The $100,000 grant will go toward helping communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Seattle, much like the rest of the country, the health and economic burden of the past year has fallen mostly on the shoulders of Black communities and other communities of color.
In a news release Tuesday, Seattle Mariners managing partner John Stanton acknowledged the pandemic had laid bare the "longstanding disparities in health and economic security based on race, income, and geography."
"Through our partnership with the Seattle Foundation, and through our Community Impact Grant program, the Mariners are embracing our responsibility, and opportunity, to do more to help make our communities more equitable,” Stanton said.