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Free Grant Workshops Offered!

1) Friday, January 23rd from Noon - 2pm at 1900 SW 4th Ave., Room 2500 A (2nd floor)
2) Sunday, January 25th from Noon - 2pm at Mt. Scott Community Center 5530 SE 72nd
3) Thursday, January 29th from 6 - 8 pm at Center for Intercultural Organizing, 700 N Killingsworth

Click here to RSVP for one of the Free VIA Community Action Grants Workshops.

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VISION INTO ACTION (VIA) TO FUND RESULTS-ORIENTED, COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS THROUGH ITS COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS PROGRAM

Gabrielle Buvinger-Wild, Vision into Action Grants Coordinator, 503-823-9589
gabrielle.buvinger-wild@ci.portland.or.us

“With Vision into Action, we feel like we are part of the life of the Portland community. After being ignored for years, sometimes it feels like we don’t exist. Vision into Action has made us feel welcome.”
Romeo Sosa, Executive Director of VOZ and Past Recipient of a VIA Grant

Portland, OREGON – The Vision into Action (VIA) Coalition is pleased to announce its second round of Community Action Grants. The VIA Coalition is a broad, community-led alliance of organizations, businesses, government and individuals acting collectively to ensure implementation of Portland’s community vision. Building on visionPDX’s effective public involvement to 17,000 Portlanders, VIA is committed to ongoing collaboration with the community to realize this shared vision. Adela Basayne, a member of last years grants cycle writes of her experience, “The VisionPDX process brought so many voices together to articulate our shared future. The granting process of Vision into Action is a significant commitment to bringing that future into being, and it’s humbling and exciting to participate.”

Vision into Action will award grants of up to $20,000 to community and neighborhood projects. Larger awards of $15,000 to $20,000 will be reserved for projects that facilitate active partnerships between two or more groups. Through the Community Action Grants, VIA hopes to encourage a greater level of collective community action in the realization of Portland’s shared vision. Projects will reflect the Portlander’s core values identified through the visionPDX process:

Community Connectedness and Distinctiveness
Equity and Accessibility
Sustainability
Accountability and Leadership
Inclusion and Diversity
Innovation and Creativity
Safety

In addition, five equally-weighted selection criteria will be used to evaluate proposals:

Actively advance the community vision articulated in Portland 2030: a vision for the future;
Use innovative approaches to realize our shared vision for the future;
Tap into existing community support;
Impact as many people as possible given the scope of the project; and
Be short-term in duration and long-term in effect.

VIA realizes that the availability of resources can vary between different community groups. In order to make the grant process equally accessible to everyone, VIA is offering three free grant writing workshops on the following dates:

The last round of community action grants awarded by VIA ranged from Cambodian-American Community of Oregon’s Community Healing Oral History Project to Tryon Creek Life Farm’s Recode Project to broaden sustainable building and remodeling policies in Portland. VIA looks forward to the creation of new community partnerships, and a further realization of Portland’s shared vision in 2009.