HSD Grants
PRESERVATION. PROMOTION. PROSPERITY.
Since 2018, HSD has been making grants to community organizations who have identified issues or opportunities in South Downtown and created projects that improve our neighborhoods.
Due to changes in our funding structure, we will be unable to offer grants for the immediate future. Please subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date on our continued work in the community, and be the first to know when a new grant round opens.
HSD Grant Projects
The best way to get to know Historic South Downtown & our grants program is to learn more about our amazing grantees and their projects.
HSD's grant program has prioritized our value of neighborhood self-determination. Our grants are unusual in that we are geographically constrained, but most of our grants are open to grantees defining an opportunity or issue and then proposing their program or solution. How would you enhance your neighborhood?
Safe Needle Pick-up Training & Graffitti Abatement Training
CIDBIA
Supports needed training for CIDBIA and community members
Race and Social Justice Training and Implementation
Alliance for Pioneer Square
Supports consultants hired for an outcomes-based equity training and implementation project in PSQ.
Promote and Preserve the CID
International Examiner
Supports writing and publication of articles about the value of preserving the CID for local newspaper readership.
Post-COVID Marketing for Economic Recovery in the CID
CIDBIA
Supports marketing the CID for economic recovery for a neighborhood hit by both COVID and anti-Asian racist violence
The Pastry Project
The Pastry Project
Operational support for educational programs
Kin On CID Office Relocation
Kin On Health Care Center
Support relocation of CID offices
Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation & Development Authority (SCIDpda) Operations Funding
SCIDpda
Support general operations
Storefronts Comes Home
Shunpike
Supports the creative community and the CID & PSQ neighborhoods by activating vacant storefronts with vibrant local art and creative projects.
2020 Storytelling Project
ICHS
Multimedia storytelling project and pop-up and temporary photo exhibit in partnership with photojournalist Karen Ducey and the International Examiner, to document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and upcoming elections on the CID community
Freehold Theatre Lab / Studio
Freehold Theatre
Blackbox theatre build out including COVID response items
Cafe Nordo Capital Improvements
Cafe Nordo
Theatre improvements
Seattle's Chinatown-International District
Chinatown ID Legacy Group
Produce a comprehensive 45-minute documentary on the CID to illuminate the rich evolution of this unique Asian American enclave.
