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Statement of Objectives

Idaho Power Company (IPC) does not believe that its responsibility ends with the delivery of reliable, affordable, and clean energy to its customers. As a corporate citizen, IPC believes that its responsibility extends to supporting and participating in activities and organizations that help maintain and improve the quality of life within the communities we serve. Serving those who depend on us is at the center of everything we do. We all prosper by committing to the needs, safety, and success of our customers, communities, employees, and shareholders.

IPC’s contributions of financial and non-financial or “in-kind” support are investments in the economic and social viability of the communities we serve. But the benefits to the community and IPC are not always measurable, and subjectivity is a part of every contribution decision. It is the intent of IPC that its contributions strike a reasonable balance between the need to be accountable and responsible to our shareowners and customers and the desire to contribute to the economic and social needs within communities we serve. 

At IPC, we continually strive to lead with our values and beliefs. Idaho Power is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. Our community comes from all walks of life and so do we. All contribution decisions will be made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age. 

 Community Contributions

Community contributions range from support for capital fund drives to sponsorship of nonprofit fundraising events to non-cash donations like awarding retired company vehicles to emergency-response organizations.

IPC has established five general categories of contributions.

These categories are:

• Health and Human Services:
• To assure the availability of adequate health care and human service support for employees and other members of the public and to promote the development of new, workable responses to health and human services needs, this category includes:
  • Support of organizations dedicated to this cause, and other federated campaigns.
  • Hospitals and other health care facilities.
  • Agencies for senior citizens and the elderly.
  • Youth agencies.
  • Local health and human service organizations.
• Agencies receiving primary funding from federated drives (e.g., Unites Way) to which IPC separately contributes are generally not eligible for additional health and human services operating funds. Exceptions may exist in the case of capital fund drives.

• Education:
  • Priority is given to education to ensure the continued availability of highly skilled, educated men and women to enrich local communities and from among whom IPC may draw employees, to encourage continuing research and development in academic areas relevant to IPC, and to promote standards of educational excellence.
• Culture and Arts:
  • Contributions made in this area are intended to encourage high standards of excellence and provide a pool of creative resources in the visual and performing arts for the enrichment of our employees and the community. This category includes support to orchestras, museums, theaters, performing arts programs, cultural arts programs, public radio and television, and non-academic libraries.
• Civic and Community:
  • Support for organizations and/or programs addressing civic and community needs demonstrates our commitment to increasing citizen awareness and participation in the management of community life. This commitment extends to supporting organizations that provide services for adequate housing and neighborhood improvements, local civic and community projects, conservation activities, and the support of groups desiring to develop workable solutions to community issues.
• Environment and Recreation:
  • This category provides contributions to organizations and projects that support environmental stewardship, including clean and renewable energy. It also supports the expansion and preservation of recreation opportunities.
• Other:
  • This category includes support for organizations not included in the four preceding categories, but which have a benevolent or philanthropic purpose relevant to IPC and its communities. 

IPC intends to respond to requests for contributions in a timely manner, and generally not more than 60 days following submission of the completed application.

Elevating the quality of life in the Portland region

The Henry Lea Hillman Jr. Foundation supports innovative ideas for making the Portland, Oregon region healthier, safer, and more equitable for all. Henry Lea Hillman Jr. FoundationThe Foundation encourages applications from qualified organizations in the Portland area with a demonstrated history of improving the regional quality of life through programs in the visual and performing arts, education, health, homelessness prevention and intervention, and human services.

Purpose of this grant

In 2024, Oregon Humanities will award up to $25,000 in funding to enable rural and rural-serving Oregon libraries to create and host events in their own communities.

Events should reflect our 2026 theme, Fear and Belonging. Grantees are welcome to interpret this theme and develop topics that are relevant to their communities. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• What brings us together and what drives us apart?
• Who is currently included in our democracy, and who is left out?
• Why do we sometimes fear people who are different from us or don’t belong to the same groups we do?
• What leads people to embrace hate and violence, and what might lead them in other directions?

What is Metro?

Metro works with communities, businesses and residents in the Portland metropolitan area to chart a wise course for the future while protecting the things we love about this place.

Where is Metro?

Metro serves more than 1.7 million people in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. The agency's boundary encompasses Portland, Oregon and 23 other cities – from the Columbia River in the north to the bend of the Willamette River near Wilsonville, and from the foothills of the Coast Range near Forest Grove to the banks of the Sandy River at Troutdale.

Nature in Neighborhoods Grants

Nature in Neighborhoods grants support community projects and programs across the region, from local park improvements to stream restoration to hands-on nature education for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Grant programs under Nature in Neighborhoods include:

• Nature education
• Restoration and community stewardship
• Capital
• Community choice

Grants are designed to support communities of color and other communities who have experienced barriers to accessing Metro grant funding in the past.

Community Stewardship and Restoration Grants

Metro's Nature in Neighborhoods grants provide opportunities to support and create partnerships in local communities that improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat and connect people with nature.

