At the October meeting of the Trustees, The Collins Foundation was proud to award 25 single-year grants and 12 multi-year grants, totaling more than $1.4 million to nonprofits across Oregon.
Arts
Artists Repertory Theatre -- $45,000 to support portland-based programming and operations, including internal equity work and a season of seven plays, and provide support to diverse artists and resident organizations
Boom Arts -- $7,000 to support the 2016-2017 performance series showcasing diverse artists and engaging underserved audiences in the greater portland area
Oregon College of Art and Craft -- $87,000 over three years to support artist-in-residence programs in the portland area
PassinArt: A Theatre Company -- $15,000 to support plays written from an african american perspective, an art exhibit, and public programming for african american and multicultural audiences in portland
Third Angle New Music Ensemble -- $12,000 over two years to create a commissioning fund to increase the company's capacity to develop new musical art inspired by the pacific northwest
Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon -- $7,500 to provide music education and outreach programs for youth in rural jackson, josephine, and klamath counties
Children & Youth
Crossing Bridges Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc. -- $12,000 to enclose a riding arena and build an ada-compliant bathroom for children and youth with intellectual and physical disabilities enrolled in therapeutic riding classes in southern oregon
Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest -- $75,000 over three years to support staffing and provide computers and a learning management system to expand girl empowerment programs for low-income 8-18 year-old girls from racially and ethnically diverse communities in western oregon
Momentum Alliance -- $75,000 over three years to support the student alliance project to engage marginalized, diverse, and disaffected youth in community and leadership skill-building to advance positive personal and community change
Oregon CASA Network -- $20,000 to provide training, assessments, and support to ensure quality standards and sustainability for casa programs across oregon
Oregon Community Foundation/DACA Pooled Fund -- $50,700 to support a pooled fund by oregon foundations to support nonprofit agencies that provide services to daca and dapa eligible immigrants in oregon
Redemption Ridge -- $100,000 to construct a residential treatment home in southern oregon for teenage girls escaping domestic sex trafficking
Community Welfare
Basic Rights Education Fund -- $25,000 to support programs and operations to address youth, racial, and transgender justice for lgbtq individuals statewide
Benton Furniture Share -- $13,000 to collect and deliver reusable furniture and household items to low-income households primarily in benton and linn counties
Catholic Community Services Foundation -- $30,000 to build an apartment complex to provide safe and affordable housing for low-income pregnant/parenting teens and young adults in marion county
Central Oregon Veterans Ranch -- $34,000 over two years to support a full-time executive director position to launch an adult foster care home providing end-of-life care for veterans in central oregon
Farmworker Housing Development Corporation -- $105,000 over two years to develop evolve's property management training and employment program for low-income, latino immigrants in the willamette valley
Habitat for Humanity of Oregon -- $85,000 to provide funding, training, and technical assistance to habitat affiliates across oregon to position them to provide housing and home repair assistance to low-income seniors, families, and individuals with disabilities
Lebanon Soup Kitchen -- $4,000 to purchase and install a walk-in refrigerator to safely store perishable foods for homeless and low-income individuals and families in rural lebanon
Marion-Polk Food Share -- $85,000 over three years to support youth farm capital improvements, operations, and farm training programs for salem-area students, including at-risk and underserved youth
Northwest Pilot Project -- $30,000 to expand housing and support services to more low-income seniors at risk of and experiencing homelessness in portland
Refugee Center Online -- $60,000 over two years to hire a program manager in oregon to pilot online ged and citizenship preparation courses for resettled refugees and immigrants in urban and rural communities across the state
The Rosewood Initiative -- $25,000 to provide furnishings, equipment, and computers to expand community center programs for low-income, racially and ethnically diverse east multnomah county residents
Saving Grace Imagine Life Without Violence -- $35,000 to provide safe, supervised parental visits for children in central oregon who are separated from a parent due to domestic violence
Education
KairosPDX -- $80,000 over two years to increase access to early learning experiences, resources, and multicultural educational activities for african american and other families of color in portland
Portland Literacy Council -- $7,500 to engage a consultant to provide organizational development assistance
Stand for Children Leadership Center -- $25,000 to ensure that accountability standards and english language learner laws are implemented to improve educational outcomes for low-income children, children of color, and english language learners statewide
Environment
Oregon Environmental Council -- $50,000 over two years to create an equity director position to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion internally and in the broader environmental community
Health & Science
Kairos Northwest -- $60,000 to construct a facility to expand mental health services for low-income children and youth on the rural southern oregon coast
Our House of Portland -- $45,000 over two years to provide intensive in-home services and housing assistance to individuals managing hiv in portland
Returning Veterans Project -- $11,000 to expand access to pro bono therapeutic and holistic care for oregon's post-9/11 veterans and their families
Humanities
The Aloha Community Library Association -- $25,000 to renovate a building to open a new washington county branch library
Friends of the Curry Public Library -- $50,000 to construct a learning center to deliver technology, arts, and culture programs to residents in rural gold beach
KBOO Foundation -- $10,000 to support telephone system upgrades, multicultural programming, and operations through a challenge match
Literary Arts -- $24,000 to support oregon book awards & fellowships, wordstock: portland’s book festival, and youth programming
Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation -- $35,000 over two years to produce an exhibit and related programs about civil and political engagement of oregon's african american community from the 1960's civil rights movement to the present
Portland Story Theater -- $4,600 to present storytelling workshops and shows featuring resettled refugees sharing their own stories with portland audiences