remediation for salmon restoration | $1000
• New Traditions Fair Trade | piano | $1000

2020 Fall

• South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust | 2021 Fresh-from-the Farm: South Sound Farm & Food Resource Guide | $2000
• Bowl of Hope | supplement budget for staffing & increasing meal supply | $2000

2019 Fall

• Land & Freedom Housing Collective | Take a Bowl Home for Housing fundraiser | $250
• HubBub Arts | replacement of screen printing press for shop & classes | $450
• Nature Nurtures Farm | blackberry removal w/out chemicals at horse therapy farm | $400
• South Sound Food System Network | scholarships to 2020 South Sound Food Summit | $400
• Olympia Farm and Forest School | use of a tractor for Bird Song Children’s Garden | $400
• Thurston County Inclusion | marketing for Summer Camps for youth w/ & w/out disabilities | $340
• Strengthening Sanctuary | supplies & food for 2020 Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network Legislative Advocacy Day | $500

2019 Spring

• Canoe Journey Herbalists | community herbalist training program | $700
• Child Care Action Council | Caring Kids Family Volunteer program | $200
• Thurston County Food Bank – Nutrition Education Team | reducing access barriers at Client Service Ctr | $500
• Stewards of Wellspring | Conch Studio @ Wellspring Regeneration & Renewal | $400
• The Commons @ Fertile Ground | The Olympia EcoDistrict Project | $600

2018 Fall

• First Christian Church | | $450
• Family Support Center of South Sound | | $850

2017 Fall

• Common Cause Property Alliance | | $450
• Strengthening Sanctuary | | $500
• Shawna Hawk | | $200
• Edible Forest Gardens | | $500
• The Bridge Music Project | | $600

2017 Spring

• Olympia Community Garden | | $435
• Hansen Elementary School Garden | | $332
• Stonewall Youth | | $200
• Thurston Climate Action Team | | $350
• Empowerment 4 Girls | | $335
• Olympia Film Collective | | $335

2016 Fall

• Downtown Olympia Business Owners | establish collective social corporation for downtown Olympia | $600
• Veterans for Peace Rachel Corrie Chapter 109 | increase awareness of impact of ongoing war | $1000

2016 Spring

• Olympia Coalition for Ecosystems Preservation | | $500
• Pacific Shellfish Institute | | $425
• Instituto de Cultura y Arte in Xochitl in Cuicatl | | $400
• Co-Sound | | $500
• Dispute Resolution Center | | $600
• Love Our Local Fest | | $300
• NAAME NW Alliance for Alternative Media and Education | | $200

2015 Fall

• South Sound Estuary Association | | $600
• Nisqually Land Trust | | $100
• Lacey Loves to Read | | $500
• Stonewall Youth | | $600
• The Commons at Fertile Ground | | $475
• Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project | | $425

2015 Spring

• Arbutus Folk School | ceramics studio development | $600
• The Commons at Fertile Ground | TEDx Olympia 2015 | $450
• Urban Evergreen Bee Sanctuary | beehive building marathon | $150
• Veterans for Peace Rachel Corrie Chapter 109 | increasing awareness of the Costs of War | $400
• Media Island | bus to the US Social Forum San Jose | $200
• Olympia Kiwanis Food Bank Gardens | garden equipment | $400
• Pizza Klatch | volunteer facilitation training | $500
• Shawna Hawk | An African Diasporic Experience …through music, dance & culture | $200
• Family Support Center of South Sound | Power Parenting workshops | $200

2014 Fall

• Port Militarization Resistance | legal appeal for Olympia Antiwar Group | $400
• 2015 Olympia Village Building Convergence | Placemakers Academy training for community organizers | $900
• Olympia Coalition for Ecosystems Preservation | seasonal protection of Westside heronry | $1000
• The West Central Park Project | habitat renewal pollination Garden | $400

2014 Spring

• Cross-Cultural and Community Connections | African Diasporic Experience | 
• Urban Evergreen Bee Sanctuary | promoting the ecological importance of local pollinators | 

2013 Fall

• Friends of Public Power | | $200
• Peace Scouts International | | $120
• Oly Star Courier | | $200
• Interfaith Works | | $200
• CRANA Cain Road Area Neighborhood Assoc | | $325
• Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team | | $200

