Building Bridges & Ladders
The Foundation provides grants and scholarships to Oregon 501(c)(3) organizations and community colleges.
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The Barbara Emily Knudson Charitable Foundation originated from the estate planning goals established by Mrs. Knudson as a continuation of her long history of philanthropic giving.
Our Mission
The Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation supports individuals in their quest for education, well-being and excellence.
The Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation (“the Foundation”) is a small charitable foundation managed by its Board of Directors. The Foundation does not have any paid administrative staff so contact with the Foundation needs to be through its website.
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About Us
The Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation is dedicated to helping those Oregon 501(c)(3) charities. The Foundation pre-selects the charities and only invite those non-profits to submit an application. Unsolicited grant requests are not considered.
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Scholarships
The Foundation scholarship policy is to focus on Oregon community colleges. The Foundation currently provides a $5000 per year scholarship to seven Oregon Community Colleges: Central Oregon, Clatsop, Columbia Gorge, Lane, Linn-Benton, Umpqua, Southwest Oregon community colleges. The Foundation looks to assist the non-traditional student such as a single parent, first generation attendee or displaced worker. The Foundation tries to award scholarships to a student in the last year of their community college studies but does include those students intending to continue their scholastic careers.
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Grants
The Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation provides grants up to about $20,000 in December of each year. Through out the year, we provide smaller grants of $1000 to $2000. Grants are only made to non-profits the Foundation has pre-screened for each year.
Do good things
Helping non-profits achieve their charitable intent
The Foundation paints from a diverse pallet to meet its mission. In summary, we hope to “do good things” with the bequest Barbara provided.