Category: Spark Grants
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Laughter and Food Build Community at Kain Tayo! Filipino Fiesta
Tacoma-based arts organizer Clarissa Grace Gines and local chef Jan Parker struggled to find events in Pierce County that celebrated their Filipino heritage. After years of driving to Seattle > Continue Reading
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Spark Grant Recipient Helps Provide ‘Showers of Dignity’ for Homeless Neighbors
[metaslider id=”14212″] They say some of the best ideas come while you’re in the shower, but for Spark Grant recipient Christine Dodson, the shower itself was her big idea. Her > Continue Reading
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GTCF Spark Grant Recipient Tackling “Period Poverty” at Local Schools
[metaslider id=”12433″] Sharon Chambers-Gordon was first exposed to the issue of “Period Poverty” through her own daughter’s experience. “She was in Middle School when it happened for the first > Continue Reading
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Sparking Change Starts With Seeing The Need
Seventeen year-old Caleb Kamalu was volunteering at F.U.N Food Bank in his hometown of University Place when he noticed food bank staff struggling to explain something to a customer. > Continue Reading
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Spark Grants Light Up Communities
It all started with a conversation. Sandra Smith, a real estate agent from Buckley, says she was talking with her teenage daughter and a group of classmates about a > Continue Reading
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Local Girls Connect with Nature and Career Possibilities through Environmental Justice Camp
[metaslider id=”8674″] When T’wina Nobles walked into her office on a recent Monday morning, she couldn’t wait to tell her co-workers about the Environmental Justice Camp she hosted for a > Continue Reading
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Chalk Art Builds Community on Thea Foss Waterway
[metaslider id=”8132″] “We didn’t even know all this was down here.” That’s the reaction Ian Wilkinson, General Manager of the Foss Harbor Marina, often hears when people first encounter the > Continue Reading
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Spark Grants: Creative Solutions from Grassroots Leaders
While volunteering with elementary school students in Tacoma’s Eastside neighborhood, Chelsea McElroy saw a lot of girls fighting and getting into trouble at school. Wanting to help, she brought > Continue Reading