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2020 Community Grants

September 22, 2020 by director Leave a Comment

Once again, tt’s grant time at the Papé Family Foundation! Every spring, our Grant Committee recommends General Grants to our Trustees for a vote and then we will fund these grants! Our fourth generation Adjunct Trustees will review the remaining applications and make their own recommendation by the end of 2020.

Thank you to all the organizations that took the time to participate in our grant making process.

As always, our Grant Committee had a tough job. This year they selected nine organizations in California, Oregon, Texas and Washington. You can learn more about these organizations and their projects below!



Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
(OMSI)
(Portland, OR)

When OMSI’s Chemistry Lab opened in the mid-1990s, it was an incredibly innovative space. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it was the very first wet chemistry lab to be open to the public in the United States. The lab was outfitted with the original furnishings (including counters) that were installed for the grand opening of the space, more than 25 years ago.Today, the Chemistry lab engages 200,000+ visitors annually with a wide variety of hands-on experiments and activities. Through self-directed and facilitated programs, the lab and gives visitors opportunities to safely mix, measure, and pour chemicals. It is included with OMSI’s general admission. OMSI also offers reserved labs for visiting school groups. Families and school groups with children as young as five years old, enjoy the demonstrations and experiments that the lab has to offer.  With the help of the PFF grant, the goal of this project is to upgrade the original counter-tops in OMSI’s Chemistry Lab, replacing them with a new, phenolic resin product to transform the space into a cleaner, safer, and more functional lab facility. This project will benefit an estimated 1.25 million learners over the course of the next five years alone.

Cascade Bicycle Club (Seattle, WA)

Let’s Go! is a free, three-week safety unit that provides physical education teachers with the curriculum, skills, and equipment needed to implement a bicycle and pedestrian safety course for their students. The program gives students skills and knowledge to prevent the most common bicycle and pedestrian errors; this includes learning the anatomy of intersections, using situational awareness, fitting a helmet, basic bike handling skills, right of way concepts and more.  The PFF grant will provide a new bicycle fleet of 33 bicycles for Middle School aged children.  The project will reach 120 middle school students, ages 11-14, in four Seattle Public Schools.

Compass Family Services(San Francisco, CA)

Compass Clara House has more than 20 years of experience in housing families experiencing homelessness while partnering with them to achieve their educational and career goals in order to transition from homelessness to stability and economic independence. Thirteen families at a time live in private, furnished apartments for 18-24 months in a healthy and safe environment that emphasizes a respectful peer community where families can heal and make positive changes. While at Clara House, parents work to find and secure permanent housing; increase their skills to establish a career path; learn independent living and decision-making skills; and learn coping mechanisms and skills for dealing with issues related to addiction, relationships, self-care, and parenting.  A grant from the Papé Family Foundation will go towards the following building improvement projects that will help to maintain the safety and health of residents and program staff.

Genesis Community Health, Inc. (Garden City, ID)

The Genesis’ Dental Clinic is the only free clinic in Southern Idaho’s Treasure Valley where adults experiencing poverty can get relief from tooth pain at no cost to them. These individuals often do not have access to dental care, and as a result, are often faced with oral health issues that become exacerbated. Genesis’ preventative dental services keep adults out of the ER and ultimately lower healthcare costs for everyone. Genesis is expanding dental services by 25% to keep up with the dental demand.  The PFF grant will provide updated equipment for the expansion of the dental program.

Kids FIRST(Eugene, OR)

Over the past 25 years, Kids FIRST has continually assessed what can be done to improve and advance the fundamental intervention services provided to child victims of abuse from across Lane County. We serve over 600 children and their families each year for concerns of child sexual abuse, physical abuse, and witness to violence. 2/3 of the children we serve are under the age of 12. Limitation of space has long hindered our ability to expand services. From this need, the Kids FIRST Capital Project was born; a quest to secure a long-term home to better serve children and families.  With the support of the PFF grant, this new center will allow our services to transition from 3,090 square feet to over 9,000 square feet and will allow greater opportunities for Kids FIRST. The Kids FIRST Capital Project is sustainable, as it will house our abuse intervention services for many years to come. Unlike our former leased space, we are the owners of our new building, which means we have the ability to customize the space to appropriately to fit the needs of our clients.

McCall Public Library Foundation(McCall, ID)

The McCall Public Library moved to its current location and facilities in 1973, and since that time McCall’s population has nearly doubled. At its current 4,000 square feet the McCall Public Library’s facilities are at a breaking point and hinder access to resources, knowledge, and meeting space for community residents.  PFF’s grant to The Next Chapter Library Expansion Project will support the expansion of the library facility to 15,000 square feet in order to meet the current needs of our community and to allow for future growth. An expansion will drastically improve the ability of the McCall Public Library to serve as the leading resource for knowledge and central hub for social programs, community gatherings, and educational services in the rural mountain town of McCall, Idaho. The expansion of McCall Public Library’s facilities is vital to maintaining our community’s number one public resource. It will increase access to innovative programming such as STEM workshops in a new Makers’ Space and forward-thinking, solution-based social programs in the Citizens’ Hall. It will improve patron experiences with the addition of comfortable reading areas, a dedicated Children’s Library, private study rooms and upgraded lighting, heating and tech systems. It will allow for the resource collection to grow and host traveling exhibits. The library expansion will meet the needs of our growing population and will result in energy efficiency cost savings. It will allow the library to meet 21st century technological demands of its patrons and contribute greatly to the overall sustainability and procurement of knowledge in McCall and the surrounding area.

