Solicited Grants

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Sanctuary Art Center

Project: Storytelling Internship Program

Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $12,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

The Storytelling Internship program will provide job training for 20 youth currently experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Participants will engage with a variety of local artists and employers to gain valuable job readiness skills.



Sanctuary Art Center

Project: Visual Storytelling Internship Program

Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $12,100 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

The Visual Storytelling Internship program gives a select group of homeless youth the opportunity to create a number of in-depth projects over a significant period of time. These youth will be given the opportunity to travel to Ashland, OR to view world class storytelling at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  The trip is meant to inspire and inform the youth about the work being done outside their community and to encourage them to continue in the program.

            



SEI

Project: Schools Unitiing Neighborhoods (SUN) Program

Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Providing extended-learning, healthy recreation, skill development, and community involvement opportunities for over 6,000 K-12 students and families annually to support diversity, equity, and inclusion and respond to demographic trends.



Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation

Project: SBFC Youth Wilderness Program

Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $17,500 Location: Boise, ID
About:

The Youth Wilderness Program will serve 200 ID and MT teens in 2024 & 2025. Through experiential learning, youth will explore local Wilderness Areas. This is a new program, as no programs currently exist to immerse youth in Wilderness in this region.



Sexual Assault Resource Center

Project: Resilient Youth Strong and Empowered sexual exploitation prevention program

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Beaverton, OR
About:

Continuing the new prevention collaboration with Self Enhancement Inc. addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children/youth within the African American community.  The strategies remain the same as in 2014; however, this grant provides the addition of a Prevention Specialist representing the African American community, a component that was found to be essential for the success of the collaboration.



Sitka Center for Art & Ecology

Project: Sitka Youth Program

Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Otis, OR
About:

Provides hands-on arts education to over 1200 Pre-K-8th grade students in local schools and a 4-week summer art education series for over 100 underserved youth in Tillamook and Lincoln Counties.



Social Venture Partners Portland

Project: Ready for Kindergarten Transitions Program

Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $8,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

The Transitions project creates effective transition to kindergarten for children, families, communities, and schools in targeted districts where many of the 60% of Multnomah County children entering kindergarten with no prior classroom experience live.  For children with no prior classroom experience, their ability to socially, emotionally, and mentally adjust to a school environment can set them up for failure and a lag that is unrecoverable.  The transitions project aims to give these children the opportunity to enter kindergarten prepared to learn and able to move forward with their classmates and also prepares their families/caregivers to support them through that process.



SoundStart

Project: Let Them Be Little: A Playground for Infants and Toddlers Who are Deaf

Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $18,745 Location: Beaverton, OR
About:

SoundSTART offers comprehensive care for children and young adults using cochlear implants and hearing aids, and their families. The playground expands the full-day care classroom outside and provides a developmentally appropriate, safe place to play.



South Coast Family Harbor

Project: Unrestricted

Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Coos Bay, OR
About:

Helps prevent child abuse and neglect by using individualized community supports to strengthen high-risk families and keep children safe, healthy and ready to learn.



Stephen's Place

Project: Stephen's Place Community Garden for Children and Neurodivergent Individuals

Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Vancouver, WA
About:

Supports the development of a larger garden space and involvement of an additional 15-20 children in our Horticultural Therapy program for a total of 25-35 children and 30 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities benefiting from this program.



Team Read

Project: The Power is in the Pair - General Operating Support

Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

In 2020/21 we will employ 150 teens to tutor 300 2nd – 4th graders in reading across 17 schools. Each teen will work virtually in one:one tutoring sessions with two different readers, twice weekly. Summer plans will be made in January.



Team Read

Project: Year-Round Reading Tutoring and Youth Development

Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

Supports Team Read’s year-round reading tutoring and youth employment and development program that pairs carefully trained 8th-12th grade paid teen reading coaches with 2nd-4th graders who benefit from reading tutoring and mentoring support.



Technology Access Foundation

Project: College and Career Readiness

Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

TAF’s mission is to equip students (of color) for success in college and in life through the power of an interdisciplinary STEM education and supportive relationships. This program serves 150 high school students + events that serve 700 6-12 graders.



The Canby Center

Project: Backpack Buddies Collaborative

Year: 2011 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Canby, OR
About:

Support the Backpack Buddies Collaborative to source and provide weekend food backpacks to needy students in all six Canby elementary schools and the Barlow Head Start program and to create a manual for the program, making it easy to replicate.



The Dougy Center

Project: Pathways Program

Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Support for year two of a three year pilot project that provides guidance, connection and support for children ages 3-18 and their families who are experiencing an advanced life-shortening condition or illness.


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