Portland, OR. Bank of America provided $1,481,114 in grants in 2021 to more than 60 nonprofits in the region. The funds support career development, housing security, food security, education, and services supporting economic mobility for individuals and families and more.
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, Rosemary Anderson High School (POIC + RAHS) and Bridge Meadows have been named as the 2021 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardees for their work in the Portland area addressing the region’s issues around homelessness and systemic injustice. With this recognition, they will be able to scale up to help even more people through a multi-year grant from Bank of America.
As Neighborhood Builders, each organization receives a $200,000 grant, comprehensive leadership training for the executive director, and an emerging leader on topics ranging from increasing financial sustainability, human capital management, and strategic storytelling. They join a network of peer organizations across the U.S. and get the opportunity to access capital to expand their impact. The program continues to be the nation’s largest investment into nonprofit leadership development
“As communities continue to recover and navigate a changing landscape, nonprofits are still experiencing significant demands and are in need of resources to help meet critical local needs such as workforce development and affordable housing,” said Roger Hinshaw, President, Bank of America Oregon and Southwest Washington. “POIC + RAHS and Bridge Meadows are bridging important gaps for individuals and families to help them chart a path toward economic opportunity and stability. Programs like Neighborhood Builders helps these organizations grow sustainably and strategically for greater positive impact in our community.”
POIC + RAHS has served Portland for more than 50 years, assisting more than 3,000 historically underserved students, work trainees and families annually through alternative education, workforce development and family outreach. They also provide wraparound services, such as youth mentoring programs, leadership development, and career coaching for families impacted by the criminal justice system. The Neighborhood Builders grant will support their newest project, “The Kitchen.” It will become a culinary education training ground for the community, particularly communities of color, and will provide nutritious lunches to students at Rosemary Anderson High School, which currently purchases lunches from another school district.
“Our students are hungry. And not just for food. They crave leadership opportunities, genuine adult mentorship, safe outlets for creative expression, and pathways to meaningful, living-wage career options. At POIC + RAHS, we want to do more – we want to nourish them,” said CEO and President of POIC + RAHS, Joe McFerrin II. “More than standard school lunches, we want to provide nutrient-dense food made with love and offered with an invitation to heal – emotionally, physically. With help from Bank of America’s funding through the Neighborhood Builders’ grant, The Kitchen is where all of these opportunities come together – health, education, employment, community, camaraderie. The Kitchen is where real nourishment will start for our students, their families, and our shared community.”
For 10 years, Bridge Meadows has brought generations together to improve health and well-being through meaning, purpose, and belonging. Built around the concept of interdependence, Bridge Meadows’ affordable housing communities support 300 children who have experienced the foster care system, their adoptive families, and elders, who serve as mentors. Bridge Meadows provides safe, affordable housing and interrupts the cycles of poverty, instability, and isolation that weaken communities over generations. The organization hopes to double capacity over the next two years. The Neighborhood Builders grant will allow them to expand, hire staff, and can even help grow their current affordable housing communities.
“We are truly honored to be awarded the Neighborhood Builder Award by Bank of America,” said Dr. Derenda Schubert, Executive Director of Bridge Meadows. “Together we can ensure children, families, and elders live safe and abundant lives. This partnership ensures children, families and elders know they belong in the community and that their lives matter. Investment from Bank of America will significantly impact Bridge Meadows and catapult us from a local organization serving several communities in Oregon to a regional – and eventually national – organization capable of impacting countless lives across the region.”
From Bank of America:
Since 2004, Bank of America has invested more than $280 million in 50 communities through Neighborhood Builders, partnering with more than 1,400 nonprofits and helping more than 2,800 nonprofit leaders strengthen their leadership skills. Here in Portland and Southwest Washington, 27 nonprofits have been selected as a Neighborhood Builder, with the bank investing more than $5 million in these local organizations through the program since 2004.
