Thank you, Providence Community Grants Council!

We have been awarded $25,000 by the Providence Community Grants Council to support the move into our new home at the Garlington Center.

North by Northeast awarded Regence Transformation Grant!

Regence employees present grant check at NxNE

On Friday, April 24, The Regence Foundation announced an award of $20,000 to North by Northeast! Six Regence employees nominated us for this generous grant as part of Regence’s second annual employee-nominated Transformation Grant program.

“I nominated North by Northeast for a Regence Foundation Transformation Grant because without their services, uninsured residents in inner north and northeast Portland would essentially be without medical care unless they went to the ER,” said Carrie Bader, Regence health coach and one of the employee nominators. “We believe that access to quality, affordable care is the foundation for a strong community,” said Michael Alexander, Regence Foundation board chair, “and we’re proud to support North by Northeast and the positive work they’re doing in a community that bears a disproportionate burden of poverty and lack of health care.”

As we move into a larger space this summer, this grant will help us expand our capacity and provide services to more uninsured adults in North and inner Northeast Portland. We are privileged to call The Regence Foundation a strong partner in the work of supporting health communities. Thank you to The Regence Foundation and those employees who nominated North by Northeast!

Other Recent Grants

In May 2009, North by Northeast was awarded a $20,000 Kaiser Permanente Gives! Volunteer grant on behalf of one of our outstanding volunteer providers, Dr. Lori Siegal. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest has been an enthusiastic partner of North by Northeast since our opening, and we are grateful for their continued support. Thank you as well to Dr. Siegal for her dedication to our patients and our mission and for nominating us for this grant. As we move to a larger space this summer and expand services, this funding will help us purchase prescription medication for more patients as well as increase staffing.

Many thanks to the Random Acts Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation for a $10,000 general operating grant!

Aetna Foundation has awarded North by Northeast Community Health Center a grant of $35,000 in support of expanded access to medical care for uninsured adults. This funding will support our relocation to a larger and more comfortable facility, and allow us to increase staffing for patient care coordination.  Thank you, Aetna!

We are very grateful for three new partners: the OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation awarded us a grant of $3000, the Mother Emilie Gamelin Fund made a grant of $5000, and we received $7000 from the Near Family Foundation. Thank you all!!

In September 2008 we received a $10,000 donation from the Deacon Charitable Foundation, the charitable foundation of S. D. Deacon Corp. This generous gift will help support our prescription medication and patient referral programs. We are very grateful for S.D. Deacon’s commitment to the community and for their ongoing support of our work. 

Thanks to PacificSource for a $2000 contribution to support our clinic services. This gift will allow us to purchase life-saving medication for dozens of our patients who would otherwise go without.

We got word in August 2008 that Kaiser Permanente has awarded North by Northeast Community Health Center a $25,000 “KP Gives” general operating grant on behalf of clinic volunteer and Northwest Permanente employee Dr. Louise Clark. The ongoing generous support from Kaiser Permanente helps make our work possible!

In the fall of 2007, we participated in the Kaiser Permanente Workplace Giving Campaign for the first time. Thirty generous employees donated to NxNE through the campaign! Many of the donations were matched by Kaiser Permanente, for a total of over $11,500! The 2008 campaign starts September 29 and our goal is to double our number of donors. Thank you to everyone who donated and encouraged co-workers to do the same, as well as to Kaiser and Black United Fund for all their administrative support!

In July 2008, Metro’s North Portland Neighborhood Enhancement Committee awarded North by Northeast a $5650 grant to support our mission of providing treatment for chronic health conditions to uninsured neighborhood residents. Read more about it in this article in the Portland Tribune.

Thanks to the support of Commissioner Randy Leonard, we have received a $35,000 grant from the City of Portland to expand our waiting and treatment areas. Stay tuned for more details!

Providence Health and Services awarded us a $10,000 gift to support prescription needs for our uninsured patients, especially those with diabetes and asthma.

The Black United Fund awarded us a $2000 grant for 2008 to support our expanded service area.

The J.W. & H.M. Goodman Family Charitable Foundation has awarded North by Northeast a $5000 grant to support our expanded hours.

A grant from the Oregon Adult Immunization Coalition has allowed us to purchase a designated refrigerator for vaccine storage as well as a temperature tracking device to ensure that our vaccine is stored properly at all times. The OAIC, which provided us with flu vaccine last year, is again providing vaccine which we administer at no charge to our patients. This year we will be able to immunize 200 of our most vulnerable patients against influenza. We also provide pneuomococcal vaccine for our high-risk patients, and Tdap boosters which protect against pertussis (whooping cough).

North by Northeast is the recipient of the October 2007 ZoomGrant from ZoomCare.

On September 18, 2007, we were presented with a $7500 check from the Deacon Charitable Foundation, the charitable foundation of S. D. Deacon Corp. This generous gift will help support our volunteer program and allow us to purchase medications for our patients.

Northwest Health Foundation awarded North by Northeast a $36,914 grant to support expanded clinic hours by increasing paid staff to one FTE. This will allow us to further our goal of doubling our clinic hours.

Kaiser Permanente has awarded North by Northeast Community Health Center a $25,000 “KP Gives” general operating grant on behalf of three of our clinic volunteers. All three are Kaiser Permanente employees and have volunteered with us since our early days: Loris Eastman, RN, Karin Jacobson, MD, and David Pleiman, MSW. This generous award will allow us to continue to expand our hours and services.