The Community Reinvestment Project (CRP) is a community-designed plan to uplift communities disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs. The goal is to create lasting economic benefits, build wealth and ensure everyone has a fair chance at success.
CRP partners with organizations across the state to support economic development, reentry services, legal assistance, and violence prevention. It is expected to generate up to $1.6 billion in economic benefits for targeted communities over the next decade. With $200 million already contracted across the state, CRP remains on track to make a significant impact in the lives of Washingtonians.
In collaboration with community partners, CRP’s impact includes:
- Creating jobs in partnership with diverse small businesses
- Offering training programs to meet workforce needs
- Higher self-sufficient incomes for people to support their families
- Helping people acquire homes and start new businesses
- Increasing safety of our neighborhoods through community-led projects
Funding categories
Economic development with CRP
Legal Assistance with CRP
Reentry Services with CRP
Violence prevention with CRP
Resources
Financial Coaching and Mentoring
- Statewide
- King, Snohomish County
- Thurston, Mason, and Jefferson Counties
- Stevens, Pend Oreille Counties
- Yakima, Benton, Franklin, Walla Walla Counties
- Adams, Kilickitat, Grant, Kittitas, Douglas, Chelan, and Okanogan Counties
- Pierce, Kitsap County
- Abundance of Hope Center
- CJK Community Homes
- Fiscal Finesse Consulting
- Global Majority Consortium
- Intercultural Children & Family Services
- King’s Dream Business Consulting
- Sound Outreach
- Tacoma Community House
- Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity
- The Suquamish Tribe
- United Indians of All Tribes
- WOW Tricities
- Spokane County
- Skagit County
Reentry Support
- Statewide
- Central and Eastern WA
- People for People
- Pierce County
- Arms Around You: Resources, Housing, and Family Reunification
- House of Mercy: Comprehensive Reentry Program
- Pioneer Human Services: Roadmap to Success Program
- Progress House Association: The CHANGE Program
- Making A Difference Foundation: Rising Higher Program
- Freedom Project: Community Reentry
- Valeo Vocation: Pre-Trial Pathways
- Puyallup Tribe Of Indians: Re-Entry Services Support
- The Harriet Tubman Foundation for Safe Passage
- Evergreen Empowerment Group
- Kitsap County
- Benton, Franklin County:
- Whatcom County
- Clark County
- House of Mercy: Comprehensive Reentry Program
- Restored and Revived
- Spokane County
- Snohomish County:
- Yakima County
- Greys Harbor
- King County
- Arms Around You: Resources, Housing, and Family Reunification
- Progress House Association: The CHANGE Program
- Pioneer Human Services: Roadmap to Success Program
- Freedom Project: Community Reentry
- House of Mercy: Comprehensive Reentry Program
- Puyallup Tribe Of Indians: Re-Entry Services Support
- The Harriet Tubman Foundation for Safe Passage
- Evergreen Empowerment Group
- Skagit County
Legal assistance
Violence Prevention and Intervention
- King County
- African Community Housing & Development
- Byrd Barr Place
- BYTM (Building Youth Through Music)
- Giving Gifts of Hope
- Horn of Africa Services (HOAS)
- InterCultural Children & Family Services
- Making A Difference Foundation
- Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC)
- Resilient In Sustaining Empowerment
- Village Life Project
- Yoga Behind Bars
- East African Community Services
- Forever Safe Space, SPC
Barber and Beauty Shop Community of Practice
Led by Northwest Credible Messengers
The Barber and Beauty Shop Community of Practice aims to train barber and beauty shops to provide peer support services while facilitating transformative engagement processes with the customers they serve. Participants will go through accelerated training in order to learn to provide behavioral health support services. Barbers and beauticians will be compensated $2,000 per completed training (up to $4,000) with the aim of supporting barbers and beauticians with more sustainable funding streams.
