SEATTLE — A total of $47,500 in grant funding from KING 5 and the TEGNA Foundation will be distributed to 10 local nonprofits.
KING 5 is owned by TEGNA, a media company with dozens of broadcast affiliates across the country. Through its Community Grant Program, TEGNA Foundation supports nonprofit activities where TEGNA does business.
“We are honored to support these local organizations as they continue their incredible work in the mental health space,” said Christy Moreno, president and general manager of KING 5 Media Group. “By telling their stories, we hope to not only further their reach but also raise awareness to the issues affecting our Pacific Northwest communities.”
The grant recipients are:
Space Between: The grant will go toward funding a 16-week school-based program for mindfulness. In one school year, they hope to reach 1,850 students, 1,300 educators, and 250 parents/guardians at twelve schools, most of which are Title 1. Their work focuses on fostering a supportive, positive school environment.
Upower: The grant will go toward fitness and wellness education classes to underserved youth. This organization provides youth-focused development in public schools, juvenile detention centers, and treatment centers. Upower’s vision is to confront systemic and institutional inequalities by offering the physical, social-emotional, and academic benefits of physical activity and play.
National Alliance on Mental Illness: The grant will support a youth mental health conference that will connect health leaders, providers, parents, educators, and community partners. NAMI Eastside is committed to building a community that prioritizes youth mental well-being.
Kindering Center: The grant will support CHERISH, a program that supports foster children from birth to five. CHERISH therapists minimize trauma, stabilize placements, and facilitate healthy transitions between homes. This program combines infant and early childhood mental health care and early support services.
Safe Crossings: The grant will fund the Children’s Grief Support Program. Safe Crossings offers home visits, telehealth, and one-on-one counseling for children, parents, and extended families. The program helps children prepare for the death of someone they love and provides those grieving children with care after a death occurs.
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center: The grant will help offer trauma-focused therapy to survivors of sexual violence. The program is available to children, youth, and adult victims in both Spanish and English. In 2022, this program served 370 survivors.
Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking: The grant will go towards the Not Alone Public Awareness Campaign that aims to reach victims of human trafficking. Signage will feature messaging in seven different languages in public restrooms, airport terminals, libraries, businesses, and more than one hundred buses. BEST also provides training to prevent trafficking in places of employment, and in the last year, 213 victims were identified.
Elizabeth Gregory Home: The grant will support the only shelter north of downtown Seattle that offers all amenities to women in need. Open six days a week, the Elizabeth Gregory Home helps five hundred women each year. The organization offers onsite mental health counseling, access to meals, clothing, laundry, showers, telephone uses, computers, bus tickets, IDs, intake appointments, and onsite healthcare and medical services.
Humanities Washington: The grant will help fund the Prime Time Reading Program, a six-week, statewide family literacy program for low-income parents and their children. The program will help youth read at grade level by fourth grade. Between 15-20 families (45-60 children) are recruited from local elementary schools and invited to 90-minute sessions of reading and storytelling.
Summer Search: The grant will go towards two multi-week excursions for 168 students from low-income backgrounds. The participants are selected from three high school districts in Highline, Renton, and Tukwila. The program focuses on the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of the students by prioritizing mentorship.
“We are proud to support KING 5 as they serve those in need in the Pacific Northwest,” said Dave Lougee, president and CEO of TEGNA. “Our stations partner with their local communities to help nonprofits build on their mission not only through TEGNA Foundation grants, but also through station fundraising efforts and storytelling. It is a privilege to collaborate with organizations that are making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and families within our communities.”
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