Potential Projects

Funding is available for projects that:

• preserve and restore local fish and wildlife habitat
• create, support and/or deepen partnerships in local communities
• address inequities in the conservation movement
• support larger conservation initiatives
• increase people's awareness of the need for protecting and managing natural areas
• engage people in protecting and managing natural areas at the community level
• increase the expertise and capacity of organizations to lead habitat restoration and land management activities
• provide environmental resources and economic opportunities to communities of color and other historically and continually marginalized groups
• offer direct access to protected natural areas and the positive impacts of clean land, air and water to communities of color and other historically and continually marginalized groups.

Funding

Funding for the community stewardship and restoration grants funding cycle is set at $750,000. The final slate of proposals recommended for funding will include a mix of small, medium, and large grants. Small grants have a maximum award of $50,000, medium grants have a maximum award of $75,000, and large grants have a maximum award of $100,000.

Program Purpose and Goals

Community stewardship and restoration grants support and create partnerships in local communities that improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat and connect people with nature.

All applications must clearly meet the grant program’s overall purpose. Priority will be given to applications that meet each of the grant program’s three goals.

Goal 1: Improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat

These grants will preserve and restore fish and wildlife habitat in local communities and support larger environmental justice and conservation initiatives.

Examples of project strategies and activities:

• Increase the health of the overall urban landscape for native species and people. Address environmental justice and our region’s history of displacement.
• Promote stewardship of wildlife on urban landscapes and reduce human-wildlife conflicts.
• Reduce hazards to wildlife and humans.
• Remove invasive species and enhance native vegetation.
• Support climate change adaptation and climate resiliency initiatives.
• Improve regional habitat connectivity.
• Restore ecological processes and functions in natural areas.
• Engage and support a variety of local approaches, and ways of knowing and being.
• Focus on multiple key habitats and species

Goal 2: Community partnerships, collaboration and accountability

These grants create, support and/or deepen partnerships in local communities. Strategies for community engagement fall on a spectrum from deep, personal engagement to outreach via mass media, but should aim for transformational partnerships rather than transactional information sharing.

Examples of project strategies and activities:

• One-on-one personal connection (e.g. involve multiple community members in project design, implementation and/or outreach, community participation in hands-on restoration projects, organizing, workforce development, and mentoring).
• Outreach and/or marketing (e.g. social and mass media, group discussions, interpretive signs, mailings, project and/or site tours).
  • Collaboration with communities of color and other historically and continually marginalized groups to develop shared learning about environmental justice priorities and practices, and follow their direction to restore, experience and connect with nature and the region’s natural areas.
  • Provide information, advertising or other promotions so that residents can more easily learn where natural areas are located, how to access them, and what to do there.
• Increase the capacity of, and support for, organizations or businesses that are led by, organize with and/or employ people of color and other historically and continually marginalized communities in habitat restoration or local park and natural area land stewardship activities. Examples of capacity and support building activities include technical assistance, professional or leadership development, or stipends/compensation to participate in project design and/or implementation.
• Expanded partnerships with local and/or regional community-based organizations to support increased stewardship of local natural areas, fish and wildlife habitat.
• Intentional involvement of the community in restoration and stewardship efforts, contributing to community members’ sense of connection back to natural areas, providing opportunities to learn from and educate local users, residents and nearby school populations.
• Training on trauma informed care for natural and water resource professionals and community members who interact with people experiencing houselessness. Learn from houseless communities about their needs and desires to be in nature. Facilitate transformational, equity centered, trauma-informed approaches to address safety and provide resources for houseless communities to be in nature. 

Goal 3: Economic and environmental equity

The community stewardship and restoration grants help address inequities in the conservation movement. The grants provide outdoor, environmental, and natural resources; economic opportunities; direct access to protected natural areas; and the positive impacts of clean land, air and water to Indigenous communities, Black communities, communities of color and other historically and continually marginalized groups in greater Portland.

Examples of project strategies and activities:

• Provide social and economic benefits to Indigenous communities, Black communities, communities of color and other historically and continually marginalized communities beyond the specific project scope or original design.
• Increase the number and improve the experience of visitors, staff and programs at natural areas representing diverse racial, ethnic and cultural groups and other historically and continually marginalized groups. Provide opportunities to communities of color to learn about, guide, and have decision-making power in how agencies and communities manage and care for the land and create opportunities to care for trails, harvest seeds or plant native plants. Improve accessibility to and within natural areas for the elderly, people with disabilities and communities of color.
• Include workforce development goals for partner organizations or programs, including internships or career pathways programs. Shift power to create possibility for equity in career pathways, hiring, retention, and educational opportunities.
• Work with and shift power to Indigenous communities to protect, preserve and access culturally significant land; salmon, steelhead and lamprey habitats; and native plants.
• Include work with Black communities, Indigenous communities, and/or communities of color on anti-displacement and housing security
• Provide economic opportunities for communities of color and other marginalized communities in the construction of natural area improvements, restoration or community stewardship projects by working with COBID-certified firms and hiring and training a local workforce.

Who We Are

Based in Portland, Oregon and created in 2019 by Dr. Ron Naito, the Ronald W. Naito MD Foundation continues his legacy of healing by supporting nonprofit organizations that strengthen, protect, and transform our communities and our planet.

Our grants support organizations working all over the world to mitigate the climate crisis, reduce health disparities, and build communities that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable. We also support Oregon-based arts and education initiatives, particularly those focused on under-resourced communities.

