2022 Grants

Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education

This grant will be used to increase volunteer training. Inspiring volunteers through education and development of their understanding of our mission to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and spark positive actions.

Music Is Instrumental

This grant will help maintain access to music for ALL 1,507 K-12 students in Lincoln City Schools. Expert technicians help meet this objective by supporting the instruction of three full time music teachers.

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.

Sitka Center for Art & Ecology

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.

Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Friends’ protects, preserves, and conserves the 293,000 acres of the Columbia
River Gorge National Scenic Area. We connect thousands to the Gorge through public education, land stewardship, and recreational opportunities.

Midcoast Watersheds Council

We work on Oregon’s central coast. Our education work focuses on high school students, including in rural school districts, tribal students, and the public. Our restoration work is with landowners in priority areas.

Willamette Riverkeeper

The intent of this general support proposal is to protect water quality and habitat, and to better enable people to see and experience their river.

FosterClub

To provide general program support to provide Oregon young people in and from foster care, age 16-24, with access to resources as they recover from the pandemic. Funding will be used to increase staff capacity to get youth back on track after falling further behind during the pandemic.

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

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.

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.

Project Lemonade

This grant will support Project Lemonade’s 3 programs in 2022. It will help us reach our goal to assist 2500 foster youth with 1) clothing needs, 2)provide paid job training to 15 youth interns, and 3) grant 100 youth WISHes.

Click here to watch a five-minute video about Project Lemonade from youth served.

The GoodTimes Project

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.

The Safe Project

We have been providing emergency shelter services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Coos County.for over 40 years. Since many people know the location of our shelter, it has become unsafe. We wish to make the location more secure.

Tides of Change

These funds will specifically serve survivors of domestic/dating violence, sexual violence, stalking and/or human trafficking in Tillamook County. We serve between 425-560 survivors a year across all our programs.