Oregon nonprofits awarded nearly $700,000
by PGE Foundation for first quarter 2008
Grants focus on education, literacy, domestic violence, health care and the arts

Portland, Ore. — Nonprofits across the state got a boost from the PGE Foundation — Portland General Electric's corporate foundation — through 61 grants totaling $572,046 in the first quarter of 2008. The Foundation has distributed more than $11.5 million to Oregon nonprofits during the last 11 years.

In addition, the PGE Foundation Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation contributed $100,000 to Community 101 for the 2007/2008 school year. Community 101, the PGE Foundation's 11-year-old student grantmaking program, operates 36 programs that reach more than 1,200 youth around the state from Portland to Pendleton and from Roseburg to Tillamook.

Every year, the PGE Foundation focuses on supporting Oregon nonprofits in three categories: strengthening and delivering quality education, promoting healthy families and individuals, and helping to make arts and culture accessible to all Oregonians, especially children. This quarter, grants focused on college scholarships, literacy, domestic violence, health care and arts education.

The Foundation made 15 grants totaling $209,500 to enhance education across the state. A major grant of $100,000 to the Oregon Independent College Foundation continues a tradition of long-term commitments to leading education programs. The grant will fund 40 PGE Foundation scholarships for students attending Concordia, George Fox, Lewis & Clark, Linfield, Marylhurst, Pacific, Reed, University of Portland, Warner Pacific and Willamette. This is the 55th year PGE has made a contribution to OICF.

In addition to this award, other education grants over $2,500 include:

• Athena Library Friends Association — $5,000 to help build a new community library in Umatilla County.
• Cedar Mill Community Library Association of Washington County (Hillsboro) — $7,500 for the 2008 Washington County Summer Reading Program.
• Chess for Success (Portland) — $3,000 to support an after-school chess program for the 2008-09 school year.
• Community Transitional School (Portland) — $5,000 to support a transportation program for K-8 students whose families are homeless or living in transition.
• Harney County ESD Early Childhood Center (Burns) — $6,500 to provide equipment for a new playground.
• Literary Arts, Inc. (Portland) — $7,500 to support Writers in Schools program.
• Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland) — $40,000 (payable over two years) in support of the “Craft Lives Here” capital and endowment campaign.
• Oregon Trail Library District (Irrigon) — $10,000 for a new public library in Morrow County.
• Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center — Rosemary Anderson High School — $5,000 to help fund the Transitions Program, which supports graduates as they move into post-secondary education or apprenticeship programs.
• Portland YouthBuilders — $5,000 to help students build three new homes for low-income families.
• Oregon Parent Training and Information Center (Salem) — $10,000 to help provide education and support to parents and families of children with disabilities, allowing them to participate in their child’s education.

• Adelante Mujeres (Forest Grove) — $10,000 toward an educational program for low-income Latina women and their families.
• Assistance League of Bend — $5,000 for Operation School, a program that provides new school clothing and hygiene supplies for low-income, at-risk children.
• Audubon Society of Portland — $7,500 to support Exploradores, a summer program for Latino youth in collaboration with Hacienda Community Development Corporation.
• Birch Community Services (Portland) — $5,000 to help purchase a refrigerated truck for distributing food to those in need.
• Bradley-Angle House (Portland) — $5,000 to support the Youth in Transition Program, serving youth and their mothers escaping domestic violence.
• Children’s Center of Clackamas County (Oregon City) — $10,000 to help the organization serve 100 additional children who are victims of abuse.
• Children’s Relief Nursery (Portland) — $10,000 to support the Therapeutic Classroom Program.
• Clackamas Women’s Services (Milwaukie) — $9,000 to support domestic violence prevention services for at-risk women and children.
• Coalition of Community Health Clinics (Portland) — $7,500 to support the Access and Referral Project that improves access to resources and information for 13 community health clinics.
• East County One Stop (Gresham) — $10,000 to support the Senior Safety Pin Project that pairs 40 nursing students from Linfield School of Nursing with vulnerable seniors living alone.
• FISH of Roseburg — $5,000 to support the Basic Nutrition Project.
• FolkTime Inc. (Portland) — $12,000 to help transition and reintegrate chronic mentally ill individuals into community life.
• Friends of the Children (Portland) — $5,000 to support Camp Friends, an annual summer camp.
• Girls Inc. of NW Oregon (Portland) — $5,000 toward the GO Onward mentoring program for girls.
• Incight (Portland) — $5,000 to support the Student Transitioning and Realizing Talent (START) program for youth with disabilities.
• Medical Teams International (Portland) — $10,000 to support the operation of 14 mobile dental clinics in Douglas and Klamath counties.
• Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency (Salem) — $10,000 to support the Head Start for the Homeless Collaborative Project to provide parenting classes, childcare, mental health counseling and family-centered healthcare.
• Molalla Communities That Care — $10,000 to help develop three new prevention programs for the youth of Molalla.
• NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation (Portland) — $5,000 to support Phase II of the Emergency Contraception Access Project to educate pharmacists.
• Oregon Health Action Campaign (Salem) — $10,000 to help provide information and assistance to 1,000 low-income people seeking health care insurance.
• Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation (statewide) — $5,000 to support the Mobile Health Screening Unit program which provides glaucoma, blood pressure, visual acuity, diabetes and hearing loss screenings for those with limited income.
• Salvation Army Cascade Division (Gresham) — $40,000 (payable over two years) to support capital construction of a community center in Gresham.
• Sisters of the Road (Portland) — $10,000 to support the hot meals barter program.
• Store to Door (Portland) — $7,000 to support low-cost, personalized grocery shopping and delivery services for seniors and individuals with disabilities.
• Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation (Cornelius) — $10,000 to support a parenting program for low-income Latino patients at the Virginia Garcia Medical Center.
• Wallowa County Health Care District (Enterprise) — $20,000 to support the injury prevention program at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

• Architecture Foundation of Oregon (Portland) — $6,500 to support a school program that pairs architects with classroom teachers in grades 3-5.
• Arts Central (Bend) — $7,500 to support for the VanGo Community Outreach Project.
• Blue Monkey Theater Co. (Portland) — $5,000 to support the production of "Robin Hood."
• Broadway Rose Theatre Company (Tigard) — $3,000 to support youth outreach programming.
• Hand2Mouth Theatre (Portland) — $5,000 to support the Dos Pueblos (Two Towns) Program.
• Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (Portland) — $15,000 to support IFCC’s education program in Portland, Baker City, Pendleton and Albany schools.
• Japanese Garden Society of Oregon (Portland) — $15,000 to offer three free admission days in 2008 thereby expanding access to the Garden.
• MetroArts Inc. (Portland) — $10,000 for the Young Artists Concerto Concert at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
• Portland Chamber Orchestra Association — $5,000 to help hire a permanent executive director.
• Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — $5,000 to support the 2008 Education & Outreach Program.
• Portland Parks Foundation — Legacy Fountain — $10,000 toward a fountain to be built in honor of Bill Naito at the north end of Portland Waterfront Park.
• Sojourn Theatre (Portland) — $10,000 to support the 2008 production of “Throwing Bones” which explores healthcare and mortality in South Africa and Portland.

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