About Funding Areas

The diversity of our membership - large, small, private, public, corporate, community, family, new, seasoned; combined with the breath of our funding footprint - over 100,000 square miles; and today’s complex societal issues means there is never a lack of information being sought and shared by GRANTMAKERS members.

Below is a current list of the Funding Areas represented in GRANTMAKERS of Oregon and Southwest Washington’s Resource Library.


TYPES OF FUNDING

Capacity Building
Capital Grants
Development Grants
Donor Collaboratives
Discretionary Grants
Employee Giving
International Grants
Matching Grants
Operating Support
Program Related Investments
Small Grant Programs

Scholarships

FUNDING AREAS

Aging
AIDS
Arts
Arts/Culture Facilities
Children-Child Care
Children-Early Childhood
Children-Sexual Abuse
Children-The Future of Children
Children-Adolescence
Community Development
Community Service
Cultural Diversity
Death & Dying
Disaster
Education
Education-After School Programs
Education-Arts
Education-School to Work
Environment
Employment
Family Programs
Foster Care
Gay, Lesbian & Transgender
Health
Homelessness
Housing
Hunger
Immigration and Refurees
Independent Media
Juvenile Justice
Literacy
Mentoring
Micro-enterprise
Oceans
Poverty
Smart Growth Cities
Sustainability
Welfare Reform
Youth

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2008 REGIONAL CONFERENCE

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GRANTMAKERS of Oregon and Southwest Washington

From Roots to Treetops: Growing, Connecting, & Sustaining Strong Communities

October 15th, 16th, 17th
Five Pine Lodge
Sisters, Oregon

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Questions: or 503.226.6340

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Registration Fees: click here

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FAMILY FOUNDATION & CORPORATE FUNDERS LEARNING EXCHANGE

Vetting Grants Management Systems

Thursday, July 10, 2008
11:45 am - 1:30 pm
YWCA, Third Floor Conference Room
1111 SW 10th
Portland

Members $15, Nonmembers $35
Register: or 503.226.6340
Lunch will be provided.
*Open to all members

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http://www.solpath.org/results.html

WEBINAR

How Funders Can Choose to Manage Advocacy Campaigns

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
2:00-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
There is no registration fee to participate in the Webinar.
Register online at: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey.zgi?p=WEB227XB6GB5M8

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THIRD THURSDAY PROGRAM

Funder Collaboratives: Why & How Funders Come Together

Sponsor: The Standard
Thursday, July 17, 2008
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Northwest Health Foundation, Bamboo Room
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland

$15 Members
$35 Non-members

or 503.226.6340

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SOCIAL FORCES & SYSTEM DYNAMICS CONFERENCE

Kaiser Permanente, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Northwest Health Foundation, and GREX, an affiliate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems

July 17-19, 2008 in Troutdale, Oregon
For more information, visit:  http://www.nwhf.org/events/systemshealth.php