Active Funding Requests
Last Updated: November 4th, 2026
The below are high level summaries of active ODFN funding requests listed newest to oldest by date of request. Active funding requests are no older than six months. For access to our more detailed Funding Tracker, please contact us.
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DISASTER
One Change Group
Request: $20,000
Application Materials
The tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend has created an urgent need for accessible mental health support for those affected by this devastating event. While immediate crisis response efforts are essential, the emotional impacts of grief and trauma can extend well beyond the initial aftermath, creating a continued need for professional counseling.
We are requesting funding to help meet this need through our Scholarship Program, providing up to 10 free telehealth counseling sessions per week over a six-month period, totaling approximately 260 sessions. Funding will also support direct community outreach and collaboration with local organizations to connect affected individuals and families with mental health resources. Our goal is to ensure that financial barriers do not prevent community members from accessing consistent emotional support.
Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network
Request: $42,000
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OrCAN seeks funding partners to support our producer-centered network’s advocacy for renewal of the Farmer & Rancher Disaster Resilience (FRDR) grant program during the 2027 legislative session. OrCAN will demonstrate the need for FRDR renewal by sharing producers’ stories and perspectives on agricultural disaster across a range of activities, including constituent meetings, written communication with legislators, and testimony at hearings. Weather disasters such as heat domes, drought, floods, and wildfires are becoming more frequent and extreme as climate change accelerates. Oregon’s farmers and ranchers are on the frontlines of weather disasters, and they have expressed their need for disaster relief and resilience funding related to Soil Health.
Deschutes Academy and Futbol Club DBA Bend FC
Request: $5,000
Application Materials
Bend FC hosted the camp for Silver Rail students, making sure no family had to pay for their child to attend. The camp was for any student, Kindergarten through 5th grade, no matter their affiliation with the Club. The Club is requesting assistances to help cover some of the expenses incurred during the course of the camp. The Club worked to create an atmosphere where kids felt safe to be kids while they were out of school, and where parents felt comfortable dropping their kids off at. The camp took place at the Bend FC Pine Nursery Turf Fields and went from 9-2pm, October 19-23, 2026.
Hearts Unknown Education
Request: $25,400
Application Materials
Following the Silver Rail shooting, HUE seeks funding to sustain and strengthen its free creative-wellness programming for Central Oregon youth and families impacted by community trauma. Funding would support core programming costs, including staffing, art supplies, meals, and facility operations, while also strengthening our emerging mental health programming.
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $73,500
Application Materials
Seeking funding for firefighter personal protective clothing and fire shelters:
Structural (house/building) fire protective clothing consisting of helmet and full bunker plants and jacket at $5,500 per set; five sets at $27,500 or ten sets at $55,000.
Wildland/forest fire protective clothing consisting of helmet, pants and coat and gloves at $5,750 for five sets and $11,500 for ten sets.
Fire shelters (one person tents) to protect fire fighters from being overrun by a fire. $700 per shelter. Five shelters at $3500 or ten at $7,000.
Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $10,500
We are requesting funding to purchase three new AEDs. These units are critical in the event of a cardiac arrest, not only to the citizens we respond to but also in the event that a firefighter suffers a cardiac event.
Desert Sky Montessori
Request: $125,000
Application Materials
We need security upgrades and a counselor.
We are hosting our community meeting November 3 to hear ideas and recommendations from families, we will at least need facility improvements that include:
vestibule (we believe we are the only school in BLS system without one)
intercom system across three buildings
door and window upgrades
fencing adjustments
To support student crisis management and prevention, we need a school counselor, at least part time to start (about $40,000 for the rest of this year) until we can strategize on how to sustain a counselor position.
Silver Rail Children's Fund
Request: $100,000
Our children need to be together, with trauma-informed care, now. We request support for the next six months (November 2026 to April 2027):
Special education first: small sensory-friendly gatherings, trained aides, adaptive equipment and quiet rooms
Licensed and bilingual counselors and therapy dog teams at every event
Healing groups for Spanish-speaking families, dads and parents, including meeting space at $150 an hour
Monthly family gatherings, classmate meetups and outings that give children new memories beside October 15
Help for families and local providers to apply for Crime Victims' Compensation, so therapy is covered for years
Our events fill within hours. Funding lets us book venues and counselors weeks ahead, not days, so no family is turned away.
Families First Parent Resource Center
Request: $20,000
Application Materials
We are requesting funding to replace a very old heating/cooling system that continues to malfunction. We have been advised that the next time it happens, it may never work again. Our goal is to have the ability to serve as a warming center for children and families in the winter, a cooling center for children and families in the summer, and a smoke free zone during wildfire season. This is a priority because there are very few places in our county that are set up to accommodate families with children of all ages.