2013 Spring

• KOAW 106.5 FM LP FN | | $1000
• Capital Vision Community Garden | | $300
• South Sound Estuary Association | | $500

2012 Fall

• Pizza Klatch | bring Pizza Klatch to Capital High School: train facilitators, provide food | $725
• Olympia Mycelial Network | community building with fungi – start-up costs for 2 crucial tools | $375
• Thurston County Food Bank | Lincoln Greenhouse Project – supplies | $700
• Invest Local Development Team | Greater Olympia Local Investment Opportunities Network | $1000

2012 Spring

• LadyFest 2000 Premiere | Love Our Local Fest opening/premiere documentary | $350
• Sidewalk Advocacy and Support (c/o Interfaith Works) | volunteer training | $500
• The Commons at Fertile Ground | Water Flowform Demonstration Site, Olympia Biodynamic Study & Practice Group | $350
• Sustainable South Sound | Love Our Local Fest | $500
• The Olympia Free Clinic| The Olympia Free Clinic Hygiene Project | $800
• Leavenworth Audobon Adopt-a-Forest | greenhouse for demonstration Edible Forest Gardens | $500

2011 Fall

• Rachel Corrie Foundation | Olympia Arab Fest/Peace Works – for rental, honorarium & travel | $500
• South of the Sound Farm Land Trust | Small Farm Equipment Sharing Project | $400

2011 Spring

• Olympia Village Building Convergence | workshops, speakers, and community-building events | $500
• West Olympia Market Steering Committee | West Olympia Farmers Market | $350
• Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team | Visualize the Estuary art & community charrettes | $650
• Madison-Avanti Giving Garden | Madison School Garden Farmstand | $500
• Sustainable South Sound | Community Food Summit | $800

2010 Fall

• Stonewall Youth | Stonewall Youth Speaker’s Bureau | $1000
• Family Support Center + 1000 from Sound Charitable Foundation | Community Cafes | $800
• Interfaith Works | Reducing Religious Bigotry High School Outreach Project | $650
• Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach Project (EGYHOP) | garage sale | $250
• Rebels By Bus | provide community with alternatives to car commuting | $300
• Works In Progress | WIP 20-year Retrospective | $455
• Doula-Teen Partnership Program | outreach & support for pregnant teens | $200+1,000 from Sound Charitable Fdn
• WAMM (Washington State Music Mentors) | music camps for local youth (w/ emphasis on reservations and poorer districts) | $550
• Traditions Fair Trade Cafe | replace equipment for community groups’ meetings and events | $600

2010 Spring

• Traditions Fair Trade and Café | | $600
• No Gap – Street Advocacy | | $250

2009 Fall

• Bookends Literacy | Volunteer Tutor Training | $500
• Equity Access Project | | $600
• LadyFest 2000 | | $475
• Northwest EcoBuilding Guild | EcoBuilding Monthly Educational Meetings | $700
• Port Civil 2007 | | $500
• Sustainable South Sound | Wendell Berry Community Garden Expansion | $600
• Transition Olympia | | $650

2009 Spring

• Mpowerment Olympia | | $300
• No Gap – Street Advocacy | | $250
• Olympia Family Barter Faire | | $500

2008 Spring

• Bridges not Walls | | $400
• Emberglow Services | | $250
• Madison Elementary School | | $100
• SPEECH | | $500
• Sustainable South Sound | | $650
• The Volunteer Center | | $100

2005 Fall

• Green Pages Writers Fund (SPEECH) | fund writers’ submissions for environmental articles | $300
• The Thurston-Santo Tomas Sister County Association (TSTSCA) | subsidize visit from Santo Tomas delegation | 
• The Greaners Coalition | support access & distribution of fresh locally grown food | 
• Partners in Prevention Education Group (PIPE) | aid in screening & disucssion of documentary on sexual violence at Capitol Theater | 
• WAKOTE Buy Local | support for canvas bags and packets to promote buying local & bag re-use | 

