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Total results: 822
Ecotrust
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids and Communities
2009 - To implement an online service called FoodHub to increase participation in Farm to School programs.
$139,580
VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project
LUCHA, Laborers United for Collective Health
2009 - To expand its leadership development and community organizing activities to improve the well being of day laborers in Portland.
$95,000
Community Health Partnership
Addressing the Health & Equity Impact of Portland Urban Planning
2009 - To improve opportunities for health in outer southeast Portland by conducting a Health Impact Assessment and using the results to advocate for improved development policies and infrastructure.
$138,971
Community Health Partnership
Healthy Eating at Farmer’s Markets: Exploring Barriers & Solutions
2009 - To convene farmer’s market managers and public health professionals to develop strategies to make farmer’s markets more accessible to low-income customers while enhancing their financial sustainability.
$49,926
Center for Diversity and the Environment
Environment, Health, & Equity Project: Addressing racial equity in the environmental movement to achieve health equity
2009 - To address institutional and cultural racism in Portland’s environmental movement in order to create more equitable policies and practices that affect social determinants of health.
$182,273
The Children’s Institute
Essential Investments in the First Five Years
2009 - To support research, policy, and advocacy work related to seeking first-time funding in the state budget for Early Head Start, which addresses the achievement gap for at-risk children under age four.
$200,000
Multnomah County Commission of Children, Families, and Community
Got Health?
2009 - To develop youth councils for all eight high school School-Based Health Centers in Multnomah County.
$50,000
Organizing People, Activating Leaders (OPAL)
East Portland Transportation and Health Equity Project
2009 - To build capacity to address the unequal distribution of transportation burdens and benefits in East Portland neighborhoods.
$50,000
Innovative Housing, Inc.
Innovative Changes: Making Change Matter
2009 - To develop the capacity of a new Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in order to provide asset-building opportunities to low-income residents in Portland.
$50,000
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Asian Pacific Islander Policy Capacity Project
2009 - To strengthen the capacity of APANO’s members to better organize, analyze, and advocate for policies that addressing social determinants of health for the Asian and Pacific Islander community.
$50,000
Neighborhood Partnerships
Building Pathways to Security: Implementation Phase
2009 - To support the statewide advocacy efforts of a broad-based coalition to develop and advocate for policies that address asset poverty.
$150,000
Central City Concern
Advocacy Training & Expansion
2009 - To support a community outreach worker who will recruit and train 120 clean and sober individuals to serve as advocates for recovery, housing, and employment services.
$90,000
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Promoting prevention based strategies for addiction within a public safety context
2009 - To launch a campaign to expand access to drug and alcohol treatment services, as well as access to effective alternatives to incarceration for addiction-driven crime.
$225,000
Janus Youth Programs, Inc.
Village Gardens
2009 - To improve nutritional options, social cohesion, social capital, and opportunities for micro-enterprise among residents of housing complexes by first establishing a CBPR advisory board.
$20,000
Benton County Health Department
Latino Health Ambassador Network
2009 - To develop a Latino Health Ambassador Network to formally engage Latino community members and other formal/informal Latino community leaders in addressing the disproportionate impact of chronic disease on Latinos living in Benton and Linn Counties.
$15,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
African Partnership for Health
2009 - To enhance the capacity for health leadership and policy advocacy among African refugees and immigrants in the Portland Metro area using CBPR.
$19,857
Mountain View Hospital Foundation
Policy Approaches to Children’s Health (PATCH)
2009 - To test if school-based policies such as menu labeling, recess before lunch, and parental notification of body mass index will have an impact on childhood obesity.
$175,271
Family Building Blocks
Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries
2009 - Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Inform Policy Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries: Identifying Returns on Investments. To study the cost effectiveness and return on investment of the relief nurseries programs in Oregon using CBPR.
$180,000
OPHD_OSAC
Oregon Statewide Assessment Conference
2008 - To provide local health departments with tools to facilitate their assessment work, strengthen the Oregon State Community Health Assessment Network, and set a precedent for annual statewide assessment meetings.
$9050
Resource Innovation Group
Climate Change Capacity Training and Assessment: Phase I
2008 - To assess the level of understanding among local public health officials, identify needs and develop resources to prepare for global warming.
$11000
Tillamook County Public Health
Strategic Planning and Community Dialogue
2008 - To engage a consultant to conduct a strategic planning process.
$4600
Deschutes County Health Department
Deschutes County Public Health's Strategic Plan
2008 - To create a compelling and effective long-term vision for the community and to align and update the strategic plan and to look 10-15 years into the future of the Health of our community and project a vision and key strategies for local public health and would be articulated in a strategic plan.
$10000
Wasco Sherman Public Health Department
Assessment in Wasco-Sherman
2008 - To conduct a public health assessment utilizing an abbreviated APEX-PH (Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEXPH)) instrument.
$4500
Clackamas County Community Health Division
Clackamas County Community Health Department Strategic Plan
2008 - To develop a strategic plan template for Clackamas County Community Health that lays a new foundation for partnership between the Health Department and the diverse geographic communities in the county.
$10000
Western Oregon University - Louise Silva, M.D., MPH
Qigong Massage for Early Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Parent Training Aspect
2008 - Dr. Silva’s research determined the effect of qigong massage as an early intervention for autism, especially as it at relates to a child’s social and communication abilities and functions. This research built off earlier studies on qigong massage, and included the testing of a parent and provider training intervention that can be delivered in the educational settings. The Teaching Research Institute of Western Oregon University provided the research support and facilities to conduct this research.