Neighborhood Builders is just one example of how Bank of America deploys capital in communities, builds cross-sector partnerships, and promotes socioeconomic progress as part of its approach to responsible growth. So far in 2021, across Oregon and SW Washington, Bank of America has provided more than $1 million through grants and sponsorships to community partners to drive economic mobility through basic needs, jobs, community vitality & advancing racial equity. Some of the nonprofit organizations include:
· Adelante Mujeres
· Albertina Kerr Centers
· All Hands Raised
· Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis
· Boys & Girls Club of Portland Metropolitan Area
· Bridge Housing Corporation
· Central City Concern
· Clark Community College
· Clark County Food Bank
· Corporation for Supportive Housing
· Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services
· Deschutes County Children’s Foundation
· Dress for Success Oregon
· Elderheart
· Friends of the Children Portland
· Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest
· Habitat for Humanity of Central Lane
· Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Willamette Valley
· Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East
· Heart of Oregon Corps
· Hispanic Metro Chamber of Commerce
· Impact NW
· Junior Achievement of Oregon and SW Washington
· Literary Arts
· Marion Polk Food Share
· Meals on Wheels People
· Metropolitan Affordable Housing Corporation
· Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon
· New Avenues for Youth
· Northwest Housing Alternatives
· Northwest Youth Corps
· Oregon Food Bank
· ReBuilding Center
· Portland Community College
· Project Lemonade
· Proud Ground
· Reach CDC
· Relief Nursery
· Schoolhouse Supplies
· SE Works
· Self Enhancement, Inc.
· SHARE
· Sheltercare
· Store to Door
· Sunshine Division Portland
· Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation
· Volunteers in Medicine Clinic
· Youth Era
· YWCA Clark County
POIC + RAHS
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center and Rosemary Anderson High School provides the highest quality services in alternative education, mentoring, family outreach, employment training, and placement. Serving the BIPOC community for more than 50 years, POIC + RAHS reconnects alienated at-risk youth and adults affected by poverty, family instability, and homelessness to education, career training, and culturally-specific wraparound programs, including services for families impacted by the criminal justice system. Its Strategic Partnerships are grounded in the mutual desires to provide equitable services to our communities and clients, shared core values, and a commitment to growth that strengthens the partnership. Learn more about POIC + RAHS at portlandoic.org and on social media.
Bridge Meadows
Bridge Meadows is a 501(c)(3) multi-generational housing community serving Oregon’s foster youth, adoptive parents and elders (55+). Its mission is to offer permanency in the lives of foster children by providing homes, supporting adoptive parents with resources and giving elders purpose in their daily lives. The nonprofit has three locations, including one that opened in North Portland in April 2011, one in Beaverton, opened in 2017 and one in Redmond, opened in 2021. Bridge Meadows will expand its housing model to communities across the state. For more information, please visit: www.bridgemeadows.org.
Bank of America
At Bank of America, we’re guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. We’re delivering on this through responsible growth with a focus on our environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership. ESG is embedded across our eight lines of business and reflects how we help fuel the global economy, build trust and credibility, and represent a
company that people want to work for, invest in and do business with. It’s demonstrated in the inclusive and supportive workplace we create for our employees, the responsible products and services we offer our clients, and the impact we make around the world in helping local economies thrive. An important part of this work is forming strong partnerships with nonprofits and advocacy groups, such as community, consumer and environmental organizations, to bring together our collective networks and expertise to achieve greater impact. Learn more at about.bankofamerica.com, and connect with us on Twitter (@BofA_News).
Portland, OR. For over 100 years, Toy and Joy Makers has promoted the spirit of helping children and their families during the holiday season. Last year the organization provided toys to 7,529 children. The annual toy drive was founded by the Portland Fire & Rescue in 1914 to help local families in need around the holidays. It’s run by volunteers, and last year 6,150 volunteers helped out.
Toy & Joy Makers depends on donations of toys and cash for supplemental toy purchases. The organization also relies on volunteers to help with toy distribution during the holiday season and with storage at its distribution center during the rest of the year.
Toy donations can be dropped off at the following locations:
• Any Portland fire station
• Portland Toy & Joy Makers office in NE Portland (Please call ahead to arrange for pickup or to drop off – 503-823-0922)
Volunteers help sort donations.
When called upon, volunteers from Toy and Joy Makers are also able to help families throughout the year.
Visit; toynjoymakers.org for more information on the organization and how to help.
“Toy & Joy Makers” mission for over 100 years has been to promote the spirit of helping children and their families in our community during the holiday season. When called upon, we are also able to help families throughout the year. This mission manifests itself by providing qualified families in need with appropriate gifts for their children. These efforts bring joy to both givers and receivers during the season and throughout the year.
“Toy & Joy Makers” celebrates 107 years and counting of helping children.
“Please Continue To Help Make A Christmas Wish Come True For Some Girl or Boy”
Our primary service – Portland Toy & Joy Makers helps the needs of low-income families in the Portland area to give their children toys for Christmas. (We follow federal income guidelines.)
