Thank you to our 2024 community fundraising sponsors:
We are so grateful to the following public and foundation funders who have invested in our program multiple times over multiple years since our founding in 2014, making long-term investments in the power of grassroots community work like ours, alongside our generous monthly and large-gift donors:
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Metro Community Sponsorships
In addition to our generous funders and donors, the work of UNP simply would not happen without our long term partners that make our fun, educational, and culturally appropriate group outings and camps happen. A bow of gratitude to the following long term youth outdoor activity partners:
We’re honored to partner with other Portland based mentoring organizations to bring the power of nature to other relationship based programs for youth. Our partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest endured for 8 years, while our outings with Black-led Holla Mentors began in 2023:
Thank you to our partners who have sponsored our Earth Day service projects at Rocky Butte and Leach Botanical Garden for 3 years and running:
Urban Nature Partners PDX is a member of The Intertwine Alliance, a coalition of Portland organizations working together to more fully engage residents with the outdoors and nature.
We are also very proud to have helped reconvene the PDX Outdoor Youth Service Providers Collaborative in 2024, replacing the Youth Mentoring Collaborative that dissolved during the pandemic. Together, we amplify each other’s work for the good of getting more, and more diverse, Portland youth outdoors and into outdoor careers.
Urban Nature Partners PDX also works with Mentor, a nonprofit that provides resources to support best practices in youth mentoring.
Pre-pandemic, UNP worked with SUN Schools in Multnomah County to select youth from historically marginalized neighborhoods that were be the perfect match for our program. We now partner exclusively with housing and social services partner Rose CDC to locate youth and families in East Portland that would benefit most from our program, and we partner together to comprehensively support them.