2005 Spring

• Cascadia
• FreeGeek Olympia
• Habitat For Humanity – Yelm Recycling
• Know All You Can Know
• Olympia Artisan Alliance
• Olympia Biofuels Cooperative
• Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
• Olympia Peace and Justice Center Phase II
• Planting Cultureseed
• Safe Food for Change
• Sound Opportunities
• Stonewall Youth
• The Gleaners Coalition
• UCAN Hispanic Latino Outreach

2004 Fall

• Amnesty International
• Olympia Village Improvement
• Peace Scouts
• Permaculture Design Course

2004 Spring

• Free Radio Olympia | Local, independent radio | $450
• Indigenous Women Wevers Exchange | Reconnecting the Strands: weavers from Chiapas | $500
• Organic Food Bank | Provide local small farm harvests of organic food to local food bank | $250
• Stonewall Youth | Youth-led speakers bureau | $500
• Youth Advisory Board | Youth involvement in advisory board for education | $500
• ___ | Abortion and miscarriage support | $184

2003 Fall

• Art Across Borders | Local exhibit of middle eastern art | $600
• Black Dog Foundation | Community-based conflict intervention | $500
• Emma Goldman Youth Homeless Outreach Program | Emergency winter intervention supplies | $200
• OLYNOW | Congratulatory street party | $350
• Peace Scouts | Library of peace materials | $300
• Thurston Union of Low-Income People | New member orientation workshops | $400

2002 Fall

• Chris Sand | Holiday Hootenanny fundraiser for Bread and Roses | $200
• Coalition for Low Income People | Non-profit incorporation and startup costs | $400
• Community Print | Non-profit community print shop for local publications | $200
• Emma Goldman Youth Homeless Outreach Program | parts & tools to support Homeless Build-A-Bike project | $400
• Media Island International | purchase of computer for activist training | $200
• Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation | printing cost for newsletter | $200
• Skate Like a Girl | Skateborad clinics | $200
• YMCA Earth Service Corps | youth-directed intergenerational film project for service corps teens | $300

2001 Fall

• Bread and Roses | Emmaus Project: dignity enhancement project for B/R guests | $300
• Disability Rights Group Lending Library Project | Startup for library of disability rights materials | $200
• Iris Writers Project | Diary-keeping for self-awareness to further social change | $150
• Madison Coalition Project | Revitalize old Madison School for community meetings | $500
• MamaZine | Do-it-yourself parenting magazine for local citizens | $150
• OlyNetwork Project | Community change clearinghouse for local citizens | $400
• Peace Scouts | startup for peace studies | $300

2001 Spring

• Jefferson Street Foundation | Project to present an educational program music program | $320
• Media Island International | Obtain organizational development consultant | $350
• Olympia Community Free Skool | Startup for no boundaries/concept school | $275
• Terra Commons | Non-profit incorporation costs | $435
• Victory Gardens Olympia | Startup equipment for CSA garden | $400

2000 Spring

• Avanti High School | Purchase 2 cameras for school’s darkroom | $380
• Coalition for Low Income People | Publicize and conduct public forum to organize advocacy groups | $600
• Rochester Organization of Families | Purchase of garden tools for community garden | $500
• Transfuse 2000 Productions | Production costs for locally produced rock opera | $600
• Wisdom Enterprises | Preparation of business plan for childcare cooperative | $300

1999 Fall

• Karianne Rizzieri | “Real Touch” infant massage classes | $600
• Northwest Earth Institute | Promotional materials for voluntary simplicity forums | $500
• Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation | Support of non-violence forums | $500
• RSVP America Reads Project | Children’s reading materials for library at elementary school | $350
• SPEECH | Workshops to strengthen grassroots environmental movement | $550
• Stella Mars | Production costs for hazardous chemical instructional video | $500
• Thurston County Off-Campus School/CYS | Youth artistic development | $700

1999 Spring

• Heartsparkle Players | Support of theater performance featuring youth w/ disabilities | $375
• Olympia Youth Hostel Club | Support of startup costs for hostel downtown | $865
• Olympians Concerned Abourt Democracy | Facilitation of involvement in grass roots political process | $650
• Black Hills Alliance-Rainbow Center Project | Support of a meeting venue that serves GLBT community | $700

