Appendix
Detail Scope of Work
Proposal Overview:
Organization: African Chamber of Commerce- PNW
Budget: $50,000100,000
Project: This proposal will support the Clean Truck Program which serves self-employed truckers in
transportation to advocate for higher air standards for trucks. The Chamber will work with the trucking
community to identify the challenges and what support programs are needed to help with transitioning
current trucks into cleaner and more efficient transportation. This project is in furtherance of the Green
Job and Maritime sectors. In addition, this organization has the Small Business COVID-19 Recovery and
Resiliency Program and Youth and Adults Workshop. Both programs provide technical assistance, virtual
training, and consultation sessions to empower youth and small businesses. People of African descent in
South King County are primarily employed in service sectors, including the gig economy, which have
been devastated by the current economic crisis. Black-owned businesses are struggling to combat
significantly contracted markets, reduced revenues, and an uncertain future. As a result of these trends,
unemployment and small business failures have increased significantly. Before the pandemic, these
communities were already struggling with economic insecurity and displacement.
Organization: African Community Housing & Development
Budget: $91,90999,902
Project: These funds will support the hire of a Program Manager at African Community Housing and
Development. The African Community Housing and Development (ACHD) Program Manager will pilot a
workforce development program to support students with admissions, scholarship applications, and
using remote-learning technology; provide individualized education and career planning in airport jobs
and other port-related job placements. ACHD provides holistic, complete, and culturally responsive
support for African Diaspora immigrants and refugees in South King County. This program’s participants
are immigrants and refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Oromo, Sudan, The Gambia, Senegal,
Congo, and Kenya. Most are low-income, and many experience significant language barriers in their day-
to-day life. Unemployment is rampant, and ACHD seeks to close the gap between their community and
access to vital job training and skill building. This organization has a strong partnership with Highline and
Renton Technical Colleges to assist with language barriers, interpretation needs, and to provide
infrastructure support.
Organization: Asian Counseling & Referral Services
Budget: $100,00092,000
Project: This program will help 30 laid-off Hudson News workers with individualized case management,
retraining, digital literacy classes, and linkages to employment opportunities in port-related industries.
This pilot program will help with case management services for culturally competent job search
assistance, help to access a Secure Access Washington (SAW) Account for unemployment claims,
resume assistance, and help to apply for jobs at UFCW 21-represented employers. Asian Counseling and
Referral Service (ACRS) is a trusted community-based organization with over 45 years of experience
serving Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI). ACRS will partner with UFCW Local 21, the largest
private sector union in Washington, with over 46,000 members working in many different areas,
including airport and other port-related industries. The union represents workers from Hudson News,
the bookstores at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and most retailers within the airport. Airport
workers have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This pilot program is an innovative
partnership between a community-based organization and labor - ACRS and UFCW Local 21, to promote
the economic resiliency of these workers.
Organization: Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST)
Budget: $92,000100,000
Project: This project will serve human trafficking survivors and at-risk youth living in the near-airport
communities of Burien, Des Moines, Federal Way, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila, and beyond. This
unique program works with businesses and local service agencies to help human trafficking survivors
and people at-risk for trafficking find employment within port industries. This workforce development
project will provide employment readiness training, supporting employers in Port-related industries, and
creating paid internships and job opportunities for human trafficking survivors and at-risk youth so they
can find employment. BEST currently works with 6 Port-related industry employers and will expand this
network by adding 5 additional new port-related employers to their program. BEST conducts Stress,
Trauma, and Resilience training to educates employers on how to enhance their equity practices. This
training equips supervisors on how to successfully supervise people who have lived through complex
trauma, including racism, homophobia, sexual assault, and trafficking.
Organization: Cares of Washington
Budget: $83,86791,160
Project: Connect for Success will support BIPOC people with disabilities who live around Port of Seattle’s
facilities to enter and successfully complete pre- apprenticeship programs in Port-related industries such
as construction, green industries, manufacturing and aerospace. Cares combines career coaching,
financial skills education, vocational and educational training, support services, and job placement into a
cohesive plan for each client, mitigating barriers to employment and maximizing each person’s potential
for independence. This program emphasizes placing clients into jobs with career pathways and
potential for advancement, benefits and living wages. This project will support individuals gaining skills
in port-related industries, earn a living wage and develop a sustainable career that they can support
themselves and their family’s long term. Cares' existing networks of community providers— such as
North Helpline, Solid Ground, Compass Housing, Sound Mental Health and so many others— facilitate
getting whatever resources are needed to help our clients break the cycle of poverty, instability and/or
homelessness.
Organization: Chief Seattle Club
Budget: $100,00092,000
Project: This program will train 15 urban Indians annually with green jobs skills through the Native Works
apprenticeship. Through this program, apprentices will learn about land and water stewardship, garden
design and planning, and invasive species removal, preparing them for green jobs at Port habitat sites,
including the habitat/wildlife restoration of the Duwamish River. Chief Seattle Club’s mission is to provide
a sacred space to nurture, affirm and renew the spirit of Urban Native people. American Indians and/or
Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are disproportionately affected by homelessness. Native Works is a one-year
Apprentice program (to make space for other Apprentices) and an Employment Specialist helps
Apprentices move into permanent employment (60% obtain permanent employment). In December 2020,
Chief Seattle Club’s trauma-informed indigenous-designed job training program, Native Works, is
launching Sovereignty Farm. Sovereignty Farm is a new urban Indian farm located in Tukwila, with green
jobs for homeless American Indian/Alaska Native Apprentices.
