OCF Continues Support for SVPP

(from January 2009 Newsletter)

We are pleased to announce the continuing commitment and support of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) with the $25,000 January 2009 funding of the remaining portion of the grant awarded in May 2008. This funding was contingent upon receiving matching funds from our partners, over and above minimum contributions. Despite these challenging economic times, we are pleased to report that our partners, and the SVPP Board, rose to this challenge, and contributed a total of $28,500 in additional contributions from the date the grant was awarded through our financial year ending December 31, 2008.

With this funding, SVPP has received a total of $105,000 in capacity building grant proceeds from OCF, of which $25,000 has been designated as a reserve for the future, and $80,000 of which has been budgeted to fund administrative costs, marketing materials and the strategic planning process recently concluded.

SVPP is deeply appreciative of the support of OCF and of all of our partners who are collectively working to help us develop our much-needed infrastructure and staying power that will allow our partnership to grow and our impact to deepen for years to come.

We also wish to recognize – and thank – the Christine and C. F. Swigert Jr. Fund II and the Robert M. Stafrin Fund, an OCF donor advised fund which made this most recent grant possible.