KING CONSERVATION DISTRICT FUNDING INVESTED IN THE CITY OF

GRANT AWARDS KCD awards grants to local governments, nonprofit organizations, tribes, and other agencies to improve natural resources and increase regional conservation. KCD funds for projects listed below were collected from an annual, per-parcel assessment or rate and charge for projects in partnership with Member Jurisdictions and/or the three watershed forums. These monies support high-impact projects in both urban and rural areas and often leverage funding from state, federal, and other sources. For more information on these projects or about the grant programs, please contact Jessica Saavedra at 425-282-1906 or e-mail [email protected]. www.kingcd.org

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For more details check out our SERVICES In addition to the conservation services and cost share awards listed below, KCD also provides services to cities Brand Guidelines. and residents in shoreline restoration, community agriculture and urban forestry.

Summary of KCD–Seattle Member Jurisdiction Funding Available for Grants or Services

2014-2017 Rates and Charges Collections $1,493,899.67 2018 Rates and Charges Collections $375,940.52 Total Collections $1,869,840.19

Total Utilized to Date (since 1994) $6,704,689.92

Estimated 2019 Rates and Charges Collections $374,000.00 Estimated Total Amount Available to Utilize for Grants or Services (including estimated 2019 collections, subject to change) $379,776.60

King ConservationKing District Conservation • 1107 SW District Grady • Way, Renton, Suite WA 130 98057 • Renton, • 425-282-1900 WA 98057 • 425-282-1900www.kingcd.org • www.kingcd.org

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In partnership with the City of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment, KCD accepts proposals from community organizations each year. Proposals are reviewed by both KCD and the City to determine if they meet mutual natural resource improvement priorities. In 2017, the criteria was expanded to include an equity and social justice lens. For information about grants awarded prior to 2014, please contact Jessica Saavedra at 425-282-1906 or e-mail [email protected].

Year Organization Project Total Costs Seattle Tilth Urban Food Project $40,000 Audubon Center Tenacious Roots: Youth Leadership for Conservation Action $11,400 Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust South Parking Lot Restoration $21,000 The Common Acre Creston-Duwamish Transmission Corridor Restoration $20,810 Associated Recreation Council (ARC) Magnuson Community Center Nature Education for All Program $22,918 Stewardship Partners Eckstein Middle School Demonstration Rain Garden $15,000 Seattle Parks Foundation Yesler Swamp Restoration $31,940 2015 Seattle Parks Foundation Cheasty Greenspace Educational Signage $34,689 Seattle Tilth Little Red Hen/Delridge Learning Garden Phase One Completion $10,169 Duwamish Tribal Services Duwamish Longhouse Upland Reforestation and Native Plant Restoration $19,235 Adopt-A-Stream Foundation Thornton Creek Streamkeepers Rain Garden Program $35,000 City Fruit Right-of-Way to Mini Orchard $12,318 GROW Friends of Beacon Food Forest Stewardship Education Series $32,681 Stewardship Supplies $52,000 Seattle Parks Foundation Deadhorse Canyon East Restoration $36,000 Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association Delridge Wetlands Restoration and Stewardship $45,300 Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/TAG Duwamish Valley Youth Corps: Empowering Youth and the Community $45,000 Associated Recreation Council Explore Roxhill Bog: Headwaters of Longfellow Creek $28,760 Islandwood Urban Watershed Education Project $30,000

2016 ECOSS Environmental Stewardship Program $40,000 Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust Rattlesnake Ledge Trail Improvement $25,000 Beach Naturalist and Salmon Journey Programs - Outreach program for under- $10,948 served students Seattle Tilth Good Food Bag Expansion $50,000 Earth Corps Burke Gilman Trail Pollinator Corridor $45,000 NABC Holistic Look At Food Choices Workshops with ROAR Mobile Farm Stand $16,018

King Conservation District • Renton, WA 98057 • 425-282-1900 • www.kingcd.org KCD–Seattle Member Jurisdiction Grants Awarded (continued)

Year Organization Project Total Costs Seattle Parks Foundation Greening Concord Elementary School: Field and Gardens $50,000 Chinese Information & Service Center Green Life - Green Family - Green Community $65,000 Rainier Valley Corps dba Rainier Beach Action Coalition Rainier Beach Community Farm Stands $75,000 2017 Sustainable Seattle Fairview Christian School Depave and Rain Garden Project Phase 1 $13,516 InterIm Community Development Association WILD Youth Program Stipends for Environmental Justice $75,000 Na’ah Illahee Fund Seattle Native Food Systems Initiative $50,000 Asian Counseling and Referral Service New Beginning for the Seattle Community Farm $62,484 Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association Delridge Wetlands Restoration and Stewardship Project $50,000.00 Social Good Fund Yesler Terrace Goes Green $55,458.00 The Common Acre The Green Line $70,000.00 Youth green jobs to reduce plastic pollution in the greater Duwamish Valley, in 2018 Zero Waste $70,000.00 Seattle WA Seattle Urban Native Community Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Na'ah Illahee Fund $75,000.00 Project Young Women Empowered Y-WE Nature Connections $75,000.00

Regional Food System Grants

This KCD program seeks to fund projects that contribute to the economic viability of local farms, encourage new farmers to expand acreage in food production, improve food access and increase demand for King County farm products. For more information visit our website or contact Mary Embleton at 425-282-1958 or [email protected].

Year Organization Project Funds Awarded City of Seattle, King County Farmers Market Access 2015 $49,086 Office of Sustainability and Environment Coordination Linking Local Producers to an Urban Food Delridge Grocery Cooperative $100,000 Desert Market 2016 City of Seattle, Strengthening Farmers Market EBT/Fresh $100,000 Office of Sustainability and Environment Bucks Access in King County Pilot Individual Development Account Pike Place Market Foundation $16,050 Program for Beginning Farmers 2017 Gathering Around the Table for ‘Dulet’ - Public Health-Seattle KC Building a Safe Meat Supply Chain by/for $97,500 the East African Community City of Seattle, Office of Sustainability Increasing Fresh Bucks Business Capacity $25,000 and Environment and Customer Access in King County Working Farmland Partnership Pilot 2018 PCC Farmland Trust $99,810 Project Rotary First Harvest King County Farmers Share $100,000

King Conservation District • Renton, WA 98057 • 425-282-1900 • www.kingcd.org Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) Cost-Share Awards

KCD supports conservation practices on private property by providing financial support to land managers who purchase and install mechanisms that promote conservation. Expenses associated with pre-approved conservation practices are matched with LIP cost-share funding at a ratio of 50 to 90 percent of the total cost of projects. For more information visit our website or contact Laura Redmond at 425-282-1951 or [email protected].

Year Project Funds Awarded 2013 Hedgerow Planting (Longfellow Creek) $3,312 Riparian Forest Buffer $7,834 2017 Riparian Forest Buffer $27,000 Riparian Forest Buffer $3,013 2018 Riparian Forest Buffer $23,477.82

Conservation Services

KCD provides services to land managers, cities and other organizations. Examples of KCD- contracted services includes project management and design, engineering, native bare root plants, fresh water and marine riparian and wetland habitat projects. For more information visit our website or contact Brandy Reed at 425-282-1924 or [email protected].

Year Project Total Costs 2013 Native Bareroot Plant Order for Native Plant Stewards $8,429 Two Stream Forest Buffer projects on private 2017 $19,828 properties in the Thornton Creek watershed 2018 Riparian Forest Buffer on in the Pipers Creek watershed $38,089

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