Our current program involves getting ready to set-up our distribution center. We are also setting up programs for our show and tell events. Board members are meeting with businesses who we feel can help us with donations of money, supplies, inventory, PR and building location.
Program Goals:* To provide leadership that encourages community Toy & Joy Makers partnerships that result in helping children and their families.
* To strive to ensure that no child should go without receiving gifts for Christmas.
* To reduce a child’s tragedy of losing their toys due to fire, flood, earthquake and other natural or man made disasters.
* To manage the resources and provide the support necessary to accomplish our mission.
* Our timeline, of course, is the Holiday Season. We do not want to cut our program. Without additional financing that is our only choice.
Our history – Portland Fire & Rescue’s Toy & Joy Makers started giving toys to needy children in 1914. [more…]
In past years, we have accomplished our targets with the help of the continued budget we request. When we find our program running short of toys, we have gone to the television and radio stations and made our plea to the public and to businesses. Buying toys at Christmas time is costly and limited. So far, each year we have reached our target number of children.
The present & future – The Board of Directors is responsible to make our program work. We have been adjusting to many changes and now we must look to more outside help.
This project will allow us to continue our program and to look at additional ways to bring in more community participation. To show the city and its leaders that this is a long established community program that is worthwhile and a valuable PR program for the City of Portland.
Duplication prevention – We work with other agencies in our area to check for duplication of clients. We all feel we have a good handle on this. We do not share equipment or facilities with other agencies. Our program is the largest in the State of Oregon and has a long respected history in working with state and local agencies.
Community outreach – We have been working in our neighborhoods since 1914. Our role in the community involves working with schools and the teachers to find and assist families in need and working with schools to teach children about giving and helping their community. We work with businesses to show them how they can get involved helping with toy collection or donation programs. During our main season, we contact and work with state and local agencies that assist low-income families. This is one way we prevent duplication of giving.
Our great volunteers – Commitment of volunteers and staff involves many long hours during the peak season. We have 20 to 25 volunteers each day helping at our headquarters (during December). Staff members are also there every day. We all believe in this worthwhile program and will continue to support it through good and bad times.
Portland, OR. The 2021 Christmas Ships Parade season is upon us. It will launch on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers for 15 nights, beginning on Friday, December 3rd through Tuesday, December 21st. There are six nights when the ships have a combined fleet (all boats in one location). The privately-owned vessels come from Portland, Vancouver, McMinnville, Salem, and Hood River areas. Some of the ship owners have been part of the Christmas tradition for more than 30 years.
The boats range from 14 to 65 feet long and are brightly decorated for the holiday season. Up to 60-holiday boats are expected to make up the two fleets this year.
The Christmas Ship Parade started in 1954 with one lone sailboat from Portland Yacht Club. Bows of green with some ribbon were tied along the rails and they paraded on the rivers. The next year the parade started to grow and has become a beloved Portland area tradition.
Here’s a video about the Christmas ships parade from several years ago:
From The Christmas Ship Parade Organizers:
We are fully funded by the generous financial contributions of many waterfront businesses as well as individuals. If you enjoy seeing us out on the water, please consider supporting us by donating here: Make a donation.
The Christmas Ship Parade started in 1954 with one lone sailboat from Portland Yacht Club. Bows of green with some ribbon were tied along the rails and they paraded on the rivers
Many restaurants and hotels along the Columbia and Willamette rivers are already taking reservations with nights already booked for some evenings.
Each skipper is responsible for their own expenses, including fuel and insurance for their vessels over the two weeks. This can run into the hundreds of dollars, which in itself is a testament to the dedication and enthusiasm the Christmas Ship skippers bring to the organization and the community. The organization accepts donations to help cover the cost of maintaining, managing, and promoting the organization, but none of these donations go to the skippers, their crews, or their boats. Christmas Ships, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization, with no paid staff or officers, just a large group of friendly individual volunteers/skippers who give back to the community they love.
Portland, OR. Giving Tuesday is coming up on November 30th. It was launched in 2012 as a way to get people to donate on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving when people are already opening their wallets for the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. Charities and businesses use the hashtag #GivingTuesday on social media to spread awareness and seek donations. Besides contributions, GivingTuesday is also a time to engage volunteers, receive in-kind donations, and thank current supporters.
In 2020, nearly $2.5 billion was donated in the U.S. on Giving Tuesday, according to estimates by campaign organizers.
