Non-Profit

Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott recently gave away $2 billion in another round of funding for nonprofits across the nation. Two organizations from the region will receive $16.5 million.

Kids Unlimited began with one after school program in 1998. It now serves nearly every public school in Medford and runs its own charter school for underserved communities.

Leaders say they have had to lay off paid staff and move out of buildings.

The nonprofit Oregon Consumer Justice is rolling out new legal services to help people who have fallen victim to illegal scams.

Northwest Battle Buddies, based in Southwest Washington, has paired more than 200 service dogs with military veterans to help mitigate symptoms of PTSD and the risk of suicide.

Ten culturally specific initiatives have been chosen to receive operating grants from United Way of Lane County’s new Racial Justice Fund.

The pandemic led Oregon Rural Action to coordinate Latino-focused vaccination drives, but their ambitions go further.

Some homeless services organizations in Portland are borrowing a concept from the commercial real estate world to quickly house people experiencing homelessness. Now they’re looking to scale up the use of what’s called master leasing.

Charities say they cannot send humanitarian aid into Ukraine through normal channels, with ports blocked and roads made treacherous by bombings.

Several nonprofits and group efforts sprung up during the pandemic in Portland as part of a larger so-called mutual aid movement, partly fueled by a desire to feed people in need and the stronger sense of urgency to help BIPOC communities in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.