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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

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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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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2015 Grant Decisions

August 6, 2015 by director Leave a Comment

Summer is always a little bittersweet for me here at the foundation.  We traditionally hold our annual meeting early to mid summer and I always look forward to reconnecting with extended family.  The trustees gather to share committee reports, debate how best to manage foundation assets, make funding decisions, and hear updates on previous grants.  And after the whirlwind weekend I return to to my desk and get to write big checks to help support amazing programs throughout the communities our family call home. This is the best part of my job.

But I also have to send emails, quite a lot this year, that let organizations know we aren’t able to fund their equally important projects.  Those emails always break my heart just a little.  Sometimes I hear back with questions about how they can better their chances next time around.  I often don’t have a good answer.  We simply have to make impossible choices.  We are a small foundation with relatively little to give away each year (we’re required by law to give a certain amount, and of course we could exceed that, but we have to balance our grant-making with the future financial health and growth of the foundation so we can give more and more each year). In 2015 we are giving $78,000, bringing our total gifts since 1997 to just shy of $750,000.  To put this in perspective, we started in 1996 with assets of just under $1 million.  At some point in the near future we’ll hopefully have granted more than the funds we started with.

We received 50 eligible and worthy applications this year, a record for us by far.  The grant committee worked hard to bring a proposal to the full board that attempted to honor the amounts requested, spread our funding among a variety of cities, and find balance between honoring previously established relationships and starting new ones.  They selected nine organizations from California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Texas.  I’m delighted we’re partnering with the following organizations over the next  9-10 months and look forward to sharing their stories:

New Door Ventures, San Francisco

FC Nova, Boise

Buena Vista Parent Organization, Eugene

Serenity Lane Health Services, Eugene

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas

Bike Works, Seattle

Solid Ground , Seattle

Ranch Hand Rescue, Argyle (Dallas)

Papé Pediatric Research Institute, Portland

I can’t say thank you enough to all the organizations who applied and especially to those individuals who put time and energy into gathering the necessary information and working through our first-ever online application.  I say this often, because it’s true.  We could not exist without our grant-making and we are so grateful to everyone who participates.  Even when we have to say “no, not this year,” we thoroughly enjoy reading about all of the projects taking place in the cities where we live.  You all inspire us.

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Now Accepting 2015 Grant Applications

January 16, 2015 by director Leave a Comment

We’re gearing up for our 2015 Grant Cycle and look forward to once again partnering with organizations in our communities!  Speaking of which, we’re exciting to add Oconomowoc, WI and Hendersonville, NC to that list.

Our deadline to apply is March 1.  We hope you’ll take a moment to head over to our Grants Page to read over our funding guidelines and consider submitting your proposal via our new online application.  We’ve streamlined our application process in hopes of creating a better experience for all involved and welcome any feedback you have about our new online forms.

As you consider a project that would benefit from a PFF grant, you might scroll through previous blog posts to get a sense of our past involvement with a wide variety of organizations.

Any questions you might have can be sent to info@papefamilyfoundation.org.  We look forward to hearing from you!

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An update from Seattle Tilth

October 17, 2014 by director Leave a Comment

The best emails that come through my inbox are updates from organizations we’ve partnered with through our grant making process.  Seattle Tilth just sent me a link to a recent feature on KPLU (our local NPR station in Seattle).

https://soundcloud.com/kplunews/seattle-gardening-program-pairs-east-african-seniors-with-at-risk-youths

Seattle Tilth’s Youth Garden Works program caught the attention of our foundation’s trustees this past year and in June we decided to support their ongoing training for youth with a grant.  SYGW operates two gardens in the Seattle – at Rainier Beach and the University of Washington – and the produce from these gardens is sold at three area farmers markets.

I got to visit the Wallingford Farmers Market at the end of September and was quite impressed with the SYGW stand.  The spinach, kale and arugula I bought were beautiful, tasty and fairly priced.  Next week I have the opportunity to attend lunch at the Rainier Beach Urban Farm Wetlands.  East African elders will cook traditional food from the garden and share with the entire farm community.  I’ll also get to meet some of the youth from the SYGW program.  Can’t wait!

