Meet our partners in political
organizing and advocacy
FEATURED PARTNER
Building Connections Initiative
The Building Connections Initiative is a five-year program intended to build community power among a cohort of grassroots, by and for organizations in eastern Washington. The twenty awarded organizations have received a 5-year grant funding commitment of $50,000 per year from either Waters Meet Foundation or Waters Meet Action Fund . Waters Meet Action Fund specifically supports the advocacy and organizing needs of the cohort.
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FEATURED PARTNER
re:power
Waters Meet Action Fund is working with re:power, a social justice movement-building organization, to increase community capacity for political organizing and base building. In September 2025, Waters Meet Action Fund sponsored the re:power Spokane Summit with our partners at Inatai Foundation. This four-day training event brought organizers from across our region to build skills and collaborate. Waters Meet continues to offer opportunities for training through re:power and work with
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FEATURED PARTNER
Experience Matters
Waters Meet Action Fund worked with our partners in the homeless services community to lobby for an approach to regional homeless solutions in the Spokane-area that centers people with lived experience. Our collective efforts successfully slowed down a headlong push towards a regional homeless plan that didn’t include any representatives with lived experience of homelessness on the decision-making board and included incarceration as a tool to address homelessness — an approach at odds with research and basic human dignity.
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