Community Partner Links

Big Brothers Big Sisters

The Big Brothers Big Sisters mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that have a measurable impact on youth.

CARES Northwest

CARES Northwest is a collaborative, community-based medical program for the assessment, treatment and prevention of child abuse. They provide a safe, child-friendly environment for the assessment of children for whom there are concerns of physical or sexual abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence.

Children First for Oregon

Children First for Oregon is a widely respected non-partisan child advocacy organization dedicated to making Oregon a place where all children thrive.

Children's Relief Nursery

Children's Relief Nursery's mission is to prevent abuse and neglect in children birth through four by partnering with caregivers committed to strengthening their families.

ChristieCare

ChristieCare creates and delivers mental health solutions that promote enriched, full lives for children and families.

Employers for Education Excellence

E3 was founded in 1996 by the Oregon Business Council to bring together employers and schools to improve student achievement.

Foundation for Early Learning

The Foundation's mission is to find, fund, foster and promote best practices that support early learning and school readiness for all children, birth through age five.

Friends of the Children

Friends of the Children creates opportunities for children to realize their unique potential and inherent worth by employing paid, professional mentors to work with vulnerable children from kindergarten through high school graduation.

Innovation Partnership

Innovation Partnership aims to solve persistent community problems with creative, sustainable solutions.

Junior Achievement

JA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

Juvenile Rights Project

Juvenile Rights Project's mission is to provide high quality legal services to children and families, without the means to retain counsel, through individual representation in juvenile proceedings, and through class-wide advocacy in the courts and legislature.

March of Dimes

The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

NW Business for Culture & the Arts

NW Business for Culture & the Arts connects business and the arts to strengthen Oregon's culture and economy. They accomplish their mission through advocacy, recognition, strategic alliances, membership programs, research, networking and communications.

Portland Children's Museum

The Children's Museum is dedicated to inspiring imagination, creativity and the wonder of learning in children and adults by inviting moments of shared discovery.

Stand for Children

Stand for Children's mission is to teach everyday people how to join together in an effective grassroots voice in order to win concrete, long-lasting improvements for children, at both state and local levels.

University of Oregon Foundation

KLC underwrites scholarships and fellowships in the College of Education and School of Law, benefiting students who are studying to become professional researchers, advocates and policymakers in the area of early childhood education and development.