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Friends of Explorer Post 58
Project: Teen Outreach Program
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Connects Portland area teenagers with challenging outdoor and wilderness adventures to include a much broader demographic of students. The grant will make financial assistance available to broaden diversity and scope of the organization to an estimated 20-30 students who otherwise might not be able to participate.
Friends of Youth
Project: Support for general operation of all agency programs (wrap-around services)
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Kirkland, WAAbout:
Supports general operation of agency programs, which will allow us to provide over 2,000 marginalized youth facing a wide range of difficult circumstances with emergency shelter, housing, mental health counseling, and other critical services.
Good News Community Health Center
Project: Good News Clinic - two programs: Tutoring and Substance Abuse Prevention
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Grant supports two programs: 1) one-on-one educational tutoring for at-risk students and 2) expand substance abuse counseling as a next big step towards integrating a behavioral health program with primary care: a unique and critical offering in Rockwood, a neighborhood of outer SE Portland (Gresham), OR.
Harney County Library Foundation
Project: Project Pre-COOL
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $14,280 Location: Burns, ORAbout:
Provides a small branch library within the Early Childhood Center to introduce and connect families with young children with the larger Harney County Library, the library system and its resources. Also supports the “Raising a Reader” program for these families.
Heart of Oregon Corps
Project: Post-Secondary Education Success Initiative
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Bend, ORAbout:
This initiative will expose and prepare 60 students from Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson Counties to educational opportunities beyond high school. 46% of the youth will be first generation college enrollees.
Heart of Oregon Corps
Project: Heart of Oregon 2023 Summer Programs
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Bend, ORAbout:
Heart of Oregon provides two summer conservation programs, Central Oregon Youth Conservation Corps and Camp LEAD, which provide job skills training to youth doing work in a supportive outdoor work environment.
HOLLA
Project: Expanding Mentorship for Youth of Color in East Portland
Year: 2025 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
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.
Homeless Youth Law Clinic
Project: The p:ear legal project
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $12,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Provides community legal services ranging from advice, brief service and litigation, impacting fifty 14-25 year-old youth at p:ear. P:ear serves youth who are homeless, or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
Homeplate Youth Services
Project: Activities for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Hillsboro, ORAbout:
Supports additional coordination and expansion of programming for HomePlate’s drop-in centers as well as outings with youth experiencing instability. Adding activities that increase youth’s mastery and belonging help to further their stability and hopes for a better future. The main expectation is to support the positive development of young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability through intentional and well-rounded programming. Project proposes to serve a projected 1,000 Washington County homeless youth during 2015.
HomePlate Youth Services
Project: Support to Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Beaverton, ORAbout:
Funds from the Lamb Foundation will support our work to serve Oregon’s most vulnerable community members and will strengthen our ability to provide consistent and focused attention to each individual along their journey to stability.
HomePlate Youth Services
Project: General Operations
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Beaverton, ORAbout:
The impact of this proposal will help 100 unhoused youth to access HomePlate’s Outreach, Drop-In Center, Employment, Education and Housing resources that provide opportunities to gain stability and self-sufficiency. Also will help rebuild our volunteer program.
Human Solutions
Project: Keep Families & Children Housed (COVID-19)
Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $20000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Human Solutions will work with up to 500 low-income families (1,460 adults and 945 children) living in affordable housing communities in the racially diverse and high poverty area of East Multnomah County to keep them housed during COVID19.
Human Solutions dba Our Just Future
Project: Housing Security for Families in East Portland/East Multnomah County
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $25,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Our Just Future partners with low-income families living in East Multnomah County, a racially diverse area where many families experience the effects of poverty and homelessness. Our resident services team helps families stay housed and, when possible, gain income to become more financially stable, with on-site support and community building.
Human Solutions
Project: Homeless Services Program
Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $11,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
The Homeless Services Program will prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless and support those who do with emergency services and housing placement. The program will serve at least 19,500 low-income people in East Multnomah County, OR.
Impact Northwest
Project: Healthy Start
Year: 2011 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Supports the Healthy Start program, which supports and educates first-time, at-risk parents with children ages 0-3 in Multnomah County. Promotes positive parent-child relationships and healthy childhood growth & development.
Interactive Grants Map
Please NOTE: In addition to the solicited grants shown on our website, this map also includes discretionary grants.