Metta, INC (Dallas, TX)

Metta, Inc.’s mission is to bring a mindfulness connection into homes and communities throughout the United States by offering training, scholarships and other financial assistance to those whose income or other barriers, such as disabilities, have prevented them from having access to such programs. Our primary goal is to help children and adults overcome stress caused by disability, poverty, violence, hunger and so many other challenges. Metta will be the first organization of its kind in the U.S. to offer a school-based curriculum that can positively shift the paradigm. Metta, Inc. in partnership with Present Moment Labs is breaking new ground by bringing mindfulness to children with special needs, as well as their teachers and parents. This innovative new program is slated to launch in 2020 in Grand Prairie Independent School District.  Specifically, the PFF grant will help to cover the cost to purchase 200 decks of flashcards and deliver mindfulness certification for 20 educators.

Team Reed(Seattle, WA)

Team Read believes that all kids deserve to be great readers, and that teens should have access to meaningful paid jobs, and neither of those things should be limited to the school year. Summer is an important time for students to prepare for the school year ahead and fill proficiency gaps, preventing the “summer slide” that can cause students to lose a month or more of the knowledge they gained during the previous school year, with reading comprehension, vocabulary growth, and reading ability the skills that suffer most. Reading at grade level is critical, impacting student success in all subjects, including math, which itself is critical to success in higher-order STEAM subjects.  The Papé Family Foundation grant will support 2020’s Summer STEAM: Reading Tutoring + STEAM Enrichment program. Grant funds will be used to purchase tutoring site supplies such as books, printed materials including curriculum workbooks, t-shirts for readers and coaches, and to fund Free Friday hands-on programs with community partners like Pacific Science Center, The Reptile Man, and more.


Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
(Dallas, TX)

Scottish Rite Hospital opened its doors to the children of Texas in 1921 when one of Dallas’ first orthopedic surgeons, W. B. Carrell, M.D., was approached by a group of Texas Masons to provide superior medical care to children suffering from polio. With the introduction of the Salk and Sabin vaccines in the mid-1950s, which virtually eradicated polio in the Western Hemisphere, the hospital broadened its focus to include other orthopedic conditions. Thanks to the generosity of supporters throughout the country, Scottish Rite for Children has emerged as one of the nation’s leading medical centers for the treatment of pediatric orthopedic conditions, including scoliosis, clubfoot, hand differences, hip disorders, limb length discrepancies and sports injuries. Each year, our staff provides extensive treatment and therapy to more than 25,000 children, regardless of any family’s ability to pay.

One of the crucial responsibilities of our nursing staff is to provide patients with supportive care, including monitoring body temperature, respiratory status, blood oxygenation levels and blood pressure both before surgery and during the post-operative, recovery period. A portable vital signs monitor allows for seamless observation of oxygen saturation, temperature, respiration rate, heart rate, and blood pressure for a patient from pre-operative evaluation through the duration of the inpatient stay. This equipment is critical to the health of each patient. The Pape Family Foundation grant to purchase two vital signs monitors and accompanying work stations for the hospital’s Inpatient Nursing Unit .

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2019 Community Grants

June 28, 2019 by director Leave a Comment

It’s grant time at the Papé Family Foundation! Every spring, our Grant Committee recommends General Grants to our Trustees for a vote and then I get to write checks. Our fourth generation Adjunct Trustees will now review the remaining applications and make their own recommendation by the end of the summer.

Thank you to all the organizations that took the time to participate in our grant making process. My vision for PFF is that we continue to work with organizations in our communities to implement best practices and try out new design models in philanthropy. Together I believe we can increase capacity building and inclusiveness within our communities! We wouldn’t, couldn’t, exist without you!

As always, our Grant Committee had a tough job.  This year they selected nine organizations in Oregon and Washington.  You can learn more about these organizations and their projects below!


High Desert Museum (Bend, OR)

In 2016, the Museum began Little Wonders to provide essential developmental opportunities that prepare children for kindergarten and help close the opportunity gap in Central Oregon. The project aims to: provide 360 complimentary memberships to Head Start families and reduce barriers to museum access; host two family nights to engage new audiences; and foster a habit of Museum-going for families to create opportunities for children to make self-directed discoveries and expand their knowledge. In recognition of possible language barriers, the Museum is translating their membership letter and materials and flyers into Spanish. PFF’s grant helps support this program.

