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Grants Programs

2005-06 Grassroots Grants

Architectural Foundation of Oregon

Portland, OR

$11,992

To encourage students to become good stewards of the built environment.

Arts Umbrella

Eugene, OR

$1,750

For instruments for this community youth orchestra in an area where no school-based orchestral programs are available.

Ballet Rogue

Phoenix, OR

$15,000

To present classical ballet performances at locations across southern Oregon.

Benedictine Foundation of Oregon

Mt. Angel, OR

$15,000

To produce and market mustard made by the Benedictine Sisters at Queen of Angels Monastery to generate income.

Birch Community Services

Portland, OR

$15,000

For equipment to enable this organization to distribute food to low income families.

Boys and Girls Club of Lebanon

Lebanon, OR

$15,000

To repair the water-damaged gym floor.

Brush Creek Players

Silverton, OR

$3,052

For stage lighting equipment for this all-volunteer community theater.

Camp Taloali

Salem, OR

$6,450

To upgrade the kitchen equipment in this program that serves deaf and hearing impaired campers.

Cannon Beach Arts Association

Cannon Beach, OR

$9,850

For building renovation and equipment for this program's art gallery.

CARTM

Manzanita, OR

$11,800

To recruit volunteers with diverse skills for this organization that promotes waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.

Chehalem Youth and Family Services

Newberg, OR

$15,000

For staff training to provide services to youth with emotional, developmental, or educational challenges.

Children's Museum of Eastern Oregon

Pendleton, OR

$13,770

For a portable planetarium for this museum that encourages children's interactive exploration.

Clackamas County Community Health Clinics

Oregon City, OR

$15,000

To expand a successful prenatal care program.

Clatsop Community Action

Astoria, OR

$15,000

To renovate an apartment for temporary housing for homeless families.

Clatsop Community College

Astoria, OR

$14,834

For parenting classes for English Language Learner immigrants.

Community Information System

Dallas, OR

$7,985

To enhance a community radio station that serves residents of rural Polk county.

Community Sharing Program

Cottage Grove, OR

$15,000

To renovate a food pantry that serves south Lane County residents in crisis.

Corvallis Environmental Center

Corvallis, OR

$11,890

To teach students academic and vocational organic gardening theory and skills.

Cove Community Association

Cove, OR

$13,200

To renovate and equip a building to use as a preschool in this isolated rural community.

Dinner and A Movie

Portland, OR

$15,000

For a van to better serve homeless youth in the metropolitan area.

Douglas County Senior Center

Roseburg, OR

$10,000

To study the co-location of three nonprofits that provide services to seniors in order to increase accessibility.

Dougy Center

Portland, OR

$7,546

To renovate and equip a room used to support grieving children.

Dufur Historical Society Living History Museum

Dufur, OR

$7,912

To continue to develop structures that preserve the history of the Barlow Trail and agricultural life.

City of Echo

Echo, OR

$14,425

To enhance the new pedestrian and bike path.

Elkton Community Education Center

Elkton, OR

$14,550

For accessible restrooms for the community-sponsored butterfly pavillion that attracts tourists to this rural southern Oregon area.

Emil Fries Piano Hospital and Training Center

Vancouver, WA

$6,900

For strategic planning for this school that teaches piano technology to individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

Faith House

Grants Pass, OR

$9,742

For renovations to this home that helps women and children transition from homelessness or domestic violence.

Foster Family Care Network

Portland, OR

$14,900

To recruit and train respite foster parents.

Friends of the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center

Tillamook, OR

$11,600

For a promotional video highlighting this facility's history preserving and exhibiting textile arts.

Future of Oregon

Portland, OR

$10,000

To publish two issues of a magazine that aims to provide a balanced perspective on education quality and funding.

Golden Coyote Wetlands

Grants Pass, OR

$10,500

To restore the historic church in the Josephine County ghost town of Golden.

Grants Pass Family YMCA

Grants Pass, OR

$15,000

To equip the youth gym used for after school care.

