A federal District Court in Seattle has dismissed a suit by a disappointed grant applicant who claimed her Constitutional rights were violated when her application was denied. Tiniell Cato is a grant writer for a consulting firm with a mission to meet community public safety needs. Social Justice Fund NW, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, and Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (“EPIC”) are all nonprofit organizations in the Seattle area. EPIC worked with the City of Seattle to create a project to work with community-based organizations to end youth imprisonment and issued a request for proposals for $500,000 in grants to be administered by the Social Justice Fund. Cato filed her...