Community Living Grant

The Arc of King County Community Living Grant Program

Next application deadline: TBA

The Arc of King County is one of three Arc chapters participating in the Foundation for the Challenged grant-making program, which was established in 2006 to provide support dollars to individuals with developmental disabilities for lifestyle necessities.

There are 36,000 individuals with developmental disabilities in the state of Washington living below the government defined poverty level.  Thanks to the generosity of Pi Kappa Phi, Push America, Elizabeth Masnari, and The Arc of King County's Board Trustees, we have raised $5,000 for the matching dollar grant program.  With the small grants raised we can help individuals in our county with basic living necessities not available from other public or private sources.

Basic living necessities, such as the need for a wheelchair ramp for an individual who uses a wheelchair, home modifications, such as a back yard fence which allows a child with autism to play outdoors safely, or to purchase pots and pans and other basic home furnishings, like bedroom sheets and towels, for someone moving out of a institutional facility.  Every dollar raised will be matched and given to local individuals with developmental disabilities who are in need of basic lifestyle requirements.  The goal of the matching grant program is to reduce the number of people with developmental disabilities that have to live without basic necessities year after year.

The next deadline for the grant award is TBA. 

Please send your applications to:

The Arc of King County

Attention: Community Living Grant Program

233 Sixth Avenue N

Seattle, WA 98109

The Arc of King County's grant committee will review each application and notify recipients by mail.

For more information contact Sylvia Fuerstenberg at sylvia@arcofkingcounty.org or call 206-364-6337.

 Community Living Grant Application

Individual Grant Criteria and Grant Guidelines (PDF) 

What Grants Cover and Do Not Cover (PDF)