SPECIAL PROGRAM
Conversation with Children’s Investment Fund
Sponsored by: Children’s Investment Fund
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
YWCA, 3rd Floor Conference Room
1111 SW 10th
Portland
No charge. Lunch will be provided.
To Register: or 503.226.6340
The Portland Children’s Investment Fund* is hosting a special program for members of Grantmakers to gather input on a variety of issues the Fund will face if Portland voters renew the levy in November 2008. Since 2003, the Children’s Investment Fund has provided an average of over $10 million annually to programs providing early childhood, child abuse prevention and intervention, and after-school and mentoring services. Last year funded programs served over 15,000 children in the City of Portland.
As fellow funders of programming for children and families in our community, we are interested in your thoughts on current priority community needs and service gaps, systems issues, our current investments, priorities for future investment and how we can better work with private funders to increase community impact in our funding areas.
* In November 2002, Portland voters passed Measure 26-33, which created the Children’s Investment Fund (http://www.childrensinvestmentfund.org.) Funding is generated through a property tax of $0.4026 per $1,000 assessed valuation, or about $60 a year for a home with an assessed value of $150,000. These programs better the lives each year for 16,000 of Portland’s neediest children and their families and provide early childhood and parenting education and access to immunizations and health screenings so children enter kindergarten ready to succeed, offer safe and constructive after-school and mentoring programs to promote academic achievement, provide role models and increase children’s engagement in school. Provide child abuse prevention and intervention services to reach children affected by family violence, parental drug and alcohol use, and homelessness and to support families most at risk for abuse and neglect.