August & October 2019 Grants

In August and October, the Foundation approved 74 awards through our Responsive Grantmaking program, totalling approximately $2.9 million invested in more than 20 communities across Oregon.




Arts

Chehalem Center Association -- $20,000 over 1 year to hire a performing arts coordinator to expand programming in rural Yamhill County

Cymaspace -- $20,000 over 2 years to increase staffing to promote access and inclusivity in arts and culture for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, primarily in Multnomah and Marion Counties

Delgani String Quartet -- $15,000 over 1 year to collaborate with Danceability International to produce a string quartet performance tour highlighting dancers with disabilities

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc -- $15,000 over 1 year to support operations during an executive director transition, and artistic programs serving ten rural counties in eastern Oregon

Experience Theatre Project -- $6,000 over 1 year to produce an immersive adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for audiences in Beaverton

Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc -- $10,000 over 2 years to expand an affordable graphic design certificate program and workshops for visual and literary artists in the Portland area

Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras -- $10,000 over 1 year to support operations and expanded musicianship programs serving primarily youth of color in Title I Portland schools

Oregon Children's Theatre Company -- $57,500 over 2 years to establish an education director position to lead youth development and arts education programs in Portland

Oregon Society of Artists -- $7,000 over 1 year to replace a wheelchair ramp at the organization’s Portland venue to improve accessibility

Portland Community Media -- $70,000 over 2 years to strengthen a fellowship program for Black filmmakers in Portland

Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble -- $5,000 over 1 year to produce “Beckett’s Womxn,” a performance event in Portland

Portland Gay Men's Chorus Inc -- $40,000 over 2 years to support operations and LGBTQ-led choral programs for audiences statewide

Resonance Vocal Ensemble -- $20,000 over 1 year to increase staffing and support the production of "An African American Requiem" for audiences in Portland

 
 
 
  
  
 

Children & Youth

Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis -- $45,000 over 1 year to strengthen mental health supports in after-school programs serving youth from low-income families in Corvallis

Children First for Oregon -- $30,000 over 1 year to support staffing and convenings for youth-led programs to strengthen leadership skills and connections among foster youth statewide

Daisy C.H.A.I.N. Creating Healthy Alliances in New-Mothering -- $25,000 over 1 year to support operations and programs to improve pre- and post-natal care for children of low-income parents 

Family of Friends Mentoring -- $50,000 over 2 years to hire an outreach and recruitment manager to strengthen mentoring services for youth of color and youth from low-income families in East Multnomah County

Friends of the Mentor Program -- $50,000 over 2 years to support operations and mentoring programs primarily serving low-income youth in rural Lakeview

Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington Inc -- $35,000 over 1 year to hire a bilingual program specialist and support engagement efforts focused on Latina youth from low-income families statewide

Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc -- $35,000 over 1 year to purchase a shelter facility to serve homeless youth in Linn County

Kids Unlimited of Oregon -- $100,000 over 2 years to support staffing and operations for a new pre-kindergarten program serving Latino children from low-income families in Medford

Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc -- $40,000 over 3 years to establish a satellite Monroe Relief Nursery program to serve low-income families in rural Benton County, including Latino and immigrant families

Oregon Progress Forum -- $40,000 over 2 years to support operations and leadership programs engaging youth statewide

Outside the Frame -- $50,000 over 2 years to increase access to film training and equipment for homeless and LGBTQ youth, youth with disabilities, and youth of color in the Portland area

Portland Urban Debate League -- $10,000 over 1 year to support staffing and programs engaging low-income youth of color in school-based debate programs in the Portland area

Talent Maker City -- $39,000 over 2 years to provide hands on STEM programming for low-income youth of color in rural Jackson and Josephine Counties

 
 
 
  
 
 

Community Welfare

12x12 Club Inc -- $4,500 over 1 year to support operations, technology improvements, and services for people in recovery and their families in Multnomah County

APANO Communities United Fund -- $120,000 over 2 years to support operations and expand civic engagement and cultural programming to strengthen Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Multnomah and Washington Counties

Bridging Cultures -- $30,000 over 1 year to support staffing and purchase technology to assist immigrant Latino families participating in English-language classes in rural Canby

Central Oregon Disability Support Network Inc -- $40,000 over 1 year to renovate a facility space on the rural Warm Springs Reservation to create a Family Resource Center in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Clackamas Women's Services -- $25,000 over 1 year to increase culturally responsive wraparound services for Latina survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Clackamas County

Clatskanie Senior Citizens Inc -- $30,000 over 1 year to renovate the senior center's commercial kitchen serving low-income seniors in rural Clatskanie

Community Food for Creswell -- $10,000 over 1 year to purchase equipment and supplies to operate a commercial kitchen serving low-income individuals and families in rural Creswell

Community Vision Inc -- $25,000 over 1 year to expand opportunities for individuals with disabilities and their families to learn about and use assistive technology to enhance learning, working, and daily living in the Portland area and statewide

East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc -- $23,000 over 1 year to hire a child care provider to support low-income homeless parents looking for employment in Tigard

Family Justice Center of Washington County -- $60,000 over 2 years to support operations and coordinate programs to strengthen services for survivors of domestic violence and their children in Washington County

Communites United for People -- $75,000 over 3 years to support operations, community organizing, and leadership development programs primarily engaging women, LGBTQ people, and Black youth in Oregon

Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce -- $55,000 over 2 years to support operations during an executive director transition, and economic development programs serving Latino immigrant communities in the Portland area

Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest -- $10,000 over 1 year to complete an organization-wide equity assessment and training

Just Compassion of East Washington County -- $50,000 over 2 years to support operations and expanded programs serving homeless adults in Tigard

McKenzie River Gathering Foundation -- $100,000 over 2 years to support operations and programs statewide

Oregon Justice Resource Center -- $55,000 over 2 years to support operations, legal services, and advocacy programs serving primarily low-income and immigrant communities of color statewide

Pathfinders of Oregon -- $40,000 over 1 year to build organizational capacity and expand programs serving the families of incarcerated individuals statewide

Portland African American Leadership Forum -- $60,000 over 2 years to support operations and culturally-specific programs to improve outcomes for low-income African American communities in the Portland area

Red Lodge Transition Services -- $50,000 over 2 years to hire a volunteer coordinator and increase engagement with federally recognized tribes in Oregon to improve culturally-specific programming for incarcerated and newly released Native Americans 

Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network -- $50,000 over 2 years to hire a rural venture catalyzer and support outreach events and trainings engaging entrepreneurs in rural Lane county

Rural Development Initiatives Inc -- $60,000 over 2 years to strengthen programs for and engagement with Latino entrepreneurs and culturally specific partners in rural central and eastern Oregon

Sponsors Inc -- $25,000 over 1 year to construct 10 tiny homes in Eugene for formerly incarcerated individuals

Star of Hope Activity Center Inc -- $32,530 over 1 year to renovate the organization's facility to enhance community inclusion and supported employment services for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities in rural Coos County

United Community Action Network -- $40,000 over 1 year to construct a commercial kitchen to better serve low-income residents in rural Douglas County

United Way of the Columbia-Willamette -- $50,000 over 1 year to support the statewide Census Equity Funders Committee of Oregon

 
 
 
 
  
 

Education

St. Andrew Nativity School -- $25,000 over 1 year to expand trauma-informed care training for staff and supports for low-income students of color in Portland

 
 
  
  
 

Environment

350PDX -- $45,000 over 2 years to implement the organization's justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion plan to strengthen environmental justice work and deepen accountability to low-income communities and communities of color in Oregon

Intertwine Alliance Foundation -- $35,000 over 2 years to partner with the Coalition of Communities of Color to strengthen Intertwine’s equity cohort and community outreach programs in the Portland area

McKenzie River Trust -- $30,000 over 1 year to hire a conservation program manager to establish a satellite office on the central coast

OPAL -- $45,000 over 1 year to strengthen a community organizing fellowship program engaging low-income people and people of color in the Portland area

Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development-- $25,000 over 1 year to support an AmeriCorps position to coordinate efforts to conserve the Oregon Dunes on the Central Coast

Social Good Fund -- $30,000 over 1 year to support staffing and programs to engage communities of color, Indigenous communities, and low-income people in the Portland Harbor Superfund clean-up process

Wallowa Land Trust Inc -- $135,000 over 1 year to purchase 1800 acres of the East Moraine of Wallowa Lake

 
 
 
 
 
 

Health & Science

Asian Health & Service Center -- $106,000 over 3 years to recruit and train bilingual and bicultural volunteer patient navigators to assist Asian immigrants in the Portland area who are coping with a cancer diagnosis

Marie Equi Institute  -- $50,000 over 1 year to support operations and primary-care programs serving transgender and non-binary individuals in Portland

NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation -- $30,000 over 1 year to hire a movement-building organizer and launch an initiative to engage the Latino community in Marion County on reproductive health issues and facilitate access to reproductive healthcare

APANO Communities United Fund -- $80,000 over 3 years to support the Oregon Health Equity Collaborative’s efforts to improve health outcomes for communities of color in the Portland area

Project ABLE -- $25,000 over 1 year to develop online education programs to expand peer-delivered mental health services serving low-income individuals in Marion, Polk, and Yamhill Counties

Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation -- $100,000 over 2 years to create an internal medicine team at the Beaverton Wellness Center to improve care for medically complex patients, primarily low-income Latino individuals in Washington County

Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades -- $25,000 over 1 year to upgrade the Clinic’s electronic medical records system to improve services to low-income Latino patients in Central Oregon

 
 
 
 
 
 

Humanities

Cascade Educational Broadcast Service (XRAY.fm) -- $20,000 over 1 year to support operations and community-driven, culturally responsive media programming serving communities in Multnomah and Washington Counties

Chetco Historical Memorial Project -- $13,200 over 1 year to support the final phase of the Native-led Chetco Memorial project, designing and planting an Indigenous garden at the memorial in rural Brookings

Literary Arts Inc -- $20,000 over 1 year to support literary arts programs serving high school students in Multnomah County

Oregon Council for the Humanities -- $20,000 over 1 year to support operations and humanities programs statewide

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education -- $20,000 over 1 year to support the exhibition Bernstein at 100! and associated education programs in the Portland area

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry -- $60,000 over 1 year to renovate an early childhood science playground to become more culturally inclusive and accessible for children in the Portland area

Spiral Living Center -- $8,800 over 1 year to purchase equipment to establish a studio-to-transmitter link for KXCJ, a limited power radio station serving rural Josephine County

Institute for Nonprofit News -- $25,000 over 1 year to support reporting initiatives and engagement with Native American communities statewide