Friends of the Children  (Portland, OR)

Center of Excellence Renovations for High Priority Youth will prioritize renovations to transform the Morris building into the Friends of the Children Center for Excellence – a more comfortable, accessible, and useful space for our growing community of youth, friends, chapters, and partners. Specifically, this grant will support a computer station for youth to use while working on school assignments, career exploration, and other tasks that align with the youth’s individualized goals and Friends of the Children’s organizational focus on postsecondary success.

Portland YouthBuilders (Portland, OR)

Since 1995, PYB has annually served 200 low income young people between 17 and 24 who have dropped out of high school, with a program of education, vocational training, counseling, and long term support. PFF has supported the work of PYB since 2001 with 10 different grants. In 2019 PFF is contributing to the Southeast Portland Expansion Project. In this overall effort, PYB will improve the delivery of services and increase access to education and workforce development programs for outer Southeast and East County, Portland youth. The garage will be converted into functioning space that will be used for student counseling and staff meeting spaces. For this component of the overall Southeast Portland Expansion Project, PYB will update the garage by adding electrical service, shelving and desks, sealing of concrete flooring, exterior fencing and security alarm, and interior trim work, and painting. Hear from a recent PYB graduate in this video!

Veterans Legacy (Eugene, OR)

Veterans Legacy is a community-based, non-profit located in Lane County, Oregon and works to break the cycle of veteran suicides and mental health disorders due to untreated and underserved veterans experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), homelessness, substance abuse, and associated traumas. Veterans Legacy provides a safe and stable environment at Camp Alma, a 105-acre farm that serves as their primary campus. While at Camp Alma, clients are provided education, therapies, and social support services. A grant from PFF will support a kitchen refurbishment (upgrade of the fire suppression system and purchase of a walk-in freezer) at the camp and enable Veterans Legacy to expand services. The large commercial kitchen there serves as the primary food preparation site for clients and staff.

Eugene Education Foundation (Eugene, OR)

The Eugene Education Foundation has invested in the Eugene School District 4J’s literacy efforts, along with funding other enrichment areas, since its inception. In order to better serve the students of the district, the EEF board has determined that a more targeted focus on literacy would begin this past year. This focus involves not only directing more resources to the district for literacy efforts, but also regular meetings with district stakeholders to discuss the district’s needs and most effective approaches to improving student success. This year’s grant from PFF will provide one-third of the funding needed to implement this program and curriculum. The curriculum is directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes which are foundational skills necessary for students to develop into successful and lifelong readers. Available in both English and Spanish, the curriculum can be tailored for students with a wide spectrum of needs, including students with dyslexia as well as students with an IEP (Individualized Education Program).

Eugene Civic Alliance (Eugene, OR)

Eugene Civic Alliance (ECA) formed in 2014 to purchase and operate the historic Civic Stadium property for recreational use. Through programs and events at Civic Park, ECA is uniquely situated to address improving the health and fitness of children in our community, reducing the shortage of places for play, and creating a community space for sports and events. Civic Park will be a community-focused space. It will serve people of all ages and backgrounds and promote fitness and health for our entire community. The new facility will include the first Kidsports Fieldhouse. ECA is dedicated to ensuring equitable access to the benefits of Civic Park. PFF’s grant will help build one of two outdoor basketball courts.

Making a Difference Foundation (Seattle, WA)

Making A Difference Foundation’s mission is to make a difference in the lives of others, one person at a time, by helping them acquire the most basic human needs: food, housing, encouragement, and opportunity. MADF started in 2003 providing scholarships and funding for third world humanitarian missions, then moved into direct service to address local needs in the Puget Sound region with the opening of Eloise’s Cooking Pot (ECP) Food Bank in 2009. The ECP Food Bank serves low and very low-income residents of Pierce County, Washington, specifically Tacoma’s east side, with healthy prepackaged and fresh organic food. The ECP Food Bank is the third largest food bank in the county and located in an area that is racially and ethnically diverse and identified as a food desert. Clients face food shortage and financial instability on a daily basis and ECP works to remove all barriers to receiving food and other needed items for these neighbors with about 40,000 unduplicated people being served annually through the food bank with more than 1.2 million pounds of food. PFF’s grant will fund the purchase of an electric pallet truck for the ECP Food Bank. This piece of equipment will be used in the food bank’s warehouse/storage area to help more easily move and manage the in-kind food and products donated to MADF and enable the organization to better serve people in need in the Pierce County community.

