Sustainable Seattle has served as fiscal sponsor for many projects and new non-profits since 2003. Sustainability Partnership and Resource Commons (SPARC) is a program of Sustainable Seattle that seeks to promote and connect efforts within the sustainability movement in Seattle and beyond.

The purpose of the SPARC Fiscal Sponsor Program is to act as an incubator, support, and/or advocate for local community-based organizations or social entrepreneurs who are working towards building socially and environmentally conscious communities in the Greater Puget Sound area. Organizations, programs and/or individuals that do not currently have 501 (c)3 non-profit status or a business license can apply to become a fiscal sponsoree of S2 and function under the organization's non-profit status, enabling them to apply for grants and accept donations. All monies are processed through Sustainable Seattle and distributed to the sponsoree, less a 7-10% processing fee. Sustainable Seattle sponsors programs based on relative alignment with our mission,  goals, and our regional indicators.

Sustainable Seattle is proud to be fiscal sponsor to the following initiatives whose sustainability-based missions and goals complement the work of the organization. Click on each project name to view individual project websites.

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• Pursuit of a Green Planet: The first documentary about hip hop culture and its relationship to the Green movement, Keith Tucker becomes a living experiment as he makes the radical transition to living a truly organic, green lifestyle, including a vegan diet.  Kieth is touring the country to interview ordinary people who are vegan/vegetarian- from kids, community organizers and activists to some of hip hop's biggest personalities- all of whom are joining the millions of people in the US who are going green. Green Dinners introduce people to the concept of Pursuit of a Green Planet, the 9 elements of Hip Hop and to get them to eat the food. ( The 9 Elements of Hip Hop  1. The Deejay; 2. The Emcee; 3. Breakin; 4. Graffiti Art; 5. Street Knowledge; 6. Beatboxin; 7. Street Fashion; 8. Street Language and 9. Street Entrepreneurialism.) Green Dinners help change people’s lives even before the film hits the big screen.  In 2010, the first Oakland Green Dinner associated with the film project “Pursuit of a Green Planet”. took place  It introduced people to vegan food. It was a major step in the right direction. The project will be holding Green Dinners across the Nation. It held the first Oakland Green Dinner at West Oakland Middle School with our community partner One Love Center for Health.. View Seattle Green Dinner here: http://www.youtube.com/poagp Check it out on www.facebook.com/pursuitofagreenplanet
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• Breaking News from Pursuit of a Green Planet: Pursuit of a Green Planet is  launching the first National Green Dinner in Jackson, Mississippi which is the most obese city in the country. It will tie the organization to the issue of obesity and put them in front of the charge to fight this deadly disease. This is a great marketing opportunity to attract National and worldwide attention as well as investors, distribution deals and promote our brand. Pursuit of a Green Planet has relationships with key PR companies that will provide major press at the event.
• Pursuit of a Green Planet must raise $5000.00 to cover the travel expenses associated with putting this National Green Dinner project together. The deadline is April 30th, 2011. Donate Now and mark the donation as to Pursuit of a Green Planet
  
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• Alleycat Acres: A collective of city folk  who transform vacant spaces to create a network of sustainable urban farms that reconnect people to food while helping to increase food security on a community level. Alleycat Acres is currently developing a neighborhood CSA crafted around a sliding scale, so folks who live in the neighborhoods where there is an Alleycat Farm can opt in on a weekly basis to have fresh produce delivered to their doorstep via bicycle and is creating unique partnerships with youth oriented organizations and schools to assist with adding gardens on existing lands and crafting unique learning experiences for the youth involved. Current projects/partnerships include Alleycat Acres Beacon Hill Farm, Rock It, Out for Sustainability, and several partnerships with local schools. For more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• Sustainable Greenlake worked with Sustainable Seattle to create one of the first neighborhood sustainability scorecards. Actions doming out of the project included two murals. See one here:

• Creatives 4 Community: Creatives4Community (C4C) primary mission is to independently and collaboratively establish dynamic and beneficial personal, family, and community impact working with and for low-income and underrepresented communities; youth, young adults, and special populations. C4C is working with Seattle and King County community organizations and institutional partners. We have more than 20 years experience in education, curriculum, training, consulting, and program management. We work in the arenas of Urban Agriculture and Green Jobs/Employment-Training; Green Economic and Entrepreneurial Development; Self-Sufficiency Through Language and Culturally Appropriate Methods; Civic Responsibility, Social/Economic Justice and Community Building. Our work with youth,  low-income families and special populations provides participants a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to relevant careers and educational applications of urban planning, design, waste and composting reduction, vermiculture, urban land ecology, and community capacity building. Current projects include two youth and family engagement programs; Ground Up Organics and Urban A & T. For more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
  Sound And Sustainable Innovative Health Alliance
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• New World Habit Exchange
  On the NWHE, specific habits will be identified, those which we know to be harmful to our greater good but which we maintain principally out of convenience or inertia.  When these habits are singled out, we get the opportunity to weigh the value we give to convenience against deeper needs and the satisfaction of fulfilling these. Once we decide to exchange this habit for a better one, we register our decision with the NWHE and do what is necessary, every day for three weeks, to shift the habit, all the while giving each other support.  NWHE will translate the cumulative effect of our adjustment into trends that can be graphed.

