Klamath Falls, Oregon – The Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation (CCUIF) awarded 82 charities a total of $857,975 for its Spring round of giving. Friends of the Children-Klamath Basin (FOTC) and the Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural Center received $10,000 awards at the CCUIF Awards presentation on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at Seven Feathers Convention Center in Canyonville, Oregon. FOTC and the Ross Ragland Theater were joined by other nonprofits located in Coos, Deschutes, Douglas, Jackson, Joesphine and Lane Counties.
The FOTC grant will support the ongoing work of the nine friends mentoring 72 program youth in the community, schools, venues and at the Clubhouses in both Klamath Falls and Chiloquin.
The Ross Ragland Theater grant will support the theater’s youth education programs, including spring break camps, summer camps, after school classes, young audience matinees and outreach in the school systems.
About Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation:
The CCUIF was founded in 1997 and began its philanthropic activity in 1998. The total given by the CCUIF since its beginning is $24,929,248. The mission of the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation is to offer assistance in education, strengthen youth and family, provide for positive youth development, and add to quality of life for people in southwestern Oregon. Additionally, the Foundation has put increasing emphasis upon basic needs so more hungry people are fed. The Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation giving is separate from other Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe giving.
About Friends of the Children:
Friends of the Children is a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide the most vulnerable children a nurturing and sustained relationship with a salaried, professional mentor, called a Friend, who teaches positive values and has attainable expectations for each child to become healthy, productive members of the community. We select children ages 4-6 from high-poverty schools and the foster care system, and pair them with a salaried, professional mentor who stays with them from kindergarten through graduation – 12 ½ years, no matter what.
Friends – Klamath Basin was established in 2000 to impact generational change by empowering youth facing the greatest obstacles. It pairs youth with professional mentors for 12+ years, no matter what, and will serve 72 youth this year.
