Active/Current Grants

EPAP funded EPO XPO event opening Cermony with American Indian Movement

East Portland Action Plan

Grants Application Awards

EPAP's 2011 - 2012 Civic Engagement Grant Program had 11 grant applications for a total request of $94,650. We had $64,000 to allocate, funded 7 projects, and leveraged $236,793. Guidelines & Requirements for this specific project were required to: 1.  Address the implementation of the following Action Plan item: Community Building.2.3 Develop and hold leadership and civic engagement classes/programs for East Portland citizens to build capacity for participating in lobbying, advocacy, board participation, partnership, etc. 2. Demonstrate an ability to involve culturally specific populations in language appropriate ways, with populations/communities that have not yet been as actively involved in city planning and projects. 3. Address topic areas under “Topics for civic engagement workshop curriculum”, including the required topic #9. Next Step Community Involvement and Leadership Placement Opportunities. 4. Demonstrate plans for involving participants after end of granted period. 6.  Take place in and benefit the residents of the East Portland Neighborhood area. Criteria Used in Grant Selection: Experience with cutltural specific underserved populations with language appropriate communication; Experience leading entry level civic engagement training; Experience doing community involvement with cultural specific populations with language appropriate communication; Community building project leading to more community involvement; Number of people to be directly engaged; Ability to link to the existing services in the community  tailored to the needs of cultural and language specific populations; Promotion of health and well-being of families, children, individuals and communities; Involvement between mutiple partners; and Demonstration of matching contributions of $ or time.           

The EPAP Grants Review Committee would have liked to award every dollar requested and is very impressed by the creative and constructive projects available to grace our community when financial support is made available. Given the discrepancy between available funding and funding requests, the EPAP is proud to have funded projects to address the implementation of Action Plan items. Please see the attachments on this page identifying the grant Awardee projects.