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<p style="margin:0in"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white">February 9, 2022</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#873455">King County launches $1.75 million in federal funds available to community-based media and organizations to increase transparency and accountability of COVID funding</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#873455"> </span></span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#873455">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">King County’s Office of Equity and Social Justice (OESJ) allocated $1.75 million in federal funds toward its
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<span style="color:#6C2440">Strategic Communications Campaign Program</span></a> to increase reporting of King County’s COVID funding in communities most impacted by both racism and the pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The combination of these two crises continues to have disproportionate cumulative impacts on Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities, immigrants, refugees, people
with language and disability access needs, low-income people, and sectors such as the creative economy and essential workers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Strategic Communications Campaign Program aims to increase transparency and accountability of King County’s federal funds and response to the pandemic and the declaration of Racism
Is A Public Health Crisis. By partnering with and resourcing community-based media and organizations with strong communication channels that are trusted in community, King County will reach communities most impacted, and create a feedback loop to better understand
how federal dollars are reaching and affecting those on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">OESJ views this opportunity as a new partnership grounded in purposeful exchange of information between King County and the public through community partners who create culturally responsive
and impactful storytelling through articles, video, social media, podcasting, newsletters, and other communication channels. OESJ aims to strengthen the capacity of our contracted partners to continue this type of culturally responsive storytelling. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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