Oregon Humane Society is one of the many nonprofits taking hoping to benefit from Giving Tuesday.
Nonprofits like Boy & Girls Club are still serving kids in our area.
Below is a list of Portland Area nonprofits hoping for a boost on Giving Tuesday. Click on the name of the nonprofit for a direct link to its website.
GivingTuesday is a growing global generosity movement that drives giving and collective action in communities around the world.
GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity year-round.
GivingTuesday inspires generosity worldwide through a distributed network of leaders. There are official GivingTuesday national movements in 80 countries, led by a global network of passionate, entrepreneurial leaders. At a grassroots level, people and organizations participate in GivingTuesday in every single country in the world.
GivingTuesday creates global impact driven by local action. In the U.S. alone, 300 community campaigns rally thousands of nonprofits, foundations, grassroots organizations, small businesses, and generous individuals to give back. Through #GivingTuesdaySpark, youth are leading change and inspiring action around the world.
GivingTuesday is driving a net increase in giving. The movement continues to grow in year-over-year donation volume, reach and impact – driving increased donations and behavior change. In 2020, at least $2.47 Billion were donated in twenty-four hours in the U.S. alone, with 13% of the adult population participating by offering gifts of time, voice, skills, goods, and money, as well as countless acts of kindness inspired by the movement.
GivingTuesday is a global hub for data, learning, and ultimately, innovation around generosity. The GivingTuesday Data Commons works with partners across sectors and borders to understand the drivers and impacts of generosity, explore giving behaviors and patterns, and use data to inspire more giving around the world. With over 100 contributing partners and 50 global data labs, the initiative is the largest philanthropic data collaboration ever built.
People are inspired to give on GivingTuesday. 84% of those aware report that GivingTuesday inspired them to be more giving. A 2019 Horizon Media study reported that 52% said that they want to donate on this day because it allows them to be a part of a bigger group of people doing good.
GivingTuesday inspires collective action and generosity all year round–and in times of crisis. $503M in online donations were contributed in the U.S. alone on May 5, 2020 during #GivingTuesdayNow a global day of giving and unity created as an emergency response to COVID-19.
People can show their generosity in a variety of ways during GivingTuesday. Whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or finding virtual volunteer opportunities with their favorite causes—everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.
Portland, OR. Wy’East Mountain Academy is an outdoor-oriented, action sports academy designed to develop students in the classroom as well as in the outdoors. The organization is launching a nonprofit foundation to help offer financial aid to students who otherwise would not be able to attend.
Most students attending Wy’East Mountain Academy are enrolled in Edgenuity, an accredited online elementary and secondary school. The school’s web-based curriculum meets Oregon state standards while licensed teachers provide the instruction online.
The academy enrolls students ages 12 to 19 who want to combine a rigorous academic setting with skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, and other outdoor recreation sports.
Wy’East Mountain Academy offers sport-specific coaching that facilitates athletic progression at all levels, from just starting out to competing professionally. Its first annual Good in the Woods fundraising celebration will be held on Friday, December 17th, 2021. The goal is to bring families and supporters together to celebrate the new 501c3 not-for-profit status and to raise $50,000 in scholarship funds so administrators can extend the Wy’East Mountain Academy experience to more students. To help reach the goal, there is a Penny for Penny match on all proceeds raised.
Student at Wy’East academy on graduation day.
The school holds a parent’s weekend each year.
Kevin English, Academy President, explains the plan to raise $50,000. “The goal of Good in the Woods is to help raise funds for tuition assistance. When you look at any of these sports we’re talking about, they’re incredibly resource-intense, these are not inexpensive sports in the first place, and then you couple that with a boarding school, it really limits the number of people who can afford to do something like this.”
Unique silent bid items include fun items like snowboarding & skiing gear, IKON pass, renowned action sports photography, and airline tickets. “Adversity is nothing new to this school,” English said when talking about challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our team, coming from this action-sports world, is really all about risk mitigation. When you’re a high-performance athlete, that’s all you’re doing, you’re never eliminating risk, but just learning to mitigate existing risks and I think that’s what we’ve done with the school and we’ve navigated it rather well.”