 

 

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2014 Grants!

July 10, 2014 by director Leave a Comment

In mid-June, the Papé family got together for our annual meeting.  It’s a chance for us to catch up with each other and make decisions about the foundation.  Spirited debates have become something of a tradition, as we each have different ways of approaching finances, grant-making, and the future of the foundation.  Meals together throughout the weekend are a way to enjoy each other in a more relaxed setting.  All in all, it was another great weekend together!

Following the annual meeting, I get to do my favorite and least favorite parts of the job.  I am responsible for notifying all the grant applicants of the board’s decision.  We always have more worthy applicants than we have money to give, and so I have to tell at least a few organizations that their project won’t be funded this year.  Least favorite part of my job.  This year we were able to fund half of our applicants, so I got to let 10 organizations know the good news!  Favorite part of my job.  Our grant committee had tough decisions to make – I don’t envy them.  Ultimately, I think they came up with an excellent recommendation to our full board, one that represents a variety of family member’s communities and interests.  I hope to share stories over the next year about the projects these organizations will undertake with the help of our foundation.  For now, I am pleased to announce our 2014 grants totally $61,000:

Bishop Kelly High School, Boise ID

ABC House, Albany OR

ShelterCare, Eugene OR

Wellspring Friends School, Eugene OR

Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute at OHSU, Portland OR

Portland YouthBuilders, Portland OR

Rise School, Dallas TX

Ranch Hand Rescue, Argyle TX

FEEST, Seattle WA

Seattle Youth Garden Works at Seattle Tilth, Seattle WA

 

Thank you to all who applied!  Our 2015 grant forms will be available in early January, right here on our web site.  Deadline to apply is March 1, 2015.

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Garden Tour

June 21, 2014 by director Leave a Comment

Last week I had the opportunity to visit Seattle Youth Garden Works in preparation for the upcoming annual foundation meeting.  SYGW has asked for our support for tools and supplies to maintain their current site at the University of Washington Center of Urban Horticulture and expand to Rainier Beach in South Seattle.  SYGW offers homeless and underserved youth in Seattle the opportunity to gain urban farming, cooking, and small business skills in a unique environment.  I have been a fan of this Seattle Tilth urban agriculture training program since I first heard about it a few years ago and was excited to finally make the time to go out to the farm for a foundation site-visit.

Fortunately, it was a beautiful sunny day in Seattle so I could leave my umbrella and mud boots at home.  Kristen Roewer, Program Coordinator, showed me around the plot of land at the UW.  The site feels far from city life, even though it’s within site of Husky Stadium.  Rows of chard and lettuce greeted me, along with pea vines climbing a fence near one of two greenhouses.  Kristen proudly showed off the arugula, a SYGW specialty.  Apparently arugula is labor intensive to harvest, so many growers shy away.  Labor is easy to come by on this farm though, so the youth grow and sell arugula, along with many other crops, at two local farmers markets.  I got to try a delicacy new to me – arugula flowers!  I had been pruning back my own shoots, but after learning about the flowers on the farm that day, I’m now letting them grow in my own garden.

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Recently, the program has begun to also focus on nutrition and cooking.  Once a week the youth gather at the shelter on site to prepare a meal together so they can learn to cook what they grow.  Not only does this teach them skills for their own kitchens, but gives them another way to connect with customers at the weekly farmers markets they sell produce at (in Wallingford and the U-District).  I was of course delighted, since I’ve just completed two years of graduate study in food systems and strongly believe in the connection between what and how we eat.  I was invited back at the farm this summer to join Kristen and the youth for a meal – I can’t wait!  And since my brother Bryan, our PFF President, lives just blocks from the Wallingford Farmers Market, I’ll join him sometime soon to buy produce I saw being grown on this special plot of land.

 

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