We are excited, after a long pandemic absence, to announce the recipients of our 2025 grant awards:
- Alice in Bunderland, located in the Cathedral Park neighborhood, will receive up to $3,950 for repairing and replacing the flooring in their space. The mission of Alice in Bunderland is to make it easier for parents of rabbits and other small pets to provide the best care possible, and to help our furry friends have the best life they can.
- Daydreamer Coffee, located in the St. Johns neighborhood, will receive up to $2,289.50 for a commercial refrigerator and exterior paint for the building. Daydreamer Coffee is focused on being an open and accepting space, purposefully located on the commercially underserved north side of St. Johns.
- Friends of Ours PDX, located in the Kenton neighborhood, will receive up to $5,000.00 to light up the Kenton business district for the holiday season. Friends of Ours PDX offers acts of loving kindness to help the most vulnerable in our North, Northeast, and inner Southeast Portland communities.
- North Peninsula Review, located in and focused on North Portland, will receive up to $450 to support coverage relevant to our area in the 2026 legislative session in Salem. North Peninsula Review is a local paper that covers all of North Portland with news that often gets overlooked by other sources. It continues our long tradition of local journalism started in the area in 1904 with the St. Johns Review.
- Novedades Prado, located in the St. Johns neighborhood, will receive up to $9,490.00 for a new awning over their front entrance. Novedades Prado has been a neighborhood institution since 1998, acting as a hub for the Latino community and a source of support and stability for the community as a whole.
- Ockley Green Middle School, located in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood, will receive up to $5,500.00 for an upgraded lighting system in their auditorium in support of programming there and early student learning opportunities with lighting controls for theatre and other applications. Ockley Green Middle School (home of the Dragons) is a public school in the Portland Public School District, serving grades 6-8 and nurturing each student’s identities, interests, and knowledge so they become independent thinkers who work towards a more just world.
- Oregon Contemporary, located in the Kenton neighborhood, will receive up to $4,000.00 to create an arts workshop classroom in their current space. The space will support arts learning for local youth and adults, leading to a more well-rounded community with strong critical thinking skills and a deeper appreciation of diverse perspectives.
Check back for photos and recaps as they become available. We are looking forward to tracking the progress of these projects.
We also look forward to receiving even more applications next year as the word continues to get out and hope our neighbors will be thinking of new projects that will benefit our North Portland community by supporting local businesses.