CARE receives third grant: Neighbor to Neighbor

The N2N grant informed VFA today that it will reward 5K to the CARE Project.  This brings the total grant reward to $120,100:

$95,100 from Seattle’s Dept. of Neighborhood, Neigborhood Matching Fund (notified in July/August)
$20,000 from the United Way of King County, New Solutions Grant (notified beginning of Oct)
$5,000 from the Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) Grant (notified late Oct)

VFA also applied to one national grant — National CAPACD’s Action TA grant for 15K in July, but was rejected this past week due to recent budget cuts.  With $120,100 secured for CARE of the projected 173K, CARE will proceed as planned with just a few minor tweaks in the budget to decrease expenses and increase volunteer matches.

UWKC provides matching fund for CARE Project

In addition to the Department of Neighborhood’s $95,100 grant for CARE, the United Way of King County’s New Solutions Grant is also funding the CARE project up to $20,000.  The project will need  a projected total of $173,625 to be fully funded.  If we don’t receive the entire 173K, we’ll increase our volunteer matches and decrease some of our expenses. Since the beginning of September, the Advisory Committee has convened at least three times to brainstorm and discuss the trajectory of the project over the next several months.  The next steps are to form the Community Task Force and the Youth Action Team!!