Shared Housing Services (Tacoma, WA)

The Transitional Family Housing Rehabilitation Project will update 12 safe, low-cost housing units for families experiencing homelessness. Shared Housing Services (SHS) offers families case management services and referrals to community resources to address areas of basic needs and the causes of their homelessness. In 2016, SHS made a commitment to refurbish each unit to bring them in-line with HUD’s Housing Quality Standards and to make them more energy efficient. PFF’s grant will help with completing this project and SHS will serve families more quickly by working with other community agencies to assist with rent and move-in costs, which are a prominent barrier for most very low-income families. Completion will provide energy cost savings by replacing old, inefficient water heaters (most are 12 – 14 years old or older), bathroom fixtures, window coverings, etc. Not only will this reduce energy costs, but will also provide water and energy conservation across the board. Having a safe, habitable place to call home is the first step and cornerstone for families to begin their journey towards independence.

Children’s Therapy Center (Kent, WA)  

The mission of Children’s Therapy Center (CTC) is to maximize the potential of children with special needs and communication delays. PFF’s grant this year supports Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices. AAC refers to any form of communication other than oral speech and is used to complement or replace natural speech for people with severe communication deficits. AAC has been shown to help nonverbal children to communicate and interact socially, which improves their feelings of self-worth and self-confidence, decreases challenging behaviors, and improves their capacity to participate in school and community activities. The purchase of new and replacement AAC devices, including switch toys, iPads and associated AAC software applications, and AAC test kits will enable CTC speech therapists to evaluate and trial-run AAC devices with children more promptly, which will give more low-income children with autism or related communication delays the tools they need to be able to communicate.

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2018 Community Grants!

May 18, 2018 by director Leave a Comment

Once again it’s my favorite time of year!  Each spring our Grant Committee recommends general grants to our Trustees for a vote and then I get to write checks.  This year we had several members of our fourth generation, Adjunct Trustees, actively participate in reviewing grant applications and making a recommendation.

Thanks to all the organizations that took the time to participate in our grant making process and share their visions for opportunity and inclusiveness within our communities!  Philanthropy often looks like a top-down, one way street, but in truth it’s a collaborative partnership.  We wouldn’t, couldn’t, exist without you!

As always, our Grant Committee had a tough job.  This year they selected eight organizations in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.  You can learn more about the organizations and projects below!


 

Kirkwood Sky Education Foundation (Kirkwood, CA)

This year’s grant will be used to purchase and install rubber flooring for the team room that will increase safety for athletes and staff through injury prevention and provide durability and noise reduction.  The 600 square foot space serves ~70 athletes, their families, and approximately a dozen coaching staff. In this small space are ski lockers (and in most cases shared ski lockers), boot dryer, tuning bench, microwave, table, bench, small staff room, small executive director office, and storage.

Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless (South Lake Tahoe, CA)

Our 2018 grant will help establish Coordinated Entry.  HUD requires that in order to continue to receive funding, organizations like TCH must establish and operate “centralized or coordinated entry systems” to improve efficiency of local crisis response systems and improve fairness and ease of access to resources. Through Coordinated Entry, our community and the county will be able to better understand who is homeless in our county and prioritize resources and streamline our processing for addressing and ending homelessness in our county. Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless will be able to identify the most vulnerable people living without permanent shelter in South Lake Tahoe. By understanding the needs of our homeless population, we will be able to develop programs to better address these needs and apply for federal funding to provide housing assistance. At the end of the 2017-18 winter, we will collect data on guests of the Warm Room or others experiencing homelessness who are referred to us for services.

Friendship Clinic (Boise, ID)

This grant will fund needed repairs that include: Drywall damage in the restroom and several other areas of the clinic need to be repaired, and all clinic walls and ceilings need to be repainted after the repairs. Additionally, funds will be used to purchase and install a new toilet in the restroom and replace two old metal-casing windows with new energy efficient windows that will help reduce the costs for heating and cooling the clinic.

Together, these improvements will help the clinic to continue to provide a warm, inviting sanctuary for patients to receive respectful health care services. It will provide a safe location for the many dedicated and compassionate volunteer medical providers from the community and students from the University of Washington WWAMI program, Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center medical residents, Physician Assistant students from Idaho State University, as well as Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, and Health Science students from Boise State University and Nursing students from Lewis Clark State College.

Friends of Oregon School for the Deaf (Salem, OR)

The School’s goal is to provide high quality, productivity experience using materials, tools, and equipment currently found in the manufacturing and construction industries.  More and more, the construction and manufacturing industries depend on technology. These businesses are in need of workers who know how to operate Computer Numeric Control (CNC) systems. In CNC production, the item or product is designed on a computer, then sent electronically to the “robotic” cutting machine. CNCs can produce items that are consistently precise and of high quality. A CNC router improves factory productivity by reducing waste, frequency of errors, and the time required to get the finished product to market.  PFF’s grant will assist with the purchase of a CNC router.  With computer numeric control technology is in place, OSD’s students will be more fully prepared to compete for positions in the workforce with the self-confidence, having been trained on the very equipment that they will see on the job.

