2016 Grants Given
2016: Fostering Compassion
Post Prison Education Program
Act of Giving presented the Post-Prison Education Program with a $10,000 Grant! PEPP rebuilds lives (win), reunites families (win), saves taxpayers huge amounts of money (win), and makes our communities safer (win). A fourfer made possible by a village of supporters.
Awarded Amount: $10,000
Facing Homelessness
Act of Giving donates $10,000 to Facing Homelessness!
Pictured are the homeless, and Sarah Steilen (FH), Haley Rooney-Wilcox (AoG) and Rex Hohlbein (FH). We struggle with how to feel. Rex & Sarah’s images humanize the homeless and empower our compassion, empathy and kindness. We’re better because of the work they do.
Awarded Amount: $10,000
Yoga Behind Bars
Act of Giving awards $5,000 to Yoga Behind Bars! The great people at YBB provide yoga and meditation classes to incarcerated men, women and youth enabling rehabilitation, growth and healing. With their AoG grant, Yoga Behind Bars demonstrates the Big Love Pose.
Awarded Amount: $5,000
Jhamtse Gatsal, a chldren's community
Act of Giving awards $10,000 to Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “Garden of Love and Compassion”), a children’s community in the foothills of the Himalayas. About 90 children, abandoned, neglected or simply from families too impoverished to care for them, have been taken in. With active love and compassion, Buddhist Monk Lobsang (shown) and the staff raise and school them, enabling emotional well-being, happiness and resilience.
Awarded Amount: $10,000
Ballard Food Bank
With $5,000 added support from Act of Giving, Ballard Food Bank tackles a complex issue (hunger) effectively by respecting human dignity, providing food to people who need it, seeking to understand and address needs beyond food, and working to promote understanding and compassion with others. Actions to hopefully eliminate the need for food banks one day.
Awarded Amount: $5,000