Impact Stories

Discover our partners and the meaningful impact they make every day.

Imagining and Creating the New Economy

What does it look like to build the new economy and new ways of being in relationship to money, work, land, and one another that support collective thriving? Communities are asking and answering these questions by re-envisioning and shifting how they work, and creating new models and innovations outside the status quo.

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Cultivating Community Transformation & Imagination

Communities of Opportunity has launched a new, six-part “Cultivating Community” Speaker Series! Designed to amplify and learn from the efforts of our community-driven partners the series explores the community-led transformations that are cultivating abundance, healing, and new possibilities.

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Recognizing our YouthSource students and graduates

Students, graduates, and staff gathered outdoors at YouthSource in Tukwila at the end of June to celebrate the end of the academic year and recognize students who had received their GED or high school diploma, completed internships, or made...

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Learning & Growing by Playing: Kaleidoscope Play & Learn

Over the past 3 years, Best Starts has partnered with communities across King County to establish 22 Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups to promote positive and healthy outcomes for our youngest children and support parents and caregivers as they prepare their young ones for kindergarten.

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Best Starts Workshops

We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.

Best Starts for Kids Dashboard

This dashboard shows the impact of Best Starts funding across its eight investment areas: Child Care, Investing Early, Sustain the Gain, Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative, Communities of Opportunity, Capital Projects, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building, and Data and Evaluation.

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