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Sexual Assault Resource Center
Project: Resilient Youth Strong and Empowered sexual exploitation prevention program
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Beaverton, ORAbout:
Continuing the new prevention collaboration with Self Enhancement Inc. addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children/youth within the African American community. The strategies remain the same as in 2014; however, this grant provides the addition of a Prevention Specialist representing the African American community, a component that was found to be essential for the success of the collaboration.
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Project: Sitka Youth Program
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Otis, ORAbout:
Provides hands-on arts education to over 1200 Pre-K-8th grade students in local schools and a 4-week summer art education series for over 100 underserved youth in Tillamook and Lincoln Counties.
Social Venture Partners Portland
Project: Ready for Kindergarten Transitions Program
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $8,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
The Transitions project creates effective transition to kindergarten for children, families, communities, and schools in targeted districts where many of the 60% of Multnomah County children entering kindergarten with no prior classroom experience live. For children with no prior classroom experience, their ability to socially, emotionally, and mentally adjust to a school environment can set them up for failure and a lag that is unrecoverable. The transitions project aims to give these children the opportunity to enter kindergarten prepared to learn and able to move forward with their classmates and also prepares their families/caregivers to support them through that process.
SoundStart
Project: Let Them Be Little: A Playground for Infants and Toddlers Who are Deaf
Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $18,745 Location: Beaverton, ORAbout:
SoundSTART offers comprehensive care for children and young adults using cochlear implants and hearing aids, and their families. The playground expands the full-day care classroom outside and provides a developmentally appropriate, safe place to play.
South Coast Family Harbor
Project: Unrestricted
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Coos Bay, ORAbout:
Helps prevent child abuse and neglect by using individualized community supports to strengthen high-risk families and keep children safe, healthy and ready to learn.
Stephen's Place
Project: Stephen's Place Community Garden for Children and Neurodivergent Individuals
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Vancouver, WAAbout:
Supports the development of a larger garden space and involvement of an additional 15-20 children in our Horticultural Therapy program for a total of 25-35 children and 30 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities benefiting from this program.
Team Read
Project: The Power is in the Pair - General Operating Support
Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
In 2020/21 we will employ 150 teens to tutor 300 2nd – 4th graders in reading across 17 schools. Each teen will work virtually in one:one tutoring sessions with two different readers, twice weekly. Summer plans will be made in January.
Team Read
Project: Year-Round Reading Tutoring and Youth Development
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
Supports Team Read’s year-round reading tutoring and youth employment and development program that pairs carefully trained 8th-12th grade paid teen reading coaches with 2nd-4th graders who benefit from reading tutoring and mentoring support.
Technology Access Foundation
Project: College and Career Readiness
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
TAF’s mission is to equip students (of color) for success in college and in life through the power of an interdisciplinary STEM education and supportive relationships. This program serves 150 high school students + events that serve 700 6-12 graders.
The Canby Center
Project: Backpack Buddies Collaborative
Year: 2011 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Canby, ORAbout:
Support the Backpack Buddies Collaborative to source and provide weekend food backpacks to needy students in all six Canby elementary schools and the Barlow Head Start program and to create a manual for the program, making it easy to replicate.
The Dougy Center
Project: Pathways Program
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Support for year two of a three year pilot project that provides guidance, connection and support for children ages 3-18 and their families who are experiencing an advanced life-shortening condition or illness.
The Dougy Center
Project: Ensuring Emotional Support for Grieving Children
Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $12,500 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
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
Project: Conserving Streamflow in Eastern Oregon
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
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
Project: Scalable Tools for Freshwater Restoration
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
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
Project: You & Me Retreat
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $18,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
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.
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