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Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery
Project: Creating a Natural Playground
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,500 Location: Ontario, ORAbout:
At-risk toddlers will get to safely explore and play. Trauma’s negative impact on children is well-documented. Our play area will provide many opportunities for children to grow their imaginations, build their vocabularies, and learn about nature.
The natural playground………………………. A trike track…………..
and a balance beam donated by a High School senior volunteer.
Treehouse Fund
Project: Treehouse Fostering Futures
Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
Treehouse programs provide support and resources foster youth need to earn a diploma and successfully pave pathways to adulthood. We support basic needs, extracurricular activities, and provide individualized academic coaching.
Treehouse Fund
Project: Treehouse General Operating
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
Treehouse partners with youth and young adults in foster care in WA state by providing coaching and resource navigation so they graduate and have the tools and resources they need to thrive as independent adults.
Treehouse Fund
Project: Graduation Success
Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $12,500 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
The goal of Treehouse’s Graduation Success Program is to help foster youth graduate from high school at the same rate as their peers. During the 2017-2018, we expect to serve 850-1,000 youth in foster care in Washington State.
Youth in foster care face an uphill battle academically due to lack of basic skills, frequent home and school placement changes and emotional upheaval.
Treehouse is involved in our most important work yet: helping foster youth graduate from high school at the same rate as their peers with a plan for their future and launch successfully into adulthood. After 5 years of success in Seattle/King County, Graduation Success expanded in 2016 to Tacoma and Spokane, this year expanding to an additional eight districts in Pierce, Spokane and Snohomish counties. Treehouse is planning to expand the Graduation Success program statewide by 2022.
United Cerebral Palsy of San Luis Obispo
Project: Parents of Joy All-Inclusive Playground
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $2,000 Location: Atascadero, CAAbout:
Supports the construction of a playground accessible to all children, regardless of ability. The playground will be designed to make social play easier for children with cerebral palsy and other special needs. NOTE: this grant does not conform to Lamb Foundation’s usual guidelines.
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
Project: Census Equity Fund 2020
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $37,500 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
This is an unusually large grant for Lamb Foundation. The directors felt that it was important enough that they devoted a large portion of Fall 2019 grants to join with fellow philanthropists to support this effort. Census 2020 is extremely important because an accurate count of citizens determines many factors, including how much money is available to states for social services. By supporting an accurate count, especially among those most in need of these services, funds will have an impact of further reach.
The Census Equity Fund is designed to concentrate funding and services for those who are hardest to count. Among others, these include people living in rural, tribal or non traditional tracts, homeless people, people with language barriers, people without adequate internet connection or skills, and young children. United Way of the Columbia Willamette is managing this fund to serve the entire state of Oregon.
Urban Gleaners
Project: Food to Schools Expansion Project
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Urban Gleaners provides weekly deliveries of fresh food for home consumption to children and families in high need in E Multnomah County through their schools and Section 8 housing. Urban Gleaners reduces waste and want.
Urban Gleaners
Project: Unrestricted
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Supporting their mission to help alleviate hunger by collecting food that would be thrown away and distributing it to agencies that feed the hungry. Hunger is not a problem of scarce resources but inefficient distribution.
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YouthCare
Project: Barista Education and Employment Program
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
YouthCare’s Barista Training and Education Program sets homeless young people on the path to obtain a job and educational credential, meeting each young person where they are with the support they need and giving them access to YouthCare’s full continuum of services: outreach, basic needs, shelter, housing, counseling, education, and employment. Participants gain hands-on barista and food preparation training, customer service training, and career exploration opportunities.
YouthCare
Project: YouthCare's YouthBuild
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
The YouthBuild program is a six-month, cohort-based, construction pre-apprenticeship program that supports 15-20 students per cohort in completing their GED and obtaining stable employment.
Zarephath Ministries
Project: General Operations
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $8,000 Location: Gresham, ORAbout:
Helps to support the mission of Zarephath Ministries to feed and provide emergency food to anyone in need.
Interactive Grants Map
Please NOTE: In addition to the solicited grants shown on our website, this map also includes discretionary grants.