2025 Grants

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Community Transitional School

Project: 2025-2026 General Operations

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

CTS is a tuition-free, nonprofit PreK-8th grade private school dedicated to the educational needs of children whose families are experiencing homelessness and living with the Portland metropolitan area and greater Multnomah County.



Confluences

Project: Confluence’s Education Programs for K-12 Students and Teachers

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Vancouver, WA
About:

Confluence’s Education Programs work together to plant seeds of knowledge for students and educators as they experience learning through a broader approach to history.



Family Building Blocks

Project: Strengthening Families in Marion & Polk Counties with Relief Nursery Services

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Salem, Oregon
About:

Mission: “Keep Children Safe and Families Together” Goals: Reduce child and family risk factors to prevent abuse and neglect, Improve family stability and functioning. Improve parenting skills, Support positive child development and well-being.



Family Tree Relief Nursery

Project: Sweet Home TECP Program

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Albany, OR
About:

Family Tree’s Therapeutic Early Childhood Program (TECP) in Sweet Home will serve 40 families with children from birth to age 6 who experience family stressors that may increase their risk for child abuse and neglect and foster care placement.



Farmers Conservation Alliance

Project: Adapting to Changing Federal Priorities, Programs, and Rules

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Hood River, OR
About:

This proposal will support currently engaged rural agricultural communities to respond to rapidly changing federal priorities, programs, and rules related to irrigation modernization efforts in the West, primarily in Oregon.



Golden Road Arts

Project: Core Support: free art for students and teachers

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Hillsboro, OR
About:

There is no art education in local elementary schools. Golden Road Arts’ vision provides art classes to fill that void, providing sequential hands-on “art club” programs and free support materials for educators.



HOLLA

Project: Expanding Mentorship for Youth of Color in East Portland

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

HOLLA pairs 100 youth of color in East Portland with adults who share similar cultures. The program provides educational and social support and fun activities, and recruits staff and mentors who are attuned to the culture of the youth.



Northwest Harvest

Project: General Operations - Food Procurement

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

This general operating grant will support Northwest Harvest’s purpose to ensure access to nutritious food, and to build broad food partner capacity to create a stronger, more resilient, more just food ecosystem.



Old Mill Center for Children & Families

Project: Relief Nursery Transportation

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Corvallis, OR
About:

Funds will support transportation for students to and from programming at our Relief Nurseries in Corvallis and Monroe, covering vehicle maintenance, staff car seat/gas reimbursement, and contracted services like dial-a-bus.



Outgrowing Hunger

Project: Farm Accelerator Operations

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Boring, OR
About:

Supports staff time and equipment to continue our valuable Farm Accelerator Program that provides food for donation and/or sale in East Multnomah County.



Urban Gleaners

Project: Enhancing Creative Food Security Programming to Nourish Portland’s Children and Their Families

Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Goals: Increase volume of food collected, and thus rescued from landfills; increase the number of high-quality, healthy prepared meals ; enhance farm gleaning program; improve community outreach and responsiveness.