1998 Fall

• Bread and Roses | Equipment for new family-oriented Drop-in Center | $270
• Center for World Indigenous Studies | Kowlitch Ilahee Mapping Project | $250
• Enterprise for Equity | Office start-up costs | $265
• Thurston County Tenants Union | Office start-up costs | $300
• Thurston Union of Low-Income People | Organizing and recruitment of members for new C.U. | $200
• Woman’s Carpentry Cooperative | Rental cost of carpentry studio for women | $500

1998 Spring

• Carnegie Group/SPEECH | Series of neighborhood meetings on growth and development | $190
• Community Build-A-Bike Program | Startup for a youth bicycle recycling program | $200
• CROW Mural Project | Material cost for public art project | $200
• Leadership Thurston County – Equity Team | Storage shed for equipment at community garden | $200
• Olympia Coalition for Equal Opportunity | Orgainizing local opposition to Initiative 200 | $350
• South Sound MAI Not | Public awareness campaign for local MAI ‘free zone’ resolutions | $250
• TOGETHER | Cost for workshops for young parents and their children | $420
• Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition | startup costs for local chapter of WROC | $450

1997 Fall

• Books to Prisoners Olympia Support Group | purchase of dictionaries for prisoner requests | $300
• Cross-Cultural Thurston County Youth Project for Environmental Educators | Creation of student-to-student environmental exchange | $200
• Handful of Truth Theater Company | Space rental for teen-based theater company | $500
• Linda Carpenter | upgrade culvert in Lacey to facilitate fish migration | $125
• NW International Lesbian Gay Film Festival | shift focus of studies from TESC to downtown Olympia | $300
• Olympia Political Cultural Center | renting or purchasing of videos for TCTV broadcast | $250

1997 Spring

• La Leche League of Thurston County | Speaker stipend for anger management workshop | $400
• Sigafoos & Witcher Counseling Services | Purchase of library resources for transexual persons | $400
• Sister Holly Community Garden | Material cost for youth projects associated with community garden | $400
• South Sound Community Farm Land Trust | Incorporation and startup costs for new CLT | $615
• Thurston County Safe Schools Coalition | Speaker stipends & rm rental for training of GLBT issues | $550
• TOGETHER | Purchase of gardening equipment at TOGETHER neighborhood centers | $320

1996 Fall

• Bread and Roses | Bus passes for the homeless to attend job interviews | $100
• CROW Mural Project | Materials and supplies for a community art project at farmers’ mkt | $200
• Olympia Bike Library | Purchase a bicycle cart for on-site bike repair | $300
• Robin Landsong | Production costs of CD | $200
• Susan Grant | Publication costs of a resource guide for homeless men | $350
• Sustainable Community Roundtable | Publicity for forum series | $100
• TOGETHER | Organization of a series of ‘Family Nights’ for Hispanic families | $350

1996 Spring

• Copwatch | Purchase of camcorder to document police conduct | $350
• Joanne Lee | Startup costs for bioregional economic network with local currency | $625
• La Leche League of Thurston County | Registration fees for leadership training conference | $375
• Lynn Taylor | Scholarships for low-income youth to attend summer camp | $200
• Media Island Intl | Printing cost for directory of activist organizations | $300
• Olympia Car Share Committee | Printing, publicity and stipend to promote car coops | $225
• Sister Holly Community Garden | Materials for elders/at-risk youth community garden | $300
• Todd Denny | Summer Native American youth program | $300
• Young Voices | Scholarships for low-income youth to attend creative writing workshop | $200

1995 Fall

• Bread and Roses | Educational/job skills resource center | $400
• Campbell, DeGregoria & Nelson | Community strategy session on land use & social justice | $265
• Kitchen Garden Project | purchase of seed | $375
• Lin Crowley | video on 4th UN Conf on Women and Development | $350
• Stephen Cifka | Photographic documentary portrait project | $400
• Synergy International Arts Program | Elder/youth mentorship program | $200
• Thurston County Off-Campus School | Highway litter prevention | $200

