Spring 2022 General Fund Grants |
Organization | Purpose | Amount |
Beaverton Black Parent Union | For creating community, advocacy for culturally relevant resources, and support the success and well-being of Black students within the Beaverton School District. | $15,000 |
Beyond These Walls | For multi-strategy work towards prison abolition and liberation for all. BTW is the only organization in Oregon working with and being led by LGBTQ incarcerated people. | $15,000 |
Brown Girl Rise | For BIPOC youth-led organizing; BGR is educating, and engaging young girls*, providing safe spaces for togetherness and creativity, and changing narratives about joy and celebration. | $15,000 |
Civil Liberties Defense Center | To support movements that seek to dismantle political and economic structures at the root of social inequality and environmental destruction with the use of litigation, education, legal, and strategic resources. | $8,000 |
Coalición Fortaleza | To restore the Latino/a/x and indigenous communities and neighborhoods of the Rogue Valley in the form of resident-owned communities (ROC’s), cooperative housing models or other permanent housing solutions to grow autonomy, restore social capital, and ensure a long-term solution to the housing and climate crisis. | $15,000 |
Dignity Village | To provide shelter, basic needs, and a social network for people experiencing houselessness, and serve as a pioneer model for community self-determination and self-empowerment. | $15,000 |
East Portland Resilience Coalition | To create a healthier more resilient environment for East Portland by responding to disruptive events like the pandemic, environmental disparities, and climate change impacts. | $15,000 |
Edúcate Ya | To educate Latinx people in Portland to navigate U.S. systems to gain access to better jobs and healthcare, and help them become leaders in American society. | $15,000 |
Escudo Latino | To support immigrants by claiming space for Latinx community where policies are formulated and build connections, trust, influence within and for Latinx community. | $10,000 |
Freedom To Thrive | To abolish punishment-based carceral systems through transformative organizing, strategic partnerships and convening shared learning spaces. | $13,000 |
Gather Repertory | For a brand new theatre company to create relevant, worthwhile theatre and respond as artists, allies, and caring community members to homophobic and racist events in Newberg. | $10,000 |
Gordly Burch Center for Black Leadership and Civic Engagement | To explore and honor the history of Black leaders and movements in Oregon and work to increase the number of Black leaders and policy makers across Oregon. | $15,000 |
Komemma Cultural Protection Association (KCPA) | To involve Native youth in awareness of their culture and traditions using research, education and public demonstrations of cultural knowledge. | $10,000 |
Latinos Unidos Siempre | To empower and develop the leadership of marginalized youth through social, political and cultural development, to combat and abolish systems of oppression. | $15,000 |
Next Up | For leadership development and civic engagement of young people, and organizing around youth-affecting policies. | $15,000 |
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment | To carry on time-honored sustainable environmental practices in the tradition of the Nimiipuu by facilitating and organizing activities to protect, enhance, and promote mother earth. | $15,000 |
Oregon Futures Lab Education Fund | For engagement, training and ongoing support of BIPOC civic and political leaders. | $15,000 |
Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety Foundation | To advance evidence-based solutions to the crisis of gun violence in collaboration with community leaders and issue experts. | $8,420 |
Oregon Native American Chamber | To advance educational and economic opportunities for Native Americans in Oregon and Southwest Washington. | $13,000 |
Oregon Recovers | To transform the existing fractured and incomplete addiction recovery system into a comprehensive continuum of care which recognizes addiction as a chronic disease requiring a lifetime of attention. | $13,000 |
Pacific Northwest Council of Water Protectors (PNWCWP) | To protect our sacred water and maintain the sovereignty of tribal nations. | $15,000 |
Portland All Nations Canoe Family | To preserve Indigenous culture by nurturing families and protecting water. | $15,000 |
Portland Indigenous Marketplace | To support indigenous artists and entrepreneurs by providing barrier-free, culturally respectful spaces that encourage cultural resilience and economic sustainability. | $15,000 |
Raíces de Bienestar | To improve and strengthen mental health and emotional wellbeing of the Latinx community through culturally grounded, evidence-based practices, interventions, education, and capacity building activities. | $15,000 |
Red Earth Descendants | To preserve indigenous knowledge, values and traditions by joining youth, families and elders in collaborative community projects and gatherings based on traditional practices that also dismantle racism and form a structure for decolonizing oppression. | $13,000 |
Red Lodge Transition Services | To prevent and reduce incarceration among Native Americans. | $15,000 |
Southern Oregon Coast Pride | To address the need for continuing Pride celebrations in our local rural community. | $13,580 |
The Kijani Collective | A coalition of Black environmental subject matter experts who are intent on facilitating systems change using project-based training and development. | $15,000 |
TransPonder | To provide support, resources, and education for the trans/gender diverse community and its allies in Lane County, rural communities and statewide. | $15,000 |
Tribal Democracy Project | To empower our communities to become engaged and active in the democratic process. | $15,000 |
United Pendleton Pride | A local 2SLGBTQIA+ community group that has hosted a Pride Parade for the last 2 years in Pendleton. | $7,000 |
