The Wayne Morse Center has awarded Project Grants to five organizations for 2024-2025. This program provides funding to support events and activities related to the Center’s two-year-long themes of inquiry. The program is open to community organizations, statewide nonprofits, and University of Oregon faculty, departments, programs, and student groups.
Project Grants
Civics Learning Project’s workshops in Southern, Central, and Eastern Oregon will give teachers tools to create safe spaces in class, so students learn to engage in constructive discourse on contentious issues.
Eugene Friends of the Farm Workers will hold an Oct. 10 event in conjunction with the Farm Worker Rights Movement exhibit at the Lane County History Museum. The event will raise awareness of and support for PCUN.
Oregon League of Women Voters Youth Council will engage their peers in voter registration drives, youth-led workshops, and a Civic Engagement Summit to encourage them to amplify their voices in our democracy.
Next Up provides on-ramps for youth to engage in local democracy: Leadership academies teach organizing skills to build collective power. Internships train students to plan and lead voter registration drives.
Rural Organizing Project and Hood River Latino Network will provide a training hub and civic engagement workshops for new citizens, rural voters, and rural youth voters.