Best Starts for Kids partners with community organizations, non-profits, schools and school districts, tribes and tribal organizations, and public or governmental agencies to support the health and well-being of communities across King County. We consider Best Starts funding recipients as partners. Working together, we build on the strengths of families and communities so that babies are born healthy, children thrive and establish a strong foundation in life, and young people grow into happy, healthy adults.

The calendar below shares upcoming Request for Proposal (RFP) funding opportunities from the beginning of 2022 and staggered throughout the year. We encourage everyone to subscribe to our newsletter and blog to receive notices when a new funding opportunity is released and information about quarterly virtual open houses!

Do you have any questions? Please contact Best.Starts@kingcounty.gov for general inquiries and/or the RFP lead contact for specific questions about an open RFP.

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Open funding opportunities

Centering Diverse Healers for Youth Well-Being RFP 

Open: September 6, 2024

Close: October 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM

Investment Area: Age 5 – 24

Application link: https://www.zoomgrants.com/zgf/King_County,_WA/PHSKC_Centering_Diverse_Healers

This RFP seeks to fund creative ideas and approaches that support diverse youth mental health providers, healers, and wellness supporters connected to LGBTQIA and BIPOC communities and support retention of diverse providers, healers, and general supporters of youth mental health within the field.

Best Starts for Kids Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Providers 2025-2027 Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

Open: August 14, 2024

Close: September 27, 2024 at 2:00 pm

Application link: https://www.zoomgrants.com/zgf/King_County,_WA/BSK_Technical_Assistance_Capacity_Building

Investment Area: Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Best Starts seeks to partner with technical assistance providers and capacity building organizations/consultants/individuals to work closely with Best Starts to provide resources and strengthen assets and capabilities of community-based organizations so they can effectively and equitably provide services to children, youth, families and communities. The purpose of this RFQ is to identify skilled organizations and/or individuals to support Best Starts by providing as-needed Technical Assistance (TA) and Capacity Building (CB) consulting services to community-based organizations (CBOs). Best Starts offers free TA and CB rooted in community strengths, needs, and values. Best Starts technical assistance providers will provide application assistance to CBOs applying for Best Starts funds. Best Starts capacity builders will provide on-demand support for organizational development and long-term sustainability to Best Starts-awarded organizations.

Upcoming funding opportunities