The Gresham Historical Society preserves and shares the Gresham Oregon community’s past to enrich its present and future. The Schwemm Family Foundation provided funds to the Society to enable them to digitize and make available online to the general public over 2,500 items of historical significance contained in their collection.
Read MoreThe Coastal Watershed Council's River Health Day Program brings together volunteers from the local community to plant and maintain native seedlings along the banks of the San Lorenzo River to increase biodiversity and revitalize the river ecosystem. The Schwemm Family Foundation partnered with the Coastal Watershed Council to bring out over 400 volunteers who planted over 300 hundred different native plants in 21 separate seed plots along the river.
Read MoreThe Wetland Conservancy’s mission is to conserve and steward Oregon’s wetlands in partnership with communities. Funds provided by the Schwemm Family Foundation were used to organize multiple restoration workdays at the Minthorn and Hearthwood wetlands where community volunteers conducted scientific surveys and performed wetland restoration and cleanup.
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