The Vaccine Equity Initiative is continuing to expand COVID-19 vaccine access and information with a third round of grant awards to trusted community-based organizations throughout the state.
All In Washington received funding requests totaling over $1.2M for Round 3 (of 4) of the Vaccine Equity Initiative. For Round 3, we are awarding a total of $585,000 to 20 community-based organizations across the state, bringing the cumulative awards to $3,815,000.
Our review process prioritized organizations serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as immigrants, refugees, and agricultural workers given the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on these populations and the lower rates of vaccination. Our process also prioritized funding in counties with lower overall vaccination rates.
Round 1 and 2 grantees have been tirelessly working to increase vaccine access and information in their communities. Thank you to our donors and grantees for going All In to bring our state closer to recovery.
Vaccine Equity Initiative Round 3 Grantees:
African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program International will conduct linguistically and culturally-specific outreach and community awareness campaigns for teens and young adults (16 to 25 years) and unhoused communities within King, Pierce, and Whitman Counties. This project is fiscally sponsored by African Community Empowerment.
Asia Pacific Cultural Center will provide outreach, education, translation services, registration support and on-site support for vaccination events for the Asian and Pacific Islander community in Pierce County.
Columbia River Mental Health Services will provide vaccination clinics, vaccine outreach, and community engagement for the Black community in Clark County.
CultureSeed will provide linguistically and culturally-specific door-to-door vaccination outreach, education, and engagement services for low-income, BIPOC youth involved in the foster or juvenile justice system in Klickitat County.
Downtown Pasco Development Authority will provide vaccine outreach, community engagement, translation services, and registration support for Black, Latinx, unhoused residents, and agricultural workers in Franklin County.
Falis Community Service will conduct linguistically and culturally-specific outreach, provide registration support, and engagement services for Somali Bantu/Somali, East African, Afghan, Vietnamese, and Indian communities in King County.
Greater Trinity Academy will host mobile clinics, provide vaccine outreach and community engagement, offer translation services, and registration support for BIPOC communities including African Americans, Latinx, Afro-Latinx, and other indigenous people from Mexico in Snohomish County.
Hispanic Disability Support SWWA (Pasitos Gigantes) will provide vaccine outreach, translation services, registration support, and transportation for individuals and families with children with intellectual developmental disabilities, immigrants, refugees, and Latinx communities in Clark County. This project is fiscally sponsored by Support for Early Learning and Families.
Interim CDA will provide vaccine outreach, community engagement, education, and translation services for low income, Asian and immigrant communities in King County.
Kenyan Covid Relief Team will provide vaccine outreach, education, and registration services for low income, African immigrant and refugee communities in King County. This project is fiscally sponsored by African Community Empowerment.
Latino Civic Alliance will provide linguistically and culturally-specific vaccine outreach, community engagement, and registration support for the Latinx, immigrant, farmworkers and agricultural workers in Grant County.
Odyssey World International Education Services will conduct pop-up vaccination clinics, provide registration support, community outreach, and education services for Black and other BIPOC communities in Clark County.
Pamoja Christian Church will conduct a series of pop-up vaccination clinics for the Kenyan Community and Swahili-speaking immigrants and refugees from East and Central Africa in King County.
Providence St. Mary Foundation will provide mobile vaccination clinics and outreach for farmworkers and agricultural workers in Walla Walla County and other Eastern Washington counties.
Puget Sound Training Center will provide vaccine registration support and engagement services for low income individuals, unsheltered people, individuals with disabilities, immigrants and refugees, and linguistically isolated limited English communities in King County.
Spean Rajana will provide linguistically and culturally-specific outreach and community awareness campaigns to alleviate vaccine hesitancy within immigrant and refugee populations from Southeast Asia and East Africa, Latinx communities, and Black communities in King County. This project is fiscally sponsored by Sustainable Seattle.
Unity Care NW will provide vaccination outreach, engagement, and registration support for BIPOC communities in Whatcom County.
Vietnamese Community of Clark County will conduct linguistically and culturally-specific vaccine outreach, provide registration support, transportation, and interpretation services for the Asian community in Clark County.
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence will provide vaccination services and resources to domestic violence community-based programs to increase vaccine access for their unsheltered participants and emergency sheltered residents across Washington State.
Washington State University Foundation will provide Latinx teen leaders and mentors in their 4-H program with the training and resources to deliver a culturally and linguistically-specific vaccination campaign in Benton and Franklin Counties.