From Wy’East Mountain Academy:
Wy’East Mountain Academy (formerly Windells Academy) is a world-class outdoor-oriented, action sports academy designed to develop driven and talented students in the classroom as well as in the outdoors. Wy’East enrolls students ages 12 to 19 who want to combine a rigorous academic setting with skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking and other outdoor recreation sports. To this end, we offer sport-specific coaching that facilitates athletic progression at all levels, from just starting out to competing professionally. We enable students to learn, train and participate in sports year-round while attaining high school or college credits that are transferable in or out of any US accredited school, national or international.
The meaning of Wy’East.
“Wy’East” is the original name for Mt. Hood, given by the Multnomah people who first inhabited its nearby lands. That this mountain draws us together is central to our spirit of adventure and achievement. It is this special place we call home and to which we pay homage.
What we believe.
Our mission is life improvement through people, place, and passion. We believe that if you put the right people in the right place, with shared passions and college preparatory academics, you’ll not just improve the life of young person, but change the world by helping to create driven and compassionate citizens.
Our vision is to be a top ten globally rated outdoor academy with alumni who are helping to improve the world.
Portland, OR. Jesuit High School held its “Financial Aid LIVE” benefit and raised over $339,330. The emcees were a current senior, Theron Abel, and alumna and KATU reporter Genevieve Reaume who graduated in 2011. Before the pandemic, the annual financial aid benefit drew approximately 600 people. In 2020 it was completely virtual. On November 18th, the event was a hybrid of in-person and virtual with supporters watching a LiveStream. Raising funds for financial aid is a serious priority for administrators; during the current school year, $3.8 million in financial aid is being awarded to 352 students.
The Jesuit High School choir was featured in the program.
Jesuit High School, located in Portland, Oregon, was founded in 1956 by the Society of Jesus and is part of a 450-year Jesuit educational tradition. Jesuit High School is a non-profit, coeducational college-preparatory school for grades 9-12 that serves students of all religious faiths. It’s located at 9000 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. Portland, OR 97225.
Jesuit’s curriculum is founded in the educational philosophy of Jesuit founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and takes a holistic view of adolescent education, which includes nurturing the spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic gifts each student brings to campus. Jesuit hopes to accomplish this development by demonstrating a personal concern for individuals, an articulate wisdom, enthusiasm, and a sense of community. In so doing, we hope to graduate leaders who are committed to serve God and their fellow men and women through a profound sense of justice founded in love, i.e. leaders who are “men and women for others.”
The operation of Jesuit High School is overseen by a Board of Trustees. The board ensures and provides the spiritual tone and direction of the school, consistent with the purposes and traditions of Roman Catholic and Jesuit education. The board also monitors Jesuit High School’s business affairs.
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Danielle & Charles Wallace
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Circle of Caring Sponsors
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Hotchkiss-Agostinelli Family
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Summit Mortgage
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Paper Moon Shop: Mary Martinez
Portland, OR. In its latest round of community grant funding, the Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation awarded 77 community grants to local nonprofits across its five-state footprint totaling $305,500. Employees also work “hands-on” like those seen above during the tenth annual #StandTogetherWeek.
“We’re honored to invest in the important work of local nonprofits who have continued to provide critical community services and programs during challenging times,” shared Randy Choy, Managing Director of the Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation. “Our gratitude goes out to these nonprofits who are essential partners with us to improve access to economic opportunity for all community members.”
Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP) is one of the recipients.
In total, the three rounds of community grants contributed $1M to community organizations across Ore., Wash., Idaho, Calif. and Nev. and are part of Umpqua Bank’s overall foundation and corporate giving program that has invested $12.8 million since the Foundation was formed in 2014.
These nonprofits were selected from hundreds of applicants who demonstrated a steadfast commitment to serving low-to-moderate income populations in at least one of eight categories: family engagement and resiliency; financial competency; housing stability and homeownership; college, career or technical readiness; entrepreneurship and business expansion; vibrant and equitable neighborhoods; technical and digital connectivity; and small business support and financial guidance.
Third-round community grant recipients received between $3,000-10,000 and are listed below. The next deadline for community grant applications will be announced soon. Learn more at www.UmpquaBank.com/Community.
