ABOUT THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT FUND
We are not accepting Immediate Impact applications right now.
The continuing and uncertain nature of COVID-19 has already had and will continue to have large and lasting impacts on service providers and organizations working with those most vulnerable in our communities and Tribal Nations within the land area currently referred to as Oregon. To respond to these emerging needs we decided to focus our Immediate Impact Fund on COVID-19 specifically. These immediate response grants were intended to address any emergent need related to COVID-19: general operating, making payroll, making up for lost funds due to a cancelled fundraising event, increased client services, etc.
As this pandemic has continued to develop beyond the short term, Oregon also faced an intense and unprecedented wildfire season. As wildfires continued to spread across our state, we saw the devastating impacts they were having on the communities we serve who are already disproportionately and systemically affected by COVID-19. We worked with our staff, Grantmaking Committee, and Board to shift our process again and be as adaptive as we can in our own response and received applications from organizations affected by COVID-19 and/or the Wildfires.
At the launch of this fund in March, we received many applications. The initial priorities for our response funding included direct service organizations demonstrating commitment to serving women, girls, and their families and communities (including trans* and non-binary / gender non-conforming communities, as well as those working on issues of gender oppression, and that are unlikely to receive funding through other response funds or avenues of support. Through a streamlined, open application process and a focused, outreach approach, funds were directed to over fifty 501(c)3 or fiscally sponsored groups.
Thank you to the following for their contributions to our Immediate Impact Fund: Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, MRG Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, Ronald W Naito Foundation, and Yarg Foundation. And thank you to the continued generosity of our individual donors for supporting gender justice across communities during these critical and challenging times.
Please consider making a DONATION to support the Immediate Impact Fund, specifically focused on COVID-19 and/or the Wildfires. Thank you!
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this fund further, please contact our Grants Program at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Immediate Impact Response Fund grantees who have agreed to be listed publicly, so you can get to know some of these amazing organizations in Oregon!
Adelante Mujeres- Forest Grove
Basic Rights Education Fund - Portland
Black and Beyond the Binary Collective - Portland
Black Feminist Summer School – Portland Metro
Black Parent Initiative - Portland
Bradley Angle - Portland
Building Healthy Families - Enterprise
Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence (CARDV) - Corvallis
Canyon Crisis Center – Mill City
Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence (CARDV) - Linn, Benton Counties
Center for Hope & Safety - Salem
Clackamas Women's Services - Oregon City
Daisy C.H.A.I.N – Lake County
Disability Arts & Culture Project - Portland
Domestic Violence Services, Inc. - Pendleton
Ebony Collective, CDC - Portland
El Programa Hispano, UNICA Program - Gresham
Fairshot Coalition - Statewide
Family Forward - Portland
Freedom to Thrive - Portland
HAVEN - The Dalles
Helping Hands Against Violence – Hood River
Henderson House - McMinnville
Humans of Color Movement Alliance - Portland Metro
Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team- Ashland
Living Yoga - Portland
Mano a Mano - Salem
May Day, Inc - Baker City
Micronesian Islander Community - Statewide
Next Up Oregon – Portland-Salem Metro
Northwest Family Services - Portland
Northwest Services Casa Esperanza - Portland Metro
Oasis Advocacy & Shelter - Curry County
Oasis Shelter Home- Gold Beach
Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) - Wilsonville
Oregon Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (OCADSV) - Statewide
Ophelia's Place - Eugene
Oregon Tradeswomen - Portland Metro
Ori Gallery - Portland
Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon
PCUN - Statewide
PDX Diaper Bank - Portland
Pioneer Family Nursery Relief - Pendleton
Project Dove - Ontario
Q Center - Portland
Rahab's Sisters - Portland
Raphael House - Portland
Red Lodge Transition Services- Statewide
Rock ‘n Roll Camp for Girls - Portland
Rose Haven - Portland
Rose Haven - Portland Metro
Rural Organizing Project - Rural Oregon
Sable House - Polk County incl Conf Tribes of Grand Ronde
Saving Grace - Bend
Sexual Assault Resource Center - Beaverton
Shelter From the Storm - Island City/La Grande
Siletz Community Health – Lincoln County
The Cupcake Girls - Portland Metro
The Harbor – Astoria
The Safe Project - Coos Bay
The UPRISE Collective - Beaverton
Tides of Change- Tillamook
Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nursery - Ontario
Water in the Desert - Portland
WomenFirst Transition & Referral Center - Gresham
Womenspace - Eugene