Jordan Valley Rangeland Fire Protection Association
Request: $25,000
Requesting funds to partially cover the cost of a low boy trailer to tow a dozer to fire lines. This RFPA serves specifically Jordan Valley, Rome, Arock, Burns Junction, Rockville, and is comprised of volunteer fire fighters who intially respond to all to range fires in our area. Because volunteers are the initial attack to range fires before government resources arrive, it is crucial to have adequate equipment.
Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center (KIDS Center)
Request: $27,927
KIDS Center requests funding to support our immediate response and ongoing care for children and families affected by the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting. Funding will cover:
Crisis support provided by our therapy team (Director or Client Programs and two therapists) during the three-day family access center event, October 18–20, which connected affected community members with resources and services.
Materials and supplies used to create a welcoming, supportive space at the family access center.
Staff time for administrative support and coordination of care with community partners.
Ongoing trauma-informed therapy for affected children and family members over approximately the next 120 days (17 weeks) to support coping, restore a sense of safety, and promote healing.
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $60,100
Application Materials
The requested items are not part of the capital or operation budgets. If funded, any of the following items would assist La Pine Fire is serving 22,000 residents and visitors:
1000 feet of 5 inch hose $9,500 for 1000 feet or $950 per 100 feet
Portable/mobile radios Portables $5000 mobiles $15000
Task Force Tip Nozzles $1300 per nozzle - five units
Thermal Imager Replacement/Addition for squirt $6000
EMS Training Mannequin $7000
Update station security camera system $5000
Replacement PPE, $500 per structural helmet, $5000 for full bunker gear, $100 per wildland helmet, $400 boots, $550 wildland pant and coat, $100 for gloves, and $700 for wildland shelters.
City of Seneca Fire Department
Request: $40,000
Application Materials
The City of Seneca seeks funding to improve an existing Fire Hall and bay to protect its fire engines and water tender during severe winter conditions. Currently, the tender must be drained to prevent freezing, limiting its ability to remain fully prepared for emergency response.
The project will relocate and reuse an existing interior wall to enclose the bay, add insulation and heating, install an electric overhead door and two ventilation fans, and complete necessary electrical improvements.
Town of Bonanza
Request: $102,000
Application Materials
The Town of Bonanza seeks funding to strengthen community resilience and maintain essential public services during wildfires, severe winter storms, extended power outages, and other emergencies. Funding will be used to purchase a mobile backup generator for the Town's wastewater system, install backup power for Town Hall to support continuity of government and emergency coordination, and deploy a digital emergency notification sign to provide real-time public safety information, evacuation notices, road closure updates, and emergency alerts.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon
Request: $23,625
Seeking funding in staffing costs to support club services which have been opened for free full-day services 7:30am-2:30pm during the school days for up to 150 Silver Rail Elementary Students each day that they are no longer in school until they will re-open. This service has already been for the past 6 school days and we have been told the need will extend for at least another 9 school days.
THE BEAM
Request: $50,000
BEAM is seeking $50,000 toward two months of continued programming following displacement from Silver Rail Elementary after the October 15 shooting. Our children need familiar faces, trusted relationships and opportunities to learn, play and begin to heal together.
Funding would help retain four current staff, add part-time support as resources allow, secure accessible temporary space, and cover supplies and transportation. Programming remains free for families through November.
LatinX Recovery Center Inc
Request: $18,000
We are requesting this funding to provide culturally specific direct services for grief, process groups, direct post-traumatic stress therapy, and community support and education groups for suicide prevention.
At LatinX Recovery Center, our hearts are with the Bend community and everyone navigating pain, loss, or uncertainty. A key priority is providing safe, supportive spaces for individuals affected by the shooting in Bend—particularly those facing mental health challenges, isolation, or cultural and linguistic barriers. This $18,000 investment will support the development of a trauma-informed support group focused on suicide prevention, community connection, and timely access to resources.
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $216,945
Application Materials
La Pine Fire lacks sufficient number of portable radios. Portable radios are a fundamental piece of equipment for firefighters, essential for ensuring their safety, coordinating operations, and ultimately saving lives and property.
Solution: Obtain 33 multiband portable radios and 13 replacement radios for the Legacy VHF radios. The 13 Legacy radios will replace radios that cannot be serviced. The 33 radios cost $4,665 or $153,945. The 13 replacement radios cost $6,000 or $78,000.
Silver Falls School District
Request: $3,000
Our district is working on having stellar reunification processes in place in the event of a catastrophe. We are seeking funding for reunification kits that can be placed at the Oregon Garden and Silver Creek Fellowship so that we are prepared to process students and families in an emergency.
Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $26,000
We are requesting funds to purchase portable radios. These radios are critical in the communication of our crews. Our current radios are old, outdated and unreliable. The new radios have a higher transmitting wattage and create better communications. This funding is critical is allowing our personnel to communicate with each other, our dispatch center, and other responding agencies. The purchase of these radio will be a huge safety relief to our orgainizations.