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Issue 39, 8/20/13
Thank Goodness
Since the launch of Impact Grantmaking, we have posted 56 different proposals, submitted by 43 nonprofit organizations. The nonprofits and the types of projects that need funding are, of course, a reflection of our community.
Thank goodness the nonprofits in Oregon are here to address these problems and work towards solutions. And thank goodness, you are out there, reading what the needs are and sharing the information with your friends and colleagues, because you know you can make a difference!
In the course of my work, I've listened to people who fail to see the progress our nonprofits make, which is too bad, because as a result of their thinking, they choose to leave it to others to support the work. When that happens, the burden of fund raising, looking for volunteers, and providing services are affected.
I visualize that at some point in the near future, we will all turn the corner together, where we all do our part to support the nonprofit organizations that help individuals get and stay on their feet. Please join me in this intention because without all of us, how will they succeed?
Best wishes,
JenniferFounder jdurand@impactgrantmaking.com
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FINAL APPEAL!
Vina Moses - Back to School Drive!
You can help by sponsoring one or more children for just $50.00 each, or donating gently used clothing, or volunteering when the children come to the center to get school supplies and clothing. We serve over 1,000 kids during the week of August 21-24th.
Goal: $50.00 per child or whatever you can donate!
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ORGANIZATIONS COVERING MULTIPLE COUNTIES
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HIV Alliance - Care Packages
Support for care packages of hygiene products for their clients with this devastating disease. Service area includes: Lane, Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Lake, Coos, Curry, Lincoln, Clatsop, and Marion Counties. Goal $10,000
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Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon - Breast Health Initiative
Funding for free breast examinations, professional screening, and diagnostic care, and outreach for uninsured women. Goal $36,000 Read More
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon - Electronic Health Records Seeks funding to purchase EHR equipment and provide comprehensive staff training in order to improve patient care. Goal: $75,000 Read More
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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
Sponsors, Inc.
Crisis FundTheir "Crisis Fund" needs funding to pay for bus passes, identification cards, emergency medical assistance, prescriptions for residential clients recently released from correctional institutions. Goal: $10,000 Read More
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Womenspace - Safe House
Funding for the Safe House project to improve access and safety of the environment around the facility. Goal: $4,950
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Willamette Farm & Food Coalition
Educational Programs
Funding for the Farm to School and Family Outreach educational program to improve students and their families nutrition and health. Goal: $30,000 Read More
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Huerto de la Familia
There is a need for Latino immigrants to have a long-term solution to food security. Seeking funding for their Organic Garden Education Program. Impact 60 families and 260 children. Goal: $6,000
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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 More
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WellMama - Grant WriterSeeks support to hire a part-time Grant Writer to help increase funding for their clients who experience pregnancy and postpartum depression and anxiety issues.
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Community LendingWorks Lane County
Community LendingWorks is not just your average lender. We use small loans as a tool to help people and businesses make their lives, and our community, better.
Because of our focus on helping people move forward financially, we are able to create customized loan products, and to take risks on people based on what we know about their character. To Community LendingWorks, people and businesses are more than a credit score or balance sheet. They are the life and soul of what makes our community great.
This summer, we helped one such business take a leap forward. A borrower we've worked with for a long time had a major setback in the last year. He runs a business that primarily makes its income at the Oregon Country Fair and the Holiday Market in Eugene. Illness and difficult life circumstances last year threatened to take the entire business down. Without his small direct-market business, he would lose everything.
When he was ready to back on his feet, he came to Community LendingWorks. We rallied our resources, took a risk and lent him the funds he needed to invest in his Oregon Country Fair booth. To ensure his success, worked with him on his cash-flow, pricing, branding and staffing.
That risk paid off for him in ways we could not have anticipated. Not only did he pay back his loan, but he had the best week he'd ever had in 25 years of selling at the Fair. He sold more product, retained the highest profit, and had the best crew he'd ever had. On top of that, he used some of his loan funds to purchase an annual liability insurance policy instead of just enough coverage for the fair. Now he is already working on getting into ongoing farmers' markets to supplement his income year round.
Community LendingWorks put him back in business. We helped him reclaim his life. We looked through the challenges, saw the potential, and worked with the person in the middle of it all to change his story.
You can help change countless stories by giving or investing in Community LendingWorks. This story is repeated every day in different ways for individuals and small business. Talk about "Impact Grantmaking!"
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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 More
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 More
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St. Vincent de Paul - La Pine
Food Drive Campaign
Funding needed to develop and implement neighborhood food drives with other local social service agencies.
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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 More
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ARC 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 More
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. Need general program support rather than restricted funds to allow us the flexibility to adapt quickly, and to allocate support to the areas of greatest need.
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Science Factory Children's Museum
Science Factory's goal is to bring in PreK children during the 2013 through 2015 school years for enrichment and educational programs. Goal: $5,000 Read More
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Eugene Public Library Foundation
The Homework Center & Live Homework Help
Need funding for the Homework Center programs serving students from 4J and Bethel school districts. In 2012, over 6,600 students received help. Goal: $40,000 Read More
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Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam (Lebanon and Sweet Home)- 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
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). Goal: $45,237 Read More
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