Friends of Cornelius Library (Cornelius, OR)

The library’s primary goals are to strengthen youth and family literacy, and increase the social and economic vitality of the community.  Funds from this PFF grant will help construct a new library of 13,800 sf that will add a 100-person meeting room; four study rooms ideal for tutoring, student collaboration and entrepreneur activities; a children’s area with STEM programming and early literacy collections, an expanded Spanish language collection, a safe and welcoming teen center, both hard-wired and laptop computers, a café operated by a small business training program, and a courtyard with educational components such as native plants and a storm water feature.

Oregon Community Programs (Eugene, OR)

A grant from PFF will fund a project to focus on short-term family based crisis-respite program with two aims: (1) to provide a same day, soft-landing in a trained family for qualifying youth who unexpectedly lose their foster placement and to maintain them for up to 21 days while guardians create a sustainable placement plan, and; (2) to prevent some of these disruptions by providing planned respite, and creating an opportunity for children and foster families to recharge their batteries so they can continue as resources for at risk children.

Eugene Science Center (Eugene, OR)

This grant will be use to construct a covered outdoor classroom and community space. In addition to its use by community members during and after museum hours, the area can be used to expand and complement the current programs offered by Eugene Science Center, including the summer camps and school field trips. The outdoor classroom is an innovative and exciting way to foster and nurture family relationships through shared learning. The unprecedented interest and excitement shown by families and people of all ages around the solar eclipse in 2017 suggests that Science Factory has an opportunity to foster an interest in outdoor ecosystems.

Children’s Therapy Center (Kent, WA)  

The Access to Pediatric Therapy through Technology Project (APTT) aims to increase access to physical, occupational, speech, and feeding therapy, early intervention, and related services for low-income children with special needs in South King County.  This grant supports the cost of purchasing laptops for home-based Early Intervention providers. Having dedicated, easily portable, up-to-date computers for each of our providers to use during therapy is expected to cut down significantly on the amount of time that providers spend charting, which will ultimately increase the number of visits to low-income South King County children with developmental disabilities and delays.

Filed Under: Grants, Updates Tagged With: Children's Therapy Center, Community Philanthropy, Eugene Science Center, Friends of Cornelius Library, Friendship Clinic, Kirkwood Ski Foundation, Oregon Community Programs, Oregon School for the Deaf, Papé Family Foundation, PFF Grants, Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless

End of Year 2017 Grants!

December 31, 2017 by director Leave a Comment

In honor of our 20th Anniversary, my grandmother made a generous gift to our family foundation during our annual meeting in July.  20 years ago, she had a vision of philanthropy as a teaching tool and also as a way to ensure her family gets together once a year (all 38 of us!)  I’m thrilled to say we all showed up this past July to celebrate together and go about the business of running our foundation.

One piece of business was that the gift meant that we needed to make additional grants before the end of the year – what a terrific problem!  Our Adjunct Board (fourth generation) and our Grant Committee reviewed our grant applications and selected additional projects to support.  Below is a rundown – thanks to all of these amazing organizations for building and sustaining vibrant communities!


Compass Family Services (San Francisco, CA)

With a grant from PFF, Compass Family Services will make courtyard repairs to the building at Compass Clara House to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for families transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency and independence. Compass Clara House is an intensive two-year transitional housing program in San Francisco that provides supportive services to thirteen families at a time, as they live in private, furnished apartments and parents pursue their education, employment and housing goals. Compass Clara House is unique in San Francisco in that it is the only program of its kind that offers full-time licensed childcare for children 0-5, making it all the more convenient for parents to attend school, work, or vocational training.

Eugene Education Foundation (Eugene, OR)

The Kids In Transition to School (KITS) Program is an evidence-based school readiness program developed at the Oregon Social Learning Center, that offers a unique two generational approach designed to boost to children’s literacy, self-regulation, and social skills just prior to kindergarten entry and provide support to families as their children transition into kindergarten.  PFF joins other community partners to support this program.

Marist High School (Eugene, OR)

The Papé Family Foundation will assist Marist with a project to keep students and staff safe in the event of an active shooter on campus. The grant will enable the school to upgrade campus security with a system server to remotely lock down the school. This new system, of which the server is an integral part, will give Marist’s principal, president, facilities director or other key personnel the ability to remotely lock down every outside door in all seven buildings by phone or computer.  Once installed, the school will more quickly attain complete lockdown, improving the safety and security of our campus and making progress toward the next goals of a surveillance system and strategic fencing.

Positive Community Kitchen (Eugene, OR)

Our Adjunct Board selected Positive Community Kitchen to receive their discretionary grant in 2017.  Positive Community Kitchen’s mission is to inspire community wellness through food.  PCK provides local teens with the opportunities and skills to develop an abiding trust in their own abilities to shape a healthier tomorrow.

