SE Uplift Board of Directors Approves

Grant Funding for Fifteen Community Projects

The Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) has allocated $21,603 in grant funds to SE Uplift for management of the 2013 Neighborhood Small Grant Program. Twenty grant proposals were received by the November 5 deadline requesting a total of $54,698.45.

After evaluation and deliberation, the grant selection committee unanimously recommended the funding of fifteen outstanding projects ranging from community theater workshops to neighborhood tree plantings, leadership trainings for day laborers to school gardens, community murals to cultural arts classes, and outreach to non-English speakers to family recreation nights, and much more!

1. Advanced Skills Training, Voz Workers' Rights Education Project

2. Collaborative Arleta Garden Planning Process, Arleta School Garden Committee

3. Community Classes for Adults with Special Needs, On-the-Move Community Integration

4. Eastside Forum Project, Living Stages

5. Eastside Village, PDX – Phase 1: Community Awareness and Engagement, Eastside Village, PDX

6. Foster United Outreach to Non-English Speakers in SE Portland’s Foster Road Area, Foster United

7. Friends in the Neighborhood - Family Recreation Night, Konko Church of Portland

8. Mount Tabor Family Adventure Scramble, Jim Bridger PTA

9. Neighborhood PLACE: Parks, Learning, and Community Enhancement, Tsuga Community Commission

10. North Tabor Mural Project, North Tabor Neighborhood Association

11. Pick-Me-Up, the Madison House – Good Samaritan Ministries

12. Post5 Theatre Summer Teen Apprentice Program, Post5 Theatre

13. Richmond Neighborhood's Emergency Preparedness Program, Richmond Neighborhood Association

14. Sunnyside's Narrow Planting Strip Tree Accessibility Project, Friends of Trees

15. Woodstock Community Information Kiosk, Woodstock Neighborhood Association

These projects are excellent examples of how citizens are working together to improve the quality of our neighborhoods by building community, increasing volunteer capacity and forging new organizational partnerships through sustainable projects. For more information on each project, please visit www.southeastuplift.org.

-- Kelly FeddersonCommunity Outreach Coordinator

SE Uplift Neighborhood Coalition

3534 SE Main Street

Portland, OR 97214

503-232-0010 x 312

www.southeastuplift.org