2008 - The Seattle Foundation

Grantees 17
2008 Anne V. Farrell
Leadership Grant
Since 1995, The Seattle Foundation has awarded the annual
Anne V. Farrell Leadership Grant to an organization or group
of organizations addressing a pressing community issue in
an innovative way. In 2008, the Foundation supported the
Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County
for its Minority Business and Youth Alliance Project, which
links business, the juvenile court and community-based
organizations together to help young offenders of color
progress along pathways to post-secondary education, job
training and mentoring, and living wage employment.
Workforce Develpment Council
of Seattle-King County
The Seattle Foundation
Emergency Relief Fund
The Emergency Relief Fund was established to respond to
natural disasters locally, nationally and internationally. In
2008, Cyclone Nargis devastated the coast of Myanmar
(also known as Burma) in Southeast Asia. In the same month,
a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Sichuan province
in China. Many donors responded to these disasters by
contributing to The Seattle Foundation’s Emergency Relief
Fund. This fund supported organizations already established
in these countries to build temporary shelters and schools
in China, as well as provide emergency relief and recovery
efforts in Myanmar.
Give2Asia
Foundation for the People of Burma
The Seattle Foundation
Community Leadership Fund
The Community Leadership Fund helps support our community
dialogues and convenings. The Seattle Foundation believes
community foundations best serve their communities if they
work in ways that recognize the larger context in which
their communities exist. We are always looking for ways to
use different tools to enhance our work, particularly seeking
to bring underrepresented voices into these discussions, to
spearhead collaboration across sectors and organizational
lines, and to encourage discussions across the region’s
various municipalities.
The Seattle Foundation Administrative Fund
The Seattle Foundation
Scholarship Fund
The Scholarship Fund supports King County residents
who demonstrate financial need, outstanding community
involvement and academic promise. It is open to all types of
students—from high school seniors to current college students,
returning students and “non-traditional” students. Recipients
may use scholarships at public community colleges, four-year
colleges or universities, trade or vocational schools. The first
awards were made from the Scholarship Fund in 2008.
University of Washington
Poisoned Waters Documentary
Poisoned Waters is a PBS Frontline documentary that aired
in spring 2009 and featured Puget Sound and Chesapeake
Bay as “the best and worst in America’s environmental cause.”
In the case of Puget Sound, it is the “best” because of the
green political climate in Washington state and the “worst”
because the Sound is the most contaminated estuary on the
Pacific Coast. Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times
reporter and editor, and Emmy award-winning producer/
correspondent Hedrick Smith produced Poisoned Waters.
ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Individual Grantmaking
Grantees that provide
broad access to arts and
cultural opportunities
The 5th Avenue Theatre Association
ACT – A Contemporary Theatre
Academy of Music Northwest
Admiral Theatre Foundation
Alliance for the Visual Arts
Allied Arts Foundation
Ancient Egypt Research Associates
Ann Arbor Art Center
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Artist Trust
Artrain USA
Arts Central
ArtsFund
Bainbridge Island Historical Society
Bainbridge Performing Arts
Beethoven
Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra
Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra
Bill Reid Foundation
Blue Earth Alliance
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Boston Early Music Festival
Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Burke Museum Association
Campbell River Museum
Central Washington Agricultural Museum Association
Chamber Music Madness
Cinema Seattle
Clymer Museum of Art
Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra
Conduit Dance, Inc.
Confluence Gallery & Art Center
Confluence Project
The Curtis Institute of Music
d9 Dance Collective
Dance Gallery Foundation
The Drawing Studio
Eastside Heritage Center
Edmonds Center for the Arts
Elderhostel
Emmanuel Music
Evergreen Children’s Theatre
Evergreen Playhouse
Flying House Productions
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
2008 Annual Report