Solicited Grants (2011-Current)

Oasis Advocacy & Shelter, Inc.

In Curry County, Oregon, we plan to prevent homelessness for 15 families over the course of approximately 1 year. “Families” who have experienced a form of interpersonal violence/abuse will be given priority.

Oasis Advocacy and Shelter, Inc.

Oasis Advocacy and Shelter has a 30+ year record of direct services for domestic violence/sexual assault survivors in Oregon. Offers: emergency shelter, court support, and advocacy services for survivors and their children.  General Operations support allows freedom to attend to the most appropriate needs of survivors.

Old Mill Center for Children and Families

Since 2011, the Old Mill Center Relief Nursery has been serving 19 families at a time in the therapeutic classrooms.  Over the course of a year’s time, that has been between 25-30 families as children transition in and out of classrooms to other programs, such as Head Start and public kindergartens.  Unfortunately, throughout this time our ability to serve families in these much sought after classrooms has been limited by the lack of ability to provide transportation to those families in need.  The purchase of a van will enable us to more than double the capacity to transport children. The objectives include: 1) To transport up to 10 children a day, to and from their homes to their therapeutic classroom sessions; 2)To be able to transport up to 10 children a day for field trips and other special classroom events; 3)To be able to transport families or children in other programs as needed for appointments, special events and field trips; and  4) To provide staff travel to conferences, meetings or training.

Ophelia's Place

Delivers a holistic program of prevention-based services for underserved female and male youth in the rural Lane County, Oregon communities of Junction City, Harrisburg, Cottage Grove, Elmira and Mapleton.

Oregon Adaptive Sports

Oregon Adaptive Sports will serve at least 100 youth with disabilities from seven different schools and institutions in Central Oregon. Each student participates in two to five days of adaptive snow sports at Mt Bachelor.

Oregon Adaptive Sports’ Ski For Life program instills confidence, self-esteem, and increased independence in over 100 youth with disabilities through adaptive snow-sports.

Oregon Coast Children's Theatre

Our touring season usually runs from September – September for Oregon schools. Funds will be used to support program costs, both for our arts center operations, and for touring programs around the state of Oregon.

Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Center for the Arts

Our programs include 4 touring programs for schools, 3 theatrical and one fine art workshop. (Building Public works of Art). Due to the pandemic, we hope to begin touring again by spring 2022. Goal for 2022 is 10 works of public art.

Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Youth Arts Center

Provides free training workshops in paper sculpture to rural students in the 5th through 12th grade in anticipation of an expected 500 entries to a first Oregon Coast invitational youth art show occurring concurrently with the Toledo “Art Walk” in late August, 2016.

Oregon Coast Community Action

This proposal will provide recruitment, training, and supervision support for our CASA volunteers. Our goal for this year is to recruit and train 15 new CASAs and serve at least 150 children. CASAs advocate for children in foster care.

Oregon East Symphony

Gives students, from 4th grade through high school, access to the opportunity to play music through various education programs, instrument lending and performances.

Oregon East Symphony, Inc.

OES operates a symphony orchestra, chorale and youth music program in Eastern Oregon to enhance the quality of life by providing a dependable source of live music with special emphasis on youth education opportunities.

Oregon East Symphony, Inc.

The Playing for Keeps project includes: a youth orchestra, a beginner orchestra, a youth chorus, provision for instruments for young musicians, a summer camp for kids, music lessons for children and youth, a young people’s concert, performances and master classes in public schools, scholarships for youth who play with the OES, a young musician’s competition and opportunity for winners to solo with OES.  Over the past 15 years, these activities have exposed thousands of young people in the region to orchestral and choral music.

Oregon Environmental Council

This project benefits low-income residents in the Umatilla River basin (Oregon’s “bread basket”) who face serious water contamination, and local economic development efforts that currently lack reliable water resources.

As part of a broader effort to build bridges of understanding and collaboration between urban and rural Oregon around environmental concerns, OEC’s Rural Partnership Initiative is working with local stakeholders to address serious water quality and OEC will be developing a science-based strategy to improve water quality and water supply and related pilot projects in specific locations within the Umatilla basin. The lessons learned in this project will also help improve other state agency programs to restore water quality and supply in at least four other areas that state officials have designated for particular attention due to water quality or water supply issues.

Oregon Environmental Council

This grant will allow a core group of farmers, environmentalists, utilities and state agency officials to convene to identify shared goals for improving water quality and managing water supply, develop a shared understanding of the science, and build relationships for overcoming conflict in preparation for bringing the current situation of serious water resource challenges and strategies to address them to a broader audience of community stakeholders in early 2016.

Oregon Farm Academy

Funding will be used to build a perimeter deer fence and tool shed, and to purchase the materials to grow food and provide 4 workshops to at least 30 students. Within one year, the forest will provide fresh produce for 25 low-income families through a sliding-scale CSA.