Category: Vibrant Community
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Making A Difference Foundation’s BIPOC Farm Fresh HUB: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network Making A Difference Foundation’s BIPOC Farm Fresh HUB is a collaborative network designed to strengthen food sovereignty, economic opportunity, and long-term sustainability for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers and ranchers in Pierce County. The network focuses on shared infrastructure, technical assistance, market access, and peer learning to reduce barriers > Continue Reading
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Kids Mental Health Pierce County: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network Kids’ Mental Health—Pierce County (KMHPC) is a coalition of people and agencies in Pierce County that are joining together to address the growing behavioral health crisis among school age children and youth. Our Mission. Kids’ Mental Health – Pierce County is dedicated to developing a coordinated, responsive behavioral health system that serves > Continue Reading
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Key Peninsula Partnership for a Healthy Community: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network Strengthening the Key Peninsula – Connecting the Community Our vision is a community that works together to grow stronger and healthier. How Network Was Formed In 2015 community leaders, supported by the then Milgard Foundation and Catholic Health Initiative, got together to explore a way to “move the needle” toward a > Continue Reading
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Key Peninsula Civic Center: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network Multi-focus Community Center with discounted office and meeting space. How Network Was Formed Discontinued area high school was transferred by school district to the community in the mid 1940s. Shared Successes That Have Emerged From This Network Longest continuous youth activity in area or state providing: Friday night skate for kids. Meeting/worship space for 2 churches. > Continue Reading
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Emergency Food Network: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network The guiding focus of EFN is that everyone in Pierce County should have access to diverse and nutritious food when and where they need it. Our network is made up of more than 75 food pantries, meal sites, and shelters across the county. In 2025, EFN provided our partners with 18.3 million > Continue Reading
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Community is the Recovery Plan: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network Convening local organizations for a human-centered design project titled, “Community Is the Recovery Plan”. This group has engaged the University of Washington Tacoma’s Global Innovation and Design (GID) Lab to facilitate a design sprint to address the question: How might we, as social, human and behavioral health service organizations that center > Continue Reading
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American Leadership Forum: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network The American Leadership Forum Tacoma/Pierce County (ALF) exists to join and strengthen a diverse community of leaders who are committed to serving the public good. Our network focuses on building leadership capacity across sectors, fostering trust-based relationships and equipping leaders to collaborate across differences to address complex community challenges. How Network Was Formed ALF was formed > Continue Reading
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Really Making A Difference With A Required Minimum Distribution
With limited dollars and staff, Pierce County nonprofits really make a difference. That’s why Sheri Tonn and her husband, Jeff, chose to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution with the Required Minimum Distribution from their IRA. As a co-founder and long-time Board Member of Communities for a Healthy Bay, Sheri Tonn has seen the impact nonprofits > Continue Reading
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Flexible Funding Accelerates Community-Led Solutions
Engaging a Local Advisory Team to guide funding decisions supports promising community-led solutions that might be overlooked or excluded by more traditional grant practices. Winona Stevens had a difficult decision to make. A state contract offered funding to support the work of the organization she leads. But, the contract requirements undermined the cultural practices of > Continue Reading
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Pilates Tacoma – Community Reinvestment Project Spotlight
Pilates Tacoma is one of 30 By/For Black, Latine, and Indigenous Kin organizations in Pierce County recommended by the Pierce County Local Advisory Team to receive funding through the Washington State Department of Commerce’s Community Reinvestment Project. GTCF contracted with Commerce to convene the Pierce County Local Advisory Team and deliver funding based on their > Continue Reading