Solicited Grants

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts

Supports Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art in their transitional period as they bring back youth (and other) programming under new leadership.

Deschutes River Conservancy

This proposal supports the work of the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) throughout the Deschutes Basin. The DRC accomplishes its mission to restore streamflow and improve water quality in the Deschutes Basin through innovative, consensus-based problem solving.

Deschutes River Conservancy

The Collaborative will accelerate implementation of water supply projects to meet river and community water needs. This grant will support the staff capacity to coordinate, facilitate and provide technical support to the Collaborative.  The immediate goal is to develop a Framework Plan that will allow the group to address immediate barriers to implementation like policy and funding issues.

Door to Grace

Provides the ability to increase awareness of the problem of exploitation of children in Portland and increases the ability to serve more girls affected by commercial sexual exploitation.  Note: Closed in 2019.  See Safety Compass.

Door to Grace

Impacts child sex trafficking through Door to Grace’s intensive mentoring program in the Portland Metro area to an annual two dozen teens and young women served.

Objective 1: Serve 24 mentees annually through the day home and community-based supports. Objective 2: Provide a mentor for each of the girls.  Objective 3: Offer Programming opportunities at the day home and in the community throughout the year.  Note: Closed 2019.  See Safety First.

Dougy Center

This grant will fund grief support groups for youth ages 3-18 years after the death of a parent/caregiver or sibling in Portland Metro through 79 biweekly support groups providing direct service to more than 2,600 individuals every year.

Duwamish River Community Coalition

Duwamish Valley Youth Corps engages kids aged 13-18. The Youth Corps empowers youth most affected by injustice to advocate for themselves and their community.

Click here to watch all or part of a 13 minute video about this program

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc, dba Art Center East

Art Center East will provide high-quality arts experiences to schools and other venues where rural children have access to art without cost to families: 3,000 K-8 students in 10 counties, 200 children attending Farmers’ Market, 100 youth receiving class scholarships, 900 arts contact hours to teens affiliated with the Juvenile Department.

Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre

Provides access to live theatre for all ages in rural communities in eastern Oregon and SE Washington.

Ethos, Inc.

Since its inception, Ethos has worked diligently to make music education accessible to all K-12 kids by offering affordable music lessons, workshops, assemblies, and artist-in-residence programs. Ethos has become one of Oregon’s leading sources of music education and has won numerous regional and national awards, including being selected as one of the top 50 after-school programs in the country by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.  This grant supports this good work.

Family Access Network Foundation

FAN typically serves over 9,000 struggling children and families every year. Funds from the Lamb Foundation will provide 100 of these children with the essential resources they need in order to thrive in school.

Family Building Blocks

The playground is considered an extension of the therapeutic classroom and stimulates young brains and helps develop fine and large motor skills. This project will serve children considered at high-risk for child abuse and neglect in Marion County.

Family Building Blocks

To support the work of this relief nursery as they navigate the pandemic and continue to serve at-risk children and their families to prevent child abuse and neglect, and keep children safely with their families.

Family Building Blocks

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 Development Center

Gives 66 preschool age children with high Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) scores, and who experience a history of neglect or trauma, the opportunity to experience an art project in clay – an experience otherwise not available to them.