Our grants are trust-based. Because we respect the expertise of our nonprofit partners and understand that they know best how to spend their funds, all of our grants are unrestricted.

Current Funding Trends

• Under-represented areas:
  • If you work in these areas and are eligible within our funding priorities and restrictions, please consider applying.
    • Nonprofits that work internationally or domestically outside of Oregon, including regional and national organizations
    • Climate crisis mitigation, especially aggressive efforts to curtail or prevent new greenhouse gas emissions
    • International long-term health equity initiatives and health equity initiatives addressing aging and supporting elders
    • Systemic initiatives and advocacy/policy work in any of our funding priorities
• Over-represented areas:
  • We value these types of work and still seek applications from these categories, but applicants may find these categories slightly more competitive if current trends continue.
    • Arts initiatives
    • Oregon frontline nonprofits across all sectors
    • Frontline services, especially organizations supporting people with mental health or substance use needs and organizations supporting survivors of child abuse and domestic and sexual violence

Funding Area: Oregon Arts & Culture

Our Oregon Arts & Culture* grants seek to support imaginative arts and cultural organizations that nourish our humanity and help build healthy, soulful, and vibrant communities.

This includes (but isn’t limited to) organizations that:

• Prioritize artists, arts students, and audiences from historically marginalized communities, and celebrate and preserve diverse traditions and heritage.
• Increase under-resourced communities’ access to, participation in, and social and economic benefit from arts and cultural activities.
• Provide arts, arts education, or cultural programming that overlaps with our other funding priorities.
• Work in research, policy, or advocacy to improve outcomes, access, and funding for arts, arts education, and culture at a statewide level.

Oregon Arts & Culture grants receive a smaller portion of our annual grants budget. Accordingly, these grants tend to be smaller than grants in other categories, typically averaging $10,000. Applicants with annual incomes under $5 million are often more competitive than organizations with larger annual incomes. Systems-change organizations may be more likely to receive larger grants.

The Creative Heights initiative aims to increase Oregon’s cultural visibility and vitality while supporting unique opportunities for Oregonians to experience innovative arts and culture. Up to $1 million in projects will be funded annually with grants from $10,000 to $100,000 per project.

Scope of Proposals Sought

Creative Heights grants are for the creation and/or presentation of new and innovative performances, exhibitions, programs, and other works of art and culture. OCF is interested in reviewing proposals for a range of funding levels and timelines to best serve the specific needs of proposed projects. Project funding may be spent over a period of two years and can support any artistic or cultural discipline, including visual, dance, folk & traditional arts, film/video/media, literary arts, museum exhibitions, humanities, music, theatre & performance arts, history & heritage, and multidisciplinary or emerging fields.

Every Oregon student deserves an equal chance at success. That's why we want schools and education organizations across our state to have the resources they need to teach, support, and inspire students.

We believe

• Schools must be welcoming, supportive, and reflective of every student.
• Supporting a child's social and emotional health, along with their academic needs, helps every student grow and thrive.
• Creating a positive and engaging learning space for all children takes effort, but pays off many times over.
• Families and communities must be deeply engaged in our education system.

Activities We Fund

Miller Foundation education-focused grants go to organizations working to create a more holistic and equitable K-12 education system that provides a supportive learning environment and high quality education to all students, including those furthest from opportunity. Together, we can help Oregon students, families, teachers, and schools achieve success.

K-12 Support Organizations

We fund community-based organizations supporting K-12 teachers, youth, and families. These include efforts to support teacher effectiveness and student success in core subjects, and to improve school culture and leadership.

K-12 Schools

We occasionally fund K-12 schools that serve historically underserved communities; these include public, charter, and tuition-free private schools with demonstrated student outcomes.

Arts Education Organizations

We support K-12 Arts Education activities through our Arts grant programs.

Education Systems Change

We fund organizations focused on education policy, advocacy, and systems change, including those focused on improving equity in Oregon’s education system.

Early Childhood

We fund early childhood practice, policy and advocacy work only through invitation or in collaboration with other funders.

Funding

We provide operating support through our standard grant process. (Occasionally we also provide project support.) To help our grantees succeed, we offer a flexible partnership model with single- and multi-year grants.

The minimum allowable annual operating expense for eligibility is $25,000. This excludes any expenses covered through in-kind.

Our operating support grants typically represent between 3-5% of an organization’s annual operating expenses. (We consider an average of the organization's expenses over recent years).

Grant Duration Options

Applicants may apply for one, two, or three years of support. However, please note that newer applicants are unlikely to receive multi-year support. We recommend first-time applicants request a one-year grant.

• If you have a 5-year history of grant funding with Miller, you are eligible to apply for up to 3 years of support.
• For those applicants with a grant history of between 2-4 years of funding, you are eligible to apply for up to 2 years of support.

Grant history can be non-sequential. (i.e. Past funding does not need to have been in 5 consecutive years.)

The Zinnia Grant is our most competitive grant program, designed to make a transformative and lasting impact in an Oregon organization with whom we have partnered several — if not many — times before.