Organization: El Centro de la Raza
Budget: $91,98699,985
Project: Through the Business Opportunity Center, El Centro de la Raza will provide extensive outreach,
education and referrals for program participants to relevant pre-apprenticeship programs in Port-related
industries in order to obtain permanent employment. This pre-apprenticeship workforce development
program will partner with Pacific Northwest Carpenters, Institute, Northwest Carpenters Union,
Ironworkers Apprenticeship and Training Program and ANEW. Latinos are bearing disproportionate
impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic yet continue to be overrepresented among those excluded from
relief. Since the beginning of the current public health crisis, the Latino unemployment rate has more than
tripled, rising from 6.0% to 18.9%. Research shows that 61% of Latino households lost income as a result
of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2020, El Centro de la Raza expanded its operations with a new
office in Federal Way, in order to meet the demand for culturally and linguistically relevant services in
Latino communities throughout South King County. This project will focus on low-income Latinos,
immigrants and limited English speakers in near-airport communities including Federal Way, Burien,
SeaTac, Tukwila and Des Moines.
Organization: Partner in Employment
Budget: $92,000100,000
Project: This project will build upon existing efforts put in place by its case managers to provide
community solutions and wraparound services concerning job acquisition and retention during this period
of COVID-19. The Refugee and Immigrant Economic Recovery Services provides linguistically and culturally
appropriate wrap-around case management and support to youths and adults in obtaining employment
and career pathway in the aviation and green jobs sectors. PIE guarantees the economic security and
mentorship to newly arrived refugees and immigrants in South King County. PIE was founded by two
refugee women of color from Somalia and Vietnam, both with two decades of work in the immigrant and
refugee communities. This organization specialize in serving limited-English proficient clients from the
African, Middle Eastern, and South East Asian communities. This workforce development project will have
two tracks, one that provides support services for immigrant job seekers impacted by COVID-19 in the
aviation industry, and the other continuing the youth green jobs training program started in the summer
of 2020 under the Port’s opportunity motion. The programs’ current services include but are not limited
to application, language assistance, financial support, digital literacy aid and job connections in the field
of aviation and the Sea-Tac airport area. This organizations have strong partnerships with City of Burien,
City of SeaTac, and Seattle Parks & Recreation.
Organization: Puget Sound Welcome Back Center
Budget: $83,57190,839
Project: This project will prepare 30 internationally educated engineers for jobs in construction related
fields near the Port of Seattle. The Puget Sound Welcome Back Center (PSWBC) goal is to help
internationally educated professionals make the best use of their skills though respectful, innovative, and
individual career counseling. Thousands of immigrants settle in South King County each year due to family
connections, low rent, and access to Port related jobs. Even though many have college degrees, they lack
proper credentials to work in their chosen profession, so people take jobs as security guards, wheelchair
assistants, aircraft cleaners, Uber/Lyft drivers, Amazon delivery drivers, etc. During the pandemic, many
lost their jobs temporarily or permanently. This project removes barriers by providing resources in port-
related industries, including Test Preparation Courses as part of the licensure process for construction
related fields, and Strategic Training and Certifications such as Concrete Field Technician, CAD Training
and Construction Management courses. This project will help these professionals gain the credentials they
need to access higher paying port-related jobs, thus stimulating economic recovery and diversifying the
workplace. Many of these professional engineers are structural and civil engineers and have extensive
construction experience. Referrals to PSWBC come from faculty within Highline, other community
colleges, immigrant and refugee service agencies, healthcare providers, SEIU, and word-of-mouth within
the immigrant/refugee community, who serve as partners with PSWBC.
Organization: WA Maritime Blue
Budget: $91,99599,995
Project: The Maritime Youth Accelerator Project aims to provide culturally relevant skills-based learning
which will prepare young people for livable-wage jobs in the Maritime field. The YMC Maritime Youth
Accelerator Project is specifically designed for youth of color and opportunity youth from underserved
communities, who have an interest in learning about the maritime sector and in designing/developing an
entrepreneurial project. Youth participants will be 18 – 24 years old, and come from low-income
communities in South King County, which continues to be disproportionally impacted by COVID-19. The
Youth Maritime Collaborative (YMC) is a district program of Washington Maritime Blue, a non-profit,
strategic alliance formed to accelerate innovation and sustainability in support of an include clue
economy. Washington State’s Strategy for the Blue Economy has a primary strategic goal to support the
development of a “diverse and equitable pipeline for a 21st century maritime workforce”. The YMC is
comprised of members from the Port of Seattle, regional maritime organizations, youth programs,
industry leaders, education programs and local government agencies. Due to systemic barriers, now
heightened by the impact of COVID-19, BIPOC youth are not adequately prepared for the significant
sectors of the workforce in maritime. This workforce development project will coincide with the
continuum of career and educational pathways currently offered for maritime related jobs. The program
will involve Career Lab training modules and be modified to prepare students for a maritime career.