Science Factory (Eugene, OR)

This grant will expand and enhance Science Factory’s Early Childhood Education Space (Tot Spot).  Tot Spot will serve the youngest visitors with space and exhibits designed specifically for their early cognitive development stages. By selecting age-appropriate educational activities while offering them in a friendly and welcoming environment just for preschoolers, Science Factory aims to instill a love of learning about science and technology that will continue throughout their childhood and stay with them for life. The new exhibit plans include an interactive water table, interactive pneumatic tubes, engineering with geometry zones, and a fossil excavation pit. These new experiences will foster creativity, curiosity, and collaboration in an open exploration format. The exhibit will also feature a padded infant play zone surrounded by a circular bench for protection and parent seating.

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU (Portland, OR)

We make an annual grant to the Papé Pediatric Research Institute to support their work. The institute is dedicated to building a state-of-the-art research facility with a focus on studying numerous childhood diseases, such as diabetes, neurological disorders, hemophilia, pediatric cancer and metabolic disorders.

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas, TX)

Our Adjunct Board grant to TSRHC will be used to purchase one infusion pump to upgrade care for 50 children each year. The hospital’s Inpatient Nursing Unit provides round-the-clock care for children who are admitted for surgery or a medical procedure. One of the crucial responsibilities of the nursing staff is to provide patients with supportive care, including monitoring of respiratory status, blood oxygenation levels, hydration and secretion levels both before surgery and during the post-operative, recovery period. An IV infusion pump is a vital piece of equipment that allows nurses to infuse IV fluids at a precise rate to ensure that the patient receives an appropriate amount of fluid replenishment, nutrition, and pharmaceutical support before and after surgery. Keeping hydration levels in check, nutritional needs met, and pain and infection managed helps the patient recover more quickly, thereby decreasing the overall length of the hospital stay.

iLeap (Seattle, WA)

PFF’s grant will provide capital support for a significant update of iLeap’s 5,000 square foot community and teaching space located in the historic Good Shepherd Center in Seattle, Washington. Their public training space in Seattle is known for its beauty, warmth, and versatility. Each year iLeap gifts about $10,000 in discounted rental fees to local community organizations who use the space and this brings close to 2,000 people annually into the training facility. Capital improvements to the space will enable iLEAP to grow their programming and expand community partnerships.

Filed Under: Grants Tagged With: Community Grants, Community Philanthropy, Compass Family Services, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Eugene Education Foundation, Marist Hight School, OHSU, Papé Family Foundation, PFF Grants, philanthropy, Positive Community Kitchen, Science Factory, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital

2017-18 Grant Cycle Open!

October 1, 2017 by director Leave a Comment

It’s October and time to accept grant proposals from community organizations!

We’re very excited to be implementing a new Grants Management System this year. We’re working with Foundant to create a better user experience for both our trustees and organizations submitting project proposals. We’re ready to go live with our Letter of Inquiry stage and throughout the year we’ll be adding historical data to the system. Eventually, when a user logs into the system, they will be able to view all of their organization’s previous applications, grants, reports, and more.

Whether you are visiting our site for the first time or a previous applicant, please visit our Grants Section for updated information on this year’s grant process. We’re accepting Letters of Inquiry through November 1, 2017.

If you are new to grant writing, or just have specific questions about your proposal, please reach out! While we often wish we were a larger foundation with bigger grants to offer, one benefit of our relatively small size is the ability to engage with applicants throughout the process. We’re happy to answer questions, offer suggestions, and receive feedback. For us, grant-making is a collaborative experience. We hope you’ll join us!

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Announcing 2017 PFF Community Grants!

May 30, 2017 by director Leave a Comment

Thanks to all the organizations that took the time to participate in our grant making process and share their visions for opportunity and inclusiveness within our communities!  Philanthropy often looks like a top-down, one way street, but in truth it’s a collaborative partnership.  We wouldn’t, couldn’t, exist without you!

As always, our grant committee had a tough job to make a recommendation for annual grants to our Board of Trustees.  This year they selected six organizations in California, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.  You can learn more about the organizations and projects below!

Berkely, CA Waterside Workshops – Richmond Boathouse Expansion Project.  Grant will contribute to funding needed to expand the youth boat building program to Richmond. Richmond has miles of beautiful, underused Bay Shore that will allow Waterside Workshops to take their boatbuilding program to the next level and expand the on-water and environmental education aspects of the program. The Richmond Boathouse project will operate as a satellite program to the established Berkeley Boathouse program.

Boise, ID
All Saints Episcopal Church – Grant will enable a Parish Hall Roof Repair.  Serious leaks have developed in the building, affecting offices and conference rooms including those used by Boise Valley Habitat for Humanity, the Parish Hall kitchen, and the rooms housing The Friendship Clinic. Multiple organizations rely upon All Saints as their home and meeting place to carry out their separate missions of support for the Bench Community including Foster Grandparents, Alcoholic Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, the Angel Tree program, Pridefest, Boy Scouts of America Troop 123, St. Vincent de Paul Thanksgiving Box Program, Crop Walk, and the monthly Friendship Meal.  The Parish Hall serves as the emergency meeting center for both nearby Monroe Elementary and Jefferson Elementary Schools.

