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Washington Women’s Foundation Awards Palmer Scholars $100,000 Grant



The Washington Women’s Foundation recently awarded Palmer Scholars with a $100,000 grant. This is, to date, the largest single grant Palmer Scholars has received, and funding will be used to support career-connected learning opportunities for Scholars, specifically through the Palmer Pathways initiative.


The Washington Women’s Foundation’s mission is to create a strong and inclusive forum of informed women who together influence community transformation. The group does this through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grantmaking, and listening to and respecting all voices in the community. Each year Washington Women’s Foundation awards organizations in five categories: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services.


“This investment from the Washington Women’s Foundation will not only help enable the smooth and successful launch of our pre-apprenticeship program (Palmer Pathways),” Palmer Scholars Executive Director Jonathan Jackson said. “It will enable us to expand career-connected learning opportunities for all of our Scholars, helping them identify and successfully navigate their best-fit career path! We are beyond grateful!”


The grant will be used to support career-connected learning and the Palmer Pathways initiative. Palmer Scholars recognizes that there is no one avenue to success. When we work with our Scholars to find their best-fit postsecondary program, they are better positioned to succeed in completing that program and transitioning into a family-wage career. Palmer Scholars supports this work through wraparound services, including postsecondary readiness training, mentoring, scholarships, and ongoing socioemotional support services.


 
 
 

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Palmer Scholars acknowledges that our work is carried out on, and our office space is located within, occupied Coast Salish land, specifically that of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous peoples. To acknowledge this land is to recognize its longer history and our place in that history; it is to recognize these lands and waters and their significance for the peoples who lived and continue to live in this region, whose practices and spiritualties were and are tied to the land and the water, and whose lives continue to enrich and develop in relationship to the land, waters, and other inhabitants today.

 

We also pause to recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built.

We remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the U.S. from the African continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We also acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, forced, and undocumented peoples who contributed to the building of the country and continue to serve within our labor force. We acknowledge all unpaid care-giving labor.

 

To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the spaces in which we operate today. It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.

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4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW BLDG 16

Lakewood WA 98499-4004

Mailing Address - 

PO Box 7119, Tacoma, WA 98417

Email - info@palmerscholars.org

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