Solicited Grants (2014-Current)

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Family Nurturing Center

Project: Phoenix Satellite Playground Project

Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Medford, OR
About:

Grant allows completion of the extended outdoor classroom and building the natural playscape. This project serves  children at high risk of abuse and neglect and provides an extension of the therapeutic classroom.



Family Nurturing Center

Project: Classroom & Family Support

Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Medford, OR
About:

Operational support for the Family Nurturing Center (FNC) Farm & Food Extended Classroom Program supporting 50 at-risk children and their families by offering class and family trips to the FNC operated farm, 50 food boxes monthly to families, and transportation. Family Nurturing Center is a child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention program serving high-risk Jackson County families with children.



Family Nurturing Center

Project: Parent-Child Interactive Therapy relocation to centralize services

Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Medford, OR
About:

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.



Family Tree Relief Nursery

Project: Nursery-center based therapeutic early childhood program

Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Albany, OR
About:

With the objective to strengthen families and prevent child abuse, the Therapeutic Early Childhood Program provides a combination of center-based and home-based developmental learning experiences for children ages 2 through 5 and provides healing emotional support for the children and their families.



FareStart

Project: FareStart Youth Culinary Training Program

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

The new FareStart Youth Culinary Program will enroll 40 – 80 students between the ages of 16 – 24 who are currently not enrolled in school or employed, and living below the poverty line in 2016. The program is a partnership with the Seattle Interagency School and will provide students job training, education and job placement or further education services all while providing wrap-around support.



FareStart

Project: Expanding FareStart’s Youth Barista & Customer Service Training Program

Year: 20023 Grant Amount: $18,000 Location: Seattle, WA
About:

Expands FareStart’s Barista & Customer Service Program, which re-engages young people, ages 16-24 years, furthest from opportunity in WA’s Puget Sound region, to transform their lives by developing job readiness skills, access resources, and gain employment and/or school credits.



Farmers Conservation Alliance

Project: Advancing Irrigation Modernization in the Deschutes River and tributaries

Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Hood River, OR
About:

The proposed activities will help to save billions of gallons of water per year, reduce energy use for 1,349 landowners across 13,704 acres, and restore streamflow to 227 miles of the Deschutes River and its tributaries.  Grant funds will be used for project management, coordination with stakeholders, measurement, evaluation and reporting on the environmental, agricultural, and economic benefits of the large-scale projects Farmers Conservation Alliance (FCA) is undertaking in the watershed.

 



Farmers Ending Hunger

Project: Increased Food Delivered to Oregon Food Bank Network

Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Salem, OR
About:

This grant will help enhance and expand the amount of hamburger, fresh cherries and other local food that will be delivered to Oregon Food Bank and the statewide Oregon Food Bank Network.



Financial Beginnings Oregon

Project: We will provide free financial education to 23,000 young people, 51-75% of whom will come from low-income backgrounds.

Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

We will provide free financial education to 23,000 young people, 51-75% of whom will come from low-income backgrounds.  These programs will provide low-income youth with education and training that will help them meet financial challenges like the one we face with COVID-19. They will also help them understand important financial concepts, make healthy, proactive financial choices, and set and achieve long-term financial goals.



FISH Vancouver

Project: Volunteer Coordinator + PPE

Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Vancouver, WA
About:

Provides 11 weeks salary plus Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for a of Volunteer Coordinator, a much-needed position due to COVID-19 and the change in volunteers.  During the time of this grant, FISH will provide emergency food to 9,625 people – many first-time visitors – in Clark County’s poorest neighborhoods. About 30% of clients are children; 21% are elderly.



FosterClub

Project: General Program Support for Oregon Foster Youth Pandemic Recovery Support

Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Seaside, OR
About:

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.



Four Rivers Cultural Center

Project: Four Rivers Children's Community Theatre

Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Ontario, OR
About:

Provides the only free and low cost live theatre in this area. Our productions fill kids with hope and realization that life has more possibilities than imagined.  This grant was used to support the Holiday production of Elf, Jr, the musical:



Friends of Explorer Post 58

Project: Teen Outreach Program

Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Connects Portland area teenagers with challenging outdoor and wilderness adventures to include a much broader demographic of students. The grant will make financial assistance available to broaden diversity and scope of the organization to an estimated 20-30 students who otherwise might not be able to participate.

  

 

 



Friends of Explorer Post 58

Project: Access Fund for Outdoor Leadership

Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Allows low-income students to attend trips and help create positive relationships with their peers and adults around them. Helps to nurture conscious young adults who actively use whatever power they have to make positive change in the world.

   



Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Project: Community Stewardship of the Gorge

Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $40,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

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.


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