• Our typical Zinnia Grant varies in size, depending on the finalist.
• Typically, annual awards range from $250,000 to $350,000 per year
• Award terms are typically three (3) years for Zinnia finalists unless the organization prefers an alternative distribution
• Applicants are required to have operating budgets in excess of $1M and must have three (3) or more grants on record with us, although ideally more
• This is our most competitive program and is conducted through a self-nomination process, such that organizations can forego the extensive application. We ask organizations to share updated information, complete a few brief questions, and otherwise leverage prior applications and funding history to inform our review.
• This grant is typically awarded to organizations that are unquestionably aligned with our Mission and values, and with whom we have partnered several, if not many, times already.
• Moreover, applicants must hold a deep and integral commitment to equity, especially racial equity. 

The Zinnia Grant is a stand-alone program and can be pursued by any eligible organization at any time, including those who are actively in or pursuing another grant.

Our History

Bella Vista Foundation (BVF) is the legacy of sisters Georgiana Gerlinger Stevens and Jean Gerlinger Kirkwood, who gave generously throughout their long and eventful lives in the Bay Area and beyond. Georgiana started her own foundation, the GGS Foundation, in 1992, to support literacy, healthy living, and youth development and empowerment. Jean founded the Kirkwood Family Foundation, later renamed the Bella Vista Foundation, in 1999 with a focus on environmental restoration and support for young children. In 2019, the boards of directors of both foundations, composed of family members, decided to merge under the Bella Vista name.

Support for Vital Ecosystems

The Watershed Restoration program focuses on restoration and revitalization of key watershed ecosystems within specific geographic areas in California and Oregon.

Programs/Projects We Fund

Those which:

• Incorporate environmental, economic, and social equity factors because solutions that merge these factors tend to have long-term success 
• Preserve and build natural capital by consuming the growth of the environmental resource, rather than the resource itself
• Support creative solutions to revitalization and restoration that have the potential to serve as models for similar projects
• Are part of a cluster of projects in a given watershed involving one or more organizations over time (the Foundation believes this clustering of support at the watershed level will result in stronger partnerships and a greater impact)
• Foster collaborative partnerships even among groups with divergent interests
• Include activities that governmental agencies do not normally fund

Investing in the future of the cooperative system

The CHS Foundation supports cooperative education projects that develop and enhance understanding of the ag cooperative business model through education, professional development, and practical experience.

Program priorities and guidelines

The CHS Foundation will consider programs that:

• Educate the next generation about the agricultural cooperative business model
• Demonstrate a history of success and/or increase in growth or demand
• Incorporate technology and new, innovative approaches
• Target middle school, high school, college-age students and young producers
• Clearly identify strategies for engagement with key audiences and outline goals with measurable outcomes
• Use funding to support program-related costs
• Have a national or state level reach within the main CHS trade area (Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming)

Klamath Basin Forests and Watersheds Restoration RFP

The Klamath River Basin is an ecosystem of national and regional significance. From its headwaters just south of Crater Lake in Oregon, the Klamath River flows through a complex of National Wildlife Refuges, six National Forests, and ultimately into the Pacific Ocean, covering an area of more than 12,000 square miles – approximately the size of Maryland. River, riparian, lake, and wetland habitats in the Upper Klamath Basin historically supported healthy populations of culturally and economically important fish such as Lost River and shortnose suckers. Additionally, the Klamath River was once the third-most prolific salmon run in the lower 48 states. Anadromous species of the Klamath River Basin include fall- and spring-run Chinook salmon, coho salmon, Pacific lamprey, green sturgeon, and steelhead trout. The anadromous fish of the Klamath not only have inestimable value to Tribes in the Klamath Basin, but these fish are also a major economic engine for northern California and much of the Oregon coast ocean salmon fisheries.

Today, the restoration and protection of fish habitat in the Klamath River Basin is entering a new chapter. In the summer of 2024, four dams were decommissioned and removed on the mainstem of the Klamath River. The removal of these dams in California and Oregon is the largest dam removal project in the history of the United States and will open up over 400 miles of historical anadromous fish habitat for the first time in nearly 100 years.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has been active in voluntary habitat restoration activities throughout the Klamath River Basin for over 30 years, awarding federal, state, and private funds to help voluntarily stabilize and increase the populations of native suckers in the Upper Klamath Basin and improve anadromous fish habitat below the recently decommissioned dams. NFWF in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture – U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is pleased to announce the Klamath Basin Forests and Watersheds Restoration Request for Proposals (RFP). NFWF anticipates awarding up to $11,553,000 in grant funding to support fish and wildlife conservation, restoration, and monitoring projects across the Klamath Basin.

This total includes:

• $7,040,000 from the Shasta Valley Regional Conservation Partnership Program
• $2,000,000 from the Conservation Partners Program
• $1,793,000 in Upper Klamath Watershed Resilience Funding
• $720,000 in Fremont-Winema National Forest Headwaters Enhancement and Monitoring Funding

Funding

• Shasta Valley Regional Conservation Partnership Program -
  • Anticipated award range: $200,000 - $2,000,000
• Conservation Partners Program -
  • Anticipated award range: $200,000 - $700,000
• Upper Klamath Watershed Resilience Funding -
  • Anticipated award range: $100,000 - $500,000 
• Fremont-Winema National Forest Headwaters Enhancement and Monitoring Funding -
  • Anticipated award range: $50,000 - $450,000

About School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN).

