Current Funding Status

No funds are currently available from the Children's Investment Fund.

The Children’s Investment Fund has committed all current and future revenues for the levy term to multi-year grants in our three funding areas: early childhood, after-school and mentoring and child abuse prevention and intervention. The current five-year levy expires on June 30, 2008, although grantees will continue receiving funding for a sixth year, through June 2009. 

We do not anticipate making funds available through a competitive grant process unless and until the levy is renewed by Portland voters in November 2008.

Grants to programs were awarded through a competitive Request for Investment process beginning in 2003. For past RFIs, click here.

While the current levy expires in June 2008, and any renewal of the levy will not begin generating funds until July 1, 2009, the Children's Investment Fund will continue operations for a sixth year, through June 30, 2009.  Funds to cover the grant commitments during this sixth year are available as a result of several factors:

• One-time only savings due to the gradual roll-out of competitive grants during the first year of the levy;
• Higher than expected revenues;
• A 5-percent administrative cap.

If you would like to be notified of available grants should funding plans change, join our mailing list to receive news and updates.

The Leverage Fund
In December 2004, the Children's Investment Fund Allocation Committee set aside $3 million over three years to create a Leverage Fund.  The purpose of the Leverage Fund is to encourage private funders to invest in children by matching these investments with public funds.  The Leverage Fund has matched $3 million in public investment with $3 million in private funds for a total $6 million invested in Portland's children.