City of Hermiston

Hermiston, OR

$9,989

For materials and equipment to make historical documents available to library patrons.

Historic Elsinore Theatre

Salem, OR

$10,600

For video and film equipment for the Salem film festival.

HumaniNet

West Linn, OR

$15,000

To develop a web-based information management system for nonprofit organizations.

Illinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team

Cave Junction, OR

$15,000

To develop a restoration plan for the vintage furnishings at the Oregon Caves Chateau and to evaluate manufacturing reproductions as a source of earned income.

INROADS/Oregon

Portland, OR

$14,500

To promote an internship program that places talented minority youth in corporations or professional firms to prepare them for leadership.

Kenton Action Plan

Portland, OR

$12,000

For tools for this community lending program in north Portland.

Klamath Child and Family Treatment Center

Klamath Falls, OR

$15,000

For a passenger van to transport children and families to treatment appointments.

Klamath County

Klamath Falls, OR

$6,210

For ultraviolet light protection on windows in three county museums.

Kurdish Human Rights Watch

Portland, OR

$14,930

For a series of workshops for Kurdish youth, parents, and elders.

Lee Owen Stone Preschool

Portland, OR

$7,387

For an indoor play structure.

Lincoln County Food Share

Newport, OR

$15,000

For a cargo van to distribute food to hungry families in Lincoln County.

Linn County Affordable Housing

Lebanon, OR

$10,000

For a new copier to increase office efficiency.

Linn County Child Victim Assessment

Albany, OR

$13,899

For a program designed to enhance resiliency in high-risk girls.

Little Theater on the Bay

North Bend, OR

$15,000

To study the feasibility of renovating the organization's theater.

Long Creek School District

Long Creek, OR

$14,735

For playground equipment in this isolated rural Grant County community.

Mainstage Theater Company

Eugene, OR

$13,652

For restroom facilities that are accessible to people with disabilities.

McKenzie River Clinic

Blue River, OR

$11,500

For x-ray equipment to serve patients in this isolated rural area.

Monmouth-Independence Community Foundation

Monmouth, OR

$15,000

For an art and science curriculum in an after school program for elementary students.

Multicultural Association of Southern Oregon

Medford, OR

$6,245

For a cultural immersion summer camp for at-risk youth.

New Directions Northwest

Baker City, OR

$14,979

To furnish a new residential treatment center.

Northwest Catholic Counseling Center

Portland, OR

$14,123

To increase office efficiency to meet a growing demand for services.

Northwest Habitat Institute

Corvallis, OR

$4,990

For computer equipment to analyze wildlife habitats in the field.

Northwest Parish Nurse Ministries

Portland, OR

$9,548

To upgrade technology to increase effectiveness and efficiency.

Northwest Portland Ministries

Portland, OR

$5,500

To provide transportation to essential services for elderly and/or disabled people in northwest Portland.

Nuestro Futuro

Portland, OR

$10,200

To train immigrant Latino child care providers.

NW Digital Art Kids

Portland, OR

$3,550

For electronic and musical equipment for an after school program.

Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

Salem, OR

$12,170

To conserve and reinstall two murals created by local artists under the 1930s Works Progress Administration.

Outreach Ministry in Burnside

Portland, OR

$3,863

For equipment for this organization that advocates for people who are poor and disabled.

Pangaea Project

Portland, OR

$15,000

For a program that engages low-income, ethnically diverse Portland youth in local and international service learning.

Patrick McCurdy Education Foundation

Pleasant Hill, OR

$12,150

For a mentoring program for at-risk children in this rural Lane County community.

Philomath Montessori School

Philomath, OR

$2,000

For equipment and training to help manage the organization's transition to a new facility.

Pine Eagle United Youth Fund

Halfway, OR

$6,750

For grants to youth groups for performing summer community work projects in this isolated rural community.

Portland Schools Alliance

Portland, OR

$15,000

To increase cultural competency in this group that encourages parental involvement in schools.

