Item No.    11b_supp
Meeting Date: May 11, 2021
South King County Fund
Recommendations

May 11, 2021
Commission Meeting
Alison Beason, OEDI
Andy Gregory, External Relations                                          1

Background
Evaluation
Lessons Learned
Agenda
Recommendations
Equity
Organizational Change
Community Capacity Building
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South King County Fund
Partnership Between:
External Relations
Office of Equity, Diversity and
Inclusion
South King County Communities
To Create:
Equity  Based Program
Supporting Historically
Underserved Near Airport
Communities
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South King County Fund
2020 Programs and Schedule
Spring                   Summer                      Fall
Economic Development         Economic Recovery Program          Environmental Grants
Advances             The fund will support projects     Expansion of Airport
and programs in four focus
pathways for                                          Community Ecology
areas:
WMBE                              Fund
Small business assistance
businesses to                                         Public projects
Workforce development          including parks,
partner with the           Job creation                  greenspaces and art
Port                      Development of new,
innovative economic
recovery strategies
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Proposals
Awarded
3                       $1.4 M
Amount
Programs
Awarded
South King County Fund 2020
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Year 1 Evaluation Processes
Evaluation
Summary Report from SKCF
Consultants
Feedback from applicants and
grantees
Internal Audit

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Lessons Learned
Successes                        Challenges
Rapid implementation of          Unclear definition of "Near
support from Economic            Airport Communities"
Development                  Delays due to coordinating
Deep community engagement     complex inter-departmental
for Environmental grants            teams
Piloted Vendor Connect           Lack of balance in year 1
Technical Assistance                 community engagement
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Equity and Community
Refine eligibility
Organization and Community Served
Utilize the Equity Index
Improve language access
Include Community Reviewers for accuracy


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Organizational Change
Project co-management structure
Interdepartmentalcore team
Consistency in communication and
collaboration across the full South
King County Fund programs
Processes and policies are
institutionalized through good
record-keeping and documentation
Timeline
Program Evaluation
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Community Capacity Building
Expandliaison model
Engagement should be
meaningful, consistent and
continual throughout the year
Community reviewers
Panelists help Port staff expand
their understanding about
community needs, priorities
and organizations
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Community Liaison Speakers

Sofia Estavez
& Alma Villegas, AV Consulting

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Equity
Eligibility
Language access
Organizational Change
Summary of        Project co-management
Recommendations     Interdepartmental core team
Timeline
Program evaluation
Community Capacity Building
Liaisons
Community reviewers               12

Thank You
Questions?
Alison Beason, OEDI
Andy Gregory, External Relations
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