This application is for the Help Me Grow King County (HMGKC) Funding Opportunity, for the period of January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2027. For the full Request for Proposals (RFP), attachments, and resource links, please click "SHOW LIBRARY."
If you have any questions not covered in the attached documents, contact the RFP Lead, Phillip Thompson, at phithompson@kingcounty.gov.
The RFP Lead is the sole point of contact for this procurement. All communication regarding the subject matter of this opportunity between the applicants and PHSKC upon release of this RFP must be through ZoomGrants or the RFP Lead.
This funding will support community-based organizations that are deeply connected to the families they serve and the King County community. These partners will:
- Lead a team to provide warm connections to essential services and resources within the community.
- Collaborate with other awarded HMGKC partners, the HMGKC Network Design Group, and Best Starts HMGKC staff to strengthen coordination across providers and ensure no family falls through the cracks.
- Use community-driven insights to inform service delivery, ensuring programs are rooted in families’ lived experiences, cultures values, and linguistically matched.
- Support data collection and evaluation efforts to inform how families access and experience services, helping to improve equity in early childhood systems.
This strategy prioritizes families who experience barriers due to race, language, income, immigration status, and other systemic inequities in King County. By working with organizations rooted in these communities, HMGKC ensures that all families—regardless of barriers and background—have what they need to raise happy, healthy, safe, and thriving children.