Solicited Grants (2014-Current)

Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Center for the Arts

Our programs include 4 touring programs for schools, 3 theatrical and one fine art workshop. (Building Public works of Art). Due to the pandemic, we hope to begin touring again by spring 2022. Goal for 2022 is 10 works of public art.

Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Youth Arts Center

Provides free training workshops in paper sculpture to rural students in the 5th through 12th grade in anticipation of an expected 500 entries to a first Oregon Coast invitational youth art show occurring concurrently with the Toledo “Art Walk” in late August, 2016.

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.

Oregon East Symphony

Gives students, from 4th grade through high school, access to the opportunity to play music through various education programs, instrument lending and performances.

Oregon East Symphony, Inc.

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.

Oregon East Symphony, Inc.

OES operates a symphony orchestra, chorale and youth music program in Eastern Oregon to enhance the quality of life by providing a dependable source of live music with special emphasis on youth education opportunities.

Oregon Environmental Council

This project benefits low-income residents in the Umatilla River basin (Oregon’s “bread basket”) who face serious water contamination, and local economic development efforts that currently lack reliable water resources.

As part of a broader effort to build bridges of understanding and collaboration between urban and rural Oregon around environmental concerns, OEC’s Rural Partnership Initiative is working with local stakeholders to address serious water quality and OEC will be developing a science-based strategy to improve water quality and water supply and related pilot projects in specific locations within the Umatilla basin. The lessons learned in this project will also help improve other state agency programs to restore water quality and supply in at least four other areas that state officials have designated for particular attention due to water quality or water supply issues.

Oregon Environmental Council

This grant will allow a core group of farmers, environmentalists, utilities and state agency officials to convene to identify shared goals for improving water quality and managing water supply, develop a shared understanding of the science, and build relationships for overcoming conflict in preparation for bringing the current situation of serious water resource challenges and strategies to address them to a broader audience of community stakeholders in early 2016.

Oregon Farm Academy

Funding will be used to build a perimeter deer fence and tool shed, and to purchase the materials to grow food and provide 4 workshops to at least 30 students. Within one year, the forest will provide fresh produce for 25 low-income families through a sliding-scale CSA.

Oregon Food Bank

Support of the Oregon Food Bank mission: To eliminate hunger and its root causes – because no one should be hungry.

Oregon Food Bank

Provides necessary food and food-related programming for low-income children and families, who might otherwise go without.

Oregon Symphony

The core programmatic goals of this project are to:  inspire youth to play and appreciate music and support student musicians. Brings music education programs and outreach events to 40,000+ community members, including at-risk/under-served children.

Oregon Symphony

Providing continuing support for the Oregon Symphony’s Music Education and Community Engagement programs for under-served children in Portland metro-area public schools in the 2014-2015 school and program year.  Programs include: early learning events for preschool-Kindergarten aged children in public libraries; interactive classroom ensemble performances for K-2 students in Title I elementary schools; interactive concert hall concerts for grades 3-8; Sunday matinee family concerts for K-5; performance opportunities for student and community ensembles of all ages; and teaching resources for inter-disciplinary learning.

Oregon Wildlife Foundation

Funds from this request will help establish the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund; a funding mechanism for conservation that doesn’t rely exclusively on hunting and fishing fees. This is part of a matching grant for $1 million public funds.  The Soliciting director that this grant be made in memory of Bob Toman.

Outside the Frame

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.