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Community Benefit Initiatives

2023 Community Benefit Initiative Grant Awards

Trillium has awarded Community Benefit Initiative grants to 54 community organizations and nonprofits in the Tri-County and Southwest regions of Oregon. These strategic investments are rooted in Trillium’s commitment to improve health outcomes and address fundamental social factors impacting health, such as stable housing, food security, social supports and educational opportunities.

The grant recipients were selected based on each project’s ability to implement evidence-based community level interventions that improve health and healthcare quality, prioritize collaborative partnerships to amplify impact, and advance health equity for Trillium’s members and the community at large. 

Organizations serving Lane, Western Douglas, Western Linn, Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties were eligible to apply for Community Benefit Initiative grants. Trillium awarded funding to these 35 organizations for the projects and services listed below:

Tri-County & Southwest Service Areas Grant Recipients

  • Nurturely  ̶̶  To provide culturally and linguistically appropriate perinatal health education and fund a community liaison to connect pregnant individuals to needed services.
  • Orchid Health Clinic  ̶  To support implementing an Electronic Health Records system and provide food for community members in need at service locations.
  • Providence Child Center (Swindells)  ̶  To support in-person and virtual parent education courses and training.
  • Song for Charlie  ̶  To help address Oregon's epidemic of youth fetanyl overdose deaths through a series of prevention and outreach efforts.

Tri-County Area Grant Recipients

  • Adelante Mujeres  ̶  For events focused on building health literacy, in particular shifting stigma around mental health and distrust of the healthcare system through bilingual and bicultural educational trainings and programs.
  • Black Parent Initiative  ̶  For the expansion of direct client programs and services offered through the Early Childhood Continuum, including home visitor services, direct food, and housing assistance, as well as Black Family Resource Center Program services to provide community workshops and events on health, early childhood development, parenthood, education and cultural celebrations.
  • Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization (CAIRO)  ̶  To provide culturally competent and linguistically appropriate education and training for African refugees and immigrants on chronic disease prevention, living with chronic conditions, health literacy and nutrition, and cooking.
  • Cascade AIDS Project  ̶  For housing navigation services, eviction prevention expenses, rental, and utility payment assistance.
  • Catholic Community Charities of Oregon  ̶  For food, rental assistance and housing support for refugee community members, seniors, families in low-income housing and those experiencing homelessness.
  • Central City Concern  ̶  Street-based medical services, mobile medical services, food and rental assistance, and more.
  • Centro Cultural de Washington County  ̶  For emergency rent and eviction prevention, workforce training and meal programs for Latino seniors and people living with disabilities.
  • Cultivate Initiatives  ̶  For harm reduction and survival supplies, hygiene supplies, clothing, transportation assistance, rent and utilities assistance.
  • Fora Health Treatment & Recovery  ̶  To support unhoused patients in recovery access permanent housing with rental assistance with rental payments, security deposits, home furnishings, utility expenses and food needs.
  • Growing Gardens  ̶  To provide nutrition education, cooking workshops, and food access services through on-site gardens in backyards, schools and correctional facilities.
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers  ̶  To provide shelter beds and wrap-around services, resource navigation, meal services, case management and customized individual reentry plans for unhoused individuals.
  • Meals on Wheels People  ̶  To provide home-delivered medically tailored meals for patients discharged from the hospital who are food insecure.
  • Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection  ̶  To support community health worker expansion, provide a wheelchair maintenance workshop and online education resources.
  • Path Home  ̶  For short-term rental and utility assistance to support families at risk of eviction.
  • PDX Saints Love  ̶  To purchase two mobile outreach vans for direct houseless camp navigation, meal services and hygiene products.
  • Portland Open Bible Community Pantry  ̶  To provide nutrition services, educational cooking workshops in five languages, as well as culturally specific food delivery and support services.
  • Portland Rescue Mission  ̶  To expand programming for nutritional support and food delivery services for those in need.
  • Rockwood Community Development Corporation  ̶  To support culturally specific food hubs and food delivery services provided by BIPOC farmers for community members experiencing food insecurity.
  • Somali American Council of Oregon  ̶  For housing assistance, rent/utility assistance, advocacy, housing referrals and other services to prevent homelessness.
  • Transition Projects  ̶  For legal and wrap-around services to remove barriers to permanent housing for community members.

Southwest Area Grant Recipients

  • Community Supported Shelters  ̶  To support improving Safe Spot Communities with clothing and hygiene items, creation of garden spaces, and activity passes to pools, gyms and more.
  • Connected Lane County  ̶  To support the Invention Club & Invention Lab for middle-school and high-school youth in developing technical, professional and life skills for workforce development.
  • Friends of the Children  ̶  For caregiver and family engagement services providing wrap-around support for youth participants in school, home and community settings, including mentoring services, case management and more.
  • HIV Alliance  ̶  For the creation of a "Queer Resource Center" providing integrated services to address health disparities facing LGBTQIA2S+ community members, as well as to provide trauma informed services and support including housing, transportation and gender-affirming supplies for trans and gender diverse community members and people who inject drugs and are unhoused.
  • Lane County Human Services Division  ̶  For supportive services and operations at MLK Commons wrap-around housing facility, including case management.
  • Lane Council of Governments Senior & Disability Services  ̶  For mobile outreach and wrap-around services to rural community members, including supportive housing services for unhoused community members.
  • Ophelia's Place  ̶  To support Girls Empowerment Groups with interactive sessions focusing on social media, healthy relationships, body image and substance use refusal skills, as well as multicultural groups focusing on intersectional experience, ethnic identity and deconstructing stereotypes.
  • The Reedsport Collective  ̶  To support Project Brave Student Pantry food distribution and delivery, as well as Whole Child basic needs program delivery services including food, hygiene, community event programming and online pantry system.
  • Self Enhancement, Inc.  ̶  To provide summer programming for BIPOC youth, including food support, physical activity and programming to support developing healthy habits.
  • South Lane Mental Health  ̶  For Health Information Technology improvements to support system access and services.
  • Sponsors, Inc.  ̶  For housing specialist support services for individuals released from incarceration, including vital records support and acquisition, clothing, transportation assistance and mobile phone access.
  • Transponder  ̶  To support a job skills program with case management, educational workshops, resume building and practical work experience through paid volunteer and internship positions.
  • Willamette Farm and Food Coalition  ̶  To support local food banks, farm-direct food purchases, educational activities and initiatives to decrease barriers to access for program participants.

