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Baker Relief Nursery
Project: BRN Facility Improvement Project Manager
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $25,000 Location: Baker City, ORAbout:
Supports hiring a Project Manager to oversee the completion of facility renovations and to manage the requirements of the federal grant that is funding the improvements. This will allow necessary services to continue for this vulnerable population.
BRAVO Youth Orchestras
Project: Support for BRAVO After School Programming
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
This year our goal is to expand from twice-weekly classes to three and four-day-a-week offerings along with outreach efforts to reach more students from all grade levels at each school site we serve.
Caldera
Project: Caldera Youth Program
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Caldera will utilize a grant from Lamb Foundation to support our Youth Program, which serves ~350 underserved learners (6th – 12th grade) in Portland and Central Oregon annually. The program mentors learners from middle school into early adulthood (~7 years) through a layered support system of artists, mentors, and environmentalists.
Cascade Forest Conservancy
Project: General Program Support
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Vancouver, WAAbout:
We aim to represent the public of southwest Washington and the Portland metro area. Our communities overwhelmingly want our rivers and forests managed in a way that is sustainable and builds reliance in a changing climate.
Coastal Families
Project: General Operations
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Coos Bay, ORAbout:
General operating funding ensures that we honor our direct service staff, and cover the overhead of our critical program, which serves high risk families with children ages one to three to keep families safely together.
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.
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.
New Avenues for Youth
Project: Youth Homelessness Prevention and Intervention Services (General Operations)
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
The proposal will fund services for youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability in the Portland area-from meals and counseling to education, job training, and housing. Our goal is to serve ~1,350 youth in 2024-25.
Oregon East Symphony, Inc.
Project: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Fall 2024
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
OES will present a free November 9, 2024 performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Hermiston, OR featuring the Hermiston High School Choir dept. This event will serve up to 800 audience members and 45 high school students.
Outside the Frame
Project: General Operating Support 2025
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Outside the Frame trains homeless and marginalized youth to be directors of their own films and lives, providing a creative outlet, job training, a public platform, and a sense of dignity and possibility through filmmaking.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
Project: PYP's 101st Season Music Education for All
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
This grant will support Portland Youth Philharmonic’s 101st season of music education and community programs, serving over 20,000 children and adults in the Portland metro area. These programs include free initiatives and regional performances.
Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation
Project: SBFC Youth Wilderness Program
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $17,500 Location: Boise, IDAbout:
The Youth Wilderness Program will serve 200 ID and MT teens in 2024 & 2025. Through experiential learning, youth will explore local Wilderness Areas. This is a new program, as no programs currently exist to immerse youth in Wilderness in this region.
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.
Family Nurturing Center
Project: Parent-Child Interactive Therapy relocation to centralize services
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Medford, ORAbout:
This project will allow us to create a child-centered space, in a newly renovated family campus building to provide therapeutic interventions addressing mental, emotional or behavioral disorders for 35-50 children, ages 2-5, and caregivers.
Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery
Project: Family Resources
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Ontario, ORAbout:
This grant will allow expansion of our “Clothes Closet” to include diapers, wipes, hygiene products, and food boxes. We will also include a Dress for Success offering for parents looking for work, gas cards for transportation, & family resources.
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