Utilizing a unique framework of funding systems offered by the Department of Health and Human Services, managed care organizations, health insurers, and private donors, SBHSN promotes a system of care model (Coaching Model℠) offering a mix of evidenced-based intervention, prevention, and care coordination services to children in grades K-12. The Coaching Model aims to expand quality mental healthcare access on public school campuses and improve children's social, emotional, behavioral, family, and wellness outcomes.

School-Based Mental Health Implementation Grant

In response to the growing number of students who need mental health counseling, the School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN) is accepting applications from Local Education Agencies (LEA), Public and Private Universities, State and local Colleges, Charter School Management Companies, Public Schools, Charter Schools, and Non-Profit Organizations (501c3) to implement and expand mental health program services on local school campuses. Grantees will receive direct funding and reimbursement to support the following activities: 

• Expanding access to School-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).
• Coordinating mental healthcare services with school administration and staff. 
• Delivering mental healthcare services and coordinating academic-support activities to students with a history of attendance, behavior, and poor academic performance.

FUNDING

5-Years, renewable based on meeting performance goals 5-year award ceiling is $5,500,000.

Prosper Portland is proud to announce the launch of the Reimagine Oregon Economic Opportunity Investment Fund in accordance with City Code allowing funding “support for neighborhood small businesses, especially women-owned and minority-owned businesses, including but not limited to business incubator programs, management training and job training opportunities, providing economic opportunity and education to communities disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition.”

Reimagine Oregon Economic Opportunity Investment Fund Grant

Focused on economic and business development for those disproportionately affected by the cannabis prohibition, this fund offers grants to both for-profit and nonprofit entities, as well as social service organizations with a 501(c)3 as a fiscal sponsor, that operate within the City of Portland. Fund use is flexible to allow for innovative proposals for growth and capacity-building initiatives which may include:

• Ensuring that economic opportunities and capital are made increasingly available.
• Reconstructing and revitalizing the Portland economy.
• Supporting entrepreneurs with scaling their businesses.
• Creating multi-generational wealth opportunities.
• Meeting business needs for capital and growth.
• Expanding assistance to and resilience of businesses in need of economic support.
• Increasing access to business and property ownership, real estate, financing, and partnerships with a focus on growing wealth more equitably via inclusive networks.

Program Context & History

Reimagine Oregon began as an initiative created by Black-led organizations and individuals working to dismantle systematic racism in Oregon. Community leadership created a movement that resulted in the launch of the Reimagine Oregon Economic Opportunity Investment Fund at Prosper Portland. This grant program aligns with the Advance Portland strategic vision to foster wealth creation within underserved communities by creating access to economic opportunity for business development and growth. The goal of both the initiative and the investment fund is to provide economic opportunities to communities disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. The effects of Cannabis Prohibition involved communities that faced disproportionately higher levels of criminalization related to cannabis, resulting in multi-generational economic and social impacts. Cannabis was legalized in Oregon on July 1, 2015 under Measure 91.

Program Focus:

The lack of quality, affordable housing options for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has reached a crisis in the United States. Planning grants reflect our commitment to supporting the exploration of new, inclusive housing efforts in urban and rural areas of Oregon and Washington that are affordable, scalable, and sustainable. These grants are designed to support the creation of a viable action plan for project development and funding.

Award

Funding range: The average grant awarded is typically $15,000 to $25,000.

Maximum funding request: $75,000 depending on overall budget.

The mission of the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition is to grow the cultural assets in the County. The Coalition’s immediate responsibility is to distribute funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust to local arts, history, heritage, humanities organizations and cultural creatives.Project Grants

• Requests for projects must be related to arts, heritage or humanities, respond to the Cultural Plan (found here) vision and help forward Coalition’s goals.
• Projects must align with the key values of the Coalition;
• Increase public recognition and value of local culture)
• Acknowledge the vibrancy that social, cultural and ethnic diversity bring
• Increase public participation in local culture
• Support the inclusion of arts and culture in every community
• Projects must result in measurable outcomes within at least ONE Funding Priority. Funding Priorities directly underscore the coalition’s mission, vision, and values. Projects and organizations should focus on supporting/growing local assets and removing barriers to cultural participation:
• Increase how local culture is valued and supported,
• Support the creation of, or participation in, cultural projects and activities,
• Stimulate partnerships and collaborations that grow capacities to support assets and remove barriers. We include here partnerships that support cultural tourism,
• Work closely with local governments, businesses, and others to embed local culture in community development, and
• Grow communications capacity for cultural groups, organizations, and artists/creatives.
• Partnerships and collaborations should be evident – it shows community support and viability of a project.
• Applicant’s financial support and budget should be closely reviewed, with the expectation that all applicants will provide some matching funds and/or in-kind contributions toward their project’s success. If the proposed project is intended as part of a larger concept, evidence of financial sustainability beyond this project grant period will be required
• Capital projects which increase the participation in arts, heritage or humanities may be considered. Please contact us to confirm eligibility before applying
• Applicants must be in good standing and all final reports from prior award cycles must be submitted before any future awards are released
• Projects must be completed within the calendar year applying for
• Final Report must be submitted within 30 days of project completion

Funding

Minimum Project Grant Request: $751.00. Maximum Project Grant Request: $3,500.00.

