The Oregon Clinic Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its final 2025 grant cycle.
“We are honored to support ten more non-profits during this grant cycle, which wraps up our first year of grantmaking to local community organizations,” shared Dr. Jeff Bluhm, president of The Oregon Clinic Foundation board and a vice president at The Oregon Clinic. “We were impressed and inspired by the proposals we received for this round. It’s been a gift to have the opportunity to learn more about the broad range of meaningful work being done by small non-profits to advance health and equity in our community.”
In 2025, The Oregon Clinic Foundation was able to provide 22 non-profits with a total of $78,000 in grants thanks to our generous and visionary donors. Your support makes our grants possible!
Learn about Our Third Grant Cycle Recipients
Up to $3,000
Go the Distance: To expand access to its recovery-through-fitness program, provide transportation to participants, and certify additional staff as peer recovery mentors.
Mission: We promote recovery through fitness, community, and compassion.
Go the Distance partners with local addiction treatment centers to bring patients outdoors for physical activity; most often in the form of structured run/walk sessions led by our trained staff.
Honoring Our Precious Elders: To enhance its free, year-round yard maintenance program for seniors with fixed or limited incomes and limited mobility.
Mission: Empower elders to live safely, comfortably, and connected to their communities by providing free, year-round yard maintenance, hazardous waste removal, and volunteer-driven care.
Honoring Our Precious Elders (H.O.P.E.) fosters independence, reduces isolation, and promotes equity, helping seniors age in place with dignity and peace of mind.
Portland New Family Fund: For provider outreach and education to help ensure Medicaid-covered families benefit from Oregon’s newly expanded doula coverage.
Mission: To provide financial assistance to low-income parents for birth doulas, postpartum doulas and newborn lactation/feeding services and to preserve doula care as a sustainable business.
Portland New Family Fund engages healthcare providers to provide education about the benefit and build referral pathways to ensure families can access covered doula care.
Portland Street Medicine: To support its 2026 street medicine outreach to unhoused Portlanders, focused on wound care and emergency overdose rescue.
Mission: To bring free, low-barrier healthcare directly to people living unsheltered—no insurance or ID required, no judgment, just respect.
Portland Street Medicine centers dignity, voice, and choice in every encounter to create space for healing on people’s terms.
Recovery Café Roseway: To support adding a full-time AmeriCorps position that will support recovery programming and expand additional hours of services.
Mission: To provide a safe gathering space so that people in recovery can create community, access resources, and develop skills for their long term well-being.
Recovery Café Roseway offers connection, support groups, and resources in a drug- and alcohol-free setting, emphasizing dignity, belonging, and mutual accountability as part of the healing journey
Ukandu: To ramp up programming and services for families impacted by childhood and adolescent cancer when the Ukandu Loft opens in Spring 2026.
Mission: To provide joy, hope, and connection to communities impacted by childhood and adolescent cancer.
Ukandu offers free, medically supervised camps and year-round programs to provide holistic support for patients, siblings, and caregivers in safe spaces for fun, community, and healing beyond the hospital setting.
$3,001-$5,000
Oregon Medical Education Foundation: To expand access for more PA, DO, and MD students to attend a student Wellness Retreat that provides stress management and burnout prevention resources.
Mission: To strengthen Oregon’s healthcare by investing in future providers and promoting diversity and cultural competency.
Oregon Medical Education Foundation (OMEF) supports Oregon medical and physician assistant students through scholarships and mentorship to reduce barriers to entering healthcare.
Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic: Towards establishing its new Ophthalmology Clinic in partnership with Oregon Health and Science University’s Casey Eye Institute Outreach program.
Mission: To provide accessible care to those most at-risk in our community, and train the next generation of healthcare workers in facilitating trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and participant-centered care.
Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic (BCCC) is a multi-institutional, student-led clinic in downtown Portland that provides safe, low-barrier healthcare for people experiencing housing insecurity in Portland.
Islamic Social Services of Oregon State: To launch a peer-led, culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health support program for refugee women in the Portland metro area.
Mission: To work together to help those in need be self-reliant.
Islamic Social Services of Oregon State (ISOS) works to provide financial aid, housing, and crisis support to individuals and families in need, including refugees and those facing hardship.
Clackamas Free Clinic: To meet increased demand for their core service which provides annual, no-cost annual primary care visits. This includes covering basic supplies, volunteer coordination, interpretation, and patient navigation.
Mission: To serve the health needs of uninsured and underinsured people in Clackamas County by providing free and inclusive medical care through dedicated volunteers and staff.
Clackamas Free Clinic removes cost and access barriers so that people can receive timely preventive and ongoing care, improving health outcomes and reducing reliance on emergency services.
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