Grantmaking
22% of Central Oregonians are impacted by a United Way funded program or service.
Each year, UWCO makes investments in nonprofit partners working to advance our shared priorities. We are focused on positive mental health and well-being, culturally specific services, housing stability, health, education, financial mobility, resilience, and belonging as our top Community Impact priorities.
In June of 2024, we administered the award of $166,179 throughout Deschutes County to strengthen emergency services. We facilitated the deployment of $87,779 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) made available to support agencies providing emergency food, shelter, and clothing services in Deschutes County. And, we also facilitated the deployment of $78,400 that Deschutes County made available to support agencies providing emergency food, shelter, and clothing services, also in Deschutes County.
In fall of 2024, we will also facilitate the deployment of $63,655 for Jefferson County and $70,857 for Crook County that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has made available to support agencies providing emergency food, shelter, and clothing services in Jefferson and Crook counties.
UWCO is now accepting applications from local 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith-based, and governmental agencies in Jefferson and Crook Counties wishing to receive funding for these services. All organizations providing these essential services to individuals in Jefferson and Crook counties are eligible to apply for a grant. The application window is now open. Find more information and links to the applications HERE.
We also host our own Community Impact grantmaking process regularly. Through it, we award grants to vetted local nonprofits that focus on health, education, prevention and development, financial mobility, basic needs, childhood trauma, community transformation, building resilience, and belonging. We call those grantee organizations our Community Impact Partners. You can meet them HERE and learn more about how our Community Impact grantmaking works HERE.
Grantmaking
Emergency Food & Shelter
When funding is available, we facilitate the deployment of grant funds from the federal government and Deschutes County to agencies meeting immediate community needs.
Emergency Food & Shelter
Grantmaking
Our grants
Each year, we make investments in a network of non-profit partners working to advance our shared priorities.
Our grants
GRANT RECIPIENTS
Organizations we support
Recently, we awarded $225,000 to 22 local and regional community nonprofits serving Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson Counties, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Each year, UWCO makes investments in a network of non-profit partners working to advance a set of shared priorities. This year, UWCO identified positive mental health and well-being, culturally specific services, and housing stability as the 2022 Community Impact priorities in response to current community needs.
Meet this year’s Community Impact Partners.
Organizations we support
Our Stories
Healthy Beginnings
Conducting free comprehensive, health and developmental assessments for children between 0-5 years old.
“Support from United Way has allowed us to keep our service free and available to all children in the Central Oregon. United Way’s continued support has been critical for our Rural Advocate Program expansion. Through United Way, we have deepened our assessments to include gathering data on how parents of young children are building resiliency and staying connected.”
Our Stories
KIDS Center
A child abuse intervention center.
“United Way of Central Oregon helps ensure that children impacted by child abuse receive child-friendly evaluations, family support, and therapy, at no cost, so that all a family has to worry about is their child’s healing. These services are vital to restoring health, happiness, and resiliency for children and their families so that they can live life to their fullest potential.”
Our Stories
Friends of the Children
Providing paid, professional mentors to high-risk children from Kindergarten through high school graduation.
“United Way of Central Oregon continues to be instrumental in helping Friends of the Children Central Oregon implement an evidence based model to build resilience in children who are facing the highest levels of trauma. Together, we are breaking the cycle of generational poverty.”
