Programs & Partnerships

Rainier Scholars Academic Program, Aki Kurose Middle School, Seattle, Wash.

Grantee Profiles

The foundation believes that, with the support of local, national, and global partners, our grantees’ efforts will help to solve some of the world’s most difficult problems.

The features in this section highlight the impact just a few of our grantees have had in their respective fields.


Diconsa This successful pilot program in Mexico is bringing affordable financial tools and services to remote areas with limited access to tranditional banking systems.	Rotary International A leader in polio eradication efforts, Rotary helped reduce the number of infected children by 99 percent within 20 years through its PolioPlus program.	International Development Enterprises IDE is helping poor small farmers in Nepal, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Zambia by developing and distributing low-cost, manually powered irrigation systems.

Aspire Public Schools These public charter schools help prepare thousands of low-income, immigrant, and minority students in elementary and secondary grades to attend college.	Housing Hope A successful Sound Families program provides homeless families in the Pacific Northwest with everything they need to be self-sufficient again.	KDNA Radio A Spanish-language public radio station is both an advocate and a community education center for farm workers in Granger, Washington.

Washington Families Fund Understanding the complexity of homelessness, Washington Families Fund works to provide families with the array of social services they need to succeed.	Rainier Scholars Eighty percent of scholars in this Seattle program will be the first generation to graduate from high school, thanks to hard academic work and positive support.	Youngstown Cultural Arts Center The Delridge Neighborhood Development Association helped turn a vacant Seattle high school building into a thriving neighborhood arts center.

PRESS RELEASES

Nov 05, 2009Seven Cities Launch Collaborative Efforts to Improve College Graduation Rates Nov 03, 2009ICRISAT’s Village Dynamics Studies to Help Reduce Poverty in the Drylands Nov 03, 2009Exploratory Study to Illuminate the Spread of the System of Rice Intensification