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Black families thriving:
The RFP could be stewarded by any of the following City of Seattle departments:
- Civil Rights (OCR)
- EDT+ Early Learning (DEEL)
- Human Services
-Guaranteed basic income $1500/month for Black birthing people with annual household income below the AMI (per family size, including infant) as early as 12 weeks pregnant to 6 weeks post-partum at the time of program enrollment, for the first 3 years/36 months, of the child's life.
-Eligible Black pregnant mothers/ birthing people descendants of enslaved Africans (ADDS).
-Program cost in direct service delivery= ~ $5.4 million (monthly stipends) for 3 years in support of 100 families living in the Greater Seattle area.
-Program Admin+ operating costs= $200k/year x 3 years= $600K (total 6 million).
This proposal has been rejected because:
Type of funding: Programs and services (non-capital)
Rough cost estimate: Between $2 million and $7.2 million
Evaluation notes:
❌ This idea could not be implemented without changing current policy or law.
❌ This City doesn't have jurisdiction to do this idea.
✅ This idea doesn't name a specific vendor.
❌ This idea would incur costs indefinitely.
Justification: I don't believe the City has the jurisdiction to implement a universal basic income
Other notes: N/A
Thank you for sharing your idea. This idea and its evaluation have been forwarded to the budget delegates. They will use this information to group together similar ideas, narrow down options based on community needs, and develop fully detailed proposals for you and your community to vote on in October 2023.
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We Conceive Collective Healing
We will be collecting ideas at this event hosted by BLK Mamas Collective.
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Acceptance criteria for the proposals should not include whether or not the proposal names a vendor, as we were instructed by Fundisha to think of proposals as the basis for RFPs coming from specific city departments; that 501c3 non-profit organizations / fiscally-sponsored entities would have the opportunity to compete for grant funding. If I had known we needed to name community based organization vendors in order for the proposal to be accepted, then I would have named BLK MAMAS Collective SPC and BLKBRY LLC as vendors for this proposal.
Furthermore, there are currently organizations within the City of Seattle (such as Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services) that are piloting basic income programs for eligible cultural affinity identified families (Indigenous birthing people) based on this model. There was no need to change current laws or policies in order for these programs to be piloted. Please see here for reference: https://www.hummingbird-ifs.org/programs/nest/the-nest.
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