Solicited Grants (2014-Current)

The Library Foundation

This project will reach over 57,000 children and adults, delivering vital messages about early literacy and brain development, and making appropriate books available to the highest-risk families who are living in poverty, and those who may have language or literacy challenges at home.

The Living Room

Develops a robust volunteer program that recruits, trains, manages, and retains volunteers that will directly support LGBTQ+ youth in Clackamas County, OR.

The Next Door, Inc.

Our Youth Services’ programs will provide 280 at risk or high-risk youth from the Mid-Columbia Gorge region with social-emotional support services. Participating youth will learn life and resiliency skills to thrive as adults through services that include:

* Mentoring Services will implement a best practices, evidence-based mentoring program that will recruit, screen, train, support, supervise activities, and create matches that will provide positive adult role models for at least 100 children and youth ages 6-20.

*Independent Living Program will provide life skills training and supervised activities for at least 15 foster youth.

*Oregon Trail Transitional Living will provide housing and life skills trainings for seven homeless or runaway 17-21 year olds, including young mothers.

*Summer Youth Employment Program will provide at least nine weeks of summer employment, conservation and environmental education for 10 youth.  This summer, we hope to provide maintenance to areas affected by the Eagle Creek Fire—a region where our crews have always worked.

*Youth Outreach Worker will provide intensive, moderate and/or brief counseling and therapeutic services and support to at least 150 youth in Hood River County.

The Portland Kitchen

Doubles the number of teens served in the 2016 summer program as a pilot program, and, if successful, also the 2016-2017 School Year program.  The Portland Kitchen provides a free, comprehensive program to teach culinary arts, nutrition and health education, job skills development, community service, social and life skills to low-income, at-risk teens ages 14-18.

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.

Trailkeepers of Oregon

This project will improve up to 25 miles of trail and associated slopes in the Columbia Gorge, aiding restoration and recovery of the impacted ecosystem. It will also engage hundreds of volunteers and reopen trails affected by the Eagle Creek Fire.

Last year the Eagle Creek Fire burned over 48,500 acres and impacted some of the most beautiful and iconic sites in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. While fires are a natural part of many forested ecosystems the impacts of the Eagle Creek Fire will be a difficult challenge into the future due to the steep slopes of the Columbia Gorge.

Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery

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

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

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

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.

TSNE Missionworks / Ada Developers Academy

Supports the work that Ada Developers Academy (ADA), located in Seattle, Washington, is doing to include women, particularly women of color and gender diversity, (most often low-income) in the technological field as software developers. ADA offers tuition-free training plus a paid internship.

Ada Developers Academy is designed to increase the number of underrepresented skilled software developers while redefining and reinventing the way individuals are prepared to be successful in information technology careers. With an intensive, inclusive, and positive learning community, it aims to directly address both the information technology labor shortage in Washington and the lack of diverse experience, thought, and background in the software industry.

United Cerebral Palsy of San Luis Obispo

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

Upper Deschutes Watershed Council

Provides support to develop a Strategic Action Plan for Whychus Creek using the framework developed in collaboration with the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.  The Strategic Action Plan outlines the integrated restoration activities of the Watershed Council (stream restoration, fish passage, fish screening and education), the Deschutes Land Trust (land conservation) and the Deschutes River Conservancy (streamflow restoration) for the period of 2015-2021.

This effort will build off of the successful partnership work that has occurred in Whychus Creek over the past decade and help guide the future restoration efforts of these partner organizations.