OREGON Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Turning Point Community Service Center Kor Community Land Trust Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley Phoenix School of Roseburg Umpqua Community Development Corporation (Neighborworks Umpqua) Boys & Girls Clubs of the Rogue Valley Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center Boys & Girls Club of Albany ACE Mentor Program of Oregon Bridge Meadows Catholic Charities of Oregon Financial Beginnings Oregon Girls, Inc. Sarah Bellums Bakery & Workshop Saturday Academy United Negro College Fund Youth Rights & Justice Gilbert Children’s Museum Desert Rose Ministries Impact Pendleton Josephy Center for Arts and Culture Wallowa Business Angels for Angels Centro Cultural De Condado De Washington Community Action Organization Community Partners for Affordable Housing Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
WASHINGTON Second Harvest Inland Northwest
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington Northwest Association for Blind Athletes Vancouver School District No. 37 Foundation Family Promise of Cowlitz County YWCA North Central Washington Habitat for Humanity Inc. (Tri-County Partners) College Possible-WA Financial Beginnings Washington Powerful Voices Maryhill Museum of Art Next Door, Inc. United Way of Lewis County Okanogan County Community Action Council Collaborative Effort, Inc. (RAIN Incubator) Pierce County AIDS Foundation Pierce County Library Foundation Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County Foundation Stevenson Downtown Association Foundation for Edmonds School District Housing Hope Senior Services of Snohomish County Washington Kids in Transition Latinos En Spokane Transitional Programs for Women Community Action Center
CALIFORNIA Indian Dispute Resolution Services Operation Care Calaveras Mentoring Foundation Family Action Centers of Colusa County Boys & Girls Clubs of Contra Costa Valley Small Business Development Corp. Community for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership & Opportunity Greater Sacramento Urban League Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Operation Innovate Teach for America, Inc. HISCEC Foundation, Inc. Centers for Equity and Success Karat School Project West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Improve Your Tomorrow Bridges to Housing Empower Tehama Sierra Repertory Theatre Inc.
IDAHO Second Harvest Inland Northwest Tesh, Inc.
NEVADA New West Community Capital, Inc. Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc.
About Umpqua Bank Umpqua Bank, headquartered in Roseburg, Ore., is a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, and has locations across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada. Umpqua Bank has been recognized for its innovative customer experience and banking strategy by national publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and CNBC. The company has been recognized for eight years in a row on FORTUNE magazine’s list of the country’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” and was recently named by The Portland Business Journal the Most Admired Financial Services Company in Oregon for the sixteenth consecutive year. In addition to its retail banking presence, Umpqua Bank also owns Financial Pacific Leasing, Inc., a nationally recognized commercial finance company that provides equipment leases to businesses.
Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation Awards 77 Grants to Nonprofits Across Five States
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In its latest round of community grant funding, the Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) of Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: UMPQ), awarded 77 community grants to local nonprofits across its five-state footprint totaling $305,500.
In total, the three rounds of community grants contributed $1M to community organizations across Ore., Wash., Idaho, Calif. and Nev. and are part of Umpqua Bank’s overall foundation and corporate giving program that has invested $12.8 million since the Foundation was formed in 2014.
“We’re honored to invest in the important work of local nonprofits who have continued to provide critical community services and programs during challenging times,” shared Randy Choy, Managing Director of the Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation. “Our gratitude goes out to these nonprofits who are essential partners with us to improve access to economic opportunity for all community members.”
These nonprofits were selected from hundreds of applicants who demonstrated a steadfast commitment to serving low-to-moderate income populations in at least one of eight categories: family engagement and resiliency; financial competency; housing stability and home ownership; college, career or technical readiness; entrepreneurship and business expansion; vibrant and equitable neighborhoods; technical and digital connectivity; and small business support and financial guidance.
Third round community grant recipients received between $3,000-10,000 and are listed below. The next deadline for community grant applications will be announced soon. Learn more at www.UmpquaBank.com/Community.
