Open Meadow’s STEP UP program was recently featured in a video and in a newspaper article by the Spokane Spokesman Review for its success in preventing dropout with its after-school mentoring program. The video states that STEP UP is mostly funded by Portland’s Children’s Investment Fund (CHIF). While CHIF does fund the eighth grade portion of the program at Clarendon-Portsmouth school, many other funders share the cost of the STEP UP high school program serving ninth graders at the Roosevelt, Madison, and Marshall campuses.

Open Meadow is grateful to the following who have provided funding for the high school STEP UP program: Portland Public Schools, Comcast Foundation, Gear Up, Oregon Department of Education, Portland Schools Foundation, PGE Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Qwest Foundation, Portland Trail Blazers, Piper Jaffray Foundation, NW Natural, and many individuals.