Tri-County & Southwest Service Areas Grant Recipients

  • Oregon Family Support Network  ̶  To provide parenting education through the Nurturing Fathers workshop series and monthly Father’s Night Out events.

Tri-County Area Grant Recipients

  • Cornerstone Community Housing  ̶  To expand the summer garden and nutrition education programs, distribute food boxes to residents, and provide wellness programs for children, teens, and adults.
  • Centro Cultural del Condado de Washington  ̶  To purchase, prepare, and serve culturally specific meals to Latinx seniors, as well as provide community health classes and social connection activities.
  • Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde  ̶  To purchase a shower and laundry trailer for unhoused and temporarily housed community members.
  • Cultivate Initiatives  ̶  For harm reduction and survival supplies, hygiene supplies, clothing, transportation assistance, rent, and utilities assistance.
  • Everly Project and Portland People’s Outreach  ̶  To provide nutritious hot meals and food boxes, perform extreme weather outreach services, and purchase cell phones, bus vouchers, and bike repairs for unhoused clients
  • Fora Health Treatment & Recovery  ̶  To support unhoused patients with basic needs, including clothing, blankets, cell phones, bus passes, and meal or grocery gift cards.
  • Meals on Us PDX  ̶  To purchase kitchen equipment and additional food items, allowing the program to remain free of charge to community members experiencing food insecurity.
  • Meals on Wheels People  ̶  To provide home-delivered medically tailored meals for patients discharged from the hospital who are food insecure.

Southwest Area Grant Recipients

  • Carry It Forward  ̶  To design and build mobile food service units to provide access to safe and sanitary food, as well as offer food preparation and food handling classes to unhoused community members. 
  • Comagine Health  ̶  To support harm reduction activities for people who use fentanyl and methamphetamine. 
  • Homes for Good Housing Agency  ̶  To purchase computer equipment and provide digital literacy courses to residents, provide air conditioners for community spaces and senior or disabled residents’ apartments, and expand food pantry support, cooking/nutrition workshops, and wellness groups and activities. 
  • Looking Glass Community Services  ̶  To create, stock, and maintain a food pantry at the outpatient counseling location in Eugene, Oregon.
  • FOOD for Lane County  ̶  To add three Oregon Department of Human Services sites to the Trillium Produce Plus program, which provides free fresh fruits and vegetables to community members experiencing food insecurity.
  • The Reedsport Collective  ̶  To help purchase an electric cargo van that will transport produce, dairy, and other food items to the community food pantry and after school meal program.
  • Sponsors, Inc.  ̶  To support participants with housing-related services such as security deposits, short-term rental assistance, utility payments, and household furnishings. 
  • Square One Villages  ̶  To support unhoused people transitioning into sustainable housing by providing assistance with obtaining IDs, job certification, housing application fees, and rental deposits.

2023 Community Benefit Initiatives Request for Applications (Closed)

Trillium is excited to announce our newest Request for Applications (RFA) for 2023 Community Benefit Initiatives Small Grants. This RFA is designed to help providers and community stakeholders fund projects that drive healthcare quality solutions to improve the social determinants of health through community benefit initiatives. Proposed community-level interventions may support both Trillium Oregon Health Plan members and members of the larger community, and are focused on improving health outcomes, alleviating health disparities, and advancing health equity.

Trillium will award approximately $6.25 million to local organizations, with funding awards anticipated to start at $200,000 and under. 

Organizations serving Lane, Western Douglas (Reedsport), Western Linn (Harrisburg), Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties are invited to apply. Organizations are encouraged to consider submitting joint applications for funding of projects with broad community impact and collaboration. 

 If you have any questions, please email: TCH_OpsAdministration@TrilliumCHP.com

 

2023 Community Benefit Initiatives Request for Proposals (Closed)

Trillium is excited to announce our Request for Proposals (RFP) for 2023 Community Benefit Initiatives. This RFP is designed to help providers and community stakeholders fund projects that drive healthcare quality solutions to improve the social determinants of health through community benefit initiatives. Proposed community-level interventions may support both Trillium Oregon Health Plan members and members of the larger community, and are focused on improving health outcomes, alleviating health disparities, and advancing health equity.

Trillium will award approximately $18 million to local organizations, with funding awards anticipated to start at $200,000 and up. 

Organizations serving Lane, Western Douglas (Reedsport), Western Linn (Harrisburg), Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties are invited to apply. Organizations are encouraged to consider submitting joint applications for funding of projects with broad community impact and collaboration. 

If you have any questions, please email: TCH_OpsAdministration@TrilliumCHP.com