A post-project narrative and financial report, will be required of all grant recipients 30 days after completion of project or use of grant funds. The Final Report should include photos and / or other documentation demonstrating the use of the award.

About The Salem Foundation

Founded in May of 1930 by the Board of Pioneer Trust Bank, the Salem Foundation has a long history of serving the greater Salem community. Donors who make the Salem Foundation one of their philanthropic priorities share the common purpose of making a difference, locally.

We all know that Salem will face challenges tomorrow that we cannot even begin to anticipate today. The Salem Foundation is a flexible vehicle for donors who want their giving to impact local charities and causes.  At the heart of our work is a spirit of caring and commitment to excellence. We join many community partners to help make our whole community strong and healthy.

Last year alone, the Salem Foundation provided $6.1 million in grants and scholarships.

The In-N-Out Burger Foundation’s mission is to assist children and youth who have been victims of child abuse and neglect, and to prevent others from suffering a similar fate. The Foundation will only consider requests from organizations that closely align with our mission and that serve communities where In-N-Out Burger does business.

The In-N-Out Burger Foundation is happy to consider the following types of grants:

Traditional Grants: Grant awards range from $5,000 - $25,000.

Program: Restricted funding to support the development, expansion, or enhancement of programs within an existing organization.

General Operating Support: Unrestricted funding to support the overall operations and sustainability of your nonprofit. Applicants must present a strong case on how this funding will help sustain the organization’s mission and provide benefits to the children in their care. *Please note that all of your organization’s programs must align with our mission to be considered for this type of support.

Capital Grants: Grant awards range from $5,000 - $50,000.

Capital Campaign: Restricted funding for the construction of new facilities, renovations or upgrades to existing buildings, and other special projects that will enhance the organization’s mission.

Capital Purchase: Restricted funding to purchase equipment, furnishings, or any other major material purchases that will enhance the organization’s mission.

Capital grants are awarded on a very limited basis each year. The Foundation will only consider requests from organizations that meet all other funding criteria and who already have an established long-term funding relationship with the Foundation (minimum of 2 years).

Please carefully review the Capital Grant Guidelines above to ensure that your organization meets the requirements to apply. Capital Grants are invitation-only. Please contact us to set a 30-minute meeting to discuss your project and be prepared to send a draft summary of the project for review beforehand. 

The Capital Fund

The Capital Fund is a new grant program and designed to support capital campaigns uniquely, including new or renovated spaces, improvements, additions, and the like. While we do anticipate this fund being competitive, we cannot speak to the exact volume of applications anticipated. It is likely that this program will evolve and improve over the forthcoming year, as we work to make it best serve our partners.

• Our typical capital campaign contribution is $15,000-$50,000, varying substantially and largely dependent on funding history, campaign size, and the extent to which the campaign is underway.
• Award terms are typically one (1) year but may be two (2) in some occasions.
• Applicants are required to have at least one (1) prior grant completed with the Foundation before applying for the Capital Fund. Priority will be given to applicants with two (2) or more completed grants.
• Applicants must be headquartered in Oregon and the capital project must be located in this state.
• Matching grants are commonly used in capital campaign funding; our matches are ‘true’ and only that amount which is raised by the organization will be matched.
• Organizations who are actively in another grant with us may pursue a Capital Fund award, but must still have at least one (1), and ideally two (2) or more complete and closed awards on record with us.
• This program, like all Secondary Programs, is open to self-nomination; organizations will have the opportunity to share briefly about their project, need, and report new updates since our last partnership as needed.

Direct services to those in need.

They support organizations providing mental health counseling services, drug and alcohol addiction services, related crisis intervention services, and after-school education mentorship programs.

The Next Gen Council of the Reser Family Foundation believes in advancing the mission of The Reser Family Foundation, honoring the legacy of our Family. We admire the work of our grandparents and parents and are actively learning more about the needs of the community, the operations of the foundation and its grant programs and processes.

Funding Priorities

The Next Gen Council will fund programs in Oregon that provide direct services to those in need of: mental health counseling services, drug and alcohol addiction services, related crisis intervention services, and after-school education mentorship programs.

About Our Program

Our investments are guided by the fundamental belief in the power of live theatre to spark dialogue, bring different viewpoints together on challenging subjects, and provide a lens to process the critical issues of contemporary society.  

Through our Social Impact Theatre grant program, we proudly recognize organizations with production-specific support that are intentional and innovative in engaging with their audiences around these issues and are committed to reaching new audiences. This year, in addition to production-specific grants, we are introducing a new opportunity reflecting our value to support the health and sustainably of the American theater ecosystem.

We understand the current climate for theatres is incredibly challenging – with decreasing revenue sources and increasing costs, many theatres are struggling (and even those thriving face seemingly insurmountable challenges). And yet, we know that in times of challenge, the sector will apply its boundless creativity to adapt models and practices to remain sustainable.

This year, in addition to production specific grant awards, we will be selecting a small number of theatres to receive change capital grants of $10-$25K to kickstart new plans or to adapt and deepen strategies already in process. Awardees will form a cohort to share insights and to support each other and will commit to sharing lessons learned with the Foundation so that we can reshare information to more broadly support the field.

