2018 GRANT AWARDS

Community Programs/Projects Funded in 2018

• Inter-Faith Treasure House – Helps fund emergency and daily food needs, school backpack program, emergency rent and utility assistance, school supplies and person-in-crisis outreach activities.
• Children’s Home Society, East County Family Resource Center – Helps fund family educator/case manager position. Helps fund parent education groups, youth support groups, emergency basic assistance, behavioral health services and health care services.
• Partners with Camas Parks and Recreation – Helps buy Camtown Youth Festival’s arts and crafts supplies.
• Camas School District – Principal’s Checkbook – Helps Camas school principals provide for basic student needs to give these students equal opportunities at school.
• Washougal School District – Principal’s Checkbook – Helps Washougal school principals provide for basic student needs to give these students equal opportunities at school.
• Janus Youth Programs – Provides funding for facility stays for Camas and Washougal runaway youth at risk for abuse
  and neglect. Re-introduces kids to safe housing.
• Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership – Provides classroom lessons and outdoor applied learning programs for youth, including habitat enhancement projects adjacent to Gibbons Creek in the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
• Meals on Wheels – Purchases food and food service supplies for Camas and Washougal Meals on Wheels program.
• Friends and Foundation of the Camas Library – Supports the Camas Library’s summer reading program for kids and teens.
• Fort Vancouver Regional Library Washougal Branch – Supports the Washougal Library’s summer reading program for kids and teens.
• Lifeline Connections – Helps women secure safe and appropriate housing after completing a six-month residential
  treatment program for substance use disorders.
• Friends of the Columbia River Gorge – Helps fund the Explore the Gorge classroom lessons and outdoor environmental education program for sixth graders in Jemtegaard and Canyon Creek Middle schools in Washougal School District.
• REACH Community Development (formerly known as ACE) – Funds staff, administrative and supply costs to provide classes, workshops and meetings for residents of Gateway Gardens in Washougal to build their financial self-sufficiency.
• Camas Farmers Market – Helps implement “Produce Pals”, a weekly activities program to educate children about where
  and how food is produced. Kids completing weekly program receive a $2 token to spend at Camas Farmers Market – grant will buy tokens.
• Opera Quest Northwest – Helps to educate, enrich and instill a love of music in children by introducing them to opera
  through a lively production that blend classic opera excerpts with a humorous, interactive script.
• Pathways Pregnancy Clinic – Helps buy ultrasound supplies, pregnancy test kits and pregnancy test controls and purchases an adjustable ultrasound exam table to replace an old non-adjustable table.
• Camas-Washougal Historical Society – Helps build The Gathering Place at Washuxwal, an open air pavilion next to the Two Rivers Heritage Museum. The exhibits in the pavilion will educate visitors about native heritage in the Camas and Washougal area.
• Evergreen Habitat for Humanity – Helps buy materials for A Brush with Kindness residential fix-up projects in the Camas and Washougal area.
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs – Helps buy age appropriate books, backpacks and other learning tools for a Reach for the Stars with Books program at Hathaway Elementary School. Program aimed at youth from birth through age 5 to grow their school readiness skills and strengthen their social interaction skills.
• Journey Theater Arts Group – Helps cover a portion of the rental fee to put on a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the
  Washburn Performing Arts Center in Washougal May 18 – 27, 2018.
• TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center – Helps cover event costs and buys supplies for Run Wild! Nature Adventures Family Fun Day at Fallen Leaf Lake Park in Camas. Run Wild! is a participatory event that immerses attendees in the beauty of nature through nature education, physical activity, storytelling, art, music, and theater.
• J. D. Currie Youth Camp – Helps cover a portion of the preliminary engineering costs to construct an indoor restroom
  connected to water and sewer lines to replace four outdoor vaulted unplumbed latrines.
• Boy Scouts of America – Camas/Washougal Troops Helps fund Campership Awards so that families in need can send their scouts to summer camp.