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Welcome to Impact Grantmaking's Weekly Newsletter |
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Issue 21, 4/16/13
Why Do You Give? There are numerous articles on the subject of why people give, and I think we can all relate to at least one motivating reason. During our lifetime, as our personal experiences become foundations for who we are today, our reasons and capacity to give also change. When it comes to financial gifts, we may give to help a friend, give because we are emotionally moved by an issue, or we want to make a difference in someone's life. There may be someone we want to memorialize, or while growing up it was a family tradition. Maybe it's primarily a tax deduction. When sharing your time and talent, you may choose to help because your past experience is close to the mission of the nonprofit. You may be concerned about the overhead of a nonprofit and volunteering will help keep their costs down. Perhaps you see another way a nonprofit could target an issue, so you join their board. Or their technology needs upgrading and you have the capacity to help with research and training. Or you're a creative, energetic thinker, and enjoy organizing fund raisers or convening outreach events. Each of us has special talents, and I'm certain that any nonprofit would be happy to tap into yours! How you support an organization, whether it's financially and/or with volunteering, is not the point. The point is that you took action and are contributing to our community in a wonderful way, and I honor you for your commitment. Best wishes, Jennifer Jennifer Durand Founder jdurand@impactgrantmaking.com Please forward the Newsletter to increase the nonprofit's opportunity to receive funding. Thank you! |
EarthShare Oregon - Outreach
Programs in the Workplace
Support for outreach programs into the workplace to engage employees in environmental events and "green teams". Goal: $300,000 Read Proposal
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ORCO Arts - Sound Equipment Upgrades
The sound equipment currently used to support our program is outdated, large and too heavY to move easily. Upgrading our equipment SO that our youth can perform more frequently and with greater ease allowing them to perfect skills both as performers and technical crew. Goal: $3,900 Read Proposal
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Cobb Children's Learning Center
Child Care Furnishings
CCLC provides childcare for low-income families and/or women going through the Crossroad's residential drug/alcohol treatment. CCLC is the only childcare provider in Douglas County offering care to families where parents are in the six-month long residential treatment program. Need funds for toddler tables, shelving, easels and mirrors. Goal: $5,200 Read Proposal
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Rogue Opera - Enhance Marketing
Seeks funds to retain a marketing consulting firm to develop and implement social media strategies on Facebook, Twitter and other appropriate outlets, as well as brand awareness advertising in the programs of our cultural partners in the Valley and beyond, and specific marketing campaigns for the season and each of Rogue Opera's productions. The Board is currently developing a Request for Proposals for marketing firms. Goal: Matching challenge grant of $10,000 Read Proposal
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Womenspace, Inc.
Walk-In Advocacy Services
To raise funding to revive their Emergency Walk-In Advocacy Services for intimate partner violence victims. Funding will support a full-time, bilingual advocate to serve survivors.
Goal: $50,000
Read Proposal
ShelterCare
Healthy Homes Initiative
To fund renovations and bring improvements into their client facilities in order to create safe and restorative housing for people rebuilding their lives. Goal: $70,450 Read Proposal
Food for Lane County
Emergency Generator
FFLC needs an emergency generator to enhance food security and disaster preparedness in Lane County and state. Goal: $33,500 Read Proposal
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The Trauma Healing Project - Services to Traumatized Individuals
Need funding for trauma sensitive body-based therapies in a safe environment for people who have experienced emotional trauma and are making efforts to heal. Goal: $20,000 Read Proposal
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Center for Community Counseling
Internship Enhancement Project
To broaden the reach of mental health services to low income adults without insurance in Lane County by offering individual counseling, group workshops and classes by increasing the training of university interns seeking hands-on experience dealing with clients. Goal: $18,000 Read Proposal
Volunteers In Medicine
Behavior Health Program
We are seeking funding for the Behavior Health Program (BHP) at VIM which is based on a leading-edge integrative model of care that provides, in a primary health care setting, access to comprehensive behavioral health services to low-income, medically uninsured patients. Goal: $30,000 Read Proposal
WellMama
24/7 Online Support Project
To expand 24/7 Online Support Program to include bi-lingual volunteer, handle social outreach programs and written materials to increase awareness of services. Goal: $20,400 Read ProposalNeed a Program Manager to expand their community web of care that offers screening, diagnosis and treatment for 1 in 4 women in Lane County who experience severe depression and anxiety related to pregnancy and childbirth. Goal: $20,800 Read Proposal
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Eugene Public Library Foundation
The Homework Center & Live Homework Help
Need funding for their Homework Center programs serving students from 4J and Bethel school districts. In 2012, over 6,600 students received help. Goal: $40,000 Read Proposal
Eugene Education Foundation
BEST After School Program
Seeks community support to sustain and grow BEST After School Program which serves over 300 students and families in need at little to no cost. Of the 300 students currently being served, 50% are students of color and 81% are students who receive free and reduced lunch (indication of family living in poverty). Since typically only half of the students in our district's low-poverty schools meet standard tests by 3rd grade, BEST interventions that target students in need of academic support are vital.