Given our available resources and in the spirit of focusing on our own learning, we will be considering change capital grants in the following three categories:

• Business models. We hear “the current model is broken!” and want to learn how you are experimenting economically. Ex. Letting go of spaces or activating new spaces, shared leadership, cost-sharing partnerships, alternatives to the subscription model etc.
• Building and deepening connection with your community. Are you exploring new programs or projects to increase interconnectivity between your community and the art on stage?
• New leaders. Does your theatre have a leader who has started within the last year who needs capacity to enact their vision and implement necessary changes?

 Grant Process

Interested organizations may request funding for one production and, if interested, one project for which change capital is needed, by submitting an LOI when our grant cycle is open. From this applicant pool, select organizations will be invited to submit a full application. Social impact theatre grants can cover artistic, production, and community engagement expenses.

Philosophy

John and Nancy Schwemm, lived outwardly their core beliefs that compassion and personal integrity should serve as the guiding principles of life’s endeavors, and that our lives are more meaningful if we participate in bettering our communities.

Based on those principals, the Schwemm Family Foundation seeks to promote programs and initiatives that connect people to the past, help improve the way we live in the present, and identify and promote healthy land stewardship far into the future.

Goals

Enhancing natural environments

The Foundation seeks to promote programs and initiatives that strengthen communities through the enhancement of natural environments.  

The Foundation will consider grant requests that sustain and protect resilient, local ecosystems and related biodiversity by focusing on proactive conservation, and/or comprehensive restoration.

Funded Projects Will:

• Target environmental protection/enhancement efforts at local scales that contribute to ecosystem resiliency
• Have clear, measurable goals with long-term ecological benefits
• Be based on scientific principles of ecology and/or ecosystem restoration

Preserving local history and culture

The Foundation seeks to promote programs and initiatives that help instill a sense of connection and belonging to one’s community through the preservation of local history and culture. The Foundation will consider grant requests that better communities by preserving and sharing history and cultural heritage through literature, digital archiving, and/or other interpretive means.

Funded Projects Will:

• Document or interpret some portion of pre-1935 community history or culture
• Focus on a specific local community
• Speak to a wide audience
• Provide an enduring component accessible to the general population

Promoting healthy communities for all

The Foundation seeks to foster thriving communities by supporting projects that build healthier and more equitable communities.

Funded Projects Will:

• Promote local communities in the planning and implementation of environmentally focused land use decisions and/or support parks, green spaces, urban trail corridors, community gardens, and urban farms.
• Integrate with ongoing community efforts aimed at enhancing equitable access of resources to individuals in underserved communities.

Background

For 28 years, OCF’s Community Grants program has taken a responsive approach to grantmaking, supporting community-led solutions by listening to and investing in the people working closest to the issues.

As our state has evolved and grown, so too has the complexity of issues facing us as Oregonians. Compounding these challenges is a history of systems that have not benefited everyone equitably, a reality made more visible by shifting landscapes and a shortage of resources.

At OCF, we recognize this reality, and our 2024 Community Grants program will continue to provide flexible funding for nonprofits addressing the pressing needs of communities across Oregon, informed by the voices of people who know these communities best. The relationships we’re building across the state will only help our grantmaking improve.

At OCF, we recognize this reality, and the 2025 Community Grants program will continue to provide flexible funding for nonprofits addressing the pressing needs of communities across Oregon, informed by the voices of people who know their communities best.

Oregon’s nonprofits exemplify the hope, strength and opportunity that can make our state better, from music and art programs for Native youth to STEM education for rural children, and from entrepreneurial

internships for low-income high school students to culturally responsive mentoring for Black youth. 

Program Goal

To provide equitable access to flexible funding for organizations serving the most pressing needs in communities throughout Oregon.

Guidling Principles

• We seek to build bridges of connection, eradicate the practice of “othering” and actively promote a sense of belonging for all Oregonians through our funding.
• We are committed to funding across Oregon with grant dollars reaching rural and urban communities in every region.
• We value our state’s diverse regions and populations and affirm that every Oregonian is an integral part of our community.
• We believe creative, impactful and sustainable solutions come from people closest to the issues being addressed and should be implemented by organizations the community trusts.
• We prioritize efforts that demonstrate strong community support, solid planning and wise stewardship.

Funding Priorities

Funding will support applications focused on one of these three grant types:

New or expanding program or project: Costs associated with developing a new program or service or expanding a current one.

• New activities: These are initiatives that did not exist before and are planned or developed to address a gap or need for the organization or the community served.
• Expanding activities: These build on previous success to significantly increase impact on more or different people or communities. This can include reaching a new or different population, county, or community, or significantly more of the same population in the same community. Requests to support ongoing, incremental growth are not competitive and will not be considered. We have no single definition of “significant expansion” for all contexts and needs. Please explain why your request is a significant expansion in terms of community needs.

Capacity-building: Costs relating to new or expanded activities that develop the organization. Typical examples include strategic or business planning, board development, volunteer coordination, program planning, and marketing and communications.

