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Fall updates from the foundation

11/12/2021

Announcing a new board member! I am pleased to announce that Pamela Hays has been elected for a three-year term to our board of directors starting January 1, 2022. Pam works full-time at Intel Corporation and has been a volunteer program director for over five years in the areas of Arts & Culture and Health & Human Services. Pam lives in Portland Oregon and is passionate about healthy aging.

Earlier this week the board of directors completed its grantmaking for calendar year 2021. The foundation distributed funding in the total amount of $301,600. You can find a list of grants awarded at the following URL: https://www.goodmanfamilyfoundation.org/lists-of-grants-awarded.html

Spring 2021 grants have been awarded

5/25/2021

Our board of directors met on May 21, 2021 and awarded grants in the areas of Arts & Culture and Environment. The total amount of funding distributed in these two focus areas this calendar year is $120,000. Our Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 focuses are posted on the website. Feel free to reach out with questions.

Patricia (Pat) Rau joins the Foundation as a Senior Advisor in Environment

12/28/2020

It is my pleasure to announce that Pat Rau has rejoined the foundation as a volunteer Senior Advisor in the area of environment. The environment has always been a passion of hers and for over ten years she held the position of Program Officer in the Environment where she mainly focused on oceans and marine issues. Pat has returned after taking a few years off and she is working with Michele to create a docket of grant opportunities around forest resiliency. Join me in welcoming Pat Rau to this new position!

Looking forward to 2021 - transitions and new faces

11/1/2020

The Foundation welcomes new faces and changes to our organization starting January 2021.

First, Joe Goodman will be keeping his title as Chairman of the Board but he is stepping aside as President so that the next generation can assume a greater role.

Michele Goodman will be assuming the role of President & CEO and Eric Wan will be our new Treasurer & Secretary.

We are excited to announce that Susan Kenney, a 15-year volunteer program officer with the foundation, has accepted a board position with us. As part of this transition she will relinquish her program officer work to others.

And we are thrilled to announce that Andrea Vanessa Castillo has agreed to join us as a volunteer program officer in the area of Education. Andrea's experience as an intern at WorldOregon (an internship that our foundation funded!) and DEI knowledge will be extremely valuable in moving our work forward.

We extend a big congratulations to all!

Our mailing address has changed

10/29/2020

Hi Everyone, Please note that our mailing address recently changed. All postal mail should be sent to:

JW & HM Goodman Family Foundation
1001 NW Lovejoy Street, UNIT 1510
Portland, OR. 97209
Attn: Michele Goodman

Our phone number remains the same.

Our response to the pandemic

5/21/2020

When the COVID-19 "stay in place" orders were made, the Foundation responded by converting all 2019 grant awards to general operating support. If your organization requires an email authorizing the conversion, please contact michele.goodman@gmail.com. In addition, the Foundation is showing flexibility with 2020 grant awards. Most 2020 grant awards will be made for general operating support although organizations are applying for project/program support. In addition, grants awarded in the Education focus have two years to spend out their grant award. We are also now implementing a 30-minute video or phone call in lieu of a written grant report, just ask Michele to schedule this.

Changes for 2020

11/7/2019

Our grants for 2019 have all been awarded, you will find a full list of recipients on our website. Starting in 2020, we will be awarding grants in the area of Environment in our Spring grant cycle and our grants in Education will be awarded in our Fall grant cycle. This shift or swap of focuses between the grant cycles allows our internship grantees the ability to start advertising their paid internships earlier. We are also changing our focus slightly in the Health & Human Services category so stay tuned for an update on our website before the end of this year.

Fall 2018 grants awarded

11/3/2018

On November 2nd, the board of directors met and awarded a total of $90,000 to nonprofits in the areas of Environment and Health & Human Services. For the first time in our history, we made multi-year commitments (two-year commitments) to all of our applicants in the Environment focus area. Our website will be updated soon with a list of nonprofits who received grants in this particular cycle.

Our website has been updated!

11/3/2018

We have updated our website to implement a simpler grant application process for nonprofits who have received grants from us in recent years. The good news is that if you have received a grant from us recently then you may not need to submit a grant proposal but instead you will be asked to submit short answers to a questionnaire. Our LOI process is generally the same. Please don't hesitate to send us questions if something isn't clear or send us feedback if something on our website isn't working properly, we'll take your input and fix issues as soon as possible!