Goal: $65,000 per school (4 schools) to leverage the academic investment of Eugene School District funds. Read Proposal
Parenting Now! (formerly Birth to Three)
Program Support
Through the generous donations of individual supporters and grants from Oregon Foundations, Parenting Now! is close to achieving our goal for the year for funding our Children's Program. Donations and grants of any and all sized will help raise the balance of $4,500 to provide fun and developmentally appropriate programs for up to 400 children while their parents participate in our critical parenting programs. For every dollar you donate, 76 cents goes directly to Parenting Now! programs and services supporting families. UPDATED GOAL OF: $4,500 toward the original $8,000 goal! Read Proposal
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Northwest Youth Corps
Growing to ServeSeeks funding to support two staff persons who will coordinate Northwest Youth Corps' conservation program to employ 200 Oregon Teens in 2013. Goal: $5,000 Read Proposal
South Willamette FFA Foundation - Increase Awareness and Expand
The South Willamette FFA Foundation seeks support for raising awareness, garnering public interest and support, building consensus among regional schools, and helping a Creswell High School teacher receive the required endorsement to teach technical assistance and establish an FFA chapter. Goal: $10,000 Read Proposal
Metro Affordable
Youth Programs
Seeks funding for programs which engage youth and help develop strong, healthy and caring adults. Youth will learn science, stay busy with sports, and
take a field trip to volunteer at a local non-profit to learn about service in their community. Goal: $3,000
Read Proposal
Wellsprings Friends School -
14 Seat Activity Bus
Alternative learning environment for students in a supportive community. Students are mentored and assisted in working towards graduation. Goal: $30,000 Read Proposal
Ophelia's Place
Development Director
In order to continue providing after school drop-in, skill-building classes, and individual counseling services to girls ages 10-18, they need to hire a Development Director to help increase funding, manage current donor base, develop fundraising events. Goal: $29,600 Read Proposal
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Donations, in any amount, are made direct to the nonprofit at their website list below, or directed through your donor advised fund. Please mention "Impact Grantmaking" with your gift.
Click on the website link of the nonprofit and make the donation through their check-out system. Nonprofits in this newsletter are listed alphabetically:
ARC of Lane County
www.arclane.org
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam
www.bgcgreatersantiam.org
Center for Community Counseling
www.ccceugene.org/
Centro LatinoAmericano
Little Promises Children's Program
www.littlepromiseschildrensprograms.com
Metro Affordable Housing
www.metroaffordablehousing.org
ORCO Arts
www.orcoarts.org
Parenting Now!
(formerly Birth to Three)
www.parentingnow.org
Pearl Buck Center
Rogue Opera
www.rogueopera.org
ShelterCare
www.sheltercare.org
South Willamette FFA Foundation
jclemo@live.com
Sponsors, Inc.
