Womenspace reaches $1.3 million goal for new office.Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard Womenspace officials could burn their mortgage, except they don't have one. The Eugene nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. , which helps victims of domestic violence, has reached its $1.3 million building fund goal, thanks to donations from individuals, businesses and trusts that wrapped up with a $50,000 grant from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund announced last week. The grant enables Womenspace to reap a $195,000 "topping off" grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust announced three weeks ago. Individuals also recently donated enough to meet the challenge of a separate $50,000 matching grant matching grant Academia Non-peer-reviewed funding in which a commercial enterprise, foundation, or philanthropy, federal government, contributes a sum of money that 'matches' a financial contribution made by an institution, university or hospital. from the Collins Foundation. "Between the Collins grant and the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, we're to the point we'll get the Meyer Memorial Trust Grant. It really works in pieces. Everybody helps," Womenspace Development Director Elaine Phillips said Friday. With its building paid for, Womenspace can now devote the former rent portion of its budget to expand its core advocacy, shelter and educational programs, Phillips said. While plans are not finalized See finalization. , Womenspace officials envision smashing a couple of bottles of a carbonated, nonalcoholic non·al·co·hol·ic adj. A beverage usually containing less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume. beverage on their new office and advocacy center at 16th Avenue and Pearl Street in Eugene sometime in October to celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Phillips said. "We have marveled at all the people who have helped us. We have people who just put on fundraisers for us," she added. A recent example is the 60-member hip-hop dance group Dance Northwest, which raised $800 with an event last month. But local individuals and businesses also have put a pile of cash into the group's capital campaign, she said. Phillips said private trusts, such as the Spirit Mountain fund, play huge roles in patching and expanding community safety net programs. The Spirit Mountain Community Fund was created by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Grand Ronde may refer to one of the following places or entities in the U.S. State of Oregon:
Western Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to apply to the portion of the state of Oregon that is west of the Cascade Range. counties. The fund's officials could not be reached for comment on Friday. |
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