The Metropolis of Seattle is awarding $455,000 in Know-how Matching Fund grants to assist assist 11 neighborhood organizations and their tasks aimed toward overcoming boundaries to accessing and utilizing expertise.
The TMF grant program was began in 1997 to assist neighborhood and nonprofit teams and enhance digital fairness. The Seattle Info Know-how Dept. introduced the listing of winners on Thursday, that are anticipated to serve 20 totally different language teams by offering digital literacy coaching, units, technical assist, digital navigator companies, and web connectivity.
“Too lots of our neighbors have been left behind by the digital divide, creating challenges for them to get an schooling, a higher-paying job, or discover communities and specific themselves,” Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson stated in an announcement.
To obtain funding, candidates should match at the least 25% of their request with money, volunteer time, or different contributions. The neighborhood match for this 12 months’s tasks totals $168,136.90.
This system attracted 53 functions for grants this 12 months. Comcast and T-Cell are company contributors to this 12 months’s grants.
2026 award recipients:
- Creation Tradition, Youth Graphic Design Profession Pipeline Program, $8,935
- Ada Builders Academy, Ada Construct Dwell: Group, $45,000
- Horn of Africa Companies, Digital Entry and Navigation for East African Immigrants and Refugees, $45,000
- Chinese language Info and Service Heart, CISC’s Contact Display screen Pilot Challenge, $44,928
- Per Scholas Seattle, Increasing Entry to Know-how Profession Coaching in Seattle, $45,000
- Mates of Little Saigon, Little Saigon Small Enterprise Digital Literacy Challenge, $44,979
- The IF Challenge, WE THRIVE Digital Entry Initiative, $45,000
- Villa Communitaria, Familias Digitales en Acción, $45,000
- Asian Counseling and Referral Service, Digital Literacy for the Group at ACRS, $45,000
- Renaissance 21, Challenge She/Her/HEALTH by STGA, $45,000
- Stable Floor Washington, Web Entry for Residents Exiting Homelessness, $41,266