OREGON Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Turning Point Community Service Center Kor Community Land Trust Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley Phoenix School of Roseburg Umpqua Community Development Corporation (Neighborworks Umpqua) Boys & Girls Clubs of the Rogue Valley Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center Boys & Girls Club of Albany ACE Mentor Program of Oregon Bridge Meadows Catholic Charities of Oregon Children’s Healing Art Project, Inc. Financial Beginnings Oregon Girls, Inc. Sarah Bellums Bakery & Workshop Saturday Academy United Negro College Fund Youth Rights & Justice Gilbert Children’s Museum Desert Rose Ministries Impact Pendleton Josephy Center for Arts and Culture Wallowa Business Angels for Angels Centro Cultural De Condado De Washington Community Action Organization Community Partners for Affordable Housing Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
WASHINGTON Second Harvest Inland Northwest
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington Northwest Association for Blind Athletes Vancouver School District No. 37 Foundation Family Promise of Cowlitz County YWCA North Central Washington Habitat for Humanity Inc. (Tri-County Partners) College Possible-WA Financial Beginnings Washington Powerful Voices Maryhill Museum of Art Next Door, Inc. United Way of Lewis County Okanogan County Community Action Council Collaborative Effort, Inc. (RAIN Incubator) Pierce County AIDS Foundation Pierce County Library Foundation Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County Foundation Stevenson Downtown Association Foundation for Edmonds School District Housing Hope Senior Services of Snohomish County Washington Kids in Transition Latinos En Spokane Transitional Programs for Women Community Action Center
CALIFORNIA Indian Dispute Resolution Services Operation Care Calaveras Mentoring Foundation Family Action Centers of Colusa County Boys & Girls Clubs of Contra Costa Valley Small Business Development Corp. Community for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership & Opportunity Greater Sacramento Urban League Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Operation Innovate Teach for America, Inc. HISCEC Foundation, Inc. Centers for Equity and Success Karat School Project West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Improve Your Tomorrow Bridges to Housing Empower Tehama Sierra Repertory Theatre Inc.
IDAHO Second Harvest Inland Northwest Tesh, Inc.
NEVADA New West Community Capital, Inc. Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc.
About Umpqua Bank Umpqua Bank, headquartered in Roseburg, Ore., is a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, and has locations across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada. Umpqua Bank has been recognized for its innovative customer experience and banking strategy by national publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and CNBC. The company has been recognized for eight years in a row on FORTUNE magazine’s list of the country’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” and was recently named by The Portland Business Journal the Most Admired Financial Services Company in Oregon for the sixteenth consecutive year. In addition to its retail banking presence, Umpqua Bank also owns Financial Pacific Leasing, Inc., a nationally recognized commercial finance company that provides equipment leases to businesses.
A traditional meal will be served to-go on Thanksgiving Day.
Portland Rescue Mission started in 1949. Over 70 years later, it’s still known for compassionate care to homeless men, women, and children. The nonprofit has 4 different locations and also provides long-term recovery care.
US Bank Corp volunteers assemble snack bags at Union Gospel Mission of Portland
Other Thanksgiving Volunteer Opportunities:
Blanchet House does not serve meals on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day so that its shelter residents who help to prepare and serve meals can enjoy a day of rest. The nonprofit has volunteer opportunities that you can do from home on Thanksgiving. See below.
From Blanchet House:
You can volunteer from home by doing one of the following meaningful activities.
Make Sack Lunches
Prepare 10-100 sack lunches and drop them off at Blanchet House. Review our Sack Lunch How-To for the details.
Donations can be dropped off Mon-Sat*, at 310 NW Glisan St. from 8 – 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 – 4 p.m. *We are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Pull up to our entrance, knock on the door to get our attention, and a staff member will retrieve your donation from the car. If you’d like a donation receipt, we can provide one. You can also call us at 503-241-4340 or email [email protected].
If you would like to volunteer on-site at Blanchet House on a day that is not a holiday sign up here. Blanchet House is open Mon-Sat, except for New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. We are open all other holidays.
McMinnville, OR. The Evergreen Museum has partnered with the non-profit Veterans’ Legacies and become the location of its new world headquarters in the Aviation Museum.
The headquarters marks the first-time family members, friends, caregivers, and veterans themselves have a physical space to share pictures, biographies, letters, and more. The headquarters includes:
The Mighty Endeavor oral history recording studio
Ben Cox Research Library
A free gathering space for museum visitors
Artifacts on display from the Evergreen Collection ranging from uniforms to helmets and patches
Personal photo albums donated to Veterans’ Legacies by service members and their families.
Veterans can schedule an appointment in the oral history recording studio to share stories that will be added to the Veterans’ Legacies online database.
Veterans’ Legacies World Headquarters in the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville.
Here’s a video about Veterans’ Legacies World Headquarters in the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville.
“Our goal is to preserve the histories of all of those who served, and the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is the perfect partner for our center of operation,” said founder Gary Mortensen, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and president of the Stoller Wine Group,
“Thanks to the Museum, we now have a place where these incredible stories can be recorded, researched, and shared in our ever-growing database that includes the stories of more than 9 million WWII veterans as well as those who served during peacetime,” Mortensen continued.
Another feature included in the library will be artifacts from the Evergreen Collection. These range from uniforms to helmets and patches, plus personal photo albums donated to Veterans’ Legacies by service members and their families.