Career Accelerator program
The Economic Security for All (EcSA) Career Accelerator program provides opportunities for under/unemployed folks in Black, Latine and tribal communities to pursue their dreams and build collective power. If you or your family has been impacted by the war on drugs, you may have access to career training, financial coaching, support payments, and financial incentives of up to $1000.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact your local workforce agency.
- Pacific Mountain WDC
Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Thurston
Dan Cooling: dan@pacmtn.org - WorkForce Development Council of Seattle-King County
Mike Davie: mdavie@seakingwdc.org
Gyanendra Subba: gsubba@seakingwdc.org - Future WorkForce Alliance
Snohomish
Cassondra Yi: cassondra.yi@workforcesnohomish.org - Northwest Workforce Council
Whatcom, Skagit, Island, San Juan
Malinda Bjaaland: Mbjaaland@workforcenorthwest.org - SkillSource
Adams, Chelan, Grant, Douglas, Okanogan
Susan Adams: susana@skillsource.org
- Eastern Washington Partnership
Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman
Rod Van Alyne: rvanalyne@ruralresources.org - Spokane Workforce Council
Andrea Hixson: ahixson@spokaneworkforce.org - Benton-Franklin WDC
Jessie Cardwell: jcardwell@bf-wdc.org - South Central Workforce Council
Kittitas, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima
Meranda Smith: meranda.smith@scworkforce.org - WorkForce Central
Pierce County
Danielle Thompson: dthompson@workforce-central.org - Workforce Southwest Washington
Clark, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum
Mando Antonino: mantonino@workforcesw.org
Business Support
The Economic Security for All (EcSA) Business Support supports small businesses led or owned by communities impacted by the war on drugs. It provides opportunities for small businesses in workforce development, skill enhancement, organizational growth, and economic mobility.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact your local workforce agency.
- Pacific Mountain WDC
Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Thurston
Dan Cooling: dan@pacmtn.org - WorkForce Development Council of Seattle-King County
Mike Davie: mdavie@seakingwdc.org
Gyanendra Subba: gsubba@seakingwdc.org - Future WorkForce Alliance
Snohomish County
Cassondra Yi: cassondra.yi@workforcesnohomish.org - Northwest Workforce Council
Whatcom, Skagit, Island, San Juan
Malinda Bjaaland: Mbjaaland@workforcenorthwest.org - SkillSource
Adams, Chelan, Grant, Douglas, Okanogan
Susan Adams: susana@skillsource.org
- Eastern Washington Partnership
Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman
Rod Van Alyne: rvanalyne@ruralresources.org - Spokane Workforce Council
Andrea Hixson: ahixson@spokaneworkforce.org - Benton-Franklin WDC
Jessie Cardwell: jcardwell@bf-wdc.org - South Central Workforce Council
Kittitas, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima
Meranda Smith: meranda.smith@scworkforce.org - WorkForce Central
Pierce County
BusinessSolutions@workforce-central.org - Workforce Southwest Washington
Clark, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum
Mando Antonino: mantonino@workforcesw.org
In 2022, the WA Legislature created the Community Reinvestment Account that set aside $200 million to address racial, economic, and social disparities created by the historic design and enforcement of state and federal criminal laws and penalties for drug possession (the war on drugs). The Legislature directed that the Department of Commerce (Commerce) invest the funds into four program areas:
- Economic development
- Civil and criminal legal assistance
- Community-based violence intervention and prevention
- Reentry services
Commerce, in partnership with the WA Office of Equity, worked with communities across the state to develop a Community Reinvestment Plan laying out recommendations for how these funds will be invested over the next biennium (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2025).
The Community Reinvestment Plan recommended Commerce distribute the $200 million across the state through more than 17 individual grant programs. Subject matter experts are currently administering the grant programs. Some of the grant programs are expansions of existing programs. Some of the programs represent new ideas, requiring more time and collaboration to implement.
- To learn more about the plan, please read a breakdown of programs (PDF).
- To read the full plan, download the Community Reinvestment Plan (PDF).