PNC Foundation Education and Community Funding

PNC Foundation Grants is sponsored by PNC Foundation. Supports a variety of nonprofit organizations with a special emphasis on those that work to achieve sustainability and touch a diverse population, particularly those that support early childhood education and/or economic development. Support is given to social services organizations that benefit the health, education, quality of life or provide essential services for low- and moderate-income individuals and families.

The Oregon Natural Resources Education Fund (ONREF), administered by the Oregon Community Foundation, provides grants of $500 to $2,500 to public and private high schools in Oregon that offer forestry programs of study. Funding supports natural resource-related tools, equipment, technology, and educational resources covering wood products, silviculture, harvesting, fisheries, wildlife, water, soils, recreation, and forest management. In addition to the main statewide fund, ONREF includes four subfunds with regional or thematic focus: the Terry Selby Subfund (Benton County), Pleasant Hill Subfund (preference for Lane and Linn counties), and the Oregon Society of American Foresters and Oregon Small Woodlands Association subfunds (statewide, promoting post-secondary natural resources education). Applications are due annually by March 1.