• Envision Cascadia: An interactive web-guide that assists users in finding sustainable resources and volunteer opportunities across the Cascadian Bioregion.  The website draws attention to ecosystems of the bioregion by locating resources and opportunities within them – by placing local economies in the context of local ecosystems.  In addition, each location page includes a forum that allows members to join a conversation around the descriptions of each location, to rate and discuss the sustainability of listed resources, to suggest missing items and critique those listed, and in doing so help to guide the region’s culture in a direction of refined purchasing practices and an increased awareness of local ecosystems.  To see a working example of the forthcoming web-guide, please visit: www.envisioncascadia.org.
  
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• Follow the Bean: Navigating Value Exchange and Vulnerability for Cooperative Coffee Farmers and their Stakeholders: Based both Seattle and Oaxaca, Mexico this project works on prototyping financial tools and service models with cooperative farmers, with the intention of creating sustainable, scalable innovations for financial management and the securing of much-needed funds. A specific focus will be assisting poor coffee farming communities out of the vulnerable position of living on the edge financially via infrastructure building—with the goal of creating models that are applicable on a wider scale.

• Green Plate Special: An independent inner city garden-to-table health and nutrition focused pilot program, for youth,
  grades 6-8; located in Seattle neighborhoods where there is a higher percentage of youth with diet and nutrition related disease. GPS teaches practical life skills with a focus on local and sustainable earth-healthy food; and cultivates the connections between the land, the food we eat, and the impacts of these elements on daily health and nutrition. They incorporate the basics of growing, harvesting, and tending of food gardens with cooking techniques and practices. They also encourage the eating of good, simple and healthy food in a home-kitchen setting. Their mission is to be part of a movement that provides access to and tools for Seattle youth to become the healthiest next generation; and to inspire and empower youth to take control of their lives and break the cycle of childhood disease and obesity. They promote dignity and joyful curiosity while supporting cultural diversity within the youth community and the larger community around us.

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• Seattle Greendrinks: Part of the international Greendrinks network, Seattle Greendrinks is a volunteer-driven non-profit created to connect and grow Seattle's environmental community. The monthly social gathering remains the core of Seattle Greendrinks' work, and all are welcome to join us the second Tuesday of every month, starting around 5:30pm. The goal of our group is pretty simple: to create a space that fosters connections and good times shared among people working in, or interested in, environmental and sustainability issues. Seattle Greendrinks now offers a number of events, including Fresh!, an intimate, informal evening of wine & chocolate tasting; Bloom, a speaker-focused event highlighting innovation in sustainability; and Agent Green, in which the consumptive power of the crowd helps businesses reduce their environmental footprint. For more information click here.
• Seattle Innovators: Seattle Innovators is a growing community of local creatives seeking to coordinate the vast array of existing activities in the region’s social businesses, non-profits, government agencies, and research institutions around the goal of a carbon-neutral city. We seek the neutral ground between these sectors that encourages regional collaboration and produces results that are greater than the sum of our parts. For more information click here.
• Sustainable Belltown: A community based group of volunteers who seek to improve Belltown through urban agriculture and beautification projects. Current projects include an urban agriculture rooftop demonstration garden and exploring the possibility of creating a pocket library in Belltown for citizens to enjoy.
• Sustainable Cascadia: Gathers citizens and civic, private sector and NGO leadership (a leader is anyone willing to help!) across the bioregion to invoke a broadly shared civic passion for sustainability and the ongoing cultivation of best practices to dramatically catalyze progress toward sustainability in one generation. This initiative fosters innovation in defining the way forward and develops effective collaborative structures to support learning and implementation of an ongoing action agenda. In addition to bringing experience and effective methods for hosting social learning and collaborative process, current projects include the Cascadian Passport and Cascadian Convergence Projects. For more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• The Garden Project: The Garden Project is a community gardening, multimedia and documentary project. The goal is to nurture a sense of community around urban agriculture in the neighborhoods and communities of central and south Seattle. The Garden Project seeks to build community and promote urban gardening in poor and working class communities and neighborhoods lacking easy access to fresh, affordable produce. We want to raise awareness about diet and lifestyle related public health issues, and provide an additional resources for Seattle area poor and working-class families to manage their budgets through food cultivation. For more information click here.
• Zero Waste Seattle promotes optimal management and conservation of resouces, and the reduction of emissions that contribute to global warming, through advocacy and education. Zero Waste Seattle is a non-profit partnership of citizens, organizations and businesses working to promite sustainability through Zero Waste strategies.  Zero Waste Seattle accomplishments include ordinances passed by Seattle City Council for opt-out junk mail and phonebooks systems.

Prior Fiscal Sponsorships:

• The Experience Food Project provides cutting edge strategies for sustainable food systems, food education, agriculture and community building. By bringing families and communities back to the table we are creating the foundation for a lifetime of health and vitality. For more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   and click here Check out the video
• Climate Dialogues The Climate Dialogues wrapped up in spring of 2009. We're not actively forming new groups, however some existing groups continue to meet and be active. If you'd like to get involved in climate action in your community, you can contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or get in touch with CoolMom, 1SkyWashington and/or the Cascade Chapter of the Sierra Club.

If you are interested in a fiscal sponsorship, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it