A Field Trip to a Better Home
Topics: Responsive Grants | Staff
In the Grants Administration department, we don’t often get out in the field much, so when Program Team Manager Candy Solovjovs invited me to accompany her on a site visit to Mt. Hood Community College, I jumped at the chance. The college had applied to MMT to help build a new Early Childhood Learning Center.
Looking for a Big Lift
Topics: Responsive Grants | Program Officers
Before even cracking a page, I was pretty sure I knew the answer to the question posed in the title of the new report, The Public Funding Crisis: Can Philanthropy Shoulder the Burden? Nevertheless, I thought it might contain some nuggets of wisdom. Turns out, it did–
Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp's New Bridge
Topics: Responsive Grants
When the U.S. Forest Service replaced bridges and culverts in Mt. Hood National Forest to remove barriers to passage by chinook, coho and steelhead, Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp had to pay for rebuilding the bridge on its upper property. This bridge over the Little Zig Zag River is essential to provide upper camp access, along with safe emergency exit for the more than 150 campers and counselors who attend each week during the camp season. Many of the campers use wheelchairs or have difficulty walking.
Trillium Family Services
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Health
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
300000.00
Reason For Grant:
For capital upgrades to improve mental health treatment and increase safety at the Parry Center campus for children and youth.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Umpqua Community Development Corporation
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
500000.00
Reason For Grant:
To provide a grant and construction loan to build Eagle Landing, a 54-unit affordable housing complex for homeless veterans.
City:
Roseburg
County:
Douglas
State:
OR
Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Health
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
400000.00
Reason For Grant:
For a grant to help build the Cornelius Wellness Center and a program-related investment loan to refinance the McMinnville Clinic to increase access to health care for low-income, underinsured and uninsured patients.
City:
Hillsboro
County:
Washington
State:
Other
Portland Business Alliance Charitable Institute
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Public Affairs, Social Benefit
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
2000.00
Reason For Grant:
To support the Partners in Diversity program.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
United Way of Jackson County
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Public Affairs, Social Benefit
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
3000.00
Reason For Grant:
To support the 2012 Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference.
City:
Medford
County:
Jackson
State:
OR
Boys and Girls Club of Albany
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
275000.00
Reason For Grant:
To help construct and furnish a teen center on the organization's campus.
City:
Albany
County:
Linn
State:
OR
CASA of Douglas County
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
60000.00
Reason For Grant:
To build fundraising capacity of this organization that serves neglected and abused children.
City:
Roseburg
County:
Douglas
State:
OR
CASH Oregon
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Public Affairs, Social Benefit
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
125000.00
Reason For Grant:
For equipment and support to expand free tax preparation services to maximize refunds for Oregon individuals and families living at the edge of poverty.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Dougy Center
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Health
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
350000.00
Reason For Grant:
To help rebuild a new main facility damaged by fire to serve grieving children and families.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Girls Inc. of Northwest Oregon
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
100000.00
Reason For Grant:
To develop a more in-depth service model for at-risk girls.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
La Clinica del Valle Family Health Care Center
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Health
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
300000.00
Reason For Grant:
To help build a new dental clinic to expand capacity to provide dental care to low-income and uninsured community members
City:
Medford
County:
Jackson
State:
OR
Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
150000.00
Reason For Grant:
To renovate the organization's headquarters in order to reduce energy costs, provide community meeting space, improve child care information and nutrition services and drug prevention programs.
City:
Salem
County:
Marion
State:
OR
Profile Theatre Project
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
70000.00
Reason For Grant:
To implement an organizational transition plan.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Recovery Association Project
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Health
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
150000.00
Reason For Grant:
For additional staff capacity to support expansion of shared housing opportunities for survivors of domestic violence, chronically homeless people, people with mental illness and those recovering from addiction.
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Treasure Valley Community College Foundation
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Education
Award Date:
Nov 1 2011
Grant Amount:
400000.00
Reason For Grant:
To help build a science center to meet increased demand for science and technology courses in eastern Oregon.
City:
Ontario
County:
Malheur
State:
OR
November 2011 Awards Announced
Topics: Responsive Grants
This month Meyer Memorial Trust awarded more than $7 million to 21 nonprofit organizations across Oregon. Most of the awards were grants totaling $3.925 million, while two were program-related investment loans amounting to $3.094 million.
Wisdom of the Elders
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Award Date:
Oct 1 2011
Grant Amount:
50000.00
Reason For Grant:
To produce culturally tailored multimedia career pathways curricula for Native communities
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Huerto de la Familia
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Public Affairs, Social Benefit
Award Date:
Oct 1 2011
Grant Amount:
132000.00
Reason For Grant:
To create a Spanish language, culturally appropriate food-based micro-enterprise development program
City:
Eugene
County:
Lane
State:
OR
Oregon Higher Education Alliance
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Education
Award Date:
Oct 1 2011
Grant Amount:
20000.00
Reason For Grant:
To engage businesses, alumni and individuals in theoregonidea.org to build support for Oregon's post-secondary education goals
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
World Forestry Center
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Award Date:
Sep 1 2011
Grant Amount:
100000.00
Reason For Grant:
To renovate and upgrade meeting spaces used by community groups
City:
Portland
County:
Multnomah
State:
OR
Outward Bound, Inc.
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Human Services
Award Date:
Sep 1 2011
Grant Amount:
30000.00
Reason For Grant:
To establish an Outward Bound Center to serve local youth in the greater Portland area.
City:
Long Island City
County:
Queens
State:
Other
Elgin Economic Development and Growth Endeavor
Topics: Responsive Grants
Content Area:
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Award Date:
Oct 1 2011
Grant Amount:
175000.00
Reason For Grant:
To help restore the historic Elgin Opera House that serves as a community center and performing arts venue
City:
Elgin
County:
Union
State:
OR
