Solicited Grants (2014-Current)

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

Treehouse partners with youth and young adults in foster care in Washington state to provide individualized coaching and resource navigation to help them graduate from high school with the tools 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.

Urban ArtWorks S20

The Urban ArtWorks’ Mural Apprentice Program (MAP) provides arts-based employment opportunities for young people with barriers to employment and education.  Provides 192 instruction hours for 20 high-risk youth to work with 6 teaching artists to produce murals that are installed throughout King County, WA. to enrich the environment with art and give these youth job skills, work and a sense of pride.

Urban Gleaners

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

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.

100 lbs, 200 lbs, 500 lbs:

Walla Walla Watershed Foundation

The program engages 600+ students and 100+ adults each year in a collection of experiential learning activities to improve audience’s understanding of natural resources and systems, to foster restoration and sustainability in the Walla Walla watershed basin.

Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center

Originally this proposal was for a sound system and lighting to enhance the cultural experience of the annual Tamkaliks Powwow. Up to 1000 tribal members and 1000 observers attend the 3-day event.  However, the grant was made for general operations to allow them to utilize funds for other projects as well.

Wallowa Resources

Funds will support coordination and implementation for six cross-boundary projects across Umatilla, Baker, Union and Wallowa counties as part of the ten year Northern Blues Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project (CFLRP).

Wallowa Resources

Supports our efforts to advance a new Stewardship Economy and continue to facilitate and implement collaborative led, cross-boundary landscape restoration and conservation projects across our region of Wallowa County and NE Oregon.