Community Care Fund

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Community Care Fund

Bellevue College’s Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation’s (OCCIT) Community Care Fund aims to reinforce the institutional capacity to provide supportive resources to faculty, staff, affinity group organizations, and other institutional partners. The Community Care Fund is a provision to support the funding needs to acquire training, continued education, wellness, and/ or institutional transformation that centers on specific or broad issues of community affairs. These funds should be used to support, extend, educate, and affirm projects that demonstrate direct alignment with the core goals of the Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation and Bellevue College’s institutional capacity to impact change in the wider community.

This funding stream does not finance programmatic activities as a guaranteed funding resource but as a resource request for support. Various reviews and approaches will be used to adjudicate all funding requests contributing to the Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation and Bellevue College’s ability to strengthen and structure the sustainability of positive, productive, constructive, and community-centered actions supported by this office.

All proposal requests should align with two or more core OCCIT Goals:

  • Train, guide, and inform on community affairs
  • Affirm and educate restorative practices
  • Provide standard and strategic programming

These funds are dedicated to advancing community affairs and learning for students, faculty, and staff at Bellevue College.

The Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation can not support Community Care fund requests for food or beverage needs. Please keep in mind that your request will not be granted if it centers on receiving funds to purchase food or beverage items.

If your Community Care Fund request is granted, all requests must provide a digital flyer for an event, program, training, or workshop, and the requester/organization/office/ must list the Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation (OCCIT) as one of the supporters in their marketing and promo material. The SJC will list your event on the SJC in-office monitor, the SJC Website calendar page (BC Website), and the production of public flyers shared inside the SJC. The individual/group administrators who manage the event are responsible for all campus marketing, communications, BC FYI, or other wider media promotional avenues. The flyer must display the appropriate content (Time, Date, Location, brief Bio of the speaker, Image of the speaker (if available), Event Title, and Event summary. Event summary should not exceed 75 words).  Submit your flyer to hasaan.kirkland@bellevuecollege.edu.

The Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation (OCCIT) will be responsible for adherence to requests up to $2000 and will evaluate requests using the following proposal guidelines. If a fund request exceeds $2,000, the OCCIT office will determine the level of impact to justify the expense.

Community Care Form

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  • All funding requests are expected to provide a service to the college that is accessible to everyone. This service may be covered within the event itself, if held on Bellevue College grounds or the surrounding Bellevue community. Those individuals requesting professional development funds will have to provide explanation of a workshop/training/community service/office support/etc. that will account for the service to the college.
    If a request exceeds $2,000, additional review or information may be required. Please permit three – four weeks of advance notice so that all applications may receive proper review. The Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation (OCCIT) will make every effort to respond to requests in a timely manner.
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Contact Us

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Dr. Hasaan Kirkland, Ph.D, MFA.

Director, Social Justice Center

Office of Community Care and Institutional Transformation

Phone: 425-564-1159

Office Location: B203

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For questions, please contact Hasaan Kirkland at hasaan.kirkland@bellevuecollege.edu
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Last Updated January 28, 2026