2025 Grant Champions & Their Causes

About Babies of Homelessness

Babies of Homelessness provides diapers, wipes, and formula to families experiencing homelessness or financial hardship in King County. The organization distributes baby essentials through three main channels:

Bulk deliveries to over 26 shelters and food banks.
Direct delivery to families living unsheltered or unable to travel.
Pick-up locations accessible by bus, where families receive a 30-day supply.

What sets the organization apart is its commitment to removing bureaucratic barriers, ensuring fast and easy access to critical baby supplies.

PYP Grant Champion for Babies of Homelessness: Deb Rappaport

Deb Rappaport is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the datacenter supply chain team. Prior to this position, she was a Managing Partner at Velatrio, a tech staffing agency that she and her business partner sold in 2019. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, spent her senior year of high school as a foreign exchange student in Caracas, Venezuela, and then moved to Boston, graduating from Tufts University. Deb is married to Adam Tratt and has a son and daughter in college and a son in high school. Her most recent volunteer position was as a board member of View Ridge Swim & Tennis Club. In her free time she is an enthusiastic-yet-mediocre tennis player and skier.

About Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) serves immigrants in King County through direct legal services, community education, and systemic advocacy. Last year, NWIRP served more than 12,500 Washington State residents with direct legal services, with the greatest presence in King County. As reflected in the daily news cycle, immigrants are under attack. The passage of the federal reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) changed immigration policy and practice in ways that our country has not seen in close to three decades. This bill further criminalizes immigrant communities, such as through laws that expand mandatory detention, and establishes steep new fees, even for humanitarian protections, that effectively deny many asylum seekers the chance to even apply for protection. These changes come on top of other recent changes, such as the Department of Homeland Security rescinding the Sensitive Location memos that protected areas such as courts, churches, schools, hospitals, and domestic violence shelters from immigration enforcement actions. NWIRP would utilize PYP funding to help meet the immigration legal needs of individuals residing in King County who are seeking asylum or other protections from deportation and family separation, including assisting these individuals with new fees implemented by H.R. 1. For example, individuals seeking to work lawfully in the U.S. must now pay an application fee of $550 – an overwhelmingly impossible amount to pay for individuals who usually have no income (as they are not allowed to work), are often housing insecure, and face other indicators of poverty and trauma.

PYP Grant Champions for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: Jennifer Flood

Jennifer Flood is originally from the California Bay Area and has lived in the Seattle area with her family of five for the past decade. After graduating UCLA as a Political Science and Psychology double major, Jennifer joined Teach For America and served as a bilingual teacher in a low-income school district in California. It was a transformative experience, and she’s since been a lifelong advocate for educational equity. Jennifer received her Masters degree in Education Policy from Harvard, developed policy at the US Department of Education, and was Executive Director of a Swedish NGO supporting Ugandan schools. After 20+ years in non-profit and government roles in the US and Sweden (she’s married to a Swede and has three half-Swedish kids!), Jen returned to the family real estate business she grew up in. As a residential real estate broker serving the Seattle area, Jennifer is passionate about helping her clients reach their investment goals and supporting the development of strong, sustainable communities. In her free time, she serves on the boards of several non-profits focused on educational equity, and loves paddleboarding, playing pickleball, and enjoying our beautiful PNW outdoors with her family and friends.

PYP Grant Champions for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: Linda Floyd

Linda Floyd grew up in Victoria, B.C. and currently lives in Seattle. She graduated with a BA from York University in Toronto and traveled the world extensively in her 20s before settling in Dubai where she worked as a television and radio announcer for Dubai television and an associate producer for Star TV. When she returned to Canada she worked for the Immigrant Services Society in Vancouver and continued work with immigrant and refugee populations when she moved to Seattle in 1998. While living with her family in India from 2007 – 2009, Linda volunteered with organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls in underserved communities. When she returned to the U.S. in 2009 she co-founded the Kiran Anjali Project, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting projects in India that provide high quality education and support for girls and young women furthest from economic justice. Linda has served on various boards including the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund which honors President Obama’s mother, a graduate of Mercer Island High School, by providing scholarships to young women graduating from Chief Sealth International High School, Mercer Island High School, and Rainier Beach High School.

About Wonder of Women International (WOW)

Wonder of Women International creates sacred spaces for the healing, education, art, and liberation (H.E.A.L) of Black women, girls, families, and community. Through culturally rooted experiences that weave together storytelling, creative expression, and wellness practices, WOW nurtures belonging and transformation. Signature programs such as Dear Sista, A Call to Heal and Breathing Black Love provide safe, restorative environments where participants release trauma, reclaim joy, and strengthen community resilience. As the organization transitions from WOW Gallery at Pacific Place toward establishing a legacy home and retreat center, our work continues to flourish across King County. Virtual programming expands access while in-person gatherings create immediate touchpoints of care. These include grief circles, wellness circles, and healing practices such as breath work and chi gong meditation. Each program affirms identity, restores wellness, and strengthens the collective power of community, ensuring that Black women, girls, and families remain centered, supported, and celebrated.

PYP Grant Champions for WOW: Mwa Hungwe

Mwa Hungwe was born in Zimbabwe as part of a loving close knit family. She migrated to the United States in her late teens and has since called it home. She and her family recently moved to Washington State and settled in Mercer Island. Mwa has supported the Department of Defense as a Business Intelligence Engineer and worked for the Office of Naval Research Science and Technology supporting projects with the Pentagon. Her current role revolves around managing and supporting the Airplane Level Engineering Integration Engineers at Boeing. Committed to continuous development and leadership excellence, Mwa is a certified leadership coach through the John Maxwell leadership program and part of the Robin Sharma 5 AM club. With a diverse background and a passion for exploring different cultures, new connections and fostering meaningful relationships Mwa and her family enjoy traveling around the world. She also enjoys mentoring the youth, playing tennis and recently got her 4-year-old son and husband to start playing too. Binge watching her shows is something you may find her doing during her down time.

PYP Grant Champions for WOW: Floret Khosa

Floret lives in Sammamish and is a proud mother to 3 teens. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe by parents who instilled the importance of community, kindness, and empathy for others. She moved to Washington DC for college and earned a Computer Science degree from George Mason University. After college, Floret worked as a software developer for the DOJ and the Pentagon. She relocated to Redmond in 1998 and joined Microsoft where she worked until her daughter was born. Over the following years she split her time between the kids and a non-profit, Imagine Foundation, that she co-founded with her husband in 1999 to support and provide medication to young children living with HIV at a time when treatment was not accessible to everyone. Floret has served on a number of boards for foundations that focused on Gender Equity, HIV/AIDS treatment, and Renewable Energy. Her re-entry into the workforce was as a partner for a consulting firm where she evolved the companies’ policies regarding diversity and focused my efforts into successfully building a diverse team of consultants for area tech firms. In 2021, Floret founded Umoja Consulting group, a values-driven firm that has a deep understanding of the importance of representation and belonging. She has developed strategies and policies for corporate clients to increase and retain historically excluded groups in their workforce, helping leaders move towards a mindset that diversity & inclusion are explicitly linked to the success of organizations. Floret holds a strong belief that we are Stronger Together and she is always looking for opportunities to bring people from different backgrounds together. When she’s not at her desk, she loves to spend time with her family and host as many dinner parties as her kids will allow.