1995 Spring

• Choices Associates | Parent education and violence prevention classes | $100
• Earthbound Productions | production costs for promotional video about Procession | $400
• Hands On Childrens Museum | Materials for Swim in the Sound educational exhibit | $200
• Olympia Farm Workers Justice Committee | stipend for Dolores Huerta’s talk and rally | $200
• Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace | startup costs for a political cultural center | $500
• Olympia Skatepark Association | startup organizational expenses | $250
• Raices | cross-cultural Cinco de Mayo theatrical performance | $250
• Refugee and Immigrant Services Center | production of reference materials for the Center | $3250
• Sound Opportunities | support for at-risk youth boat building and expedition week | $250
• SPEECH | support of 2 forums on environmental policy | $250
• Sustainable Community Roundtable | materials for youth photo exhibit for solstice celebration | $165
• Thurston County Direct Sales Farm Map | Production of 10,000 copies of direct sale farms | $200
• Thurston County Rainbow Coalition | purchase newspaper for Works in Progress | $170
• Youth Cycling Center | stipends and equipment to restore and distribute bicycles | $250
• Anita Estupinan Neal | startup costs for Immigrants Legal Aid Advocacy Project | $300

1994 Spring

• Experimental Gallery of the WS Historical Society | self-esteem building for juvenile offenders | $350
• Kitchen Garden Project | purchase of tools for community gardens | $200
• Mothers Against Police Harassment | startup funds for a local chapter | $250
• Olympia AIDS Prevention Project | outreach to hi-risk youth | $500
• Rainier Community Cares | purchase of laser printer for new community outreach newspaper | $250
• Safeplace | for outreach campaign for DV victims | $300
• Site Line Gallery and ARTSAFE | for conference for parents, educators, and artists | $200
• Sustainable Agrarian Network Exchange (SANE) | toward equipment for community garden project | $200
• TESC Environmental Resource Center | The Peoples Summit for Environmental Justice | $200
• Thurston County Rainbow Coalition | purchase of laser printer for Works in Progress | $500

1992 Fall

• DIGNITY – Disabled Individuals Gaining Necessities in the Community | | $222
• Olympia Farmworker Justice Committee | | $250
• Quincentennial Organizing Committee | | $100
• TESC Masters in Environmental Studies Program | | $150
• Thurston County Council of Neighborhoods | | $200
• Thurston County Literacy Network | | $480
• Thurston County National Organization for Women | | $200
• Unity in the Community – Stop Hate Crimes Now! | | $450

1992 Spring

• Sioux Feldman | attendance at school mediation conference | $500
• Cascade Research Collective | production of educational slide show on electromagnetic fields | $300
• Hispanic Women’s Network | incorporation fees to IRS | $209
• Olympia Association for Education of Young Children | purchase videos for lending library | $205
• Stonewall Youth | printing and office supplies | $200
• Lesbian Gay Film Festival | offset cost of keynote speaker Marlon Riggs | $200
• The Evergreen State College | assist in cost of producing a catalog | $200
• Sustainable Community Round Table | help pay for cost of a forum on environment and development | $200
• Marcela Abadi and Sioux Feldman | conflict resolution workshops | $200
• Fire Explorer Post 751 | equipment to support youth program | $114
• Lesbian Gay Bisexual People’s Publication Group | printing of one issue of their periodical | $106
• Amtrak Depot Committee | towards cost of water system at the depot | $100

1990 Fall

• Thurston County Dispute Resolution Center | Startup and publicity funds to reduce case load in courts | $445
• Wee Bear Care Child Care Center | Startup and fundraising campaign funds for at-risk kids | $400
• South Puget Environmental Education Clearinghouse | Startup funds to develop joint use facility | $325
• Homes First | Startup funds to promote low-income urban housing | $320
• Olympia AIDS Task Force | Interim assistance for program personnel | $300
• Nisqually Reach Nature Center | Activity books for teaching plankton ecology to kids | $200
• Thurston County Child Sexual Abuse Task Force | Publicity funds for upcoming programs | $200

1989 Fall

• Nisqually Reach Nature Center | Equipment for marine ecology education program | $371
• Sensible Growth Coalition | Program support for organizing effort | $100

1989 Spring

• Children’s Theater Northwest | Scholarships for summer program | $325

1989 Winter

• Energy Outreach Center | Solar hot water demonstration panel | $300
• Olympic Wildlife Rescue Project | Equipment for intensive care facility | $200
• Olympia Tools & Services Coop | Startup funds | $100