New Executive Director – Susan Kenney
Date: 2025-08-11 01:39
Lamb Foundation is proud to announce that we have hired a new Executive Director as of July 17, 2025. Susan Kenney brings experience and knowledge to her new position. She currently serves on the JW & HM Goodman Family Foundation, where she has volunteered for that foundation for 15+ years as a program officer, board member and board treasurer. Her career was spent in high tech global sales and marketing roles. She spent 23 years at Intel, retiring in 2022. Please join us in welcoming her to our family foundation.
Debra Iguchi, who has served as Administrator of the foundation for over 23 years, will be retiring at the end of 2025, with reduced hours after August 15 to allow for an easy transition. We wish her well in her retirement and are grateful for the wonderful support she provided to Lamb Foundation over the years.
2024 Fall Grants Awarded
Date: 2025-01-23 10:54
Lamb Foundation concluded the Fall 2024 grant cycle and awarded 9 solicited grants totaling $145,000, that represent all three of our areas of interest. Three arts grants were made in Portland, OR, two environmental grants were made: one based in Vancouver, WA and one in Wallowa, OR, and four social service grants were made: one in Coos Bay, OR, one in Baker City, OR, one in Ontario, OR, and one in Seattle, WA. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2024 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
2024 Spring Grants Awarded
Date: 2024-05-07 02:30
Lamb Foundation concluded the Spring 2024 grant cycle and awarded 8 solicited grants totaling $122,500, that represent all three of our areas of interest. Grants were made in Kirkland and Vancouver, Washington; Boise, Idaho; and in Beaverton, Medford, Pendleton, and Portland, Oregon. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2024 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
2023 Fall Grants Awarded
Date: 2023-11-06 04:47
Lamb Foundation concluded the Fall 2023 grant cycle and awarded 8 solicited grants totaling $141,000, that represent all three of our areas of interest. Grants were made in Seattle, Washington and in Bend, Roseburg, Portland, and Pendleton, Oregon. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2023 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
2023 Spring Grants Awarded
Date: 2023-05-29 12:01
Lamb Foundation concluded the Spring 2023 grant cycle and awarded 9 solicited grants totaling $88,000, that represent our three areas of interest. Grants were made in Seattle, Washington and in Portland, Forest Grove, Gresham, Bend, LaPine and Wallowa, Oregon. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2023 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
News from the Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries
Date: 2022-11-22 05:03
Relief Nurseries in the News!
This last month several Relief Nurseries were ranked as some of the “Best 100 Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon” in Oregon Business Magazine! You can see the complete article on the website HERE. We are so excited to see these Relief Nurseries have a special shout out, and proud of the entire Relief Nursery workforce! R.N.’s are a truly special place to work.
MOUNTAIN STAR RELIEF NURSERY was #15 in the medium sized nonprofits group (20-49 employees)
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS tied for #26 in the large sized nonprofits (50+ employees)
FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY in Cottage Grove was #32 in the small sized nonprofits (19 or fewer employees)
2022 Grants Awarded
Date: 2022-09-21 11:56
In 2022 Lamb Foundation celebrated its 50th Anniversary with one grant cycle focused on coastal communities. Lamb Foundation awarded 15 solicited grants totaling $265,000. The 2022 grants represent all three of Lamb Foundation’s areas of interests and were awarded to organizations in and/or serving Seattle, WA., the Willamette River Watershed, the Columbia Gorge and the following counties in Oregon: Clatsop, Coos, Curry, Lincoln, and Tillamook, with some organizations having a statewide or further area of impact. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2022 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
2021 Fall Grants Awarded
Date: 2021-12-27 03:31
Lamb Foundation concluded the fall 2021 grant cycle and awarded 9 grants totaling $117,000. All 2021 grants have been awarded and received. The fall grants represent all three of Lamb Foundation’s areas of interests and were awarded in the Seattle, WA area and in the following counties in Oregon: Lane, Lincoln/Tillamook, Multnomah, Clackamas, Umatilla and Wallowa. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2021 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
Financial Beginnings
Date: 2021-09-24 01:17
Financial Beginnings Oregon
In early 2021, our Executive Director, Kate Benedict, was thrilled to serve on the Oregon State Treasurer’s Financial Education Advisory Team. Over the course of five months, the team met to discuss where Oregon stands nationally when it comes to financial education and awareness.
The goal of these conversations was to provide substantive feedback and recommendations on how the Treasurer’s office could help improve the financial literacy of Oregonians of all backgrounds.
Chaired by the Treasurer, the group included experts who represented a diverse range of financial literacy and education priorities and organizations. They recently issued a final report of their recommendations!
READ MORE (including the full report)
2021 Spring Grants Awarded
Date: 2021-05-20 12:07
Lamb Foundation has concluded the Spring 2021 grant cycle and awarded $122,550 in 8 solicited grants. All grants, except for one in Vancouver, WA, were made in Oregon. Three grants went to relief nurseries in Baker City, Medford and Salem. Two other grants were made in eastern Oregon and two in the Portland metropolitan area. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2021 Grants page under All Solicited Grants in the Grants menu.
Last chance to submit Census 2020 information for the next ten years!
Date: 2020-09-08 03:35
Please submit your census survey right away if you have not yet done so. Please also spread the word to the communities you serve and interact with – especially those communities that tend to be harder to count. The census bureau has limited the time to collect data until the end of this month, September 30, 2020. It is important that all people residing in the United States are counted by September 30, 2020! https://2020census.gov/en.html
Census 2020
Date: 2020-03-04 03:37
Census 2020 is poised to start this month. This is a very important opportunity for all residents of the United States to be counted. Lamb Foundation is helping to fund an effort to count people in hard-to-count communities in Oregon and Washington. Recently the We Count Oregon campaign made this video available. Please feel free to share it: https://vimeo.com/388180134
Homeless Youth Law Clinic is Featured in Street Roots
Date: 2019-05-30 02:15
Homeless Youth Law Center
5/29/19: This week’s edition of Street Roots features an article about Homeless Youth Law Clinic, a 2017 Lamb Foundation grant recipient
Read the article here
Introducing Lilac Meadows – Human Solutions
Date: 2019-05-30 02:11
Human Solutions
Human solutions was awarded a Lamb Foundation grant in spring 2018 for their Homeless Services Program.
5/2/19: Human Solutions is thrilled to share the news that our emergency shelter program for families has found a new permanent home! In partnership with the Joint Office of Homeless Services (a combined City or Portland and Multnomah County effort), Human Solutions will be moving our program that supports families through homelessness into a wonderful new shelter called Lilac Meadows in SE Portland, where the need is so great. See more
Spring 2019 Grants Awarded
Date: 2019-05-30 01:47
Lamb Foundation has concluded the Spring 2019 grant cycle and awarded $123,000 in 9 solicited grants. The geographic boundaries of this cycle’s grants were from Coos Bay, OR on the southern coast, to Pendleton and La Grande, in northeast OR, and Seattle, WA in the north. More information about the grants and grantees can be found on the 2019 Grants page under the Grants menu.