PORTLAND, Ore. — PacifiCorp employees and the PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning combined to give $1.2 million to employee giving campaigns throughout its service area. The Foundation also gave an additional $115,500 to key Oregon health and welfare efforts.

“We’re proud of our employees for stepping up to support our region’s United Way, Black United Fund, Earth Share of Oregon and other worthwhile organizations,” said Judi Johansen, PacifiCorp president and CEO. “With the struggles facing many of our less fortunate neighbors our employees understand the need to pitch in and help one another.”

Locally, the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette received nearly $336,000, thanks to donations from employees at Pacific Power and affiliate PPM Energy – as well as a match from the PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning. Earth Share of Oregon received $66,000 and the Black United Fund of Oregon was granted a total of $59,000 from employees and the Foundation.

As Pacific Power’s charitable arm, the PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning supports organizations that emphasize education.

“Education is the best prevention for many health and social ills,” said Isaac Regenstreif, executive director of the Foundation. “This infusion of funding will aid organizations in providing quality health-related educational programs and social services for adults, children and families throughout Oregon.”

Some of the larger health and welfare donations include $10,000 to the Oregon Burn Center’s Education & Prevention Program; $10,000 for the Morrison Child and Family Services’ Integrated Services Project; $10,000 to Self-Enhancement Inc.; a $9,000 grant to the Boy Scouts-Cascade Pacific Council’s Learning for Life program; and $8,000 to the Cascade AIDS Project’s Teen to Teen education program for high-risk youth.

Other PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning contributions include:

Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metro Area
   Project Learn/nutrition education programs

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Portland
   School-based mentoring programs at Grant, Madison & Jefferson High

CASA for Children, Inc.
   “Adding More CASAs” recruiting/training program

Friends of the Children – Portland
   Academic Achievement and Adolescent Programming

Native American Rehabilitation Assn of the NW
   Pie G Indian elders advocacy group

North Portland Nurse Practitioner Health Clinic
   The Prevention Project

Oregon Partnership
   Parenting for Prevention

Portland Impact, Inc.
   Mentoring to Achieve Potential program

Portland YouthBuilders
   Establish the 'WomenBuild' program

Raphael House of Portland
   Domestic and dating violence prevention project

STARS Foundation
   Program to help 6th graders resist peer pressure

YWCA of Greater Portland
   LearnLinks Program

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