list of grantees

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Our Grantees

2023 Focus Grantees

Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program

$75,000

To supplement and sustain the Survivor Support Program.

Educational Opportunities for Children and Families

$50,000

To create a paid Health Assistant position.

Empower Family Focused Services

$50,000

To build capacity through operations and event support.

Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest

$25,000

To support the second year of the Eureka! program serving 50 8th-9th grade students.

IMPACT Immigration

$30,000

To deepen the ties with SWWA and strengthen immigrant communities by providing more services.

Legal Counsel for Youth and Children

$28,000

To reduce and prevent youth homelessness by providing free legal support for youth and young adults in Clark County.

Lutheran Community Services Northwest

$50,000

To support the operation of several programming streams focused specifically on Refugee and Humanitarian Parolee clients.

Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon

$50,000

To provide underrepresented entrepreneurs with culturally specific, customized, 1:1 technical assistance, business development education, and access to equitable capital to help launch or grow small businesses.

Odyssey World International Education Services

$50,000

To support YEP 2024 & YEP 2025 which supports the development of resiliency, strengthens impulse control and builds self-confidence in Black and other at-risk and disadvantaged youth.

PAX Learning Center

$25,000

To provide GED and ESL courses and workforce opportunities to targeted population with zero cost to the students.

Play Frontier

$50,000

To support the launch of school-age extended care in the form of after school programs and full-day summer camps.

Sakura39ers

$40,000

To provide operating support for Chuukese youth and families.

Stand for Children

$25,000

To support youth in ways that prepare them for life; to advise, guide, and connect district administrators and public leaders in the development of policy; and to support the transformation of systems into spaces of learning and high expectations for historically marginalized students and youth.

Vancouver Ballet Folklórico

$6,160

To provide operating support for dance instructors.

Vietnamese Community of Clark County

$25,000

To provide support for youth development through VIC and the Community Development program.

2022 Focus Grantees

Chess for Success

$25,000

Expansion of Chess for Success Learning and Wellness Program.

Confluence

$25,000

Funds will support Confluences art-fused educational programming.

Cowlitz County Child Advocates

$30,000

Support for services to children who are subject to child welfare and court intervention.

Cowlitz Indian Tribe

$50,000

Support to establish culturally-specific food pantries in Cowlitz and Clark to support Cowlitz Indian Tribe members.

Educational Opportunities for Children and Families

$50,000

To support professional development and retention of early child care providers.

Empower Family Focused Services

$50,000

Support for youth development and mentorship programs.

Ethnic Support Council

$35,000

Capacity building to support immigrant and refugee families in Cowlitz County.

Evergreen Habitat for Humanity

$20,000

To support internal diversity, equity, inclusion and justice work.

Fosterful

$50,000

Program site expansion to support vulnerable children entering foster care in Clark County.

Friends of the Children SW Washington

$25,000

In support of Eliminating Generational Poverty: A 2Gen Professional Mentoring Model.

Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest

$25,000

To support launch of the Eureka! Program in Vancouver and year-round STEAM learning activities in Clark County schools.

Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber

$25,000

Support for the Hispanic Chamber’s Latino Technical Assistance Program in Vancouver.

Latino Leadership Northwest

$80,000

To support culturally-specific mental health supports for Latinx communities.

Legal Counsel for Youth and Children

$50,000

To provide free legal support for youth and young adults in Clark County, helping to reduce and prevent youth homelessness.

Mercy Corps Northwest

$50,000

To support small business training, financial education and computer literacy classes.

Milagro

$20,000

In support of Teatro Milagro’s Bilingual Arts Residencies in southwest Washington middle and high schools.

Mullen-Polk Foundation

$50,000

To support Our Next Generation I & II foster youth programming.

NAACP Vancouver Branch

$150,000

To support the expansion of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological & Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) programming.

OneAmerica

$25,000

Building immigrant community leadership in Vancouver.

Proud Ground

$48,500

In support of Clark County homeownership education and counseling program.

Skamania County Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

$30,000

Support for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Stand for Children Leadership Center

$25,000

Supporting student success in SW Washington.

Unity Center

$50,000

To support youth mentoring programs and out-of-school camps.