Category: Grants
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Meet the YETI Taking South King County Outdoors
There is a YETI roaming South King County, but it doesn’t hide in snowcapped mountains. Instead, this YETI has spent years introducing hundreds of students to Washington’s wilderness wonders. The Youth Experiential Training Institute (Y.E.T.I.) is a South King County-based nonprofit that hosts outdoor programs where kids can get outside and into nature, completely free…
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Preserving a Pool, Building Champions
Public pools can be the heart of a community, especially in a city surrounded by water like Mercer Island. Pools are where kids learn the skills to swim safely, where high schoolers build lifelong bonds, and in this case, where Olympic gold medalists are made. The Mary Wayte Pool, named for the 1984 Olympic 200-meter freestyle champion who grew up swimming…
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Levy Grant Brightens up SeaTac BMX Track
As we enter the time of year where the darkness seems to come earlier and earlier, the City of SeaTac is fighting back with a brand-new lighting installation to illuminate their BMX racecourse. King County Parks awarded a Parks Capital & Open Space grant worth $258,196 to the City of SeaTac in 2023. Last week,…
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Tipping the Scales Toward a Greener Future
King County Parks is committed to restoring and sustaining our natural environment to benefit people and animals alike, but we can’t do this work alone. Across the County, a dedicated network of community partners is investing in education, restoration, and youth programs to ensure our green spaces and waterways are safe and healthy for all.…
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Celebrating 20 Years of Community Partnerships
Since 2003, King County Parks’ Community Partnerships and Grants program has collaborated with 80+ community partners to sustain, improve, and expand public recreation opportunities on properties owned by King County. The projects accomplished by these community partners are vast and invaluable.
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Adaptive Adventures: Making the Outdoors Accessible
This spring, the Healthy Communities and Parks Fund (Tier 1), awarded nearly $200,000 total to 14 different organizations working to improve access to parks, open space, and recreation in underserved communities of King County. One of those organizations is Needs of the Community (NOC) Society, who received almost $15,000 to provide free and accessible travel…
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Shape the future of your local and regional parks!
Help direct $100 million in funding Join our King County Parks Levy Grants Advisory Committees Community members may be eligible for a stipend for serving on a Parks Advisory Committee. Want to be a committee member? Submit an Interest Form by September 1, 2022.
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It’s here!!! Lookout Tower at Pinnacle Peak Park
What’s 30 feet in the air and gives you an extra workout at the top of Mount Peak? Why, that’d be a replica fire lookout tower in Pinnacle Peak Park in Enumclaw! Community Meeting – June 9, 2022 To improve the view from the new tower to Mt. Rainier and other locations we are working…
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How much do our kids play? Not as much as you think. And here’s what we’re doing about it.
On Tuesday, September 10, we were excited to release the analysis and recommendations from a two-year effort conducted by the University of Washington’s Center for Leadership in Athletics and The Aspen Institute, in coordination with King County Parks and many other partners. The study, called the State of Play: Seattle-King County, found that less than…
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Uplifting Youth Through Sports Mentorship
This post is the first in a series featuring grantees of the King County Parks Youth and Amateur Sports Grants program. A great coach can make a huge difference in a young person’s life. Up2Us Sports and Seattle Parks and Recreation are working to train quality sports coaches so they can inspire and positively impact Seattle…
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This is what progress looks like at Redmond Ridge Park!
This is a recent picture taken of work underway at the upper multi-purpose field at Redmond Ridge Park in Redmond. Final seaming and striping of the turf fileds was completed over the weekend, now it’s just awaiting dry weather in order to do infill installation and grooming! The lower baseball field was completed a couple weeks ago. This…
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Camp Long Challenge Course in West Seattle growing like a tree!
The number of youths participating in the team experience of the Challenge Course at Camp Long has been going up, up and up! King County Parks partnered with Seattle Parks, and the Washington State University Extension 4-H program in providing a $50,000 Youth Sports Facilities Grant to build the expanded challenge course. In 2011, the…
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The kids are happy and so are we!
You don’t have to tell these kids twice to go outside and play, even in the rain. Besides, everyone knows that rain makes riding down slides that much more fun! Today in Fremont, King County Parks took part in a playground dedication at B.F. Day Elementary where kids, parents, teachers and supporting community groups came…
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YSFG’s got game in Auburn
On Wednesday, Oct 30, King County Parks was delighted to attend the City of Auburn’s ribbon cutting celebration of Lea Hill Park, a 7-acre park near Green River Community College. The King County Youth Sports Facilities Grant program (YSFG) provided a $60,000 matching grant to Auburn for the construction of the “freesport” field, a small…
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King County Parks celebrates 10 years of Community Partnerships and Grants Program
Community partners reflect on program achievements developing new or enhanced public recreation facilities in King County Dozens of past Community Partnerships and Grants recipients joined King County Parks this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the innovative program aimed at creating new or enhanced public recreation facilities. Community partners representing a variety of King…
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Give me shelter
Island Center Forest’s new “forest cathedral” shelter was designed and built by Nathan Enzian of Fifth Bench Design and Build, on Vashon Island. The shelter is a timber-frame design that uses old school joinery methods. All of the Douglas-fir posts and beams come from local Vashon forests and were milled at the Vashon Forest…
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Santos Rodriguez Memorial Park playground!
King County Parks is thrilled to be part of the El Centro de la Raza community as a key funding partner in their effort to build a community gathering place. The Youth Sports Facilities Grant program awarded El Centro $64,000 to purchase a new playground which was dedicated June 9th, 2011. Donations, volunteer labor and…
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Youth sports grants awarded to date
King County Parks has awarded 11 matching fund grants totaling nearly $500,000 from its Youth Sports Facility Grant program. The projects will help bring in more than $1.5 million for local parks and recreation projects. $10 million in grants have been awarded since the program started in 1993, creating more than 260 new or updated…