Corvallis, OR
Team Dirt – Grant will help fun the Corvallis Pump Track.  Pump tracks are a relatively new kind of riding structure consisting of perfectly shaped banked turns and rolling straightaways that allow riders to use a pumping motion of the hips and legs to propel their bicycles, skate boards, skates, and scooters around the track. Team Dirt envisions a facility and destination which will inspire kids and families to get outside and exercise. The proposed community facility will help combat the growing obesity problem so prevalent in our nation’s population. Moreover, the location of the pump track, under the bridge on the downtown riverfront, will allow for year around utilization.

Girls on the Run – Grant will fund County Coordination Team Implementation, a new program start-up. Girls on the Run is designed to meet girls in late childhood and arm them with positive emotional, social, mental, and physical developmental experiences to carry with them into adolescence. Girls on the Run has been shown to effectively increase in physical activity and participation in sports teams, commitment to physical activity, self-esteem, and body size satisfaction among participating girls . The County Coordination Team Project will enable Girls on the Run to better serve girls, identify low–income at-risk youth for program expansion, recruit high quality volunteers, and fundraise to support scholarships.

Dallas, TX
Birthday Party Project – The Dallas warehouse is HOT. HOT. HOT! Grant will cover costs to add an air conditioning unit to this warehouse.  The Birthday Party Project serves families living in homeless shelters by celebrating birthdays for children ages 1-18 of all genders and races.  A special cake and birthday gift is given to the children celebrating a birthday that month. Since 2012, The Birthday Party Project has celebrated over 3,500 birthdays with over 24,000 kids in attendance! Most of the kids have never before had a birthday party.

Seattle, WA
BAYFEST Youth Theater – Grant will fund digital media and office equipment purchases for Dramatic and Active Arts, providing staff with tools and equipment critical to operations and program delivery. BAYFEST serves an average of 300 participants annually, reaching another 700 audience members through public performances. These programs use dramatic and active arts to foster empathetic and cooperative learning environments that provide students and young performers with improved cognitive abilities, language skills, physical awareness, concentration, imagination, and self-confidence.

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Grant Proposals Under Consideration

November 9, 2016 by director Leave a Comment

Thanks to all the organizations that took the time to submit a Letter of Inquiry and share their visions for opportunity and inclusiveness within our communities!  Philanthropy often looks like a top-down, one way street, but in truth it’s a collaborative partnership.  We wouldn’t, couldn’t, exist without you!

One of the best parts of my job as Executive Director of the Papé Family Foundation happens now, when I get to sit down and read through the array project proposals and requests for funding we receive each autumn.  I’m always impressed by the different approaches being taken -from music and education to sports and healthcare – to offer hope to those most affected by systemic inequality.  I’ll send these ideas on to our Grant Committee, who will have very hard choices to make over the next few months to help turn projects from ideas on paper into reality.

Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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2016-17 Grant Cycle Open!

October 5, 2016 by director Leave a Comment

We’re ready to once again review grant proposals from community organizations!  Please visit our Grants page for all the details on eligibility and timeline, and past grants.   We’re accepting Letters of Inquiry through November 1, 2016.  If you are new to grant writing, or just have specific questions about your proposal, please reach out.  While we often wish we were a larger foundation with bigger grants to offer, one benefit of our relatively small size is the ability to engage with applicants throughout the process.  We’re happy to answer questions, offer suggestions, and receive feedback.  For us, grant-making is a collaborative experience.  We hope you’ll join us!

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2016 Community Grants

July 12, 2016 by director Leave a Comment

We’re very excited to support the work of five organizations this year through our annual grants.  I’m very thankful to all who applied.  The best part of my job is reading through the proposals and learning about the incredible and inspiring work being done in our communities.  The grant committee then has the impossible task of making a final selection from many qualified and deserving applicants. You can learn more about the 2016 grant recipients below. Some of them we met through trustee connections and others found us via word of mouth.  Regardless of how, we appreciate the opportunity to build lasting relationships and provide opportunities for growth and development within our communities.

Our focus now shifts to preparation for our annual meeting, which gives us the opportunity to review our governance, investments, and grants, as well as catch up with extended family.  The Papé Family Foundation 2016-2017 grant cycle will open in the fall with an invitation to community organizations to submit Letters of Inquiry.  Please check back in September to apply for a grant.

 

2016 Papé Family Foundation Grants

Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Boise) was started in 1977 and currently produces 5 plays every year for over 63,000 patrons. My first experience with Shakespeare was with ISF when I was in grade school. They performed in a small, grassy setting in downtown Boise and I have memories of sitting on the lawn with my friends while watching a comedy (Twelfth Night? Comedy of Errors?).  

Idaho Shakespeare Festival currently sends 2 educational outreach tours into schools throughout the state, and operates a School of Theater offering classes and residencies where students of all ages learn to recite Shakespeare, perform musical theater, and more. ISF also operates the Access Program which offers complimentary and discounted tickets to at-risk youth, veterans, educators, seniors, students, and mothers and children in transitional housing, in order to increase the accessibility of ISF’s work. This program also provides ASL interpretation for the Deaf and hard of hearing in the community.  