The Veterans’ Legacies center will be open by appointment through the end of the year. Learn more at themightyendeavor.com.
Donations and volunteering opportunities can be made by emailing [email protected].
From Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum:
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is located at 500 Northeast Captain Michael King Smith Way in McMinnville. It is the home of the iconic Hughes Flying Boat Spruce Goose and strives to promote scientific curiosity while empowering everyone to learn about the past and inspiring future use of innovation and technology. Its aircraft, exhibits, and artifacts — like the rare SR-71 Blackbird, Titan II Space Launch Vehicle (SLV) with its original launch room, and a MaxFlight full-motion interactive flight simulator ride — offer stunning examples of aviation achievement. All of this is done in an environment that teaches students of all ages how these once emerging technologies demonstrate the importance of human skills like mathematics, science, teamwork, determination, and perseverance.
As a 501(c)3, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is proud to partner with the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, the Oregon Space Consortium, and the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program. The Evergreen Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. To make a reservation, buy tickets, or learn more, call (503) 434-4180 or visit evergreenmuseum.org.
Portland, OR. Oregon State University supporters celebrated the impact of philanthropy at the President’s Dinner on October 26th. It was a multi-access event for 150 in-person guests at the Portland Art Museum and additional 200 participants online. Alumni emcees Lamar Hurd from Trail Blazers Broadcasting and Cathy Marshall of KGW Television (pictured above) led the program filled with stories of students and faculty.
Organizers say, “With this year’s President’s Dinner, we were able to blend the best of both worlds and offer guests the choice of how they wanted to participate. Our in-person offering was designed with COVID safety in mind – vaccination required and a smaller number of attendees than in the past. We also got creative with ways to connect our in-person guests with those joining virtually. We had a live chat feature and placed iPads on each table to help make sure our in-person and virtual guests has a shared experience.”
The OSU Foundation hosted the event, celebrating a record 25 households and organizations that have recently joined the Milton Harris Society, which honors OSU donors for lifetime gift commitments of $1 million or more.
The OSU Foundation hosted the event, celebrating a record 25 households and organizations that have recently joined the Milton Harris Society, which honors OSU donors for lifetime gift commitments of $1 million or more.
OSU Foundation President and CEO Shawn Scoville said, “One silver lining of the pandemic has been finding new ways of engaging alumni and friends in the life of the university, regardless of where they live.”
OSU Interim President Becky Johnson discussed OSU’s work related to the pandemic and climate impacts, aided by donors who invest in faculty. “I’m proud that OSU is a leader in providing access to affordable higher education among top research institutions,” she continued. “This year’s entering class is the most diverse in our history. About one-fourth of Corvallis students and one-third of OSU-Cascades students are the first in their families to attend college. Much of this would not be possible without your support, and I’m profoundly grateful for your generosity.”
Here’s a video about the new members of the Milton Harris Society:
From Oregon State University Foundation:
Here’s a list of the new Milton Harris Society members:
Robin & W. Charles “Chuck” Armstrong, ’66
Todd A. Baker, ’94
Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization
Susan Hamm Fritz, ’69, & Dennis W. Fritz, ’64, M.S. ’67
Kristin Gilley Fritz, ’88, & Michael W. Fritz, ’88
Robert M. Goldstein, ’77
Sheila and J. Michael Goodwin
Eric H.I. Hoffman, ’79, & Janice Kelleher Hoffman, ’81
Marilyn & Ronald R. Hudson, ’69
Paula D. & Kenneth S. Krane
Marilyn K. & Russell V. Kuhns, ’68
Christine Pullin Levy, ’70, & Thomas H. Levy, ’70
Lone Rock Resources
David A. Montagne, ’87
Dixie L. & Kelly C. Morgan, ’79
Northwest Farm Credit Services
Gwendolyn A. & Michael D. Purdy, ’76
Roy L. Rogers, ’56, Family
Roundhouse Foundation
Kelly K. Douglas & Eric H. Schoenstein, ’88
Nancy Billingsley Searles, ’71, & V. Kent Searles, ’71
Linda K. & Murray L. Smith, ’59
Nancy M. & Edwin M. Squires
Sunderland Foundation
Unique Botanicals LLC
Watch videos from the 2021 President’s Dinner:
The Oregon State University Foundation seeks to create a better world by inspiring support of – and for – OSU. The OSU Foundation partners with OSU to engage the community, inspire investment and steward resources to enhance the university’s excellence and impact.
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