Small capital: Costs associated with new or expanded building construction, renovation, or equipment. Total small capital costs may not exceed $500,000. (Please see “Budget Guidance” below for more information.)

Program Focus:

The number of American children diagnosed with a developmental disability continues to increase, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and about one-in-six children have an intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, or another developmental delay.

The need for earlier diagnosis and impactful therapies persists, and longstanding socioeconomic and political conditions produce obstacles for people with IDD to receive equitable, appropriate, and effective physical and mental health care, further contributing to poor outcomes.

While the exploration and advancement of therapies and treatments is a key component of this program, we also invite efforts that remove barriers to care, prioritizing equitable and informed access to IDD screenings, diagnosis, and therapies.

Program Focus:

The lack of quality, affordable housing options for adults who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has reached a crisis in the United States. The Transformation Grants for IDD Housing program reflects our commitment to investing in person-focused housing solutions for individuals who experience IDD. The program also provides funding for the exploration of new, inclusive, and community-based approaches that are affordable, scalable, and sustainable.

Transformation Grants: Advancing Housing for People Experiencing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• Grant period: One-year grants or multi-year grants up to three years 
• Funding range: Up to $300,000 per year
• Maximum funding request: $900,000 over a three-year period
• Indirect cost rate: 10 percent

Of community, by community, for community For decades, community groups and nonprofit organizations throughout the Northwest have worked to advance equity and justice for LGBTQ+ communities in every corner of our region. Our Community Grants Program helps fuel this work through providing consistent, long-term funding.   Since this program’s inception in 1987, we have awarded over $12 million dollars. Our most recent award cycle in 2021 was the largest in Pride Foundation’s history—$2,751,000 to 105 incredible organizations over three years. In 2021, we shifted to a proactive grantmaking model for this program, and began awarding funds without an application process. These programmatic changes were intentional shifts to center racial justice in our work, improve the experience of grantee partners, and align our grantmaking with our organizational priorities to move resources to LGBTQ+ communities most impacted by injustice. In 2024, we will have both a proactive grantmaking model and open application to ensure that all organizations have the space and opportunity to receive funding.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

The NRA Foundation provides financial support to eligible projects, programs and organizations through its Grant Program. Each year, volunteer committees from across the country tirelessly raise charitable dollars and generous donors make gifts that are in turn awarded as grants in support of educational and public service programs relating to the shooting sports in our communities.

The general focus of Foundation grants is to:

• Promote, advance and encourage firearms, shooting sports and hunting safety
• Educate individuals with respect to firearms, firearms history, participation in the shooting sports, hunting safety, and marksmanship
• Conduct research in furtherance of improved firearms safety and marksmanship facilities and techniques

Grant requests must conform to, and foster the purposes in, The NRA Foundation’s mission statement. This includes:

• Promote, advance, and encourage firearms, the shooting sports, and hunting safety.
• Educate individuals, including the youth of the United States, with respect to firearms, firearms history, participation in the shooting sports, hunting safety, and marksmanship, as well as with respect to other subjects that are of importance to the well-being of the general public.
• Conduct research in furtherance of improved firearms safety and marksmanship facilities and techniques.
• Support activities of the National Rifle Association of America, to the extent that such activities are in furtherance of charitable, educational, or scientific purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which includes activities that are charitable, educational, or foster National or International sports competition.

Northwest Neighborhoods Parks & Recreation Fund

Grants for the capital development and renovation of parks and recreation facilities in Northwest Portland.

OCF's Northwest Neighborhoods Parks & Recreation Fund awards grants in the northwest section of Portland, with preference given to projects within the boundaries of the Northwest District Association, Northwest Industrial Neighborhood Association or the Hillside Neighborhood Association.

Fund History 

Recognizing the impact of highway and bridge construction on Northwest Portland, the state of Oregon and the city entered into an agreement in 1974 whereby the city leased property beneath the I-405 access to the Fremont Bridge, which was in turn subleased to generate revenues for a fund for the recreational needs of Northwest Portland. In 1994, the fund was transferred from the city to OCF, creating the Northwest Neighborhoods Parks & Recreation Fund. Its purpose is to support the capital development and renovation of parks and recreation facilities in the northwest section of the city.

From the fund’s inception, a citizen advisory committee advised the Park Bureau and the neighborhood associations about the fund’s use. With the fund’s transfer, this group became OCF’s Northwest Neighborhoods Parks & Recreation Fund Technical Advisory Committee, which is responsible for recommending proposals to OCF’s board of directors for final approval.

Introduction

The Northwest Neighborhoods Parks and Recreation Fund of Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) invites proposals to fund the capital development and renovation of parks and recreation facilities in the Northwest section of the city. The eligible area includes neighborhoods in the northwest section of Portland, with preference given to projects within the boundaries of the Northwest District Association (NWDA), the Northwest Industrial Neighborhood Association (NINA), and Hillside Neighborhood Association. While there is no specific ceiling on requests, recent grants for projects have ranged from $3,500 to $35,000. 

Scope of Proposals Sought

The Northwest Neighborhoods Parks and Recreation Fund will consider proposals for projects that make capital improvements to improve opportunities for community recreation, including projects that present opportunities for public/private collaboration and that leverage community resources including financial, volunteer and in-kind contributions.