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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REGION
DISASTER
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.
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.
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.
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.
Greater Douglas United Way
Request: $50,000
Application Materials
The COAD program allows us to go out to the community with training in First Aid, CPR, in addition to the State of Oregon program, Be2Weeks Ready. There have been 17 large declared disasters in Douglas County alone over the past 50 years. This year, we are making a concerted effort to have people prepared to survive if they are not able to get to a grocery store, have no power or water, and are not able to get emergency services due to an increased need.
The budget for our program is $157,500.00 this will provide the opportunity for us to continue our COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster) program. This program provides vital First Aid, CPR, and Be2Weeks Ready training in our community at no cost to the attendee. To sustain this high impact program, $40,000 will cover program wages, with $10,000 providing essential training materials and supplies.
Ecosource Native Seed and Restoration
Request: $75,000
Application Materials
Eastern Oregon’s unprecedented wildfire impacts have created an urgent need for specialized expertise to understand what these fires have done to our landscapes and what successful recovery will require. EcoSource has established native-seed and restoration capacity, but we do not currently have dedicated wildfire ecology expertise to assess burned landscapes, identify restoration priorities, evaluate invasive-species threats, and translate those findings into native plant-material needs. EcoSource is seeking funding for a staff or contract employee, and has identified Trey Wall, an experienced local wildland fire and natural-resources professional, to provide this critical capacity.
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center
Request: $29,713
Application Materials
This summer, Wallowa County experienced some of the worst wildfire and smoke conditions we have seen in years, forcing the cancellation of Saqáanma School, a six day program for Native youth. The program was scheduled for July 24–29: two days of land-based learning at the Homeland grounds followed by four days on the river.
Very few Nez Perce descendants live in Wallowa today, and social, economic, and logistical barriers make returning increasingly difficult. Yet in Nez Perce culture, homeland and identity are inseparable, and people carry a responsibility to know and care for this land. Programs like Saqáanma School create rare opportunities for Native youth to come back to wal’áwa, spend meaningful time on the land and water, and learn from Native educators.
Wasco Soil and Water Conservation District
Request: $30,000
Funding will support staff time, facilitation, and outreach to coordinate Grasshopper Fire recovery. The fire affected Badger Improvement District, Rock Creek District Improvement Company, portions of The Dalles Watershed, and high-use recreation sites and trails. SWCD and WCFC will convene agencies, irrigation providers, landowners, and recreation partners to identify priorities, clarify responsibilities, and connect needs with technical assistance and funding. Meetings, field tours, and expert presentations will address erosion, debris flow hazards, water supplies, and hazard tree removal along roads, campgrounds, and public access routes. Partners will develop a shared recovery work plan and funding proposals to protect infrastructure, restore safe access, support reforestation, and strengthen preparedness for future fire seasons.
Row River Valley Community Partnership
Request: $50,000
Application Materials
We are requesting $50,000 to help neighbors prepare together before the next emergency. Of that amount, $30,000 will support the five Neighborhood Teams now getting started in the Row River Valley, including local coordination, team-leader support, meetings, communication, training and practical preparedness materials. The remaining $20,000 will help the Cottage Grove Community Preparedness Initiative (CGCPI) recruit and prepare volunteers, offer public training and education, and hold a community preparedness forum.
Willamette Partnership
Request: $51,966
Application Materials
For the last two years, Willamette Partnership has been facilitating the La Pine Basin All-Lands Partnership, dedicated to reducing wildfire risk in southern Deschutes and northern Klamath counties. This summer, we were notified that the federal government would not be fulfilling its last two years for our award, meaning our funding will run out by the end of 2026. We are requesting funds for six months of facilitation while we wait to learn if the group was awarded a BLM grant that would cover our next five years' worth of facilitation.
Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District
Request: $3,030,000
Application Materials
Jefferson SWCD is requesting funding for
- Continued facilitation of the Croplands Working Group, which is working on upgrading irrigation efficiency, identifying alternate cash crops, encouraging cover cropping, and reducing weeds on fallow fields
- Implementing projects recommended by the Working Group
- Inventorying irrigation infrastructure upgrade needs in the portion of NUID around Culver
- Facilitating the NorthCentral Wildfire Resiliency Group until we can get specific funding for a long-term plan
- Seed to replant disturbed ground due to firelines and firefighting staging areas this fall/winter to prevent erosion from winter storms.
High Desert Partnership
Request: $55,000
Funding is requested to support a staffed coordinator to leverage and maximize the Collaborative’s impact, reach and resources. This request is urgent as fires burn, an increasing number of public sector agencies are needed in this work, an increased number of community organizations are engaged in this work, and the Rangeland Fire Protection Associations (RFPAs) - which almost exclusively serve Central and Eastern Oregon - face a daunting amount of increased response and resilience activity.
Tayas Yawks
Request: $50,000
The Wrights Spring Fire is creating an urgent need for coordinated outreach and assistance, particularly for families and individuals who already face barriers to transportation, healthcare, behavioral health services, stable housing, and disaster recovery resources. Tayas Yawks, a culturally responsive community-based organization serving Native American, rural, low-income, justice-impacted, and other historically underserved residents, is prepared to help meet these needs, but additional emergency funding is necessary to expand our response safely and effectively.
A Greater Applegate
Request: $50,000
Application Materials
A Greater Applegate is seeking funding to secure .65 FTE of staff time and some flexible funds to be used for travel and engagement events to continue the Applegate Wildfire Resilience Initiative and build out a larger network of support that connects hubs and neighborhoods across Williams, Applegate, Ruch, Murphy, and Wilderville (the five recognized but unincorporated communities of the Applegate Valley).
Latino Community Association
Request: $20,000
Application Materials
Latino Community Association is requesting funds for accessible emergency preparedness resources, clean air solutions, essential supplies, and culturally and linguistically appropriate communication to support vulnerable community members during wildfire smoke events and other emergencies. Specifically, LCA will provide portable air purifiers, emergency preparedness kits, and distribute essential supplies (canned food, grocery gift cards, infant formula, hygiene items, pet food).
Oregon Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
Request: $30,715
Application Materials
ORVOAD is requesting funding to support a coordinated, statewide approach to wildfire response and recovery through the activation of a Statewide Unmet Needs Roundtable. Funding would cover one paid staff position to lead statewide coordination, a small media and communications budget, and support for a communication and coordination platform.
Ashland Climate Collaborative
Request: $5,000
Application Materials
Ashland is in the 97th percentile of wildfire risk in the country. After an unusually dry winter, we are at extreme risk of wildfire. We applied for major funding from Oregon Health Authority to begin implementation of the city's newly approved Community Wildfire Protection Plan but this was unsuccessful. " To lower Ashland's risk profile, the residential area must become “a fuel break — not a fuel source,” according to the plan. So we are getting a modest (completely unfunded) start by initiating a grassroots peer-to-peer initiative to organize neighbors to reduce wildfire risks and improve evacuation safety.