Timbers Award $60,000 in Community Fund Grants

June 23, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Portland Timbers News Release

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Timbers today announced the awarding of $60,000 in grants to ten educational, environmental, and community-focused nonprofit organizations in the greater-Portland area through the Portland Timbers Community Fund (PTCF). The recipients were selected by the Portland Timbers Community Fund Advisory Board, consisting of partners adidas, Alaska Airlines and Providence Health & Services.

Since the club’s inaugural MLS season in 2011, the Timbers have given more than $7.2 million in cash and in-kind donations, including their philanthropic work through the PTCF, the club’s field-grants program and various charitable activities.

The Portland Timbers Community Fund presented grants to Adelante Mujeres, Centro Cultural del Condado de Washington, Girls on the Run Greater Oregon, KairosPDX, Northwest Outward Bound School, Oregon Zoo Foundation, Portland Audubon, Portland Fruit Tree Project, SMART Reading, and Zenger Farm.

Each of the ten organizations will be recognized at Providence Park during halftime of the Timbers match against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday.

Adelante Mujeres, a nonprofit that works to provide education and empowerment opportunities to Latinx women and their families to ensure full participation and active leadership in the community, will apply it’s grant toward STEM through culturally-specific engagement at 28 school sites throughout Washington County, OR. For more information, visit https://www.adelantemujeres.org/.

Centro Cultural del Condado de Washington, an organization on the Latino needs of their diverse community by promoting personal growth and empowerment. This grant funds the Latino Youth Identity and Cultural Relevance in STEAM program. Centro Cultural will promote the relevancy and representation of Latinos in STEAM by integrating Latino/a art and culture into the fabric of Centro’s 4-week Summer STEAM curriculum. For more information, visit https://www.centrocultural.org/.

Girls on the Run Greater Oregon inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. The nonprofit will use the grant to help use physical activity to promote life skills, positive connections and whole health. For more information, visit https://www.gotroregon.org/.

The grant awarded to KairosPDX, which works to eliminate the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating…