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Metro awards $800k for Nature in Neighborhood grants

Posted June 10, 2019
By Cristle Jose

Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods go to programs that support community partnerships to improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and economic and environmental equity.
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Parks and Nature puts Equity Action Plan into action

Posted April 4, 2019
By Grady Wheeler

With the help of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team and the Center for Diversity and the Environment, the Parks and Nature Department hosted an all-day equity training for more than 60 people from around the region on March 11.
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Boardman Wetlands restoration provides many benefits to park-deficient neighborhood

Posted Feb. 25, 2019
By Cristle Jose

With the help of a $362,012 Nature in Neighborhoods grant from Metro in 2015, Oak Lodge Water Services acquired the 5.8-acre site to restore habitat and wetland structure and function, improve water quality and provide visitor amenities.
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Parks and Nature 2018: Community investments

Posted Nov. 6, 2018

Community investments fuel a variety of projects: restoration, nature education, outdoor experiences, land acquisition, capital improvements, visitor amenities and more. Altogether over the last 25 years, the public – through Metro – has invested more than $90 million to support a broad range of community nature projects across the region, helping to preserve land, restore habitat, expand access and more.
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Nature in Neighborhoods grants provide $800k to education, outdoor experience programs

Posted July 3, 2018
By Yuxing Zheng

The Metro Council on Thursday awarded 14 grants to community organizations and groups supporting and creating partnerships in local communities. The grants emphasize building cultural, environmental and economic equity, part of Metro’s strategy to support racial equity.
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Grant to Depave transforms parking lot at M&M Marketplace into greener, urban plaza

Posted June 27, 2018
By Rebecca Koffman

The work was largely paid for by $30,000 from Metro’s 2016 Nature in Neighborhoods grant program. The grants support a range of projects that connect people to nature, improve water quality and protect wildlife habitat.
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Dirksen Nature Park protects sensitive habitat, connects students with nature

Posted March 5, 2018
By Rebecca Koffman

The 48-acre park at the confluence of Fanno and Summer creeks also contains environmentally sensitive ecosystems and functions as wildlife habitat. It’s an important link in biodiversity corridors in the region — “part of the wild underbelly of Tigard."
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Nature in Neighborhoods grants now available

Posted Jan. 22, 2018

Does your organization offer young people of color work training in parks and natural areas? Maybe you have a partnership that introduces refugees and new residents to the outdoors in greater Portland? Or do you teach school kids how nature connects to their STEM classes? Do you hope to create a program that improves water quality, restores fish and wildlife habitat, or connects people to nature?
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Francis and Clare Commons: A natural space in the heart of urban Southeast Portland

Posted Nov. 22, 2017
By Rebecca Koffman

Thanks in part to a Metro Nature in Neighborhoods grant, the new Francis and Clare Commons creates a slice of prairie habitat preserving access to nature in the heart of a bustling, urban neighborhood.
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Parks and Nature 2017: Community investments

Posted Nov. 1, 2017

Altogether over the last 25 years, the public – through Metro – has invested more than $90 million to support a broad range of community nature projects across the region, helping to preserve land, restore habitat, build visitor amenities and more.