Oregon Community Foundation Donates $70K to Portland Children’s Museum

Monday, October 12, 2015

GoLocalPDX Lifestyle Team

courtesy of the Portland Children's Museum

The Portland Children’s Museum received a $70,000 donation from the Oregon Community Foundation to provide teacher-artists to work with educators to increase arts in elementary schools in the City.

The gift comes as part of the OCF’s Studio to School project, now in its second year, which aims to reach underserved youth in kindergarten through eighth grade in classrooms and after-school activities.

Woodlawn School will use the funding to explore the use of arts as a languages for learning. They’ve partnered with the Children’s Museum to build on research done at the Opal School, a public K-5 charter school run by the museum.

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