2017 Focus Grants
These substantial grants provide support to effective and innovative nonprofit programs that are actively addressing the Community Foundation’s current focus: breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty in southwest Washington.
These substantial grants provide support to effective and innovative nonprofit programs that are actively addressing the Community Foundation’s current focus: breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty in southwest Washington.
Children’s Center
Project Safe-Net
Children’s Home Society of Washington
East County Family Resource Center
Children’s Justice & Advocacy Center
Operating Support
Clark County Latino Youth Leadership Conference
SW Washington Latino Parent Institute
Council for the Homeless
Housing Relief Fund
Daybreak Youth Services
Focus on Girls – Outreach and Education
FISH of Cowlitz County
Utilities Assistance Program
Food Lifeline
Cowlitz County
Lifeline Connections
Residential Treatment for Pregnant & Parenting Women and Their Children
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Remodel of Vancouver office
Meals on Wheels People
Clark County
The Salvation Army (Longview)
Community Meal Program
Share
Individual Development Account (IDA) program
Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health
Healthy Living Collaborative: Community Health Worker Program
Significant grants for organizations addressing a broad range of issues that fall outside of the Community Foundation’s current focus area. This includes arts and culture, health, community building, environmental issues and education.
Children’s Discovery Museum
Development of additional permanent exhibits
Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts
“Pianist of Willesden Lane” Community Read program
Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership
Outdoor Science, Planting and Recreation for Every Youth (OSPREY) Program
Mount St Helens Institute
Volcano Outdoor School for All
Southwest Washington Symphony
Children’s Concerts
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Operating Support
This program provides smaller non-profits with the freedom to take risks, to innovate, to learn and adapt to organizational and community needs. The application is available year-round, and the grants are catalysts for building capacity, operations, programs and sponsorships.
CDM Services
Aging with Dignity Capital Campaign
Children’s Discovery Museum
Program Expansion
Chinook Trail Association
Ellen Davis Trail
Clark College Foundation
Penguin Pantry
Clark County Food Bank
Sponsorship for 2017 Taste & See Event
Clark County Veterans Assistance Center
2017 Events including Black Tie Gala
Community Enrichment for Klickitat & Skamania
Power of Produce at the Stevenson Farmers Market
Confluence Project
General Operating Support
Council for the Homeless
Affordable Housing Initiative and Mobile Showers
Cowlitz Economic Development Council
40 for 2020: General Operating Support
Ethnic Support Council
General Operating Support
Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation
2017 Authors & Illustrators Dinner and Auction
Foundation for Vancouver Public Schools
Community Schools
Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Sponsorship of Funding Forward Conference
The Intertwine Alliance
Clark County, WA Programs
Klineline Kids Fishing Nonprofit
General Support
Lower Columbia CAP
IDA and Food employment training
Nonprofit Network Southwest Washington
Unrestricted
North County Community Food Bank
General Support
Oregon Community Foundation
DeVos Institute Arts & Culture Project Fund,
supporting SW WA nonprofits
Returning Veterans Project
SW Washington Veteran Provider Recruitment and Expansion
Rural Development Initiatives
Leadership Development Program for Skamania
The Salvation Army Longview
Community Eviction Prevention Program
Washington Gorge Action Programs
Stevenson Food Bank
Windhaven Therapeutic Riding
Consultation for Natural Lifemanship
YWCA Clark County
Empower Luncheon Sponsorship