Solicited Grants

The Dougy Center

Ensures that safe space and support is in place for 2,000 children, teens and young adults to find hope and healing in the face of grief due to the death of a parent or sibling.   The Dougy Center is the only child bereavement program in the Portland-area which does not limit the time that families can participate and is offered at no charge to families.

The Freshwater Trust

Funding will support 1) Conservation of significant streamflow in eastern Oregon via partnerships with agricultural landowners and 2) Feasibility study to identify new conservation opportunities in the Catherine Creek watershed.

The Freshwater Trust

Funding will enable the exploration of web-based platforms and standardized tools that will support the deployment of recently developed tools, protocols and methodologies that better account for the water quality impacts of land uses, model the restoration potential of improvement projects, prioritize projects with maximal environmental benefit, and monitor long-term results of completed projects.  These scalable tools will help to truly address the needs of our freshwater ecosystems on a timeline that matters by setting accurate and meaningful restoration goals, directing conservation resources to the projects that help us achieve these goals in the best possible way, and monitor and track long-term progress.  Project planning and monitoring activities are historically difficult to fund, as traditional restoration partners prefer to support more tangible, on-the-ground actions.

The GoodTimes Project

Cancer sometimes can get in the way of personal relationships. The You and Me Retreat offers a unique experience for one parent/guardian and one child from a family who has experienced pediatric cancer to (re)build their connection.

The Library Foundation

This project will reach over 57,000 children and adults, delivering vital messages about early literacy and brain development, and making appropriate books available to the highest-risk families who are living in poverty, and those who may have language or literacy challenges at home.

The Living Room

Develops a robust volunteer program that recruits, trains, manages, and retains volunteers that will directly support youth in Clackamas County, OR.

The Next Door, Inc.

Our Youth Services’ programs will provide 280 at risk or high-risk youth from the Mid-Columbia Gorge region with social-emotional support services. Participating youth will learn life and resiliency skills to thrive as adults through services that include:

* Mentoring Services will implement a best practices, evidence-based mentoring program that will recruit, screen, train, support, supervise activities, and create matches that will provide positive adult role models for at least 100 children and youth ages 6-20.

*Independent Living Program will provide life skills training and supervised activities for at least 15 foster youth.

*Oregon Trail Transitional Living will provide housing and life skills trainings for seven homeless or runaway 17-21 year olds, including young mothers.

*Summer Youth Employment Program will provide at least nine weeks of summer employment, conservation and environmental education for 10 youth.  This summer, we hope to provide maintenance to areas affected by the Eagle Creek Fire—a region where our crews have always worked.

*Youth Outreach Worker will provide intensive, moderate and/or brief counseling and therapeutic services and support to at least 150 youth in Hood River County.

The Portland Kitchen

Doubles the number of teens served in the 2016 summer program as a pilot program, and, if successful, also the 2016-2017 School Year program.  The Portland Kitchen provides a free, comprehensive program to teach culinary arts, nutrition and health education, job skills development, community service, social and life skills to low-income, at-risk teens ages 14-18.

The Safe Project

We have been providing emergency shelter services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Coos County.for over 40 years. Since many people know the location of our shelter, it has become unsafe. We wish to make the location more secure.

Tides of Change

These funds will specifically serve survivors of domestic/dating violence, sexual violence, stalking and/or human trafficking in Tillamook County. We serve between 425-560 survivors a year across all our programs.

Trailkeepers of Oregon

This project will improve up to 25 miles of trail and associated slopes in the Columbia Gorge, aiding restoration and recovery of the impacted ecosystem. It will also engage hundreds of volunteers and reopen trails affected by the Eagle Creek Fire.

Last year the Eagle Creek Fire burned over 48,500 acres and impacted some of the most beautiful and iconic sites in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. While fires are a natural part of many forested ecosystems the impacts of the Eagle Creek Fire will be a difficult challenge into the future due to the steep slopes of the Columbia Gorge.

Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery

This grant will allow expansion of our “Clothes Closet” to include diapers, wipes, hygiene products, and food boxes. We will also include a Dress for Success offering for parents looking for work, gas cards for transportation, & family resources.

Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery

At-risk toddlers will get to safely explore and play. Trauma’s negative impact on children is well-documented. Our play area will provide many opportunities for children to grow their imaginations, build their vocabularies, and learn about nature.

The natural playground………………………. A trike track…………..

and a balance beam donated by a High School senior volunteer.

Treehouse Fund

Treehouse programs provide support and resources foster youth need to earn a diploma and successfully pave pathways to adulthood. We support basic needs, extracurricular activities, and provide individualized academic coaching.

Treehouse Fund

Treehouse partners with youth and young adults in foster care in WA state by providing coaching and resource navigation so they graduate and have the tools and resources they need to thrive as independent adults.