The Neighborhood Matching Fund workshop scheduled for this evening, January 11, 2011, at the Rainier Community Center is being cancelled due to weather concerns. This workshop is being rescheduled for February 2 at 6 p.m. at the Rainier Community Center.
The Whale Trail project, funded in part by a $20,000 award from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Neighborhood Matching Fund, is a collaboration of community folks in West Seattle who are devoted to building community and public awareness around the whales (Orcas) that inhabit the Puget Sound. The project focuses on… [ Keep reading ]
The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Neighborhood Matching Fund will offer three community workshops to provide technical assistance to organizations that are interested in applying to the Large Projects Fund. Workshop dates and locations are: Tuesday, January 11 6:00—8:00 pm Rainier Community Center 4600 38th Ave S Wednesday, January 19 6:00—8:00 pm… [ Keep reading ]
Congratulations to Heron Habitat Helpers, a Neighborhood Matching Fund project awarded group, on their Denny Award for Outstanding Volunteer Stewardship. Read more here.
The Seattle Times profiled the Work-it-Out program, which received $100,000 from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Large Project Fund this year. The Central Area project will convert a vacant school building and grounds into a neighborhood educational and job-training work site for youth ages 16-21 in greatest need of intervention: school… [ Keep reading ]
The first “green street” in the Chinatown/International District celebrated its official grand opening on November 19, including a blessing of the plants with water from a traditional pump made in Japan. The design honors the Japanese American experience in Seattle, in the Nihonmachi area on Maynard Avenue South, between Main… [ Keep reading ]
Liana Woo, currently working out-of-class as a Neighborhood Matching Fund Project Manager, received a nomination for “The Heart of a Volunteer”. Congratulations, Liana! Read all about it at the International Examiner.
Work-it-Out, funded in part with a $100,000 Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Neighborhood Matching Fund Large Project award, is hosting a Volunteer Appreciation and Fundraiser on December 1 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm to celebrate the work that has been performed at the Horace Mann Public School, as well as the opening of… [ Keep reading ]
Join us in a celebration of the Maynard Avenue South Green Street – the first completed green street in the Chinatown/International District – this Friday, November 19 at 11 a.m at InterIm CDA office at 319 Maynard Ave. S. The design honors the Japanese American experience, considering that the project is located… [ Keep reading ]
A delegation from Taipei, Taiwan visited the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods on November 10. DoN provided an educational tour of our programs that included visits to I-5 Corridor – a NMF project, Lake City Neighborhood Payment and Information Service Center, North Neighborhood District Coordinator, and Maple Leaf PPatch/Community Garden. The tour showcased… [ Keep reading ]