Community
Community Stories
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2026
Metropolitan Development Council (MDC): 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network MDC provides a broad range of community-based services designed to reduce poverty, increase stability, and support long-term well-being for individuals and families across Pierce County. Our services span housing stability and homelessness prevention, coordinated entry and system navigation, substance use disorder and withdrawal management services, workforce and education programs, and core Community Action > Continue Reading
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2026
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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2026
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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2026
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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2026
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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2026
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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2026
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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2026
Arts & Culture Coalition of Pierce County: 2025 Network Funding Spotlight
Guiding Focus of Network The Arts & Culture Coalition of Pierce County consists of over 2 dozen arts, culture, science and heritage organizations located in the City of Tacoma and throughout Pierce County. The Coalition is a membership organization for directors and leadership from cultural arts organizations and stakeholders who support their work. By operating as a collective, the Coalition aims > Continue Reading
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2026
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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2025
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