Seattle Foundation makes $800,000 in new grants

February 13, 2009 by Prakash Dhawan · Leave a Comment
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Medical bills from a high-risk conceiving physically left a relatives of dual immature young kids buried in debt as well as upon a verge of losing their split-level home. A housing advisor during Solid Ground, a Seattle-based nonprofit, talked a bank in to giving a integrate some-more time as well as worked with them toward assembly their payments. The male took a second job. The lady proposed earning one some-more income seasoned mixture envelopes from home, as well as they were means to equivocate foreclosure.

Solid Ground is a single of 5 housing as well as human-service agencies which will embrace partial of some-more than $800,000 in grants voiced Monday by a Seattle Foundation. Money from a foundation’s Building Resilience Fund is approaching to assistance about 350 Puget Sound-area family groups as well as 800 others who have been losing traction in an increasingly gloomy economy.

Solid Ground skeleton to make use of a $100,000 accede to to compensate for an one some-more housing counselor, who will work with 150 to 200 family groups who have been confronting a hazard of debt foreclosure. The series of calls a group receives from unfortunate people any week has doubled in new months.

“The people who come to us have nowhere else to go,” growth executive Paul Haas said. The Seattle Foundation awarded a income to internal agencies which assistance people confronting homelessness, stagnation or made at home violence.

A $210,00 accede to will go to Neighborhood House, $255,000 to YWCA, $150,000 to Catholic Community Services as well as $90,000 to Hopelink. The substructure encourages free giving from internal philanthropists as well as corporations, together with The Boeing Co., Microsoft Corp., Starbucks as well as Safeco. Leaders goal to lift some-more than $6 million for a account over a subsequent 3 years.

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