Solicited Grants

Newport Food Pantry

Our objective is to provide people who live in poverty nutritious food so that they are able to maintain health and focus on developing changes that will enable success

Nixyaawii Community School

Three projects to stress the importance of lifelong learning, building connections, and caring for ourselves and our environment for Native American youth on the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation:

1.  Greenhouse project to understand the significance of horticulture and contribute positively to the environment through the production of organic vegetables, herb and flowers for community and school use.
2.  Foster lifelong learning via a cultural field trip to Portland, OR, where students will attend a writing workshop at Lewis & Clark College, a TEDx PDX (TED=Technology, Education and Design) event, tour Portland State University, and visit cultural attractions in Portland, such as Oregon Museum  of Science and Industry, the Portland Art Museum, The Oregon Zoo and other Washington Park attractions.
3. Encourage community and school interaction and engage students in planning, fundraising, and designing through the National Honor Society community project.  This is an event envisioned by student members of the local National Honor Society chapter, which is in its first year at our school, and gives youth, adults, and elders a healthy, positive experience to help frame choices for healthy social activities in the community.  This project includes clothing and food donations.

North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council

We will restore habitat at the Boardman Creek /Willamette confluence, a critical stopover for all salmon and steelhead migrating through the Willamette Basin. We will create logjams, rearing habitat, natural pool function, and cold-water refuge.

North Fork John Day Watershed Council

This grant directly supports health and function of 2,600² mile of the North and Middle Fork John Day River watersheds and the rural communities within, through restoration, monitoring, literacy and stewardship services.

Northwest Harvest

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.

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 & Families

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.

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.