NOTICES
SMILE Receives
Scholarship Grant
Participate in the
Census
By Katie Smith, Census Intern
The Science and Math Investigative
Learning Experience, or SMILE, program at
Oregon State University has received a
$20,000 grant from the Howard Vollum
Scholarship Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation. Siletz Elementary and Siletz
Middle schools participate in the program.
The grant will help provide
scholarship support for new and continuing
Native American students at OSU. The
OSU SMILE Scholarship/Mentor Program
was established in 1996 to provide both
financial and mentoring support for Native
American students who had been members
of the SMILE program in their local schools.
Scholarship recipients will be students
interested in majors in science, math,
engineering, health professions, and other
related fields.
SMILE, now in its 12th year of
operation, has served more than 2,500
students,
provided
professional
development for more than 200 teachers,
and been nationally recognized for
its accomplishments.
The Oregon Community Foundation of
Portland, Ore., uses an endowment totaling
$300 million in 600 funds from individuals,
families and businesses to enhance and
support
the
quality
of
life
in
Oregon communities.
Taking part in the census is in the
best interest of all American Indian and
Alaska Native people. When you answer the
census, you help your Indian communities,
reservations, and urban areas obtain federal
funding and valuable information for planning
hospitals, roads, and more. Census
information helps decision-makers
understand which neighborhoods need new
schools and which ones need greater
services for the elderly.
The Native American recruiter for
your tribe is pictured above right. Her name
is Dorothy L. Beaudry and she is Coquille
and Kucuts Indian. If you have any questions
or are interested in a job, contact her at the
Eugene Census Office, 541-465-6670 or
541-756-4625.
Before the census job, Beaudry
worked at the Mill Casino in North Bend as
a customer service representative and
hostess. Now that she is working for the
census, Beaudry feels that people don’t
have correct information. Since Indians
haven’t been counted correctly in the past,
they have lost revenue from government.
In her job, Beaudry tries to let people
know how important the census is by telling
them what the census is about. She also
tries to recruit as many Natives as she can
for jobs by going to reservations and working
Dorothy Beaudry
with the Indian Education Office, Alaska
Natives, and with people from the tribes in
the East.
Beaudry’s mission is to get the word
out to everybody about the census and to
make sure people fill out the application. She
said she didn’t get an application for the last
census in 1990 and she lives near the airport
in North Bend.
The only way to make sure
American Indian and Alaska Native
people are represented in the census is
to fill out the form and encourage others
to do so. Please fill out the form when it
comes to your house.
NASF Publishes National Grant Directory
The Native American Scholarship Fund (NASF) has published the first-ever
comprehensive directory of grants to Indians.
“The National Indian Grant Directory,” or NIGD, is a 600-page description of grant
makers. It includes nearly 550 foundations, corporations, federal government agencies,
and religious organizations that make grants to Indian tribes and non-profit organizations.
“Indian people are only getting about 10 percent of their share of grants,” stated the
editor of the book, Dr. Dean Chavers. “With seven-tenth of one percent of the U.S. population,
Indians should be getting over $180 million in grants annually. Instead, the facts show we
are getting less than $20 million.
“This directory is intended to help tribes, tribal organizations, Indian schools, Indian
colleges, and Indian non-profit organizations find and compete successfully for grants,” he
continued. “This book has been needed for years, and it is finally here.
“We spent over two years collecting information for this book,” Dr. Chavers went
on. “The author, Stacey Jenkins, did a yeoman’s job of collecting information from public
records, from the Internet, from the grant makers themselves, and from the Foundation
Center and other repositories.
“This book is so good that we are giving everyone who purchases it a money-back
guarantee. If they do not like the book once they receive it, they can return it for a full
refund, no questions asked,” he said.
The book is available from NASF for $99.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling.
NASF is located at 8200 Mountain Road NE, Suite 203, Albuquerque, NM 87110,
505-262-2351.
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Divorce Workshops
Legal Aid Services of Oregon
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