PFF’s grant helps with the purchase of new sound equipment and we are happy to help make this upgrade possible.  

Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation (Portland) was founded in 1981 by business leaders and members of the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission to accept donations for and make gifts to worthwhile fish, wildlife, and public access projects in Oregon. Since then OWHF has directed almost $17 million dollars in funding to projects, both large and small, throughout the state. Their mission is to empower the lasting conservation of fish and wildlife and citizen enjoyment of natural resources by growing public awareness of and participation in conservation, building private/public partnerships, and distributing charitable gifts of support to worthy projects.

Sturgeon Lake, on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River, is the largest lake on a river island anywhere in the United States. This unique habitat is a key stopover and critical link in the Pacific flyway for thousands of migratory birds and a winter refuge for juvenile salmon. For the hunters, anglers, wildlife viewers, and kayakers, Sturgeon Lake is irreplaceable.  Dairy Creek, one of only two connections between Sturgeon Lake and the Columbia, is plugged with debris from the 1996 flood and further hampered by failing culverts upstream. The slow drain of that water out of the lake is allowing the silt suspended in it to settle out to the bottom. Restoring connectivity to the Columbia will reintroduce flushing flows into the lake from Dairy Creek; substantially slowing the accumulation of sediment and ensuring that the birds, fish, and other wildlife that depend on the lake can continue to do so well into the future. 

A grant this year from the Papé Family Foundation will help OWHF obtain a matching grant to build a single structure that spans the entire width of the channel; maximizing water movement to flush the lake while minimizing the sedimentation caused by impounded water behind the structure.

City Hope (San Francisco) – began in 2005 out of City Church San Francisco as a way to engage with  neighbors. That process led to developing partnerships with non-profits, schools, hospitals, and the SF County Jail. Through work with the County Jail and with a mentorship program for men in recovery, City Hope became increasingly connected to the Tenderloin neighborhood, an area fraught with high drug use and homelessness – and all the associated traumas. 

The City Hope Community Development Center opened its doors in September, with the mission of fostering a community of healing in the Tenderloin through highly relational programs geared toward personal, social and spiritual health.  In an effort to build community and provide healthy food in San Francisco’s most pronounced food desert, City Hope serves meals at most of its community events. As program participation has increased, the need has arisen for additional space to store kitchen equipment and food, and countertops on which to safely prepare them.  Additionally, City Hope opens up their existing shower to clients as needed. This has helped build relationships but has also created with a pressing need to launder the towels and clothing. PFF is proud to once again partner with City Hope to assist with their expansion plan to increase kitchen capacity and add a washer/dryer unit.

Ranch Hand Rescue (Dallas) works to save abused and neglected farm animals with special focus on animals requiring critical care, to adopt out rehabilitated animals, to provide a caring sanctuary for the animals that have ongoing needs and to help people with personal, mental and psychological challenges to change and better their lives through Equine/Animal Assisted Counseling. Our trustee Michael Tooke has formed a relationship with RHR through site visits and even took his daughter along last year.  She loved meeting the animals!

Ranch Hand Rescue is in the process of completing an expansion.  After securing all of the funding and permits needed to construct their new Business/Welcome Center/Counseling Building, RHR was informed of additional requirements that significantly increased the cost of the project.  We provided initial funds for the expansion and this year’s grant will allow RHR to complete their plans for a permanent Business/Welcome Center/Counseling Building that meets the city standards.

BikeWorks (Seattle) builds sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. Originally founded by a group grassroots activists, this year Bike Works is celebrating their 20th anniversary. Over those two decades they have remained committed to three core goals: (1) empower youth to lead healthy and productive lives; (2) make biking affordable and accessible to all people; and (3) promote sustainable transportation and environmental stewardship. We’ve gotten to know this incredible organization through our trustee Bryan Papé and his company, MiiR. As giving partners, BikeWorks and MiiR offer Seattle youth access to affordable transportation and job training.

Bike Works is the only organization of its kind in Seattle. Working at the intersection of youth development, healthy living, environmental stewardship and economic justice, their continuum of youth programs, classes and summer camps are designed to provide hands-on skills while helping youth realize their own worth within a community that supports, encourages and strengthens them.  A grant from PFF will be used to purchase six ‘Long-Haul Trucker’ Touring Bikes & Associated Equipment

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Graduate Stories from Portland YouthBuilders

February 25, 2016 by director Leave a Comment

I love it when we get stories from organizations about their work in our communities!  We’ve had a relationship with PortlandYouth Builders since the very start of our foundation.  They recently celebrated their 20 year anniversary, and shared this video with their supporters.

https://youtu.be/mI2tlljFOyo

Thank you for your inspiring work Portland YouthBuilders!

 

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