Community Resilience Project

Supports community-based organizations from around the region with a one-time grant up to $25,000 to meet self-identified disaster capacity- and capability-building needs.

 
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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Lessons learned from the COVID-19 Emergency have highlighted the key role community-based organizations play in the provision of humanitarian relief and in performing other community-based emergency response roles -- from public messaging and educating to contact tracing. During the 2020-2021 emergencies, State, regional and local governments seeking to better meet the emergency needs of disproportionately-impacted and marginalized communities, including low-income, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, people with disabilities, and other under-served/marginalized/disproportionately impacted populations, entered into new or expanded pre-existing partnerships with organizations that serve these communities.

With $100,000 in RDPO partner contributed funds, the Community Resilience Project will directly support at least four community-based organizations from around the region with a one-time grant up to $25,000 to meet self-identified capacity- and capability-building needs. The pilot’s results will inform the RDPO Steering Committee’s decision for potential future grant cycles.

 

PROJECT TIMELINE

PROJECT TASK FORCE

  • Reed Brodersen - Metro Representative

  • Joe Gordon - Metro Representative

  • Regina Ingabire - City of Portland Representative

  • Pilar Montejo - Multnomah County Representative

  • Anne Parrott - Columbia County Representative

  • Jamie Poole - Clackamas County Representative

  • Anthony Vendetti - Clark County Representative

  • John Wheeler - Washington County Representative

CONTACT

Questions? Contact RDPO at rdpo@portlandoregon.gov.