www.sponsorsinc.org
Sweet Home Emergency Ministries
Volunteers In Medicine
www.vim-clinic.org/
WellMama www.wellmamaoregon.org Wellsprings Friends School If you have a Donor Advised Fund, please contact your administrator and make a grant recommendation for the purpose and amount you desire to donate. |
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Sweet Home Emergency Ministries (SHEM) - Front Door Replacement
Needs funds to replace the current front door as it does not provide a weather-tight seal, and safe, secure access to enter and exit the building. The wooden, non-standard door and lock originally was installed decades ago and has structurally degraded. The proposed replacement door will provide durable, secure protection of the premises. The door comes equipped with a commercial grade lever entrance lock-set. Goal:$975.00 Read Proposal
Little Promises Children's Program - Security System
Seeking to install a comprehensive security system, to ensure that all who enter building are authorized and/or cleared to enter. Exterior cameras will assist in keeping grounds secure from unwanted visitors (as well as the occasional cougar sighted in the area). As phase 1 of this project, we plan to outfit front desk person with a wireless telephone headset so she is able to move freely within the building. Goal: $45,237 Read Proposal
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam - Summer Adventures
The B&G Club seeks funds to provide an enhanced summer program for East Linn County children. The Summer Adventure is designed to engage elementary age children in fun, educational, well-supervised activities that they might not otherwise experience due to lack of affordable care options suitable for this age range, summer learning loss, lack of family resources to pay for "summer fun activities. Goal: $52,786 Read Proposal
Sweet Home Friends of the Library - Chairs and Table
The Friends of the Library (FOL) is seeking funding to purchase eight (8) light-weight portable chairs and a small table to enable people to sit and browse through various sections at their leisure. Goal: $453.00
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam - Roy Johnston Field Renovations
The Roy Johnston Sports Field is managed by the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Santiam. Two years ago it was decided to close the fields so major renovations could be made. Multiple upgrades have been completed and more are in progress. The Club has partnered with the Sweet Home Rotary Club, Sweet Home Kiwanis Club, and a group from the Ford Foundation East Linn Leadership Cohort. The goal of this partnership is to help complete three projects that will allow the B&G Club to use the four sports fields by the start of this baseball/softball season. Phase 3, to build dugouts for the four fields is left to fund. Goal: $5,843 Read Proposal
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Community LendingWorks -
Fund A Farmer or Food Business
Your gift will support a seasonal loan for a farmer or seasonal market vendor through their Market Loan program. Goal: $500 per Farmer Read Proposal
NEDCO - Sprout! Kitchen Supplies
Support for local food by purchasing kitchen supplies for the entrepreneurs who will use the Sprout! Regional Food Hub. Goal: $10 to $500+ Read Proposal
Cascade Raptor Center
Capital Campaign
Funding to build a Flight Training Arena and Visitor Center to enhance and expand educational offerings, enrichment activities for flighted birds, and increase income towards sustainability. Goal: $145,000 Read Proposal
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Pearl Buck Center
Program/Operating Support
Current focus is on program's quality, efficiency, sustainability, and remaining a valuable community resource for people affected by developmental disabilities. Gifts that can be used for general program expenses rather than restricted to a specific project allow us the flexibility to adapt quickly, and to allocate support to the areas of greatest need. Goal: $40,000 Read Proposal
ARC of Lane County
Respite Program
To add 12 Saturdays per year for their Take-A Break respite program. Gives parents a break from their child with an intellectual development disability. Goal: $25,000 Read Proposal
Sponsors Inc.
Crisis Fund
Project supports "Crisis Fund" to pay for bus passes, identification, emergency medical assistance, prescriptions for residential clients recently released from correctional institutions. Goal: $10,000
Read Proposal
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Centro LatinoAmericano
Mediation Training Program
Training for two to three Latino volunteers who can assist immigrated members of our community in problem solving various issues. Goal: $10,693 Read Proposal
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The Register Guard and United Way of Lane County are requesting volunteer of the month nominations for April and May.Your volunteers deserve the honor and praise of being recognized--here is the form to fill out! PDF of Form
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GUEST COLUMNIST: KL Wells
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The Power of Appreciation, by KL Wells
Soul of Money, "What you appreciate appreciates!"
Years ago, I was consulting with a twenty year old non-profit organization that provided therapeutic recreational activities for disabled children and adults. A portion of my work was to help them increase their donor numbers, engagement and, ultimately, to increase their contributions.
Most of their board of directors financially invested in the organization, yet they were new to the notion of involvement with asking others to invest. With that in mind we took a different approach of involving board members in increasing monies.
After analyzing their investor base, we created a new committee, comprised of board members and select volunteers, for the sole purpose of personally thanking the donors in a way that had meaning and impact. Surprisingly, most of their donors had been involved with this organization for years and had never received a phone call. So each board member became an active volunteer and they were given a list of investors to personally call and thank for their impact in the lives of thousands of children and adults.
We worked through what they would say on the phone, they began making phone calls and soon our board members were so energized they started calling me! The board members were inspired by the people they spoke with, and deeply touched to be able to share their personal volunteer stories with the donors. And donors were so delighted that a board member would take the time to call and genuinely thank them that they called or wrote to actually thank us!
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