We’re excited to announce that our Grantmaking Committee has selected 31 organizations working towards justice to receive General Fund grants this spring!
After reading, scoring, and discussing nearly 130 applications this spring, our Grantmaking Committee has awarded $247,000 to 31 amazing organizations addressing a range of issues, including restoring freshwater ecosystems in Indigenous communities, ensuring underserved Portlanders can stay and thrive in their homes by repairing Black-owned homes at no cost to the owners, providing free and easy access to fresh culturally relevant farm produce to BIPOC, immigrant, refugee and unhoused members in Corvallis, and so much more!
As always, our commitment to support emerging and grassroots groups are led by those most impacted by injustice. 89% of our grantee groups are led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color and more than three-fourths serve communities outside the Portland Metro area.
Read more below about the 31 incredible organizations that received Seeding Justice grants this spring as they work to bring our collective vision of a world of imagination, joy, and abundance into being.
2024 Spring General Fund Grantees | ||
Organization | Amount | Description |
Beyond These Walls | $10,000 | General operating support for Beyond These Walls to achieve justice and liberation for LGBTQIA2S+ people incarcerated in the Pacific Northwest and the world through advocacy, service, and organizing. |
Black Oregon Land Trust | $10,000 | Project support, dedicated to ensuring that Black farmers and land stewards in Oregon have secure land access, clear pathways to sustainable farming, and protected ecosystems that they may build environmentally, culturally and economically thriving communities. |
Bridging Cultures | $10,000 | General operating support for Bridging Cultures to address the underrepresentation of Latine/x/a/o voices in Canby’s decision-making processes in education, government services, economic development, and entrepreneurship. |
Columbia River Institute for Indigenous Development | $10,000 | General operating support for Columbia River Institute for Indigenous Development to preserve, share, revitalize, and advance the Ichiskín Language and Culture of the Mid-Columbia River Plateau. |
Comunidades | $5,000 | Grantmaker grant in honor of Ubaldo Hernandez. |
East Portland Resilience Coalition, DBA Thrive East PDX, fiscally sponsored by Rose Community Development | $10,000 | Project support for Thrive East PDX to transform the 13 neighborhoods located East of I-205 into a vital, resilient and thriving community through advocacy and civic engagement. |
Family Forward Oregon | $10,000 | Project support for Family Forward Oregon to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving by building the collective power of mothers and caregivers to actualize their agency to fight for racial, gender, economic, and reproductive equity in the state. |
Future Generations Collaborative | $10,000 | General operating support for Future Generations Collaborative to provide and promote public health and wellness of the Urban Native community through community engagement, re-indigenizing research and evaluation, strategic policy advocacy, and innovative education and technical assistance in Portland. |
Grow Lincoln County | $10,000 | Project support to help fund their Juntos en el Jardin program in the City of Newport and to also develop a CSA-style family farm for families who wish to participate. |
Growing Ancestral Roots, fiscally sponsored by Cascade Pacific RC&D | $10,000 | General operating support to provide free and easy access to fresh culturally relevant farm produce to BIPOC, immigrant, refugee and unhoused members in Corvallis. |
INTERSECT, fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives | $10,000 | General operating support to strengthen the gender-focused field and gender-justice leadership in Oregon that is grounded in intersectional feminism, black feminist theory, reproductive justice principles, and anti-racism. |
Judi’s Midnight Diner | $5,000 | Grantmaker grant in honor of Alessandra de la Torre |
Komemma Cultural Protection Association | $10,000 | General operating support to build Native youth’s awareness of their culture and tradition using research, education and public demonstrations of cultural knowledge in Douglas County. |
Latina Associates for Collaborative Engagement | $5,000 | Grantmaker grant in honor of Camerina Galvan |
Latina Unidos Siempre | $5,000 | Grantmaker grant in honor of Ana Molina |
Maqlaqs Paddle, fiscally sponsored by Rios to Rivers | $10,000 | Maqlaqs Paddle works to restore the well-being and health of the Ewksiknii coy Modoknii Maklaks peoples and their lands and water. Their project will support a series of Klamath Modoc Yahooskin nation-building opportunities, meals and conversation concerning environmental issues that impact Klamath tribal members and our former reservation lands. |
Mosquito Fleet PDX, fiscally sponsored by Other 98% Lab | $10,000 | Operational support for Mosquito Fleet, a local grassroots organization in Portland fighting climate justice through on-water direct action and facilitating deep relationships with water. |
Nuu-da’ Mv-ne’ | $10,000 | General operating to support the continued archival and linguistic work in the revitalization of three major dialects, Tolowa, Tututni, and Galice, in Southwest Oregon Dene. |
Oregon Sex Workers Committee | $10,000 | General operating support to advance their work of decriminalizing consensual adult sex work in Oregon through research, advocacy, and harm reduction initiatives. |
PFLAG Prineville | $2,000 | General operating to support PFLAG Prineville, an LGBTQ+ nonprofit, with outreach and to establish an intentional network between active, social justice focused community groups in Crook County. |
Portland All Nations Canoe Family | $10,000 | General operating support for Portland All Nations Canoe Family to preserve Indigenous culture by nurturing families and protecting water throughout the state. |
Portland in Color | $10,000 | General operating support to create and foster opportunities for collaboration, artistic and professional growth, and tools to sustain creative livelihoods. They highlight the voices, experiences, and contributions of their community as a vital step towards an equitable arts and media landscape in Portland. |
Samoa Pacific Development Corporation | $5,000 | Grantmaker grant in honor of Makerusa Porotesano |
Taking Ownership | $10,000 | General operating support to ensure underserved Portlanders can stay and thrive in their homes by repairing Black-owned homes at no cost to the owners. |
The UPRISE Collective | $10,000 | General operating support to open spaces and provide support for BIPOC, Queer and/or Trans, Poor and Sick/Disabled community members to engage in social uplift within our own communities. |
Traditional Ecological Inquiry Program, fiscally sponsored by Long Tom Watershed Council | $10,000 | Project Support to support indigenous-led, holistic, place-based education, ecosystem restoration, and youth internship program in the Willamette Valley. |
Tribal Democracy Project, fiscally sponsored by Common Cause Education Fund | $10,000 | Project support for Tribal Democracy Project to increase voter education and engagement in Tribal communities, conduct civics training Native young people, and to promote racially equitable democratic reforms in Oregon. |
Unidos Bridging Community | $10,000 | Project support for Unidos Bridging Community to continue the work of their youth career development program, Level Up, which is a multi-faceted economic justice program to accelerate intergenerational wealth building and advance Latinx participation in higher-earning careers in rural Yamhill County. |
Wallowa Land Trust | $5,000 | Project support to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners, indigenous people, local communities, and governmental entities to conserve land. |
Water Climate Trust | $10,000 | Project support to restore freshwater ecosystems in Indigenous communities and other stakeholders who depend on them for food, jobs, health, recreation and cultural survival throughout the state. |
Weaving Fala | $10,000 | General operating support to identify and address root causes of racial inequities in Lebanon, Oregon by restructuring institutional policies and practices. |
