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Blue Door Project. King Neighborhood residents develop and implement a monthly service project to assist elderly, disabled, and single parents living in single family households.
Boise Voices: Intergenerational Oral History Project. An oral history project pairs at-risk youth with elderly long-time residents in the Boise Neighborhood.
Crossing the Generation Gap from Adolescence to Senior Living. Middle and high school students will work with tenants at Weidler Commons, a senior rental community, to build and maintain a community garden.
Building Community Involvement and Access to Healthy Food in Northeast Neighborhoods. The Portland Fruit Tree project reaches out to residents in NE Portland and engages volunteers in leadership roles to form neighborhood-based networks.
Bridges: Community Building Tools in the Time of Gentrification. Phase one of a Portland based grassroots media project raises awareness about gentrification, strengthen communities and promote civic participation.
Tools and the Knowledge to Use Them. The Northeast Portland Tool Library’s educational initiative is a series of free workshops on home repair and improvement and gardening taught by local craftspeople and artisans.
Leaders Through Literacy. The “Journeys to Freedom” program, which kicked off at Jefferson High School in October 2008, teaches African American youth their history in the United States along with increasing their reading and writing skills.
Straightway Services Youth Program. 120 kids learn to give back to their community through community service in a 12 week program.
Saturday with the Arts. A multicultural outreach program that targets the underserved youth living within the boundaries of NECN.
Boise Voices: Intergenerational Oral History Project. An oral history project pairs at-risk youth with elderly long-time residents in the Boise Neighborhood.
Crossing the Generation Gap from Adolescence to Senior Living. Middle and high school students will work with tenants at Weidler Commons, a senior rental community, to build and maintain a community garden.
Building Community Involvement and Access to Healthy Food in Northeast Neighborhoods. The Portland Fruit Tree project reaches out to residents in NE Portland and engages volunteers in leadership roles to form neighborhood-based networks.
Bridges: Community Building Tools in the Time of Gentrification. Phase one of a Portland based grassroots media project raises awareness about gentrification, strengthen communities and promote civic participation.
Tools and the Knowledge to Use Them. The Northeast Portland Tool Library’s educational initiative is a series of free workshops on home repair and improvement and gardening taught by local craftspeople and artisans.
Leaders Through Literacy. The “Journeys to Freedom” program, which kicked off at Jefferson High School in October 2008, teaches African American youth their history in the United States along with increasing their reading and writing skills.
Straightway Services Youth Program. 120 kids learn to give back to their community through community service in a 12 week program.
Saturday with the Arts. A multicultural outreach program that targets the underserved youth living within the boundaries of NECN.
Each year, a Small Grants Committee is formed by representatives from the inner North and Northeast Portland community to evaluate applications. Below is a list of past Small Grants recipients.