$150,000
From: Mark O. Hatfield Fellowship
Sigma Theta Tau International
Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy
2008 - To sponsor the participation of two Oregon representatives in becoming effective agents for systemic change.
$54,800
Project Access NOW
Project Access NOW Regional Services and Care Coordination
2008 - To support a regional volunteer network and coordinated access to charity care.
$75,000
Community Health Center
Increasing Health Care Access by Strengthening Health Care Delivery Capacity
2008 - To increase the provision of primary care and mental health services to previously unserved patients through the addition of a licensed clinical social worker.
$38,640
CHOICE Regional Health Network
Pacific County Access and Health Care Improvement Coalition
2008 - To support insurance coverage outreach and enrollment for uninsured residents, and develop a community coalition to address pressing health problems.
$73,472
Outside In
Neighborhood Sparks
2008 - To address immediate health care access needs by providing services from outside health and social service organization while planning for longer-term implementation of a community health center and school-based health center.
$73,293
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation
Gorge Dental Access Council
2008 - To support dental treatment as part of a comprehensive strategy to provide access to dental care to low-income and uninsured populations.
$20,000
United Way of Lane County
Medical Access Program: A Coordinated Care System for the Uninsured
2008 - To support a program that connects uninsured individuals with needed basic health care and social services.
$39,500
Volunteers in Medicine, Clinic of the Cascades
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades Physician-Partnership
2008 - To address the needs of patients with chronic care needs by recruiting physicians who will provide primary care homes and offering chronic care classes, resulting in an increase in acute care delivery capacity.
$55,000
OSPIRG Citizen Lobby
Moving the Health Care Constituency
2008 - To support statewide health reform advocacy activities, including lobbying, before and during the 2009 legislative session.
$40,000
Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership
Oregon Small Business Healthcare Initiative Mobilization Project
2008 - To establish an organization to mobilize the small business community in Oregon’s health reform conversation.
$40,000
Oregon School-Based Health Care Network
Building Grassroots Leadership for Policy Change
2008 - To increase youth and family advocacy for, and increase sustainability of, school-based health centers.
$40,000
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Oregon Interfaith Health Justice Campaign
2008 - To mobilize a diverse partnership of the faith- and non-faith based consumers to advocate for statewide health reform.
$40,000
American Academy of Family Physicians - Oregon Chapter
Saving Lives, Saving Money: Finding a Cure for What Ails Health Care in America
2008 - To engage family physicians across Oregon in health reform activities.
$10,000
Washington Community Action Network Education and Research Fund
The Secure Health Care Program
2008 - To organize small business support of health reform in five counties of Southwest Washington.
$40,000
Stand for Children Leadership Center
Increasing Access to Health Care for Children
2008 - To fund advocacy for children’s dental services in Clackamas County and children’s health insurance in Portland.
$25,000
Benton County Health Department
South Corvallis Healthy Eating Active Living Community Initiative
2008 - To implement changes that will improve opportunities for residents to engage in regular physical activity and access healthful nutrition.
$107,000
Willamette Pedestrian Coalition
Improving Health Through Pedestrian Advocacy, Empowerment and Action
2008 - To improve environmental supports for walking opportunities through the development of a pedestrian advocacy network.
$74,000
Ecotrust
Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Network
2008 - To build a statewide network of organizations and businesses dedicated to advocating for Farm-to-School policies and funding, and to effectively implementing those policies at the local level.
$105,145
Community Choices
Sustainability for Pedestrian Advocacy Efforts
2008 - To build and activate a broad-based community coalition that will advocate for pedestrian-friendly engineering improvements and policies.
$68,303
Health Policy Research Northwest
Obesity Prevention Toolkit for Healthy Lane Neighborhoods
2008 - To identify factors in the neighborhood environment that can be addressed to improve opportunities for healthy eating and active living, and to pursue a policy agenda that advocates for those changes.
$84,200
Boys & Girls clubs of the Umpqua Valley
Triple Play - a game plan for the mind, body & soul
2008 - To improve and expand their physical activity and nutrition program, and to train youth to advocate for health-promoting changes in their community that will support these behaviors.
$55,467
Upstream Public Health
Engaging Social Service Agencies and Poverty Rights Groups in Tobacco Control
2008 - To engage people concerned about the welfare of low-income Oregonians in policy advocacy for tobacco prevention in the 2009 legislative session.
$20,000 over one year.
Upstream Public Health
Assessing the Health Benefits of Reducing Car and Truck Traffic
2008 - To conduct a CBPR-centered Health Impact Assessment (HIA) that would map the impact of reduced vehicle use to key health indicators.
$72,140 over one year.
Community Alliance of Tenants
Mold and Moisture: Effective Interventions, useful Practice, and Better Policies
2008 - To pilot and evaluate an CBPR intervention to address high mold/moisture conditions and its effects on respiratory disease among rental housing unit tenants, and use data to affect rental housing policies in Multnomah County.
$180,000 over three years.
Coalition of Communities of Color
Making People of Color Count in Policy Making
2008 - To gather information to develop community profiles about the “lived realities” of communities of color in Multnomah County, and utilize this information to inform agencies and policymakers about these communities.
$180,000 over four years