Raindrops to Refuge

Sherwood, OR

$15,000

To protect stream corridor and floodplain areas within the Sherwood urban growth boundary.

Reed School Association

Lebanon, OR

$15,000

For structural repairs to the historic Reed School building.

Rockwest Training Company

Salem, OR

$14,979

To buy and install a refurbished screen-printing press for this organization that provides jobs and job training to people with developmental disabilities.

Rogue Valley Childrens Discovery Museum

Medford, OR

$14,950

To build a permanent exhibit for toddlers.

Roseburg Parent Child Training Center: The First Step

Canyonville, OR

$11,345

To support pregnant and parenting teens in this southern Oregon community.

ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum

Ashland, OR

$10,167

For equipment to increase customer service and to develop new marketing materials.

Scio Girls and Boys Club

Scio, OR

$9,259

To upgrade the baseball field that serves as a community gathering space.

Selma Community and Education Center

Selma, OR

$8,212

To cover an outdoor farmers' market and display a solar energy system.

Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County

Oregon City, OR

$1,299

For a new photocopier to improve office efficiency.

City of Shaniko

Shaniko, OR

$10,423

To repair the historic schoolhouse in this Central Oregon ghost town.

ShelterCare

Eugene, OR

$13,255

For office space for a program serving low-income adults recovering from brain injuries.

Siskiyou Field Institute

Cave Junction, OR

$11,370

For office systems for this education and research facility in this high poverty area in southern Oregon.

Slavic Evangelical Church

Clackamas, OR

$14,996

To provide low-income Russian child care providers with dual-language curriculum, computers, books, and materials .

Southern Oregon Film Society

Ashland, OR

$12,098

For film projection equipment to support quality independent film and education.

Sprague River Community Center

Sprague River, OR

$1,600

For improvements to a building that serves as a meeting and social service space in this isolated rural community.

St. Andrew Legal Clinic

Portland, OR

$14,000

To increase the office efficiency of this public interest law firm.

St. JosephSt. Francis Catholic Communities

Sutherlin, OR

$5,000

To support a community hot meal program in rural Douglas County.

St. Vincent de Paul, Lebanon

Lebanon, OR

$10,807

For a new freezer for the food pantry that serves low-income and homeless families and individuals.

Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District

Seaside, OR

$4,950

For equipment for an ocean lifeguard training program.

Sweet Home United Methodist Church

Sweet Home, OR

$4,000

For two electric ranges for the weekly hot meal program.

Tillamook County Community Action Resource Enterprises

Nehalem, OR

$9,600

For emergency housing assistance for homeless families in the Neah-Kah-Nie School District.

Tualatin Riverkeepers

Sherwood, OR

$9,090

To increase the efficiency of this organization that protects the Tualatin River basin.

Umpqua Valley disAbilities Network

Roseburg, OR

$5,500

For office equipment for this organization that helps people with disabilities to live independently.

United Way of Benton County

Corvallis, OR

$15,000

To plan a collaborative and comprehensive transitional housing project in Corvallis.

Upper Rogue Community Center

Shady Cove, OR

$4,200

To replace old furnishings at this community meeting and social service center in this small rural community.

Vietnamese Science and Cultural Society of Oregon

Portland, OR

$8,620

For equipment for cultural and educational programs for students.

West Valley Academy

Sheridan, OR

$14,902

To renovate this alternative school for children from Polk, Marion, and Yamhill counties.

Women's Crisis Center

Tillamook, OR

$5,750

For a phone system for this organization that provides emergency services for women.

Women's Empowerment Partnership

Eugene, OR

$10,500

For workshops, training and support to help women living in poverty earn a living wage.

World Wheelchair Sports

Eugene, OR

$15,000

For tools, equipment, and training to establish a mobile wheelchair repair shop.

Youth Employment Institute

Portland, OR

$13,836

To expand a work program for young people transitioning out of foster care.

 
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